Does the early social environment prepare individuals for the future? A match-mismatch experiment in female wild cavies

Table 2 Behavioral elements (frequencies/h) of UE- and SE-daughters during the social encounter week

	UE-daughters	SE-daughters	Wilcoxon signed-rank test
	UE-daughters	SE-daughters	W =	p =
Social orientation behavior	0.5 [0 – 2.5]	0.75 [0 – 2.13]	16	0.833
Sociopositive behavior	0 [0 – 335.08]^†	0 [0 – 335.08]^†	–	–
Courtship & sexual behavior	0 [0 – 0.63]	0 [0 – 0.13]	4.5	0.586
Agonistic behavior	24.13 [17.75 – 45.25]	28.25 [17.38 – 47.13]	33	0.999
Play behavior	0.5 [0 – 10.63]	1.13 [0 – 6.13]	32.5	0.646

Spontaneous behavior was merged from recorded videos on the first, second, fourth and last day of the social encounter week. UE-daughters: daughters whose mothers had lived in an unstable social environment during pregnancy and lactation; SE-daughters: daughters whose mothers had lived in a stable social environment during pregnancy and lactation. Values are given as medians; numbers in brackets give minimum and maximum values. Sociopositive behavior is given as ^†duration (s/h); it was shown so rarely that it had to be excluded from statistical analysis. Statistics: Wilcoxon signed-rank test. N_UE-daughters = N_SE-daughters = 11

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