Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots theverifiedpost.com 65 points by kgolubic 2 days ago
trescenzi 1 day 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 xg15 1 day ago Hah, was just about to write about that movie too :D helterskelter2 1 day ago Wow I haven't seen this movie in...about 30 years. We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies.
helterskelter2 1 day 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 1 day 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. MathMonkeyMan 1 day ago Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers. tengwar2 22 hours ago And possibly human ancestors (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...) magicalhippo 1 day 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 1 day ago Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers. tengwar2 22 hours ago And possibly human ancestors (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...)
tengwar2 22 hours ago And possibly human ancestors (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...)
magicalhippo 1 day 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...
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
Hah, was just about to write about that movie too :D
Wow I haven't seen this movie in...about 30 years. We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies.
With a population bottleneck of only 21 individuals, it sounds like their entire population is inbred. Even if it's hundreds of individuals now.
Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.
And possibly human ancestors (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...)
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...