Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots theverifiedpost.com 43 points by kgolubic 2 days ago
trescenzi 3 hours ago What a throwback. I haven't thought about the movie Fly Away Home since I was a child. Really awesome to see people caring enough about animals to do stuff like this.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Away_Home helterskelter2 2 hours ago Wow I haven't seen this movie in...about 30 years. We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies. xg15 3 hours ago Hah, was just about to write about that movie too :D
helterskelter2 2 hours ago Wow I haven't seen this movie in...about 30 years. We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies.
lolc 2 hours ago With a population bottleneck of only 21 individuals, it sounds like their entire population is inbred. Even if it's hundreds of individuals now. magicalhippo 36 minutes ago Seems you need more like thousands to ensure survivability, and it gets non-linearly worse as population gets smaller.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063... MathMonkeyMan an hour ago Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.
magicalhippo 36 minutes ago Seems you need more like thousands to ensure survivability, and it gets non-linearly worse as population gets smaller.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
MathMonkeyMan an hour ago Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.
What a throwback. I haven't thought about the movie Fly Away Home since I was a child. Really awesome to see people caring enough about animals to do stuff like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Away_Home
Wow I haven't seen this movie in...about 30 years. We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies.
Hah, was just about to write about that movie too :D
With a population bottleneck of only 21 individuals, it sounds like their entire population is inbred. Even if it's hundreds of individuals now.
Seems you need more like thousands to ensure survivability, and it gets non-linearly worse as population gets smaller.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.