Bid to breed Sumatran rhino by IVF fails

Last look: A student looking at Tam, the Sumatran rhino that died and was taxidermied for the Sabah Museum in Kota Kinabalu. — Bernama

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s hope for the survival of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino dimmed after an in-vitro fertilisation attempt failed.

Informed sources said the egg cell obtained from Sabah’s last female rhino Iman was injected with thawed sperm.