Wildlife: Taking Tech To The Zoo

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With only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in the world, the birth of Suci (left) at the Cincinnati Zoo was cause for celebration. Only one other member of the endangered species has been born in captivity. Suci's arrival was aided by progesterone monitoring and ultrasounds, two of many technologies being embraced by zoologists to better breed, preserve and study animals. "Future scientists won't have the access to biodiversity we do," says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo, which keeps a DNA bank of 8,000 frozen cells from 400 species. In New Orleans, zookeepers cloned seven African wildcats; Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo artificially inseminates tigers. Suci, Indonesian for "sacred," can thank her parents for giving her life.

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