Indian One horned Rhinoceros - Central Zoo Authority

contains animals which if used for pairing would produce inbred offspring. While
carrying out the pairings due attention must be given to the facts that all founder
animals get an equal chance of contributing to the gene pool and the animals have
to be moved a minimal distance to implement such mating choices. Animals past
their breeding age and animals that had been transferred out of India were excluded
for pairing (table 8).
Table 6 Ordered Mean kinship of living individuals
Males Females
Rank Stbk# MK Known Age Location Stbk# MK Known Age Location
1 IN5 0.0000 100.0 0 Nagoya 13 0.0000 100.0 47 Hyderabad
2 47 0.0000 100.0 33 Nandankanan 19 0.0000 100.0 42 Mysore
3 55 0.0000 100.0 32 Veermata 33 0.0000 100.0 37 Ny Bronx
4 58 0.0000 100.0 30 Assam 32 0.0000 100.0 37 Calcutta
5 76 0.0000 100.0 23 Calcutta 5 0.0050 100.0 59 Paris
6 79 0.0000 100.0 22 Trivandrum 89 0.0100 100.0 20 Assam
7 81 0.0000 100.0 22 Trivandrum 28 0.0200 100.0 39 Whipsnade
8 83 0.0000 100.0 21 Jaldapara 54 0.0200 100.0 31 Singapore
9 88 0.0000 100.0 20 Tripura IN7 0.0300 100.0 35 Toronto
10 121 0.0000 100.0 13 Kanpur 112 0.0413 100.0 8 Assam
11 44 0.0250 100.0 34 Assam 100 0.0600 100.0 12 Delhi
12 IN3 0.0300 100.0 39 Ny Bronx 36 0.0700 100.0 36 Ranchi
13 29 0.0475 100.0 38 Nagoya 124 0.0700 100.0 4 Delhi
14 82 0.0475 100.0 21 Assam 114 0.0925 100.0 8 Patna
15 49 0.0500 100.0 33 Patna 127 0.0925 100.0 3 Patna
16 72 0.0513 100.0 26 Lucknow 92 0.0950 100.0 19 Patna
17 77 0.0525 100.0 23 Assam 118 0.0981 100.0 7 Kanpur
18 93 0.0600 100.0 17 Patna 80 0.1150 100.0 22 Patna
19 85 0.0613 100.0 21 Kanpur 108 0.1175 100.0 16 Kanpur
20 119 0.0700 100.0 6 Sandiegozoo 116 --- --- 9 Patna
21 123 0.0825 100.0 4 Patna 125 --- --- 4 Patna
22 111 0.0925 100.0 9 Sandiegozoo
23 117 0.0925 100.0 7 Sandiegozoo
24 126 0.0981 100.0 4 Kanpur
25 120 0.1025 100.0 5 Patna
26 102 --- --- 0 Losangeles
Genetic Diversity (GD) The heterozygosity expected in a population if the population were in
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Gene diversity is calculated from allele frequencies, and is the
heterozygosity expected in progeny produced by random mating. The proportional gene diversity
(as a proportion of the wild or source population) is the probability that two alleles from the same
locus sampled at random from the population will be identical by descent.
Mean kinship (MK) The mean kinship coefficient between an animal and all animals (including
itself) in the living, captive-born population. The mean kinship of a population is equal to the
proportional loss of gene diversity of the descendant (captive-born) population relative to the
founders and is also the mean inbreeding coefficient of progeny produced by random mating.
Mean kinship is also the reciprocal of two times the founder genome equivalents.
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