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Wild Killer Whale Longevity (Edited)

Okay, Tumblr is being mean so I can’t edit my previous post to include new information without reposting so here goes.

So, I copy and pasted data from the Cetacean Cousins website into Excel. I made Excel sort data and do math in various ways. Here is what I found:

Deceased Northern Residents (current as of 4/15/2012):
Total Deceased: 190
Total Female:  52 (27%)
Total Male:  72 (38%)
Total Indetermined Gender:  66 (35%)
Average Age at Death for Indetermined Gender:  4.23
Total Unknown Death Dates (not included in averages below):  14 (7%)
Average Age at Death for Females:  38.06
Female Average Age at Death (including Indetermined Gender):  18.64
Maximum Age at Death for Females:  80
Average Age at Death for Males:  29.58
Male Average Age at Death (including Indetermined Gender):  17.36
Maximum Age at Death for Males:  50

I removed the Alaskan whale data because after looking at it again it’s too incomplete for computations.

(Source: cetacousin.bplaced.net)

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  1. endkillerwhalecaptivity said: CC wild orca database is rubbish. schwarz-weisse-giganten… is a better source and is updated regularly..
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