Discover Wildlife

6 surprising incestuous animals – and why these species prefer to keep it in the family

While most animals manage to avoid inbreeding through scent recognition or by leaving their packs, others (such as those ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Cross-breeding vs inbreeding: Which way?

I appreciate your excellent and educational work. I’m just starting out in farming, and I’m learning a lot. I appreciate the topics that have already been covered in this column; it has been a great ...

Inbreeding Threatens Michigan’s Only Rattlesnake — What It Means for Conservation

If you come across a rattlesnake in Michigan, it’s an eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus), the only venomous snake in ...
SciELO

Genomic dissection of inbreeding depression: a gate to new opportunities

Inbreeding depression, reduction in performance of quantitative traits, including reproduction and survival, caused by inbreeding, is a well-known phenomenon observed in almost all experimental, ...
PNAS

Correction for Mellya et al., Natural dispersal is better than translocation for reducing risks of inbreeding depression in eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli)

Ronald. V. K. Mellya, J. Grant C. Hopcraft [...] Anubhab Khan ...
The Blood-Horse

Study: Rise in Inbreeding Not 'Inherently Problematic'

A study being called the most comprehensive genetic analysis of North American Thoroughbreds found no genetic ties related to health concerns or durability and detected a slight rise in inbreeding ...
Mongabay

Inbreeding adds to growing threats to Africa’s smallest wildcat, study finds

The tiny black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is one of Africa’s rarest cats, only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total population size of fewer than 10,000 individuals. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Killed the Last Woolly Mammoths? Scientists Say It Wasn’t Inbreeding

Tusks and other fossilized remains are all that's left of the woolly mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island thousands of years ago. Love Dalén Roughly 10,000 years ago, a small group of woolly mammoths ...
The Conversation

Did inbreeding cause the woolly mammoth’s extinction? Our research suggests it was more sudden than that

Marianne Dehasque receives funding from the Carl Tryggers Foundation. Love Dalén receives funding from the Swedish Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and the European Research ...
Self

Yes, Your Period Can Make Your Depression Worse. Here’s Why—And How To Cope

Lotus Kay started to feel depressed when she was 12 years old. But when she got her first period about a year later, a peculiar pattern emerged: Her depression symptoms would get worse the week before ...