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redhed
at Thu Apr 22 18:14:48 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by redhed ]
Yes, in fact we discovered the large female in Ecuador, that I mentioned, near a tributary of the Rio Napo, near Rio Tiputini (the Tiputini Biological Station, it is fabulous - 25 m of trails, a canopy tower and walkway, and wildlife in abundance.)
Yup, certainly prey size related to distribution and abundance play an important role, too, as much as water depth and distribution. Unfortunately - or fortunately? - I'm not a population biologist, or else no doubt I would have developed a sophisticated equation that accounts for potential female maximum size per age in respect to water depth, prey size, abundance, density, richness...but I'll leave that to the airmchair biologists who still remember their calculus...
RO
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