"Reason"  wrote in message
news:cp574h$2jrp$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> 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?

The birds perished from environmental stresses caused by non-native species
and virus.
You asked a good question however it's a little premature to ask since we
are still in the
very early stage of cloning. A bigger obstical at the moment is trying to
replicate an
organisim without the impact of aging. It seems that aging is one of the
biggest problems
to be solved in cloning. Dolly (the first cloned sheep) died at 6 years of
age, half the life of
a normal sheep.






>
> "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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