Northern White Rhino: Functionally Extinct

After spotlighting the Southern White Rhino, Amazing Wildlife explores a subspecies that’s functionally extinct, the Northern White Rhino. Functionally extinct means there is no chance for the current population, as it is, to naturally reproduce. Hosts Rick and Ebone detail what led to their critically endangered status and the factors that make it hard for the rhino to easily mate and reproduce. SDZWA Director of Reproductive Sciences, Barbara Durant, as well as SDZWA’s curator of the Frozen Zoo, Marlys Houck, join the show discuss the reproduction technologies scientists are using to preserve and maintain the Northern White Rhino genes to bring the subspecies back from extinction. If you have a question for Amazing Wildlife you can send them to [email protected] for your chance to hear it on the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.