From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

Noah, as Stephen Tello of Primarily Primates points
out, was both the first known zookeeper and––perhaps due to
job stress––the first winemaker.
He also ran the first captive breeding program.
According to the Biblical prescription, he needed just two of
each species. Genetic diversity apparently took care of itself.
Sometimes captive breeding to recover endangered
species works that easily, but more often not. In real life,
when some animals are paired at the wrong time, one eats the
other. Such considerations inhibit pairing only the second
female Cape pygmy rock lobster found in 200 years, discovered
in May, with a male found one month earlier. Both turned
up near East London, South Africa. Only one other female and
14 other males have ever been seen.
Model-maker Ian Hughes of the Dudley Zoo in
England recently saved the tiny triop Cancriformis shrimp
through captive breeding, of a sort. Believed to be the world’s
least evolved multicellular animal, the triop lays eggs that can
live up to 15 years before hatching, but wild triop habitat is a
single pool, closely protected by the conservation group
English Nature. Eggs from the pool were sent to many zoos
and scientists. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Merton
Mere managed to hatch a few, but Hughes hatched 10,000 on
his office window sill.

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