Sentences with phrase «breed passenger pigeon»

If hybrid birds are fertile they can be used to breed passenger pigeon traits through back - breeding.

If hybrid birds are fertile they can be used to breed passenger pigeon traits through back - breeding.

Living in crowds isn't only about behavior — hatchlings growing up rapidly meant that breeding passenger pigeons could leave nesting sites quickly before exhausting the food supply.

This rapid growth meant that breeding Passenger Pigeons could leave nesting sites quickly before exhausting the local food supply.

Living in crowds isn't only about behavior — hatchlings growing up rapidly meant that breeding passenger pigeons could leave nesting sites quickly before exhausting the food supply.

Not exact matches

With this map of genetic variation in hand, the scientists could then estimate how big the population of passenger pigeons once was — typically, a small population will have less genetic variation than a larger one because it derives from a smaller pool of ancestors who bred successfully.

In the case of the passenger pigeon, Hung and his colleagues concluded that the population of breeding birds was roughly 330,000 on average, falling to as few as 50,000 birds at points in the last million years.

Being able to breed band - tailed pigeons year round, especially without negatively effecting their behavior and quality of living, is a huge milestone for moving forward with passenger pigeon de-extinction.

December 2014 he began a pilot study breeding band - tailed pigeons, which has now given us the information we need to design the bird facility needs of the next phases of passenger pigeon de-extinction.

Large flight aviaries encompassing entire trees set within forest locations will be constructed at sties within the former breeding range (spring locations) and roosting / foraging ranges (Autumn and Winter) of the passenger pigeon.

The first generation of new passenger pigeons once sexually mature will breed and raise their own offspring in natural cycles without the intervention of caretakers.

Paul conducted the foundational work with Band - tailed Pigeon breeding for the project and continues to advise designs for future breeding efforts with Band - tailed Pigeons and new Passenger Pigeons.

David is «thrilled to be part of the project» and to help with any aspect of breeding, training or visual documentation of future passenger pigeon restoration efforts.

The goal is to produce a community of surrogate parents that breed in similar societies to passenger pigeons, so that our new passenger pigeons develop with the proper behavioral culture.

John Bender has bred and flown pigeons for over 50 years in southern Ohio, once home to many breeding colonies of passenger pigeons.

In other words, we would have to wait for our engineered birds to grow up and breed every time we wanted to introduce new passenger pigeon genes.

The mission of Revive and Restore: preserve and conserve endemic and endangered species, like the American black footed ferret, but also to try to revive the some extinct breeds such as the passenger pigeon, the woolly mammoth, or even our Dodo using new biotechnologies.

Sal's aviary will aid in breeding efforts for new Passenger Pigeons.

Once cell cultures, breeding facilities, and genome editing ground work is in place we can begin editing the band - tailed pigeon genome into the new passenger pigeon genome, using the library of information developed in Phase 1.

With the aid of the band - tailed pigeon's completed transcriptome, the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab researchers identified several genes that may be involved in the unique social adaptations of Passenger Pigeons in contrast to the territorial breeding nature of Band - tailed Pigeons.

This data is crucial to knowing how many breeding band - tailed pigeons will be needed for producing germ - line chimeras to breed new passenger pigeons.

Captive breeding the new generation of passenger pigeons will be accomplished with surrogate parents to boost numbers.

Passenger pigeons, for example, will initially be bred in captivity by zoos, then placed into netted woods, and then finally re-introduced to portions of their original habitat — America's eastern deciduous forest.

The idea is that Passenger Pigeons evolved to live in huge flocks and became dependent on their large flocks, meaning they could not produce enough offspring to survive unless there were billions of them, either for social reasons (they would not breed in small flocks), for predator reasons (they could not satiate predators without huge flocks), or for resource reasons (they could not find adequate food sources in small populations).

The Passenger Pigeon lived in dense flocks because of a unique behavioral trait: their social breeding.

«Passenger pigeons, for example, will initially be bred in captivity by zoos, then placed into netted woods, and then finally re-introduced to portions of their original habitat — America's eastern deciduous forest.

A flock of 5 breeding pairs, each carrying slightly different genetic lines of passenger pigeon, can produce nearly 200 offspring each year.

The goal is to produce a community of surrogate parents that breed in similar societies to passenger pigeons, so that our new passenger pigeons develop with the proper behavioral culture.

The first generation of new passenger pigeons once sexually mature will breed and raise their own offspring in natural cycles without the intervention of caretakers.

Passenger Pigeons didnâ $ ™ t live in little groups, but huge flocks that required extraordinary quantities of hardwood forests for them to feed, breed and survive.