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Potentially a stupid question but does inbreeding affect wild animals as negatively as it does humans?
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Not a stupid question. Yes, it does. The same genetic process is at work. Reason is that inbreeding by definition means crossing with a close relative, which is more likely than not to share an overlapping set of "bad mutations". The effects of these mutations are usually masked by the wild-type, or dominant allele (most mutations are recessive). 
Inbreeding tends to bring both mutated copies into offspring, where they are expressed. So in any population that gets small enough, inbreeding will inevitably uncover these bad mutations over generations.