In certain regions of the country, elk can cause damage to agricultural crops by walking through the fields. One strategy designed to limit elk from crossing a field is to surround the field with a fence. Some elk, however, will still be able to bypass the fence. For a period of one month, the number of elk found crossing a sample of fields with a fence was recorded and used to construct the 95 percent confidence interval (2.9,4.4) for the mean number of elk. Assume that the conditions for inference were checked and verified.

Required:
The interval (2.9, 4.4) provides convincing statistical evidence which claims?