Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

As wildlife populations of endangered species shrink within a habitat, so does their genetic viability. With reduced gene pools, wild animals come to be increasingly at risk of inbreeding – the mating of two genetically closely related individuals. A frequent outcome of that: homozygosity, which increases their offspring’s chances of…