Table 1.
The median (95% confidence interval) combined number of small follicles in both ovarian cortices of African elephant fetuses and prepubertal calves
| Age group | Age (years) | n |
Type of small follicle |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early primary | True primary | All | |||
| 0 |
-0.6 to –0.16a |
6 |
1336570 (596440–1957260)b |
37506 (13390–62875) |
1348101 (609623–2123103)b |
| 1 |
0.16–2 |
9 |
627680 (433039–1181875) |
31298 (12827–52498)b |
658978 (445867–1216548) |
| 2 |
2.5–4.5 |
9 |
523065 (359989–664542)cd |
45268 (19857–95113) |
561023 (373157–759654)cd |
| 3 | 4.5–9 | 11 | 1093978 (463416–1530106)e | 76118 (43085–88172)c | 1180948 (482007–1575054)e |
a Ages below zero refer to fetuses and indicate the fractions of a year before birth.
b,c,d,e Within a column, medians marked with b differ from those marked with c and those marked with d differ from those marked with e (P < 0.05).