Only five white rhinos left worldwide, after one dies at San Diego Zoo
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[QUOTE=ElectroMagnet;46736895]Natural selection?[/QUOTE]
Hate to see what kind of desolate shithole we would live in if people like you dictated policy. We're the ones causing this mass extinction, if we keep killing off species soon enough it'll just be us and fucking chickens left.
At this point, cloning isn't really a good idea. Take dolly, the sheep clone. She was a clone from another sheep. However, her (and other animal clones) were sickly and did not live very long at all.
Its not realistic to expect to keep any species alive by cloning at this point, its currently not a viable solution
[QUOTE=Buck.;46733598]Because ethicfags.[/QUOTE]
the irony of being against it too is we caused this + cloning could save them
or at least I think we caused this. Is it white rhino's that are being hunted/all rhinos, or another type?
The problem with animal cloning is that the clone would live about as long as the life the mother has left to live before they reach programmed cellular death.
Cloned animals, at the cellular level, are the age of the mother animal.
[editline]17th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=J!NX;46737375]the irony of being against it too is we caused this + cloning could save them
or at least I think we caused this. Is it white rhino's that are being hunted/all rhinos, or another type?[/QUOTE]
Cloning as it currently exists wouldn't even prolong the life of the species.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;46736922]Hate to see what kind of desolate shithole we would live in if people like you dictated policy. We're the ones causing this mass extinction, if we keep killing off species soon enough it'll just be us and fucking chickens left.[/QUOTE]
You realize, for a species to survive in the long run without excessive in-breeding, there needs to be over 1,000 or so different individuals of the species still alive.
The white rhinos are GONE, we're just delaying the inevitable, when we can rather be preventing the endangerment of other widespread animals. (and i'm not talking about some stupid chickens, think lions and elephants, etc.)
[QUOTE=Daemon White;46732348]So, what about breeding attempts? Or is it all males left? In that case, try male insemination to a normal rhino and see what pops out.[/QUOTE]
At this point it's impossible to bring them back. Virtually every species with under 100 members might as well be labelled as extinct.
[editline]18th December 2014[/editline]
Well I mean MAYBE we could do some science shit to make more rhinos, but that wouldnt really be a good plan cause they'd be horribly inbred.
Well, not really bye, more of see you later. When cloning gets better and we still have these rhinos DNA, maybe we can start the de extinction of them.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;46737385]The problem with animal cloning is that the clone would live about as long as the life the mother has left to live before they reach programmed cellular death.
Cloned animals, at the cellular level, are the age of the mother animal.
[editline]17th December 2014[/editline]
Cloning as it currently exists wouldn't even prolong the life of the species.[/QUOTE]
The thing with Dolly is, her death was virtually unrelated to her being a clone.
She had arthritis, which was possibly related to being a clone, but that was not what lead to her death.
She had a form of lung cancer and was put down at the age of 6.5 years old. She was not the only one in the flock that had lung cancer, which is why it is believed to be unrelated to her cloning.
[QUOTE=ElectroMagnet;46745362]You realize, for a species to survive in the long run without excessive in-breeding, there needs to be over 1,000 or so different individuals of the species still alive.
The white rhinos are GONE, we're just delaying the inevitable, when we can rather be preventing the endangerment of other widespread animals. (and i'm not talking about some stupid chickens, think lions and elephants, etc.)[/QUOTE]
Well the Mauritius kestrel still exists and it went down to six.
[QUOTE=FordLord;46748200]The thing with Dolly is, her death was virtually unrelated to her being a clone.
She had arthritis, which was possibly related to being a clone, but that was not what lead to her death.
She had a form of lung cancer and was put down at the age of 6.5 years old. She was not the only one in the flock that had lung cancer, which is why it is believed to be unrelated to her cloning.[/QUOTE]
What happened to her offsprings? Can't find anything about them unless I didn't search correctly
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