"Fifty years from now, will there be Masai giraffes? I don't know. I think it's a 50/50 proposition," Douglas Cavener, who has published a new study on the risks facing the species, told Live Science.

The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their ...

Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viability of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of inbreeding on animals derived from a wild caught population of Mus musculus were examined for four traits: nest-building, ...

Zoo killed healthy animal to prevent inbreeding Spectators%2C including children%2C were allowed to watch as carcass was skinned and fed to lions Move spurred online debate on zoo conditions and a ...