In Alabma's Montgomery Zoo, the world witnesses the first rhino calf to thrive after being conceived through Artificial Insemination, thanks to Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Born on June 5, the calf who weighed 40.8 Kilograms has already gained another 5.5 Kilograms.
The insemination process was carried out by Dr. Monica Stoops on 12 year old female Rhino named Jeta in February 2012. Working on artificial insemination of rhinos since 2004 success came to Dr. Monica just recently, after two failures.
The sperm collected from the elite male rhino named Himal in 2004 was stored in Cincinnati Zoo's CryoBioBank under Cryopresrevation and thus Himal became the lucky guy rhino to become the father of world's first rhino conceived through artificial insemination.
Zoo authorities named Himal and Jeta's uber special and really cute as "Ethan", after Ethan Gilman, the kindergartener who was kidnapped and held hostage for nearly a week in January.
Artificial insemination is really a boon in case of rhinos because naturally they are too aggressive to mate and this may also lead to injuries and deaths.
So, with the really endangered population of Indian Rhinoceros, now zoologists have found a new hope in the novel method to sustain the Rhino population!
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