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World’s First IVF Rhino Pregnancy

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Scientists in Berlin, Germany announced the first successful embryo transfer in a white rhinoceros through in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

World First IVF Rhino Pregnancy For White Rhinos

  • They created a rhino embryo in the lab and successfully transferred it into a surrogate mother, using southern white rhinos, a closely related sub-species.

About White Rhinoceros

  • The white rhinoceros includes two distinct subspecies, northern and southern.
  • Habitat: Grasslands and Savanna woodlands of Africa 
  • Reason for Decline in Population: Northern white rhinos were once found across central Africa, but illegal poaching, fuelled by the demand for rhino horn, wiped out the wild population.
Features White Rhino Indian Rhino
Scientific Name Ceratotherium simum Rhinoceros unicornis
Habitat South Africa and grasslands of savannas Asia Grasslands and riverine forests  of India and Nepal 
Conservation status Northern White Rhino: Critically Endangered

Southern White Rhino: Near Threatened

Vulnerable

 

Also Read: Kaziranga Rhino

News Source: BBC

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