How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird

Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird by shafyy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:39AM (#34612014)

You (probably) won't be able to breed 100 Dodos from one initial pair, because of the minimum viable population restriction (genetic stochasticity).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population

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Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird by londons_explore on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:03AM (#34612406)

There are lots of birds that can have 100 offspring in a lifetime. Wild ducks lay ~12 eggs per year, and live 10 years. Commercial ducks can do 20x that.

Obviously, all those will be siblings, so your chance of getting much of another generation is low.

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Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird by pessimizer on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:23PM (#34616110)

If only there were some way to find out how quickly researchers think that the dodo reproduced, we wouldn't have to randomly talk about wild ducks.

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Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird by rippercushions on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:48PM (#34616513)

The dodo is not one of them: as stated in TFA, they're thought to lay only one egg per year. (Although nobody really knows.)

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Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird by shafyy on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:58AM (#34626521)

Might be. But the question also is, is there enough genetic variety on the cloned Dodos to warrant 100 healthy Dodo babies?

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