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ROVING REPORTERS: After dodging extinction, will the black wildebeest now fade away to blue?
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ROVING REPORTERS: After dodging extinction, will the black wildebeest now fade away to blue?

Having narrowly escaped extinction in the 19th century, the black wildebeest now faces a different threat: being genetically absorbed by the far more numerous blue wildebeest. Researchers are using cutting-edge genomic tools to determine whether hybridisation is quietly eroding the genetic identity of one of South Africa’s endemic species.

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