Inbreeding has also afflicted other populations of isolated or endangered animals, such as mountain lions in California, gorillas in Africa and bottle nose dolphins off western Australia.

Inbreeding emerges as critical problem for endangered orcas, researchers say Female killer whales take about 20 years to reach peak fertility, and the females may not be living long enough to ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Populations of the black-footed cat, a little-known feline in Southern Africa, have been declining for the last half a million years and exhibit very high degrees of inbreeding ...

For many endangered species, population decline to the brink of extinction leads to inbreeding, exposing a species to deleterious recessive mutations that severely limit its potential to recover ...

New research has found southern residents are, on average, more inbred than other orca populations of the North Pacific. It's affecting their survival rates.

Local mountain lion inbreeding grows dire, but relief in sight New study details biological evidence of inbreeding, which could lead to their local extinction.

New research from the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with Cornell University, finds inbreeding to be a contributing factor to mid- and late-term pregnancy loss.