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Does it matter how they lost genetic diversity? Whether the population bottleneck was caused by the end of the ice age 10K years ago, or by human poachers 10 years ago, this Rhino subspecies is down to 12 vials of eggs/sperm. And even 10,000 years later they are still struggling.

Are humans willing to foster this one Rhino population for 1000 years?




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