Question for Dr. Perca, et al. - how does this sound?
Hypothesis for analysis: YP who are taller for their length, compared with other members of the same population, are growing faster than their companions.
I have more YP eating pellets this Spring (for 2 months now!) than ever before (possibly more than all previous years put together). I don't know why they are all eating this year, but am just appreciating it.
This has given me lots of YP to look at, from fairly skinny 6 inchers to big ones 14-15" long. There is a subset which are medium sized (10-11") that seem exceptionally tall for YP - about halfway from (what I consider) regular YP shaped to BG shaped.
