San Diego rhino birth may help another nearly extinct rhino species

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An energetic new southern white rhino calf born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park represents another incremental step in the effort to save a related rhino species that’s nearly extinct, the northern white rhino.

The six potential surrogates in San Diego could be a lifeline to keep the northern whites from going extinct.

San Diego researchers hope to eventually implant an embryo of a northern white rhino into one of the proven moms. Those surrogates could give birth to a genetically pure northern white rhino.Baby southern white rhino rambles around enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Sep. 2, 2022.The hope is to use northern white rhino tissue in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s frozen zoo, to create northern white sperm and eggs.

“So we’ve sort of taken protocols that we’ve learned for the horse,” said Carly Young, of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “And other protocols that I’ve learned using the domestic cat, deer, even human, and we’ve taken all of those protocols, this is how we’ve made the maturation media for the rhino. Because no one’s ever done this work before.”

 

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