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You (probably) won't be able to breed 100 Dodos from one initial pair, because of the minimum viable population restriction (genetic stochasticity). https://en
by shafyy 4y ago
You (probably) won't be able to breed 100 Dodos from one initial pair, because of the minimum viable population restriction (genetic stochasticity).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population
- londons_explore 4y agoThere are lots of birds that can have 100 offspring in a lifetime. Wild ducks lay ~12 eggs per year, and live 10 years. Commercial ducks can do 20x that. Obviously, all those will be siblings, so your chance of getting much of another generation is low.
- pessimizer 4y agoIf only there were some way to find out how quickly researchers think that the dodo reproduced, we wouldn't have to randomly talk about wild ducks.
- qotgalaxy 4y ago[dead]
- rippercushions 4y agoThe dodo is not one of them: as stated in TFA, they're thought to lay only one egg per year. (Although nobody really knows.)
- shafyy 4y agoMight be. But the question also is, is there enough genetic variety on the cloned Dodos to warrant 100 healthy Dodo babies?