Day 4173: White Rhino, Sumo and Tennis.

"Detail": junk collage, digital.

  

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Click here: Jeff Lorber, By My Side

 

  

 

 

 

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Coming back from the brink

 

 

The race to save the northern white rhino, a species so close to extinction that there are only two known left in the wild, has taken a sci-fi movie-level turn. The team at the BioRescue project has successfully impregnated a southern white rhino via in vitro fertilization, creating a possible path for restoring the species. The sperm was collected from a southern white rhinoceros named Athos, who lives at Zoo Salzburg in Austria. The egg cells were retrieved from Elenore, a southern white rhinoceros living in the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium. The samples were then transferred to Italy and fertilized in vitro. Sadly, the mother rhino acting as a surrogate was found dead last November of what scientists suspect was a bacterial infection. However, she was pregnant when she died -- proof that the IVF Hail Mary had worked. Now, those involved in the project are in the process of finding another surrogate and are confident they can try again. 

(Read the whole story here.)

 

I may be making some progress this week? 

 

 

Two weeks of Sumo ended Sunday ...

 

 

 

Yokozuna, Terunofuji , with Emperor's Cup

 

And, not only that, but the Australian Open also ended last Sunday. I have been a big fan of both.

 

 

 

  

Back to work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

A special 23 minute video, Lucia Olivieri, here.

Thanks Irene! 

 

  

Just because ...

  

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