Sentences with phrase «female rhinos»

Sudan, one of three remaining northern white rhinos in the entire world, has been closely guarded at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy since 2009, along with two female rhinos.

Female rhinos are massive, and their ovaries are almost 5 feet inside their bodies, Stejskal says.

Protected from poachers by guards who accompany him at all times as he roams the grounds of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Sudan represents the last hope of his species but he has shown no interest in mating with the two female rhinos who also live at the Conservancy.

These studies discovered that female rhinos born in captive environments showed lower reproductive levels.

The case of the recently captured female rhino in Kalimantan, Borneo shows the importance of immediate action.

In it are fibroblasts from Tam and Gelogob, a blind and elderly female rhino in captivity at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve.

Hoping that sperm from one of Indonesia's rhinos can be used to fertilize Malaysia's last remaining female rhino, conservationists have been awaiting permission for the transfer for years.

Not exact matches

There are only three northern white rhinos left in the world, one male and two females.

Neither of the females can carry a calf, so the fertilized embryos would have to be implanted in a southern white rhino surrogate mother.

Zoologists knew little about the reproductive rhythms of rhinos, breeding facilities rarely housed a good mix of males and females, and disagreements over whether the Sabah rhino was a subspecies of the Sumatran rhino meant that there was little cooperation between Indonesia and Malaysia and even between Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.

The only attempt to harvest eggs in Sumatran rhinos — from Cincinnati Zoo's star female just after her death in 2009 — was unsuccessful.

They tried unsuccessfully to introduce a male southern white rhino to the female northern whites in an effort to at least conserve some of the northern white's genes, and last year listed Sudan on Tinder as the «most eligible bachelor» to raise funds rhino IVF and rehabilitation.

Scientists are working on a form of IVF where egg cells would be removed from the remaining females, fertilized with semen collected from Sudan and other northern white males, and then inserted into female southern white rhinos who would serve as surrogates.

Living with two (of the four remaining) white rhino females, it is hoped that there still may be a baby rhino at the conservancy.

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One more symbol of the rising global demand for rhino horn and its devastating effect on rhinoceroses in both Africa and Asia: The Guardian reports that the female white rhino in South Africa's Krugersdorp nature

Last year a quarter of the rhinos in Zimbabwe were killed, and the last female white rhino in a South African reserve was killed earlier this year.

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Whatever technique the scientists use to create the northern white rhino embryos, the plan is to implant them into female southern whites kept in zoos.

Thanks to unregulated poaching, that particular subspecies is down to just one living male rhino, named Sudan, and two females.