Hah, was just about to write about that movie too :D

Wow I haven&#x27;t seen this movie in...about 30 years.  We had it on VHS when I was a kid. Time flies.

What a throwback. I haven&#x27;t thought about the movie Fly Away Home since I was a child. Really awesome to see people caring enough about animals to do stuff like this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fly_Away_Home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fly_Away_Home</a>

Same thing happened to Cheetahs and, to a greater extent, Florida panthers.

Seems you need more like thousands to ensure survivability, and it gets non-linearly worse as population gets smaller.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0006320707002534" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S00063...</a>

With a population bottleneck of only 21 individuals, it sounds like their entire population is inbred. Even if it&#x27;s hundreds of individuals now.

Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)