Actual juvenile mortality rates for large mammals are generally higher than indicated by life tables based on bone assemblages. |
They estimate that mortality from the famine was in the range of four to six million deaths. |
She loved them for their mortality, for their casual acceptance of the dark, and for their quotidian lives, so unlike her own. |
Such hypotheses have rarely been quantitatively evaluated with direct measures of disease-related mortality. |
It is reminiscent of Pessoa's poems on Spring in its acute awareness of the poet's mortality. |
The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period. |