she’s very precocious she walks right up
to people she looks for Mom for security
to make sure it’s okay but she’s very
outgoing the family we have is the most
valuable that you can find on earth
right now this is the first ever that is
been successfully produced by artificial
insemination first Wolski or
Przewalski’s either pronunciation is
considered correct they’re native to
Mongolia and China they went extinct in
the wild back in the 1900s and were
brought into captivity they were saved
in zoos and the population was built
back up again if you’re able to
consistently produce offspring by
artificial insemination it is a lot
easier for me or another researcher to
travel to an institution that is holding
a mail collect semen samples from those
animals transported to the place where
the female is situated and produce an
offspring that way so it gives a lot
more flexibility in what we can
accomplish by developing this tool what
we hope to do is to really minimize the
need for moving live animals for genetic
management purposes moving live animals
can be risky it’s very expensive the
first question that we get asked is why
is it so difficult why did it take seven
years for you to accomplish something
that’s being done on a daily basis the
actual procedure of doing artificial
insemination is exactly the same that we
use in the domestic horses but when you
throw in the uncertain factors of how
these animals respond to our handling
that’s a price we pay to wait until we
get it nailed to the point that we’re
able to get successful reproduction
because these are not domestic horses
you’re not going to see halters on them
I can’t lead them around they have to do
it pretty much willingly or on a routine
type of pattern you can’t walk up to
these guys you can’t touch them
you can’t make them do anything they
really don’t want to it takes them a
long time to trust you but then once you
do I feel very
privileged that I get to be a part of
their group they’re heard you’ll stay
here at least for the first two years
she may go to another zoo she most
likely will not go to Mongolia because
she was captive bred we can’t really
teach her how to defend herself from a
wolf or other predators out in the wild
we just don’t have that ability here if
there is no failure I think there’s no
fun in science and failures actually
allow us to refine some of the
techniques and also to understand how we
can improve our tools that we are
developing to get successes
you
to people she looks for Mom for security
to make sure it’s okay but she’s very
outgoing the family we have is the most
valuable that you can find on earth
right now this is the first ever that is
been successfully produced by artificial
insemination first Wolski or
Przewalski’s either pronunciation is
considered correct they’re native to
Mongolia and China they went extinct in
the wild back in the 1900s and were
brought into captivity they were saved
in zoos and the population was built
back up again if you’re able to
consistently produce offspring by
artificial insemination it is a lot
easier for me or another researcher to
travel to an institution that is holding
a mail collect semen samples from those
animals transported to the place where
the female is situated and produce an
offspring that way so it gives a lot
more flexibility in what we can
accomplish by developing this tool what
we hope to do is to really minimize the
need for moving live animals for genetic
management purposes moving live animals
can be risky it’s very expensive the
first question that we get asked is why
is it so difficult why did it take seven
years for you to accomplish something
that’s being done on a daily basis the
actual procedure of doing artificial
insemination is exactly the same that we
use in the domestic horses but when you
throw in the uncertain factors of how
these animals respond to our handling
that’s a price we pay to wait until we
get it nailed to the point that we’re
able to get successful reproduction
because these are not domestic horses
you’re not going to see halters on them
I can’t lead them around they have to do
it pretty much willingly or on a routine
type of pattern you can’t walk up to
these guys you can’t touch them
you can’t make them do anything they
really don’t want to it takes them a
long time to trust you but then once you
do I feel very
privileged that I get to be a part of
their group they’re heard you’ll stay
here at least for the first two years
she may go to another zoo she most
likely will not go to Mongolia because
she was captive bred we can’t really
teach her how to defend herself from a
wolf or other predators out in the wild
we just don’t have that ability here if
there is no failure I think there’s no
fun in science and failures actually
allow us to refine some of the
techniques and also to understand how we
can improve our tools that we are
developing to get successes
you
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