Sentences with phrase «introducing passenger pigeon»

By introducing passenger pigeon genes to band - tailed pigeons we are facilitating their adaptation to take on the role of the passenger pigeon and inhabit the forests of eastern North America.

By introducing passenger pigeon genes to band - tailed pigeons we are facilitating their adaptation to take on the role of the passenger pigeon and inhabit the forests of eastern North America.

'' There is no doubt in my mind that introducing passenger pigeon genes into the band - tailed genome will not result in tame birds that would easily be ensnared by men.

Not exact matches

The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.

We want to introduce the smallest number of mutations necessary to recreate the passenger pigeon's ecology.

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.