Closest Related Species
The Mourning Dove is a related species to the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), which was hunted to extinction in the early 1900s. For this reason, the possibility of using Mourning Doves for cloning the Passenger Pigeon has been discussed.
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