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NAIROBI — Scientists have made history by successfully transferring a rhinoceros embryo for the first time, conservationists announced Wednesday...
Only two females exist in the world, Najin and daughter Fatu, and both are unable to carry pregnancies.
Najin, left, and her daughter Fatu, the last two living northern white rhinos, at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya.
Najin and Fatu live at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy, which was also home to Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, which died in 2018.
Wildlife ranger Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, the last living male northern white rhino, moments before he passed away in March 2018 at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy.
In 2019, scientists harvested oocytes — developing eggs — from Fatu and Najin, flying them to Avantea, a lab in Italy where they used the sperm of dead northern white rhinos for artificial insemination.
The eggs were fertilized, with two resulting in viable embryos. A third embryo was created in 2020 using the same technique. There are now 30 embryos from the northern white rhinos that can be used to produce babies, and all are oocytes from Fatu...
There are now 30 embryos from the northern white rhinos that can be used to produce babies, and all are oocytes from Fatu.
It just shows that when stories like this don't make MSM, people that may care will continue to be woke on this subject.
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
a reply to: Skywatcher2011
Wild animals? They don't look so wild to me in the photos provided. They look like they are in cages. But I get that because if they really were wild they would be dead already due to big game hunters who don't give a crap about saving species, right?
But what do you mean by this.
It just shows that when stories like this don't make MSM, people that may care will continue to be woke on this subject.
The story you provide does come from the mainstream media, it's the Washington Post, as mainstream a publication as one can find. But what do you mean by people being woke? I don't understand what woke has to do with this in the way you are using the word.
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
a reply to: Skywatcher2011
Wild animals? They don't look so wild to me in the photos provided. They look like they are in cages. But I get that because if they really were wild they would be dead already due to big game hunters who don't give a crap about saving species, right?
But what do you mean by this.
It just shows that when stories like this don't make MSM, people that may care will continue to be woke on this subject.
The story you provide does come from the mainstream media, it's the Washington Post, as mainstream a publication as one can find. But what do you mean by people being woke? I don't understand what woke has to do with this in the way you are using the word.
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
a reply to: Skywatcher2011
Wild animals? They don't look so wild to me in the photos provided. They look like they are in cages. But I get that because if they really were wild they would be dead already due to big game hunters who don't give a crap about saving species, right?
But what do you mean by this.
It just shows that when stories like this don't make MSM, people that may care will continue to be woke on this subject.
The story you provide does come from the mainstream media, it's the Washington Post, as mainstream a publication as one can find. But what do you mean by people being woke? I don't understand what woke has to do with this in the way you are using the word.
It's a sad and doom-filled world for Earth's animals.
Edit. I guess it's clear that ya caught me on a sour morning huh?