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Originally Posted by SLH
I'm not sure either of you know what you're talking about anymore. 10% mortality is less than 50% mortality. If you start with 100 at 10% mortality you end up with around 45 10 year old rams (Natural Mortality only) @ 50% you end up with less than 1.
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Actually the 50% mortality was not annually....it was from one year old to 10....if you start with 100, you end up with 50 according to Geist. That was a non-hunted population. Both studies come to a fairly similar conclusion. 45 vs 50.
Numbers from various studies are obviously going to vary but no matter whose study you look at, natural mortality is fairly high and not many rams make it 10 years old.