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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) by Appalbarry on Friday March 23 2018, @09:21PM
Maybe Barbara Streisand will pay to clone it!
(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?
// Do you have a degree in Applied Mathematics from a good University?
/// Then STFU and have a seat over there, in the SuperDooperPutinPooper section.
//// It's right next to Trump's syncophants
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 23 2018, @09:42PM (3 children)
Predictably. "So sad ... We are to blame, as a species ... you will be in our hears and minds forever ... Fuck humanity ... This is a human failure of epic proportions; thanks to our greed and irresponsibility, a species is one significant step closer to extinction. [https://donate.olpejetaconservancy.org/projects/sudan]"
Give it a week.
These rhinos also look absolutely retarded up close in the face. And look like south american liveleak videos after they've been de-horned.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 23 2018, @10:19PM (1 child)
While it does help, you do not have to be ignorant to not care.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 23 2018, @11:01PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @11:04PM
The editors certainly forgot it. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 23 2018, @11:02PM
Unless the rhino was too old to make it, it which case there is still hope Trump won't make any more kids.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 23 2018, @11:53PM
Listening to the convoluted plans for surrogate parenthood reminded me of a friend's finch breeding operation. You know the ViewSonic finches? Very colorful, but apparently they don't breed very quickly - so, to run a competitive commercial finch breeding operation what you do is get a few of the expensive colorful breeding pairs, and then a bunch of the cheap as dirt Society finches. When the pricey finches lay an egg, you steal it from their nest, causing them to lay and fertilize another one more quickly, and give the egg to the Society finches to hatch and raise... Weird enough yet? Even weirder, the finch-feed had a high egg content, obtained from domestic laying hens. The daily feeding routine was to collect the chicken eggs, cook them up and blend with the other finch-feed ingredients, then feed all the finches, check progress of which ones have laid, hatched, etc. Oh, and keep the whole birdhouse something like 78F year round (crucial mistake they made was not insulating the bird house, was costing them >$400/month in the winter to heat it...)
After about 18 months of being a literal slave to the grind (grinding up the hen's eggshells to go into the feed...) the appeal wore off and they sold the business.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @09:08AM
It's sadly not just the rhino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction [wikipedia.org]