To determine:
The tiger, mountain gorilla, spotted owl, giant panda, grizzly bear and snow leopard all have equilibrium life history traits, be more easily endangered than animals with opportunistic life history traits and the general type of survivorship curve would you expect these species to exhibit.
Concept introduction:
A plot that “contains a number of individuals still alive at each age in the maximum life span” is survivorship curve. It uses percentage scale. The survivorship curve can be of three types. Type I curve is exhibited by species that usually produce less offsprings but provide them good care, increasing the livelihood that the offsprings will survive to maturity. Type III curve is exhibited by species that usually produce large number of offsprings and provide little or no care. Type II curve is intermediate. The species are no more vulnerable at one stage of life than another.
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