Adorable animals thread - Actual

ShadowArxxy

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Could they take DNA from bones of cheetahs which died before that time and save current species that way?

That's not necessary. Carefully managed breeding alone can restore a surprising amount of genetic robustness; it used to be taught that genetic diversity below 100 breeding pairs was the point of absolute unrecoverability, but the California Condor was brought back from just 27 individuals total.
 

Bear Ribs

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Morphic Tide

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This isn't the world of Jurassic Park.
It's on the level of Mammoth cloning, and unlike those we have the surviving mostly-healthy Cheetas to sequence for any gaps that need filled from whatever degradation has occurred. We don't need a viable genome from those bones, we only need SOME intact genes no longer in the extant population to splice in to reduce the inbreeding coefficient.
 

Sailor.X

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It's on the level of Mammoth cloning, and unlike those we have the surviving mostly-healthy Cheetas to sequence for any gaps that need filled from whatever degradation has occurred. We don't need a viable genome from those bones, we only need SOME intact genes no longer in the extant population to splice in to reduce the inbreeding coefficient.
We need to get all the Asiatic Cheetahs and bring them here to North America.
Same with a some more African Cheetah's. We already have several game preserves in the states that can give the Cheetahs a new home. Or should I say return them to their ancient home.
 

ATP

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We need to get all the Asiatic Cheetahs and bring them here to North America.
Same with a some more African Cheetah's. We already have several game preserves in the states that can give the Cheetahs a new home. Or should I say return them to their ancient home.

I hope,that it is possible.And,if they could not live in wild,some americans certainly would love new pets!
 

Husky_Khan

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Adorable to me.



I honestly didn't know European Bison (Zubr) lived in the wilds of Poland and Belarus but after a cursory look it seems that they were reintroduced to the local habitat.

And some of them are Yuge.
 

ATP

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Adorable to me.



I honestly didn't know European Bison (Zubr) lived in the wilds of Poland and Belarus but after a cursory look it seems that they were reintroduced to the local habitat.

And some of them are Yuge.


Yes,it lives here.Problem is - it was recreated from small number of animals,so it have problems with inbreeding.
 

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