Natalie, a southern white rhino who recently died, was part of the crash that participated in the collaborative poop study with N.C. State and the NC Zoo. It’s feeding time at the rhino habitat at the ...
The average adult Southern white rhinoceros produces about 50 pounds of poop each day, and there are two adult rhinos and one baby rhino currently residing at Safari West outside of Santa Rosa, which ...
A southern white rhinoceros stands in a field at the North Carolina Zoo. Christina Burnham In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white ...
Researchers have discovered that a variety of animals, from spotted deer to rhesus monkeys and peafowl, are attracted to and consume rhino excrement in Nepal’s Chitwan and Shuklaphanta national parks.
Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the team ...
Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ...
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Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. For the first time ever, the mitochondrial genome of a European woolly ...
In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white rhinos. Her original plan had been to study the blood biochemistry of wild southern white ...