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You (probably) won't be able to breed 100 Dodos from one initial pair, because of the minimum viable population restriction (genetic stochasticity).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population



There are lots of birds that can have 100 offspring in a lifetime. Wild ducks lay ~12 eggs per year, and live 10 years. Commercial ducks can do 20x that.

Obviously, all those will be siblings, so your chance of getting much of another generation is low.


The dodo is not one of them: as stated in TFA, they're thought to lay only one egg per year. (Although nobody really knows.)


If only there were some way to find out how quickly researchers think that the dodo reproduced, we wouldn't have to randomly talk about wild ducks.


Might be. But the question also is, is there enough genetic variety on the cloned Dodos to warrant 100 healthy Dodo babies?




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