### Question
What does experimental population mean?


### Answer
**Experimental population** has the following meaning in *16 U.S.C. § 1539*:

> any population (including any offspring arising solely therefrom) authorized by the Secretary for release under paragraph (2), but only when, and at such times as, the population is wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the same species

#### Citation:
  - *16 U.S.C. § 1539*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 35-ENDANGERED SPECIES**

