"We have the real thing." If this approach works in the northern white rhino, it could be applied to hundreds of species who already have had their stem cell seeds frozen and placed in a biobank.

White rhino mothers are fiercely protective and will fight a male threatening her calf regardless of the male’s size. The calves stick close to their mothers, not straying far from her side ...

Northern white rhinoceroses were feared extinct in the wild in 2008. In 2018, the last male northern white rhinoceros died at a conservancy project in Kenya.

The first healthy baby female white rhino was born in Zinave National Park in Mozambique a few weeks ago, the product of a multi-year targeted relocation to protect the threatened species. The ...

However, shortly after the San Diego Zoo ’s male white rhino died in December, one of Kenya’s male white rhinos died, leaving 42-year-old Sudan as the only known male still alive.

White rhinos, on the other hand, are a much more docile species. A rhino will charge if it feels threatened, but they are much less likely to act aggressively than a hippo. Hippo Vs.