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They’ve bred more docile salmon, according to the article. Getting that DNA into wild populations would be problematic I’d imagine.
by mmaunder 2mo ago
They’ve bred more docile salmon, according to the article. Getting that DNA into wild populations would be problematic I’d imagine.
- fragmede 2mo agoIf those salmon are too docile, just give them cocaine. https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gi...
- dessimus 1mo agoHollywood is ready to run the gamut of cocaine-fueled fauna.
- LoveMortuus 2mo ago>docile salmon Hmm… that made me think of domestication, do you think we could ever have salmon as pets? What’s their character like? More like dogs or cats?
- Animats 2mo agoThat's surprisingly easy. It's been done for chickens. All that was necessary was to put groups of chickens in cages, and keep only the cage groups that were the best egg-layers. After only a few generations, chicken-on-chicken violence was way down.