Mortal Fibonacci Rabbits
Mortal Fibonacci Rabbits
Consider an idealized biological system consisting of mortal rabbits with some fixed initial number of baby rabbit pairs. After the rabbits become mature each pair begets a new pair every month. Use the controls to explore how the rabbits' life span, age of fertility, and initial number of pairs affect the population growth.
Details
Details
One generation after the first rabbits have occupied the ecosystem, the population satisfies =+…+, where is the age of fertility and is the lifespan.
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A. M. Oller, "The Dying Rabbit Problem Revisited," arXiv:0710.2216 in Cornell University Library's arXiv.org.
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Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Oleksandr Pavlyk
"Mortal Fibonacci Rabbits"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MortalFibonacciRabbits/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: October 19, 2007