inbred

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The study comes alongside recent research that found the southern resident females have less hunting success than their neighbors up north, and a shrinking, increasingly inbred population of southern residents could be plummeting toward extinction.

From Seattle Times

In a paper published Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers found that the southern residents were the most inbred among orcas studied, and it’s affecting their survival rates.

From Seattle Times

To continue producing white tigers, captive tigers with this rare allele expression are intensively inbred over multiple generations.

From Scientific American

Urban Americans often think of rednecks as backward, and make jokes about us being uneducated and inbred.

From New York Times

Some predict the Phuket colony will eventually become so inbred that it will not be viable.

From New York Times