Thanks to the editors and reviewers for their support, comments and forbearance over the years (!, I might have underestimated how my first couple of years of teaching would impact my time to respond to reviewers...)

Using this method we were able to estimate the lifespans of 32 Female and 33 Male species of toothed whale. Data and methods in these R packages:

github.com/samellisq/ma...
github.com/samellisq/ma...

In the paper we develop Bayesian methods to infer the underlying mortality function of toothed whales from age-structured data, while carrying through potential sources of error into the final estimates.