Tag: Full Blood Elkhound Restoration
The Collapse of the Isle Royale Wolves: A Closed-Loop Founder Failure
The Isle Royale Wolves represent one of the clearest, most documented examples of functional extinction caused by a closed genetic loop. Their collapse was not due to environment, predation, or mismanagement — it was the inevitable mathematical outcome of a tiny founder base locked inside a closed breeding system. The Founder...
