Comments on: Stem Cells From Skin Suggest a Way Save Endangered Rhinos and Primates

By: paperpushermj

paperpushermj — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:52:33 +0000

Auction them off to the highest bider. If some person or organization spends $10,000,000 to buy the rights for any particular animal they will do what is necessary with the help of the native people to protect it.

By: Veronique Greenwood

Veronique Greenwood — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:04:06 +0000

@Pat and Gordon, thanks for your sharp eyes–I’ve changed it to read “northern white rhino.”

By: Pat Shipman

Pat Shipman — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:43:15 +0000

The Southern White rhino is numbered at 20,600. It is the Northern White Rhino that is probably extinct in the wild and nearly extinct in captivity. This does not change the magnitude of the problem, but there is no point in overstating the problem either. Whether Northern and Southern White Rhinos are actually separate species depends upon whom you talk to.

By: m

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:47:50 +0000

interesting.

i read somewhere that animals that dont care for their offspring in a zoo is because they do not percieve any threats within a zoo environment. unlike the wild that has multiple predators.

the “nurture instinct” does not get “switched on”. (i probably misread the theory though…it was a while ago)

who knows?? still…i agree that habitate protection is the best way.

By: Gordon Wells

Gordon Wells — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:41:16 +0000

I’m sure your number of seven is wrong. It’s probably more like seven thousand, unless you’re referring to one of the subspecies.

By: Bruno Domingues

Bruno Domingues — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:57:50 +0000

“With only seven white rhinos left in the world” says the caption…

“There are only seven white rhinos—two female, five male—left in the world”

Is this for real? We lost another one if so… animals like this need mom’s teachings.
At a loss for that, little cubs are just prey, adults are dysfunctional. We could keep some alive, but for what? Out of morbid curiosity? To remember what could have been?

I saw one of these in kruger, South Africa, just last year. Maybe it was a black rhino? Anyway, these creatures are divine, we shouldn’t be allowed to mess this so much.

I know some great examples of homo sapiens, really adorable critters. But as a species, well, what can I say that’s new? We’re going to cry, but who’s going to listen?

(/gnznttx)
Sad stuff this is. When read this I do, failing I can see we are. Capable we are not to care for others.
When going to get it those fucks hang on profit will? Kill nature we can, live after we cannot.

Or maybe eat money their children can?
(gnznttx)

We will keep on evolving for the next millennium and on, but the weed and cockroach diet could be so much more varied, y’know?

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:32:45 +0000

A species represented by seven individuals isn’t ecologically important. Resurrecting an extinct species or nearly extinct species is done for us not for them. And the results can be increased suffering; in much of the recovering Canada goose historic range, the birds aren’t welcome and thousands are killed every year because some find them now to be a nuisance. The same is true with reintroduced wolves; as the population grows, there is increased effort to institute a hunting season; hunters in the Midwest US are itching to start killing them. This is the way it always goes. We should protect the white rhinos but let them die off if they cannot recover naturally.