elephant {gpk}

Age and mating success for Elephants

Description

Elephants reach maturity at about 14 years of age. But they have to compete with all adult males for mating opportunity. Females are generally more receptive to larger males. Size of an elephant increases as age increases. Hence it is expected that generally the number of matings should increase with age. Is there an optimal age after which the success rate does not rise further? Mating is a rare event and hence may follow a Poisson distribution.

Usage

data(elephant)

Format

A data frame with 41 observations on the following 2 variables.

Age_in_Years

age of the elephant in yrs

Number_of_Matings

number of successful matings

Details

Poisson regression may be attempted.

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

Examples

data(elephant)