The zoo‐housed southern white rhinoceros (SWR) population is of special concern due to their lack of consistent breeding success. An enhanced understanding of SWR social preferences could better inform management planning by promoting natural social relationships, which can positively affect their well...
The integration of AI into standard husbandry practices for the white rhinoceros presently relies on on-going refinement of AI methodology, including oestrus induction to address widespread issues of acyclicity within the ex situ population (Hermes et al., 2012), and institutional commitment to ...
We found that southern white rhino pant calls provide reliable information about the caller’s sex, age class and social situation. Playback experiments on wild territorial southern white rhinoceros males revealed that they responded more strongly to the pant calls of conspecific females compared to ...
rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and giraffe was to obtain their tusks, horns, and skins for trade with other African groups, across the Indian Ocean via the Swahili Coast, and eventually with European colonists (Andersson1856, pp. 203, 473; Carruthers et al.2008; Morton and Hitchcock...
In February 2020, an adult female of the Southern white rhinoceros,Ceratotherium simum simum(Burchell, 1817), was killed by poachers. The subsequent necropsy performed by the state veterinary team revealed the presence of seven cysts within the pulmonary tissue (four cysts in the right medio-...
rhinocerosSouthern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum simum ) frequently develop painful conditions, such as traumatic injuries or osteoarthritis, necessitating the administration of pain‐relieving medications. One of the preferred treatments is the nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug phenylbutazone ...
Analysis of Blood Biochemistry of Free Ranging and Human-Managed Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) Using the i-STAT Alinity v.doi:10.1155/2021/2665956Shweta TrivediChristina M. BurnhamChristian M. CapobiancoChristiaan Boshoff
Gut microbiome differences between wild and captive black rhinoceros—implications for rhino health. Sci Rep. 2019;9(1):7570. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Martiny AC. High proportions of bacteria are culturable across major biomes. ISME J. 2019;13(8):2125–8. Article PubMed ...
Southern white rhinocerosTemporal dynamicsManaged southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) serve as assurance populations for wild conspecifics threatened by poaching and other anthropocentric effects, though many managed populations experience subfertility and reproductive failure. Gut microbiome and...
Much remains unknown about the reproductive physiology of southern white rhinoceros (SWR) and the effect of ovarian stimulation prior to ovum pickup (OPU) have not been fully elucidated. Granulosa cells (GC) provide valuable insight into follicle growth and oocyte maturation status. The goals of ...