Physical deformities linked to inbreeding discovered among cougars in the Santa Monica Mountains

The discovery was heartbreaking for biologists, who consider the mountain lions of Southern California to be among the most threatened mammals in North America: a young male with the distortions of inbreeding—a tail kinked like the letter “L” and only one descended testicle.


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Source: Phys.org