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(08-18-2023, 09:05 PM)Duco Ndona Wrote: You can get away with it once or twice. But each generation will be more genetically inferior and vulnerable than the previous one. At one point it reaches a point where it prevents the group from coping with a new challenge and the entire population is put at risk. Even when things look fine on the surface, a vulnerability to a specific illness may spread through the entire population. Resulting in a mass dieoff once that illness itself appears.
Nature typically has a lot of safeguards against this. So if this happens a lot in a reserve it means there is something severely wrong that prevents new generations from migrating in- or outward or older generations from being killed or otherwise taken out of the gene pool when they should. It may be wise for the reserve to relocate lions to keep the population healthy or look into opening routes to other reserves if possible.
The othawa male with the mhangenis and the birminghams with the nkuhumas as well and are the northern black dam males older than the southern black dam males?