If and when this bird is cloned, what could be done for it's fitness?  Is 
the genepool sufficiently large to support a healthy population?  Did the 
bird population perish from our neglect, or from it's own lack of genetic 
variability?


"Carlos Trevino"  wrote in message 
news:cp0ptc$18td$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
>
> Dec. 1, 2004, 7:16AM
>
> Bird's death may mean end of species
> Associated Press
>
> Associated Press/
> State Division of Forestry and Wildlife
> HONOLULU - One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction 
> following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
>
> The aging male po'ouli died in captivity Friday, the U.S. Fish and 
> Wildlife Service said Tuesday. It had recently contracted avian
> malaria, but the exact cause of death won't be known until tests from the 
> necropsy are completed.
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