Sentences with phrase «white rhino females»
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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.