[Babase] Birth/Statdate/Census

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:25:24 -0400


Hi,

I thought maybe I just wasn't thinking straight yesterday, but this one 
is still confusing me this morning.  When would we have a case where a 
living animal has a statdate equal to birth?  The sentence makes more 
sense to me if you take out the word "live."

Perhaps I'm missing the context for this . . . is this change follow-up 
on a discussion you guys have been having at Duke?  I didn't see 
anything with a similar heading in the BaBase archives.

Catherine

Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> We talked about this when we decided to have statdate
> be the last censused date.
>
> I've added this sentence to the biograph description:
>
>
> Live animals that have no associated CENSUS rows that
> place the individual in a group must have a Statdate
> equal to their Birth date.
>
> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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Catherine Markham
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