rhinos

The situation is dire, according to some estimates, rhinos and elephants will be extinct in the next 10-20 years.

If they could use southern Rhinos as surrogates, doesn't that imply the southern and northern white rhinos are the same species?

Northern White Rhinos are not the same animal as Souther White Rhinos.

The problem is that we aren't starving ourselves into extinction as a result of overkilling rhinos.

Cows aren't going extinct anytime soon, why can't the same market force apply to elephants and rhinos?

But what else might have been in Siberia when there were wooly rhinos and mammoths?

They will have their genomes sequenced, as will the frozen remains of 12 more rhinos.

Second, it is much easier for the poachers to find rhinos/elephants using UAVs as opposed to use UAVs to protect them.

>The problem is that we aren't starving ourselves into extinction as a result of overkilling rhinos.

Great idea until someone realizes that if this can be used to track rhinos, it can also be used to track humans.

We already know that Siberia was home to wooly rhinos and mammoths.

There was no doubt a huge amount of variation in the historical population of the rhinos that just isn't present in the handful that remain.

The "should be their own species" argument was primarily brought on to promote the endangered status of the rhinos anyways.

The impending extinction of the Northern White Rhinos is discussed in chapter three "Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat" of the book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams.

This quote from that article was interesting to me, I had always assumed that mammal reproductive systems were relatively similar: "The reproductive system of rhinos is very complex and there is still so much we do not know,"

Not really an answer to your question, but may have some hints: "Seizures like these are indicative of the ongoing devastation of rhinos, elephants, and other wildlife in Africa to satisfy demand, mainly in China and other Asian countries, for animal parts."