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Test-tube rhinos
Scientists have an incredible plan to save the northern white rhino from extinction. The team is using IVF to produce a calf because the only females left alive are infertile.
Scientists have hatched an incredible plan to save the northern white rhino from extinction. The team is using IVF techniques to produce a calf because the only two females left alive are infertile. Nick Holland reports on how close they are to succeeding and of their hopes to eventually release a whole herd back into the wild.
Produced and presented by Nick Holland
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