So scientists are now turning to in-vitro fertilization as a last-ditch effort to save the northern white rhino. “[These rhinos are] my passion.” Mutai is the head keeper of the northern white rhino at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. “Unless we act now, the northern white rhino will go extinct,” Thomas Hildebrandt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin told The Guardian in May. “No one has ever successfully used IVF on any rhino species,” said Susie Ellis of the International Rhino Foundation. To date, Sudan, Najin and Fatu have been incapable of breeding.

Source: Huffington Post June 29, 2016 08:12 UTC