how do endangered species deal with inbreeding?
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How endangered a population is is in reference to the minimum population required to successfully reproduce when considering inbreeding.
If the minimum population is 5000, similar to humans, than the population is critically endangered when less than ~20,000 are left.
How endangered a population is is in reference to the minimum population required to successfully reproduce when considering inbreeding.
If the minimum population is 5000, similar to humans, than the population is critically endangered when less than ~20,000 are left.
How endangered a population is is in reference to the minimum population required to successfully reproduce when considering inbreeding.
If the minimum population is 5000, similar to humans, than the population is critically endangered when less than ~20,000 are left.
Tacking onto this, since the answer seems to be that inbreeding is very common: Humans have a built in deterrent to inbreeding, often via our olfactory system. Obviously it isn’t perfect, but do animals have something similar?
Tacking onto this, since the answer seems to be that inbreeding is very common: Humans have a built in deterrent to inbreeding, often via our olfactory system. Obviously it isn’t perfect, but do animals have something similar?
Tacking onto this, since the answer seems to be that inbreeding is very common: Humans have a built in deterrent to inbreeding, often via our olfactory system. Obviously it isn’t perfect, but do animals have something similar?
Short version: “animals don’t care or notice”.
Long version:
#1, humans are the most complicatedly constructed mammal.
#2, animals don’t need to reason on a human level. In many (most?) instances of human inbreeding, it’s the brain that suffers/flags first of all; which doesn’t apply to animals, who are bundles of impulses.
Animals don’t care if they can reason, or even graduate high school; it’s all about survival of the fittest.
If you’re an animal fit enough to (a), smell/notice danger; and (b), smart enough to know you need to run/kick away from it, your chance of surviving to repopulate is better.
Short version: “animals don’t care or notice”.
Long version:
#1, humans are the most complicatedly constructed mammal.
#2, animals don’t need to reason on a human level. In many (most?) instances of human inbreeding, it’s the brain that suffers/flags first of all; which doesn’t apply to animals, who are bundles of impulses.
Animals don’t care if they can reason, or even graduate high school; it’s all about survival of the fittest.
If you’re an animal fit enough to (a), smell/notice danger; and (b), smart enough to know you need to run/kick away from it, your chance of surviving to repopulate is better.
Short version: “animals don’t care or notice”.
Long version:
#1, humans are the most complicatedly constructed mammal.
#2, animals don’t need to reason on a human level. In many (most?) instances of human inbreeding, it’s the brain that suffers/flags first of all; which doesn’t apply to animals, who are bundles of impulses.
Animals don’t care if they can reason, or even graduate high school; it’s all about survival of the fittest.
If you’re an animal fit enough to (a), smell/notice danger; and (b), smart enough to know you need to run/kick away from it, your chance of surviving to repopulate is better.
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