Describe what the survivorship curve of the sheep tells us.

For me, a life table isn't the easiest thing to read. In fact, I'd rather see all that survival data as a graph-that is, as a survivorship curve.

A survivorship curve shows what fraction of a starting group is still alive at each successive age. For example, the survivorship curve for Dall mountain sheep is shown below:

The graph makes it nice and clear that there's a small dip in sheep survival early on, but most of the sheep die relatively late in life.