Wellyopolis

January 3, 2005

A lower bound on the deer population

Happy New Year!

Easing back into work and not work (blogging) ....

Jim saw ten deer on his jaunt around Pike Island. While running around the island I have never seen more than three deer at any one time, which has always made me wonder whether the same three deer re-appear at other vantage points to be double-counted.

I'm sure the carrying capacity of Pike Island is greater than three, and as Jim says, any rational deer should find their way there to avoid being shot. But I can't be sure there's more than three.

Some sort of capture-recapture study would be useful.

Posted by robe0419 at January 3, 2005 4:59 PM