Physical deformities linked to inbreeding discovered among cougars in the Santa Monica Mountains

Friday, September 11, 2020 - 12:31 in Biology & Nature

The discovery was heartbreaking for biologists, who consider the mountain lions of Southern California to be among the most threatened mammals in North America: a young male with the distortions of inbreeding—a tail kinked like the letter "L" and only one descended testicle.

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