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Post by musher on Oct 18, 2007 17:50:12 GMT -6
tman, no. you are talking mean, I`m talking average. mean is the point where 1/2 are below and 1/2 above. average could be nineteen going 1 mile and one going 100 miles, so 119 dived by 20 gives an average of 5.4. the iowa study was on 700 head if I remember right, so probably not weighted. Isn't that called the "median?" I think that "average" and "mean" are synonymous. Do you think that those studies are able to be applied to Canada, also?
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Post by Nightwish (Catpaw) on Oct 18, 2007 18:35:14 GMT -6
your last statement, totally false, if the reason for low pops. is coyotes. they will push fox pups 20-100 or more miles to find safe areas. the dispersal with coyote inter relationships far surpasses that of straight red country. I`ll refresh your memory, the iowa study found the avg female a calender year later was 5.8 miles away, the average male 10.4, with rare 300 mile buggars. and population density while a factor, did not stop migration even in very low populations. it`s natures way to prevent excessive line breeding. who wants to boink your ma or sister, yuk! Correct you are, IF we're talking Coyoes, which I have little experience with... However, I've seen low pops from Mange and in those cases, we only had 1 litter per 2-3 sq miles and only 3-4 survivors. All they did was jump 1-2 farms and hang out there. There were no adult fox to push them, no alpha males to chastise and lots of food with only 1 fox living on the place. Dispersal was low. It made trapping VERY difficult as well, they had no real reason to work a trap....
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Post by bobm on Oct 19, 2007 13:36:55 GMT -6
Average and Mean are the same. Median is where half are above and half below.
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