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Such as what species? You've piqued my curiosity!

 

Takin. 4 Founders total, all right when the population was founded.

 

Wait but then how do we have multiple subspecies represented?

 

Er, Sichuan Takin, specifically.

 

Mishmi Takin is even worse, as all animals in the western hemisphere are descended from 3 animals and Golden Takin also from 3 animals AFAIK.

 

The Takins I had no idea! I was thinking the initial founders for babirusa, Slender-Horned Gazelle, and Dhole, all of which I think had five or less founders at the beginning.

~Thylo

 

The safari park now has a butterfly cam

San Diego Zoo Safari Park Launches New Butterfly Cam to Bring...

Butterfly Cam

 

Well the platypus are now still their I believe

 

ya there there permanently. The park has full ownership of them unlike with the giant pandas that were at San Diego zoo

 

This isn't the plan I thought they were pursuing. Even when Nola was alive and on an episode of The Zoo, it was explained that they intended to initially do IVF on southern whites with southern white eggs and sperm, and if they carried successfully, they would use eggs recreated through DNA of the last remaining black rhinos and, I think, frozen black rhino sperm to do IVF implanted in the white rhino carriers. How does retrieving white rhino eggs fit into this plan?

 

I think you meant northern white instead of the black! Right now what is in the quote is even more technically challenging in genetic engineering then in 2 closely related taxa in the same genus!

 

I believe the plan is to take southern white rhino eggs (the cell not the DNA) and use DNA from preserved northern white rhino material to basically clone a northern white rhino baby. It would still be IVF. I believe they are still pretty far off from actually getting a baby northern white rhino on the ground and this procedure may just be in preparation for future procedures leading towards that goal. I’m sure you miss typed but black rhinos are not a part of the plan at all.

 

My memory..ugh. You have caught me with this slip twice now. But the SP did show the initial trials of southern carriers of IVF southern rhinos, saying that if certain females reliably produced calves from both the IVF and in pregnancy, then and only then would they start using the extremely valuable--and limited--genetic materials from northern whites to be carried in surrogate southern whites. I think EchoBeast's explanation of using the southern white egg but the northern white DNA is the procedure I first heard about in 2015 while at the SDSP.

 

A lapped face vulture chick was born at the safari park. A first in the zoos history!!!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.10...dangered-vulture-for-the-first-time?_amp=true

 

Great news!

Any info on how many lappet-faced vultures are kept in US zoos?
(I assume all sub saharan African in origins?)

 

An male Indian rhino was born to mom Asha at the safari park

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Mountain lions have been seen at the safari park

Without guests, San Diego Zoo Safari Park sees more mountain lions

 

Interesting. Hopefully they can keep their animals safe!

 

Not anything news wise but a question I have. Does anyone know if J Gregory, a southern white rhino, is still able to breed even though he’s had no offspring. He’s 24 to 25 years old I believe

 

J Gregory sired "Future" born to Amani in 2019 via artificial insemination.

Southern White Rhino Calf "Future" at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park