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Table 2 Continuous classification of paternal care and care provided by other group members: Averaged parameter estimates and their relative explanatory importance for female CV body mass (N = 87). Gestation length and neonatal mass were excluded to reduce multicollinearity between predictors. Numbers in bold indicate predictors whose confidence intervals of their effect exclude zero

From: Getting fat or getting help? How female mammals cope with energetic constraints on reproduction

Predictors

Relative importance of predictors

Model averaging estimatesa

95% CI

Intercept

  

0.148

(0.127, 0.169)

Care by others

 

na

0

0

Paternal care

 

1.00

−0.028

(−0.029, −0.027)

Log mean body mass

 

0.67

−0.008

(−0.011, −0.004)

Provenance

captive

0.80

na

na

wild

0.024

(0.017, 0.032)

Substrate use

terrestrial

1.00

Na

na

arboreal

−0.047

(−0.050, −0.043)

Number of months

 

0.38

−0.001

(−0.002, −0.001)

Inclusion of reproductive females

 

0.37

−0.011

(−0.020, −0.002)

Log litter size

 

0.24

0.007

(−0.001, 0.016)

Log weaning age

 

na

0

0

  1. aaveraged model estimates based on 11 models with ΔAICc (AICc focal model – AICc best model) < 2 since the best AICc model is not strongly weighted (weight = 0.15) [104]. A full list of models is given in Additional file 4: Table S5. Reference levels of categorical variables have an estimate of 0; na – not applicable; 95% CI - 95% confidence interval