• Romeo the Frog Finds His Juliet. Their Courtship May Save a Species.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/science/romeo-loneliest-frog-mate.html https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/235925647321896/ Frog looks high af
Yeah, high on love 💘
I ship it.
Let my boy smash.
@postal grats
So who do the offspring breed with? While keeping them in captivity allows you to cheat the minimum viable population limitation to some degree, it isn't magic. Plus their plan: "If all goes well when the two meet, their offspring will return to the wild. From there, time will tell if their habitat is preserved, the frogs avoid disease and their legacy continues." Doesn't even attempt to account for that. The species is already effectively extinct.
Well at least our boi ain't a virgin anymore
They didn't just find one female, they found several, and a few males. So there may well be more out there. I guess the Romeo angle was the cutest but the best news really is that the species isn't as dead in the wild as thought.
The no-longer-virgin shit-eating grin: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/239377/e7556844-247e-4648-90b8-13bd773729e7/smgr.png
Reminds me of this https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/131/281c5064-adb6-4ddb-8dc3-515fea84febd/image.png Go get em Romeo!
Life, uh, finds a way!
Only barely true, if the species has been at a population bottleneck for long enough, or has been through one before unfit alleles that arise from inbreeding may eventually be bred out. See the Chatham Island Robin for a similar restoration project, where all 250 chatham robins are descended from a single female and inbred with minimal genetic stagnation. Additionally, shortly after finding this other female three other males and two females were also found.
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