On: Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

[doctoboggan]

Is there enough genetic diversity in this group of 7 horses to repopulate the area? This seems like a very tight gene bottleneck.

[smallnix → doctoboggan]

From "PROBLEMS OF PRZEWALSKI HORSE REINTRODUCTION INTO THE WILD":

> A sample of 20–30 founders will normally contain well over 90% of the average genetic diversity in the source population

https://www.fao.org/4/AC148E/AC148E03.htm

[ajb → doctoboggan]

The article says they will move 40 in total

[SideburnsOfDoom → doctoboggan]

You should not assume that this group of 7 is the end of the project.