Table 1.
Incidence of overweight and underweight in the BPRC breeding colony per species‐sex group assessed with different methods
| Incidence of overweight | Incidence of underweight | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1: BMI boundaries | M2: WHI boundaries a | M3: AC boundaries | M4: mean WHI ±2 SD | M5: BCS | M1: BMI boundaries | M2: WHI boundaries with 8% body fat a , b | M2: WHI boundary with 2% body fat c | M3: AC boundaries | M4: mean WHI ±2 SD | M5: BCS | |
| Criterion | ♂: BMI > 42 | RM: WHI3.0 > 67 | ♂: AC > 54 | ♂♀: WHI > mean + 2 SD | ♂♀: BCS > 3.5 | ♂: BMI < 32 | RM: WHI3.0 < 52 | RM: WHI3.0 < 42 | ♂: AC < 40 | ♂♀: WHI < mean −2 SD | ♂♀: BCS < 2.5 |
| ♀: BMI > 35 | LTM: WHI2.7 > 62 | ♀: AC > 44 | ♀: BMI < 27 | LTM: WHI2.7 < 48 | LTM: WHI2.7 < 39 | ♀: AC < 35 | |||||
| Rhesus macaques | |||||||||||
| Males (♂) | 4/23 | 6/23 | 4/23 | 1/23 | 5/23 | 8/23 | 5/23 | 0/23 | 6/23 | 0/23 | 2/23 |
| 17.4% | 26.1% | 17.4% | 4.3% | 21.7% | 34.7% | 21.7% | 0% | 26.1% | 0% | 8.7% | |
| Females (♀) | 60/273 | 62/273 | 89/269 | 11/273 | 40/273 | 59/273 | 56/273 | 1/273 | 53/269 | 1/273 | 2/273 |
| 22.0% | 22.7% | 33.1% | 4.0% | 14.7% | 21.6% | 20.5% | 0.4% | 19.7% | 0.4% | 0.7% | |
| Total | 64/296 | 68/296 | 93/292 | 12/296 | 45/296 | 67/296 | 61/296 | 1/296 | 59/292 | 1/296 | 4/296 |
| 21.6% | 23.0% | 31.8% | 4.1% | 15.2% | 22.6% | 20.6% | 0.3% | 20.2% | 0.3% | 1.4% | |
| Long‐tailed macaques | |||||||||||
| Males (♂) | 4/13 | 6/13 | 1/12 | 0/13 | 3/13 | 3/13 | 2/13 | 0/13 | 5/12 | 0/13 | 0/13 |
| 30.8% | 46.2% | 8.3% | 0% | 23.1% | 23.1% | 15.4% | 0% | 41.7% | 0% | 0% | |
| Females (♀) | 13/88 | 11/ 88 | 24/89 | 2/88 | 6/92 | 24/88 | 23/88 | 3/88 | 12/89 | 3/88 | 1/92 |
| 14.8% | 12.5% | 27.0% | 2.2% | 6.5% | 27.3% | 26.1% | 3.4% | 13.5% | 3.4% | 1.1% | |
| Total | 17/101 | 17/101 | 25/101 | 2/101 | 9/105 | 27/101 | 25/101 | 3/101 | 17/101 | 3/101 | 1/105 |
| 16.8% | 16.8% | 24.8% | 2.0% | 8.6% | 26.7% | 24.8% | 3.0% | 16.8% | 3.0% | 1.0% | |
Notes: The boundaries were based on the literature. Method 1: BMI boundaries (Raman et al., 2005); Method 2: WHI boundaries per species; Method 3: abdominal circumference boundaries (Raman et al., 2005); Method 4: based on two standard deviations from the mean WHI per species (Schwartz et al., 1993); Method 5: based on BCS (Clingerman & Summers, 2005).
Abbreviations: AC, abdominal circumference; BCS, body condition scoring; BMI, body mass index; BPRC, Biomedical Primate Research Centre; SD, standard deviation; WHI, weight‐for‐height indices.
The WHI measures of rhesus macaque males and females did not differ significantly (Table S7). The WHI measures of long‐tailed macaque males were higher than of females (Table S7), but we could not determine a boundary. Therefore, we calculated the WHI per species and used the same (female) boundary for both sexes.
Based on Raman et al. (2005).