Last male northern white rhino has died

[besserheimerphat]

Didn't see this posted yet. There are currently two females left in the world, the daughter and granddaughter of the male who just died. Neither are able to reproduce naturally due to significant inbreeding. Artificial insemination followed by surrogacy in a southern white rhino is the only hope to keep the species going. And that's never been done before. Sad day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/sudan-northern-white-rhino-death/556058/

 

[GTO]

Didn't see this posted yet. There are currently two females left in the world, the daughter and granddaughter of the male who just died. Neither are able to reproduce naturally due to significant inbreeding. Artificial insemination followed by surrogacy in a southern white rhino is the only hope to keep the species going. And that's never been done before. Sad day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/sudan-northern-white-rhino-death/556058/

Poaching of animals for their horns, tusks, pelts, etc. is just deplorable. Hopefully nature adapts and evolves. I believe a few years ago I saw a documentary stating that some of the African elephants nowadays are born and end up not developing tusks. Seems evolution/natural selection is playing out right in front of our eyes. I found an article about it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elephants-africa-tusks-ivory-poaching-born-without-a7440706.html

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Saw this news on CBS This Morning on Tues. Going to have a feature on this upcoming CBS Sunday Morning show.

 

[NWICY]

Too bad they weren't polo ponies, that dude in South America would have cloned a whole herd of them.

 

[madguy30]

Humans doing human things.

Awful.

 

[2020cy]

All due to false claims of being useful for ridiculous things. Man, people are stupid.

 

[mj4cy]

Sounds like they are still trying to get the process right before artificial insemination. Hope we can have a breakthrough.

Seeing the Rhinos at the Blank Park Zoo is worth the price of admission. They are amazing creatures.

 

[harimad]

Wish we could poach the poachers.

 

[IcSyU]

We were at the San Diego Zoo and the Animal Safari in December and their researchers seemed hopeful they'd be able to try and bring the species back with help from other rhinos.

 

[CycloneVet]

Wish we could poach the poachers.

Actually they do shoot them if caught on the spot in some parts of Africa.

 

[ca4cy]

All due to false claims of being useful for ridiculous things. Man, people are stupid.

And this applies in so many facets of life.

 

[OPButtrey]

I read an article where a group is capturing elephants and then dyeing their tusks pink before releasing them. Doesn't harm the elephant but makes the ivory worthless to poachers.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Poaching of animals for their horns, tusks, pelts, etc. is just deplorable. Hopefully nature adapts and evolves. I believe a few years ago I saw a documentary stating that some of the African elephants nowadays are born and end up not developing tusks. Seems evolution/natural selection is playing out right in front of our eyes. I found an article about it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elephants-africa-tusks-ivory-poaching-born-without-a7440706.html

Go listen to the last Rogan podcast with Bret Weinstein. There are some wild evolutionary things with certain species that are so interesting and also sad. There's one on humans that should be very self-evident but I've never thought about it.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Wish we could poach the poachers.

If you get caught poaching the wrong places, you get got.

 

[The_Architect]

Didn't see this posted yet. There are currently two females left in the world, the daughter and granddaughter of the male who just died. Neither are able to reproduce naturally due to significant inbreeding. Artificial insemination followed by surrogacy in a southern white rhino is the only hope to keep the species going. And that's never been done before. Sad day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/sudan-northern-white-rhino-death/556058/

People suck

 

[VeloClone]

The current extinction rate driven by humans is 1,000 times the background extinction rate. This ratio does not take into account extinction events through history, so maybe we are an extinction event.

 

[The_Architect]

The current extinction rate driven by humans is 1,000 times the background extinction rate. This ratio does not take into account extinction events through history, so maybe we are an extinction event.

We are, that's been well established. Greed is turning this planet into a hellhole at an unimaginable rate:

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/

 

[capitalcityguy]

Well at least the multiculturalism fanatics with be happy.

<Too soon? >

 

[cycopath25]

 

[boone7247]

Go listen to the last Rogan podcast with Bret Weinstein. There are some wild evolutionary things with certain species that are so interesting and also sad. There's one on humans that should be very self-evident but I've never thought about it.

That was a good listen. Thanks for the heads up.