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Research into pygmy hippo breeding
27-05-2010
For many years there has been a skew towards female pygmy hippo calves over males, RZSS is funding a research programme, based in the Ivory Coast, to compare wild births to captive births.
BBC News - Study into why captive female hippos exceed males Advertisement
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30-05-2010
Interesting!
I would think that this would be a desirable situation in zoos rather than a problem, if the intention is to build the numbers rapidly. I'm sure that there are a number of species which zoos would prefer to produce more female than male offspring; for example elephants and gorillas. |
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