Asiatic Lions in Gir Face a Genetic Crisis: What Inbreeding Means for Their Conservation
A Population Built on a Handful of SurvivorsAt the turn of the twentieth century, the Asiatic lion was functionally gone from the Indian subcontinent. The last viable group, fewer than twenty individuals by some estimates, clung to the teak forests of the Gir region in what is now Gujarat, protected…
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