Friday, October 17, 2014

"Reluctant Reproduction": Giving Borneo's Rhinos Help Finding Love - Nan Schaffer

Breeding large captive animals is often fraught with difficulty. Pandas are the best-known reluctant reproducers, but Borneo's rhinos are receiving help from science where nature isn't kicking in. With an aging captive male, and fewer than 100 individuals in the wild, SOS Rhino's president Dr. Nan Schaffer says the clock is ticking to potentially ship the selected male rhino to Cincinnati's zoo and hopefully find a willing female rhino to maintain some genetic diversity in the population.

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