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Anonymous 1999. Black rhino cow dies, but her legacy lives on. SA Game and Hunt 5 (11): 25.

Black rhino cow dies, but her legacy lives on

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Location South Africa Subject Reproduction Species White Rhino (simum)

Female died in Pilanesberg. Her ovaries were removed soon after her death and transported back to EWT's Wildlife Breeding Resource centre, where they underwent various procedures to remove the eggcells still trapped inside them. Eggcells were removed and cultured before undergoing in vitro fertilization with rhino sperm.

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Location South Africa Subject Reproduction Species White Rhino (simum)

female in Pilanesberg, SA died while veterinarians were rpairing a prolapsed rectum, in all probability due to an injury caused by another rhino.

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