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Tiny animal populations can recover, challenging assumptions about extinction risk
Source: Phys.org · Published

Species reduced to fewer than 50 individuals in the wild are not automatically doomed to extinction, according to a major study co-authored by researchers at the Zoological Society of London and Monash University.
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