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RE: the Noah's Ark method of conservation...

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Posted by: Aaron at Fri Jul 2 14:32:45 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]  
   

Dusty I am surprised that you seem able to speak in such absolutes. Species are going to vary greatly in their abilities to repopulate and the techniques for successful repopulation would vary just as greatly. I will adress just one point, the notion that exact locality would be required. How do you know this? Subocs do not simply match their surroundings, it's not that simple. I have seen hundreds of subocs in the wild and there is a great amount of crossover in appearance between localities. The notion that you would need Panther Cyn. subocs and only Panther Cyn. subocs would do if you wanted to repopulate Panther Cyn is not an absolute fact. The more reasonable assumption is that nearby localities and even far away localities probably contain very similar genetic material, enough so that some of them would survive.

The question was not what is better, captive breeding or habitat preservation? Obviously habitat preservation is better. Yes there was a false impression in the hobby that our pets could be more useful than it turns out they could be but don't say it's absolutly impossible and throw out the baby with the bathwater.

   

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