Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

In an article scheduled for publication in Theriogenology, An International Journal of Animal Reproduction, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Zoo Budapest and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, report on the first live birth of a rhinoceros resulting from artificial insemination (AI) with frozen and thawed semen.

For Rachel Santymire an average day at Lincoln Park Zoo involves collecting and analyzing feces samples from lions and rhinos to study their stress levels.

SYDNEY - An Australian zoo on Friday said it had artificially fertilised a rhinoceros egg in a breakthrough that could be used in the future to ensure the critically endangered animal's survival. Biologists succeeded in fertilising the egg of a female black rhinoceros with sperm from a male after several failed attempts. The procedure was carried out at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in the New South Wales town of Dubbo, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) west of Sydney, with the help of experts ...