[ SECRET POST #2728 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2728 ⌋

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Comments

[darkmanifest]

Modern-day cheetahs are the result of a very tiny group of inbreeding ancestors who survived the last ice age, and as a result they have, according to Wikipedia "unusually low genetic variability" that is "accompanied by a very low sperm count, motility, and deformed flagella". Despite those issues, though, they have managed to survive and somewhat thrive as a species since the ice age, which is arguably better than not existing at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so glad someone brought up cheetahs. Thank you!

[greenvelvetcake]

I wouldn't say they're thriving. Cheetahs are in a bottleneck due to all the inbreeding, not to mention it's difficult for them to reproduce in the first place.

[darkmanifest]

"Somewhat thriving", in the sense that despite so many difficulties, they're still here millennia later (even if their future isn't too bright). Not too shabby for a species inbred all to hell.

[(Anonymous)]

The white-tailed deer population in Finland was introduced from four females and one male deer that were flown from US year 1930, and then released into the wild.

Now the population is thriving and the genetics of the deer population are varied. (It was expected to be pretty bad but the study made by the Helsinki university together with the local hunters revealed that it was basically as varied as the original population in US.)