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Assisted reproductive technologies in captive rhinoceroses
2018-08-24
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Abstract Survival of the five remaining rhinoceros species is threatened. Four of the five species are in managed collections, but captive populations are not self‐sustaining and low reproductive rates make population growth slow. Slow population growth, coupled with behavioural incompatibilities, acyclicity, low genetic diversity, and disease susceptibility, creates the need for assisted reproductive technologies...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ef44c7dc-c5fc-5420-b5db-d540d05d1c20
- DOI
- 10.1111/mam.12138
