Assignment task:
Developing a plan for the management phase
Now you have a colony that spans several institutions and it has grown to the size you originally wanted. Now we have to manage it. Of course, by this point, you are a rock star and have been recruited away by all of the best zoos in the world to start an exciting new program. But you still have to develop a management phase plan.
Keeping the Ashe's bush viper in mind.
1. Discuss how you will manage new founders.
2. Discuss whether you should create artificial emigration and immigration for different facilities.
3. Discuss how you will deal with Individuals with unknown ancestry.
4. Discuss what molecular techniques you will employ to monitor the genetic diversity of your population and any new founders.