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Title: Ultrasonography as a tool in the conservation of the African rhinoceros: ex situ and in situ applications
Author(s): Radcliffe, R.W.; Bommarito, M.P.; Osofsky, S.A.
Year published: 1996
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 21
Pages: 55-59, figs. 1-6
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Captive
Reproduction - Management methods
Black Rhino
Ultrasonography by is a tool being applied to captive management to resolve some of the basic mysteries surrounding rhinoceros reproduction. Decisions about managed breeding can finally be based on objective reproductive assessment of individual animals instead of on conjecture. This technology...
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World
Management - Programs
All Rhino Species
Captive breeding programmes, conceptually designed as insurance policies for African rhino species, have, for the most part, yet to meet their objectives regarding minimal loss of genetic diversity and, at least. replacement-level reproduction (Foose, 1992). While white rhinos survive well in cap...
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Captive - North America
Captivity - Zoo Records
Black Rhino
An approximately 12-year-old female southern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis minor) was captured in Zimbabwe, held in a boma for several months, and then transferred to the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Texas, USA, in April 1992. On arrival at Fossil Rim, she was aggressive in nature and rema...
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Reproduction
Black Rhino
Diceros bicornis in Texas zoo This same technology has also been used to elucidate the oestrous cycle of one of Fossil Rim's southern white rhinoceros females (cycle length approximately 35 days), as well as to document early embryonic loss in one female.
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