Sentence examples for zoo population from inspiring English sources

The zoo population thinned out.

This spring, the Copenhagen Zoo put down, by lethal injection, two leopard cubs, about 2 years old, whose genes were already overrepresented in the collective zoo population.

That is because he has fewer relations in the European zoo population, lowering the risk of inbreeding.

The total US captive zoo population totals 52 individuals, with an unknown number in private collections.

However, zoo officials said his genes were too common in the zoo population and thus he would be of no use for breeding.

"This fawn is a significant contribution to a small zoo population of this unique and little-studied Andean deer," said Detroit Zoological Society Curator of Mammals Robert Lessnau in a press release obtained by The Huffington Post.

This month, she is scheduled to be bred with a genetically suitable male from the Minnesota Zoo--one whose genes are not already widespread in American zoo populations.

A picture caption on Friday with an article about the use of contraception to manage zoo populations misidentified the institution where the wolf shown in the photograph is housed.

The cub's birth is part of the Species Survival Plan, a cooperative breeding program meant to maintain genetic diversity and demographic stability in zoo populations of threatened and endangered animals.

David Hancocks, a zoo consultant who formerly ran the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle, recently dismissed this idea as part of "the conservation myth, where anything's justified if you're 'saving the species.' " In truth, many zoo populations are too small to encourage real hope of long-term survival, no matter how fastidiously they're managed.

Zoo populations of some species have not bred much and have grown too old to reproduce, although the pygmy slow loris is doing well at some facilities, such as the San Diego Zoo.