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Science 1 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5693, p. 44
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5693.44a
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Stone Age art? Nope, it's a 3D ultrasound preview of the first rhinoceros to be created by artificial insemination (AI). Due next August, it's the offspring of a white rhino couple at the Budapest Zoo that received a bit of help from AI expert Thomas Hildebrandt of the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and colleagues.
Hildebrandt says attempts to breed rhinos in captivity have been largely unsuccessful: Sharing close quarters is apparently a turnoff for the beasts, whose normal mating activities involve a fair dose of aggression. An estimated 11,000 white rhinos remain in the wild. The team hopes to repeat the success with captive northern white rhinos, a handful of which still roam in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
CREDIT: T. HILDEBRANDT |
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
