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What does this survivorship curve indicate about prairie dogs?

What does this survivorship curve indicate about prairie dogs?-example-1

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answer is A they mostly die when they are older

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Correct answer: C). Prairie dogs die in equal numbers across their life span

Prairie dogs are the rodents that are known to live in large colonies in the grasslands of western North America and Central America. Five species of the prairie dog is known, they are known to help in the aeration and fertilization of the soil.

The survivorship curve is a graph that shows the number of proportions of individuals surviving at each age for a given species or group. There are three types of survivorship curve. type I curve shows a high probability of surviving in the adulthood, type II curve depicts individual whose chance of survival is independent of age, and type III shows the survivorship of individual who die early in their life.




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