alt Hacker NewsWith a population bottleneck of only 21 individuals, it sounds like their entire population is inbred. Even if it's hundreds of individuals now.
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MathMonkeyMan • today at 7:52 PM
Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.
Seems you need more like thousands to ensure survivability, and it gets non-linearly worse as population gets smaller.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...