The small population of wolves on Isle Royale has been harmed by a lack of genetic diversity, plus the accidental introduction of canine parvovirus. In another part of the country, ecologists are also working to protect a larger population of wolves that live in a national park. Compared to the small, isolated population on Isle Royale, in the national park diseases like parvovirus are ___________likely to be a problem, and lack of genetic diversity is __________ likely to be a problem for the wolves.

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Answer:  

Compared to the small, isolated population on Isle Royale, in the national park diseases like parvovirus are less likely to be a problem, and lack of genetic diversity is less likely to be a problem for the wolves.

Explanation:

Diseases like parvovirus and lack of genetic diversity are less likely to be a problem for wolves in national park as ecologists are protecting them there.

Compared to the small, isolated population on Isle Royale, in the national park diseases like parvovirus are less likely to be a problem, and lack of genetic diversity is more likely to be a problem for the wolves.

There is a balance that exist between wolves and moose in Michigan's Isle Royale National Park.

Wolves was known to first colonized Lake Superior's Isle Royale in the late 1940s.

Wolves lives eating old or sickly moose. Studies has shown that the wolf population had swelled to 24, a surprisingly large number and 80% of the island's moose had died

Parvovirus is a disease that inflames the wolf's intestines and causes death by diarrhea within 24 hours. It was introduced to the island in 1981 by a visiting dog as studies says and killed nearly half the wolves and thereafter it disappeared.

Peterson a scientist says this disease is unlikely to have killed wolves now, as survivors of the last outbreak must have acquired immunity.

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