Saving the last male northern white rhino

A team of vets is trying to save Sudan, the last male northern white rhino on earth.

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01:08We have to develop techniques to remove

01:10eggs, oocytes,

01:12from the two remaining females,

01:14fertilize those eggs with stored semen,

01:16luckily, there's quite a lot of stored

01:18northern white rhino semen around the world,

01:20in various zoos,

01:22to create an embryo,

01:24successfully freeze and store that embryo,

01:26and then in time,

01:28find a technique to reintroduce

01:30that embryo back into

01:32surrogate, southern white rhino

01:34females, because the two northern white rhino

01:36females are incapable

01:38of conceiving.

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