Reply #2: First divide 6,000 days by 50 turtles

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This gives you 120 days - a period of about four months - what the total number of "turtle-days" (kind of like man-hours) break down to on the calendar.

Six turtles killed out of 50 tracked is a mortality rate of 12% over a four-month period.

Multiply by three to get a rough idea of annual mortality - approximately 36% over a 360-day period.

I don't have questions about the math, but this is a fairly small sampling population.