[Growth relations of Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) using Van Wagenen's and Catchpole's data (1956)]

Investigations are carried out concerning the sitting height/age and the log weight/sitting height relations for the rhesus (Macaca mulatta) after dates from van Wagenen and Catchpole (1956). The formulae applied were recently given by the author for the development of the human body and parts of the skeleton (Sager 1981 a, b und 1983 a, b) and hold for the rhesus in simplified forms. This is a hint to a less differentiated form of growth that can be represented by fewer mathematical parameters than for human beings. Approximations require nonlinear regressions and are gained for the minimum of the sums of square and absolute deviations. Tables and graphs for the results are added.