Newsletter 2021-04-29
Carolyn Cowan [04/29/2021]
– Fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos are believed to remain on Earth, and the species faces dire threats due to a low birth rate, habitat loss and fragmentation, and poaching.
– A new study finds that, despite its small size, the population retains significant genetic diversity, and likely has the genomic “toolkit” necessary to survive threats like climate change or disease.
– The findings are good news for conservationists, but also come with a warning: an analysis of a recently extinct subpopulation revealed that a rapid spike in inbreeding preceded their extinction.
– The research highlights dilemmas currently facing conservationists working to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity: Should subspecies be mixed? And, when no alternatives exist, should captive rhinos be bred with their relatives?
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happened? turns out if you go through customs with things that look exactly like elephant tusks you might be arrested for trafficking ivory and half the guys looked at the x-ray the x-ray of my suitcase and said you re an ivory trafficker and half the guys saw the electronics inside my tusks and said no, he s not an ivory smuggler, he s smuggling a bomb. so i spent the night in police custody there. well, glad you got out and it s a great story. bryan christy, thank you so much. really important stuff there. thanks for joining me. thanks, alex. next up, the moment an undercover cop mistakenly took down tennis star james blake. more on this at the top of the hour. and later, with football season under way a look at big jumping and online sports better and whether it s legal. now that s a full weekend.
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