This small genetic pool makes the wolves susceptible to problems caused by inbreeding. The current Mexican Wolf Recovery Program calls for the establishment of two genetically diverse populations, one ...

Only two of the 12 pups are known to have survived. If those two pups survive to age two and successfully reproduce, their pups will be significantly less inbred than almost every other wolf in the ...

Mexican wolf fertility and pup survival have been documented to decrease from inbreeding, but the Service’s artificial feeding of wild wolves increases their fertility and pup survival rates without ...

By 2018, the Isle Royale wolves had become functionally extinct due to inbreeding, with only two wolves remaining, unable to produce viable young. To address this, 20 wolves were reintroduced to the ...