Budapest Zoo celebrates successful artificial insemination of endangered white rhino

“There were many trials of artificial insemination, but Budapest zoo’s female rhino, called Lulu, is the first that got the baby and the whole insemination took place at the beginning of April.”
So how big is the small white baby rhino at this moment?
“I can’t tell you exactly the size. On the 22nd of August we [...]

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Apa hubungan saiga dan badak?

Saiga jelas bukan sejenis badak. Saiga (Saiga tatarica) adalah sejenis antelop yang hidup di padang-padang rumput yang tandus di Rusia, Khazakhtan dan Mongolia. Hidungnya besar seperti hidung tapir. Saiga jantan mempunyai sepasang tanduk pendek. Masalahnya, bukankah habitatnya begitu jauh dengan habitat badak? Habitat badak terdekat terdapat di India. Ternyata memang ada hubungannya. Bahkan saling mempengaruhi. [...]

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A rhino hunt for research

San Diego’s John Ireland today sent a photo of himself behind a great horned beast he shot from about 20 yards–with a tranquilizer dart, as part of a scientific expedition on Lalibela Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. Hunters pay for the thrill of a hunt, and the money goes toward [...]

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New Rhino Arrives at Little Rock Zoo

The Little Rock Zoo is proud to announce the arrival of a Navasha, a 26-year-old female black rhino from the Lincoln Park Zoo. (Click here to watch the move to the zoo)
Navasha was transferred to Little Rock as a recommendation of the Species Survival Plan (SSP), a captive management animal program for endangered species in [...]

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Penjelajah Tangguh

Koen Setyawan 2008

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