Inbreeding is commonly regarded as detrimental and is of growing concern for wild populations that are increasingly fragmented and isolated by habitat loss. John Hogg at the Montana Conservation Science Institute in Missoula and colleagues found that outbreeding - introducing new animals - could help revitalize an inbred pocket of bighorn sheep, in a natural setting.
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