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.

News Source: BBC

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