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interbreed

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Most of the elk that escaped were cows and state officials worried that, with the approach of the rut, they would interbreed with wild bull elk.
In the wild, animals rarely interbreed for one potent reason: The offspring are usually infertile, or unable to reproduce--which can spell extinction for a species.
Even the Indians of the Plains and the East who did not interbreed with the Spanish (although they did with the French) were changed irrevocably by the arrival of the conquistadores.
 
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