Najin, one of two northern white rhinos left in the world, grazes in a paddock in Kenya.
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Efforts to save one species can provide scientific knowledge that enables us to save other creatures in need.
White rhinos.
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For rhino specialists, translocation has been one of the most important tools in the conservation box of tricks.
White rhinos owe their name to the Afrikaans word ‘wyd’, meaning wide, which refers to the animal’s wide mouth.
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By unlocking the full potential of rhino ovaries, we hope to produce enough eggs to revive the northern white rhino in the wild.
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Scientists have created embryos from the eggs of southern white rhino and sperm from their northern counterparts.
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Rhino resurrection is tempting, but if humans cannot save a species in nature, what future for animals that we manufacture?
The last male Northern white rhino died in February. Two females remain, but extinction seems likely.
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We can’t save all endangered species, but we could save some. Zoo populations will be the last hope for many threatened species.
One of the last two surviving female northern white rhinos.
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The death of the last male northern white rhino in the world raises an interesting question: when does a species pass the point of no return?
Sudan, the last remaining male northern white rhinoceros, meets the Maasai Cricket Warriors.
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Their flimsy chances rely on the eggs and sperm from the remaining three elderly animals, combined with frozen DNA from dead rhino.