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New southern white rhino1/3/2024 ![]() ![]() In order to avoid the extinction of the northern white rhino, BioRescue – led by Thomas Hildebrandt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) – is working to harvest immature egg cells, oocytes, from the two females and artificially inseminates them using frozen sperm from males that are now deceased. With only two females surviving, it may seem impossible to bring the species back from the brink of extinction, but if the scientists succeed they might create a precedent, a blueprint that may be used to save other species. This is why Ol Pejeta has security measures in place to protect the two animals from the constant threat of poaching. Najin and Fatu at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya are the only remaining northern white rhinos in the world – and they are both females. ![]() An international effort to save a species This is an incredible achievement – even more so considering the challenges and delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The first three were produced in 2019, totalling five embryos today. #NorthernWhiteRhino #OvumPickUp #NajinandFatu /fGYX0bPOfr- Ol Pejeta January 14, 2021 The incredible Project team of scientists performed the fourth ovum pick up on our northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu on December 13th, 2020. This alleged cure for a range of medical aliments has resulted in needless death of hundreds of rhinos.TWO NEW NORTHERN WHITE RHINO EMBRYOS CREATED AT CHRISTMAS. Rhino horns provide no proven medical benefit the horn is made of a protein called keratin, which is also what makes up skin, fingernails, hair and hooves. ![]() This illegal trade has seen the incidence of poaching escalate hugely over the past ten years. One of the biggest threats to the wild population is poaching for the international rhino horn trade, which commands a high value on the black market for alleged medicinal purposes. There is an estimated 10,000 wild rhinos. While females usually live in small groups containing young adults. Bulls will defend their territories from other males, which may choose to contest a particular male for the dominance of an area. The White Rhino is one of the largest land animals and have the biggest horn of all rhinos! Their physiology closely resembles that of zebras and horses, having the same basic digestive tract (single-chambered stomach).īulls are solitary and establish territories by spraying urine and producing large faecal middens. ![]() Southern White Rhinoceros roam the southern half of the African continent, in savannah and grassland habitats These animals will become one of the flagship species of this exciting new development, being housed in the largest safari-style habitat in the world outside of Africa. Ibutho is the first rhino to be housed in Wild Africa, which eventually will be home to several groups of rhino living in huge areas of established pasture. Ibutho, our other rhino bull, is housed separately in the Wild Africa precinct as adult males are very territorial. Originally from Kruger National Park in South Africa, the importation of wild born rhinos was an important addition to the regional population as it injected new genetics into the region. The park’s breeding bull Umfana, arrived in April 2022 from Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. This astonishing weight gain means that keepers are able to literally watch the calves grow before their very own eyes! For roughly the first six months of their life rhino calves gain weight extremely rapidly, at a rate of around two to three kilograms a day. Monarto Safari Park is home to a rhino crash of five Southern White Rhinoceros: two mature bulls and three mature females.įemales Uhura, Umqali and Savannah are housed together, and these females have produced 7 calves at Monarto since 2005. ![]()
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