Edit: 🤦🏻♂️ What a fail of a title. What I meant was…
How do we know what the population of animals are?
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One way of estimating population size is to catch a group of the animals, tag them, and then release them. Now the proportion of tagged animals in the wild is Tagged / Population
If you return some time later and catch another group, and count how many of them are tagged, you can presume this proportion is the same as the proportion before. And from that you can estimate the population.
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