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The world's last surviving male northern white rhino has died after months of poor health, his carers say. Sudan, who was 45, lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was put to sleep on Monday after age-related complications worsened significantly. His death leaves only two females - his daughter and granddaughter - of the subspecies alive in the world.
"His death is a cruel symbol of human disregard for nature and it saddened everyone who knew him," said Jan Stejskal, an official at Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic, where Sudan had lived until 2009. "But we should not give up," he added in quotes carried by AFP news agency. "We must take advantage of the unique situation in which cellular technologies are utilised for conservation of critically endangered species. It may sound unbelievable, but thanks to the newly developed techniques even Sudan could still have an offspring."
[...] Sudan, who was the equivalent of 90 in human years, was the last surviving male of the rarer variety after the natural death of a second male in late 2014.
[...] Sudan's genetic material was collected on Monday, conservationists said, to support future attempts to preserve the subspecies. The plan is to use stored sperm from several northern white rhino males, and eggs from the remaining younger females, and implant the embryo in a surrogate southern white rhino.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @09:27PM (4 children)
Like I learned in College that gender is like not set, it's on a spectrum. So like one of the Female Rhinos can seriously like transition, and then there will be a Male and Female, and then they can like totally have babies. But because these are like White Rhinos, I hope they don't. Cause like White Rhinos have been the worst thing that ever happened to Rhinos everywhere, so they should just die out already for the good of the planet.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @09:55PM
" Cause like White Rhinos have been the worst thing that ever happened to Rhinos everywhere, "
Especially the white males. Was he middle-aged, even more if so. Good riddance.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 23 2018, @11:05PM (1 child)
Well I learned in the movies that frogs can sometimes transition genders too. So if they implant frog DNA into them, the White Rhinos could change gender, reproduce, and finally replenish their numbers. I bet they could also go amphibious, jump, and catch prey with their tongue. Then we'd really be screwed.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 23 2018, @11:21PM
*I learned from Jurassic Park
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 23 2018, @11:21PM
Math major here. Most interesting result I learned was that 2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
/ am I kidding?
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