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Using science to save vanishing species is becoming a global pursuit. Robert Mauget and colleagues at France's National Museum of Natural History, which includes four zoo parks, recently became the first to produce deer embryos in vitro. The technique--incorporating frozen semen and oocytes, or developing egg cells--is expected to be applied later this year to rare and endangered deer species, with more common types acting as surrogate mothers. The French are also talking with colleagues in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan about how they may help rebuild populations of Bactrian (Bukharian) deer in Central Asia. "Basically, we're hoping...
After years of watching one species after another become extinct, researchers are sounding optimistic. "We don't have the right to do nothing," says Mauget, who predicts that interzoo exchanges of sperm, oocytes and embryos will develop rapidly. "Instead of shipping our animals from one zoo to another, we'll be sending sperm to the four corners of the earth." Meanwhile, in a corner of Iowa, another kind of delivery is awaited...