Sunday, October 26, 2008

Birth Of White Rhino After Artificial Insemination With Frozen Sperm

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) — A world-first: researchers announce the birth of a white rhino after artificial insemination with frozen sperm. The rhino baby, a male, was born at 4:57am in the Budapest Zoo on the 22nd of October 2008. In June 2007, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin artificially inseminated his mother, the rhino cow Lulu, with frozen bull semen.

Full story here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081024103856.htm

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