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Foundering

The Science of Resurrecting Extinct Species

Foundering

Bloomberg

Business, Tech News, Technology, News

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Northern White Rhinos are functionally extinct: The two remaining females have no males to breed with. But an ambitious plan is underway to save the species. This week on Decrypted, reporter Kristen V. Brown meets the scientists using cutting edge stem cell science to create a rhino embryo in a San Diego lab.

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Hello, far toou, good girl.

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Hey, too.

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This is the sound of Najine and Fartu, two northern white rhinos interacting with a rhino keeper.

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These rhinos are mother and daughter and they live at the

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old Perjetta Conservancy in equatorial central Kenya, roaming the grassy plains and woodland at the

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foot of Mount Kenya. They're the last of their species, the only two

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northern white rhinos left. Northern white rhinos are functionally extinct.

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That means they can't reproduce. There are no living males and both in a gene and

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fatu seem to have problems with their reproductive system. When they die, that's it. The end of

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the species.

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It may seem like the rhinos have crossed the point of no return,

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but Richard Vine, the managing director of the Conservancy in Kenya,

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says there's a small hope that science can save them.

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The whole technique for the reintroduction of embryos into rhinos will have to be developed from scratch.

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So it's a long shot.

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The chances of it working are small, but if the species is to be recovered,

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