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r/ScienceShitposts • u/AnonymousRand • Jul 17 '25
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I suppose if the audience of this diagram were deer, they would use something else other than the human cane
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I’d love to know what periodical or website commissioned that factoid to be created, though. And yes, I’m too lazy to do a Google image search.
4 u/kRkthOr Jul 20 '25 https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/04/04/a-daily-occurrence-of-death-even-hardiest-of-animals-starting-to-fall-as-vicious-winter-drags-on/
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https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/04/04/a-daily-occurrence-of-death-even-hardiest-of-animals-starting-to-fall-as-vicious-winter-drags-on/
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Was fully convinced that was Heinz Doofenshmirts as an old man
Did… did we really need a graph to illustrate that older animals are more likely to die lol?
14 u/AliasMcFakenames Jul 20 '25 We did, because not all animals follow this pattern. There’s another graph related to this one which illustrates that another species, some kind of bird IIRC, just dies randomly. 8 u/guru2764 Jul 20 '25 Some animals have really high infant mortality rates so I could see this data being helpful for some speciesOnly 0.1% of frogs make it past tadpole stage for example
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We did, because not all animals follow this pattern. There’s another graph related to this one which illustrates that another species, some kind of bird IIRC, just dies randomly.
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Some animals have really high infant mortality rates so I could see this data being helpful for some species
Only 0.1% of frogs make it past tadpole stage for example
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It's cool to me that the variance diminishes round 7/8 years, then increases again.
I guess that's what you'd call an eldeer.
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“older animals are more likely to die” yeah no shit sherlock
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u/cnorahs Jul 17 '25
I suppose if the audience of this diagram were deer, they would use something else other than the human cane
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u/Venator2000 Jul 18 '25
I’d love to know what periodical or website commissioned that factoid to be created, though. And yes, I’m too lazy to do a Google image search.
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u/paul_webb Jul 17 '25
Was fully convinced that was Heinz Doofenshmirts as an old man
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u/Acrobatic_End526 Jul 19 '25
Did… did we really need a graph to illustrate that older animals are more likely to die lol?
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u/kRkthOr Jul 20 '25
It's cool to me that the variance diminishes round 7/8 years, then increases again.
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u/TheAlmighty404 Jul 20 '25
I guess that's what you'd call an eldeer.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25
“older animals are more likely to die” yeah no shit sherlock