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Mind Map by serenacutbill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by serenacutbill
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"The Elephants Guide to Sex"
- "Jackson" the Elephant at Pittsburg Zoo
- Elephants can produce 300mls of sperm 5 times a day
- Elephants can be
stimulated by
prostate massage to
collect sperm
- AI is carried out by
placement of catheter
1.5m inside & semen
inserted
- Captive breeding is essential
in maintaining species
- 3 subspecies of tigers have died out, 14 subspecies of
kangaroos are at threat and rate of extinction is
10,000x natural rate
- 3 subspecies of tigers have died out, 14 subspecies of
kangaroos are at threat and rate of extinction is
10,000x natural rate
- Only 4 Northern White Rhinos left in wild (in Zaire). Only 9 in captivity
- Mating can take an hour. Semen
collected using electric shocks
- Mating can take an hour. Semen
collected using electric shocks
- Ecosystems are important and complex
- e.g. wolves killed by humans, so increased number of
deer, decreased oak tree saplings
- e.g. wolves killed by humans, so increased number of
deer, decreased oak tree saplings
- 1/3 cheetahs in captivity are too old to breed.
Though eggs can be collected using suction
on ovary
- Human fertility issues and solutions can be
applied to animals. Also equipment
- Animals at top of food chain link
different food chains and animals.
So saving them, saves lots of
species
- Black footed ferrets have been
saved through AI. However did
not work with Northern White
Rhinos
- Only 2% of implanting DNA as a close works
- Cloning sandcats involves egg from cat & DNA from
skin cell from sandcat. Electric shocks are used to send
skin cell DNA to fertilise cell. Domestic cat=surrogate
mother
- Cloning: no diversity, not ethical, why
would you try and save a species who
can't breed by themselves?, can't live as
long, more prone to illness
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