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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.


	Contributed by: Oleksandr Pavlyk
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One generation after the first rabbits have occupied the ecosystem, the population satisfies

, where

is the age of fertility and

is the lifespan.

A. M. Oller, "The Dying Rabbit Problem Revisited," arXiv:0710.2216 in Cornell University Library's arXiv.org.

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