Clinton Keeling used to say Barbary Sheep could inbreed with no ill effects. I think he used the Regent's Park flock and the animals from it sent elsewhere as his evidence. I don't think many people would disagree with him.
Clinton Keeling used to say Barbary Sheep could inbreed with no ill effects. I think he used the Regent's Park flock and the animals from it sent elsewhere as his evidence. I don't think many people would disagree with him.
It is very easy to assume that they died because of inbreeding but not necessarily true without strong evidence. Could have been a totally different rason like puild-up of coccidia, salmonellosis, poisoned food or any other.
In some Barbary Sheep, I believe at the old Glasgow Zoo, which were descendants of the Mappin herd, as most were in the UK in those days, there was some evidence of in-breeding showing in the legs and/or feet, with some white patches coming through if I remember correctly (I never saw this myself).
