the, the make up your own mind. me the, there was a last of their kind, not seen on 522 female northern white. brian knows when they die, their species will die with them. but might modern reproductive medicines save them from extinction? international team of scientists believes it could all this and more on this edition dw science show. welcome to tomorrow. today, the way that this for a long time, all the work we put in now has a, has a real sense and can make a difference in for the species. so then the host is part of an international team

that's trying to risk you with the northern wide rhino. and for that, they need you to take a detour of a close relative the southern wide, right? know, and that's know, raising high hopes we achieve the 1st successful emerald transfer in the rental for us ever. and that's quite the. yeah. and know the big steps for us. the right. no baby unfortunately won't be born, but we'll get to that. so this pair of northern wide, reino cows are the only 2 left on the planet and they're protected around the clock . unlike the southern relatives, northern wide rhinos ones roamed parts of central africa. but to poaching and civil war have had a devastating impact. and now the species is extinct and the wild, and that's less than equal logic hook up. then other right ramos is a keystone species in central africa, or as was until they've got illuminated from its natural habitat. it keeps open spaces of short grass that other pieces can feed on. they some species are

struggled with longer growth. and also by creating these uh, short grass areas for zones they contribute to having fire protections. equal systems are extremely complex. and i think only when animals for species disappear from them, we understand how interlinks everything was only a handful of northern wide. ryan nose have ever survived the captivity for it and is in the czech republic to help these 2 vinyl couplets breed. then i brush to kenya and 2009, with a good grace on the native grasses and their native climate. but those hopes were dashed. no rhino babies were born and both bulls died, leaving behind the 2 females as the last chimes for the species. how could they work? part of the answer lies frozen, and these containers at the light that's institute for zoo and wildlife research in berlin. together was sales for more than $300.00 other species. here we also

start seeing samples of november trials and ambrose of november or trials. we split them between italy and germany to have a back up in case some catastrophic event happens. at least one bank safe, 30 northern wide rhino embryos car. no son of rain in the cold, scientists had harvested seamen from several ride, no boots before they died. every few weeks, the scientists harvest excels from one of the 2 females, rhinos of the x are then sloane directly to the left. and it's really where the sperm and the egg meet, end develop into an embryo that's frozen for the future. this entire process is also being carried out with one of the close relatives, the southern white, right? know that population is quite a bit larger. so they're a good test case for the rhino embryo transfer, the entire process had to be reconfigured for rhinos to the point of even inventing

new tools. right, and those are so large, there's going to so sick that the only way to reach the uterus it turns out is through the rectum. we have to go one into half me through inside of the animal, and bring a needle. next puncher, the wall of the wreck, them into the uterus, and then deposit our ambros inside of the uterus. as far as i know, no, no other amber transfer has ever been done this way. it's a long journey until an embryo reach has arrived. no uterus, in the most recent transfer, the southern white rhino accelerates came from belgium and the spring from austria, the virtualization took place in italy. the embryo was frozen and sent to kenya to be implanted into the surrogate mother correct. unfortunately, cora fell ill and died during the pregnancy. but for the 1st time ever,

a transferred rhino embryo had grown into a fetus. so when, when we saw the fetus, it was really a perfect little creature. it looks already like a rhino. you can see the base of the hall and you can see the rips count the rips through the skin. you could clearly see it's a male. that subpoena is at this stage actually 99 percent of the pregnancy continue to last breath. so it all it had to do is pause to grow for the inside of the loan of this moment unless she died, which unfortunately happens. spot. the scientists had shown that the idea was viable to move how far was especially to save the northern ride right now. this is a crucial prerequisite that we can really, with the ambrose recreated. we can go to the next step and create a new life from them. there's another problem. so the semen and x elves come from

only 3 northern wide right? knows that's why scientists in germany and japan, i experimenting with themselves to bring mama right into the gene pool of the methods we develop are extremely important for the future of many species. i think for example, also there's so much in rhino that we have been called now to work with. and we're already starting to apply our technologies to this species as well. the plan codes for transferring the 1st northern wide rhino embryo in summer 2024. if all goes well about 16 months later, a baby will take its place alongside the 2 northern wide rhino cows because to grow up as a prep, a north and white dry know the baby needs to be part of a rhino class. these days, most rhinos live in fenced in nature reserves, where they're protected from poachers,

who are mainly interested in the rhinos. horns and traditional chinese medicine, powdered rhino horn, is a sought after ingredient. in reality though, the horns are made of tear it to the very same substance that makes up human hair. but what about the horns of other animals? that's the topic of this week's view or question, which comes from sophia are in columbia. the why do the horns of large herbivores come in so many shapes and sizes? first of all, not every animal with fancy head gear has horns. dear and their relatives have antlers, which are made entirely of dead bone. there shut every year and then re drove horns by contrast throughout an animal's life. the rhino family has one kind of or made own the super hard carrots to go. big family has a different kind of horn,

which includes goats sheets, and antelope, and their horn sheer common features. the color is made of living bone interlaced with blood vessels, all covered with a tough coating of keratin. it's the same substance that makes up our own hair and fingernails. the shape of the horn is believed to play a role in the regulation of body temperature, especially in the heat sensitive brain. as scientists have documented on and for red thermal images. the top of the head on cows with horns stays cooler than in cattle whose horns were removed. in more temperate regions, capital horns tend to be shorter and lightly curved and covered with a thick layer of carrots and in the tropics. no kettle tend to have big, sweeping horns. their large surface area can dissipate excess bodies without water

loss. the same holds for the upright horns, commented gazelles, and many other antelope. their horns are covered by a fin, carrot and cheese, and have a cooling network of blood vessels to extend to the very chips. it's not a patient that isn't well suited to the cold, but they're kept in series. in cooler climates, antelope from africa can even get frostbite on the tips of their horns. why do you have a science question? send it to us in a video text or voice message. if we answer it on the show, we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you. so come on. just ask these ibex may be native to the helps, but surprisingly enough,

they enjoyed basking and warmer temperatures. during a mild winter more as you all know, i back survive and help on ibex. don't need all that much surface water either. so from their point of view, the impact of climate change and this without, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. it's 4 30 in the morning here and this without the game keeper was the dish now is hiking to the rock face of the augustine mountain the chemo. it's always a special encounter. it's like a glimpse of another world. when you get close to these animals, the officials thought that's also what makes the alpine ibex so fascinating. who is dish now has been observing the wild ibex,

a species of wild coat here for nearly 30 years. now those are all mature bucks. they live in separate grooves outside of the meeting season of course forced me to sound and approve that they all. alpine ibex are adapted to the extreme conditions here and can go long periods without water. for those that ibex don't really need to drink. otherwise the die of thirst and the outstanding region where there's hardly any surface water, that's all the water they get from plants and from the morning do is all they need from the last that it was all to take a short time. later he encounters a group of about 30 in juvenile and but your box the previous winter here was mild . that's good for the ibex, which live above the tree line. shy that's perfectly. have them feel for they me. they don't mind ibex benefit from that. so just really stuck winters are one of the most crucial, mostly difficult times of the year for them. see, i'm

a half here all winter, even in january, february, and march. when it's minus 20 or 30 degrees celsius of ice and be in the wind blast over the mountain tops with a 100 kilometers an hour. so conditions are harsh, milder the winter at the lower their death rate. so the animals benefit that they are all good. the only bags are especially interested in the dog luna, to get a better estimate of the size of the population. the gain keeper also looks for the dough with their kids. they're harder to find because they tend to seek the safety of rugged and accessible terrain. there's oh, down there, a middle age. go to go there some more and if they haven't done that, and i'll be looking at a small they are, there's no, they're not all that old yet. there's a 3rd one to force fields. that's

great. really lovely. the presence of young ibex is also a good sign, a lindsey nailing at this point, a herd has a lot of yearly subs assigned that last year's kid survived the winter and no one after the mild winter. many of the kids survive level a for them. it's always great when you see the go with their younger you see machine especially up close like this yet, and of the nice the style that doesn't happen every day. it all take off. on his way back down. there is a surprise in store this funk is 15 years old, which makes i'm the oldest ibex and the time region dakota, the young holly, as part of our herd management. we also hunt the animals to maintain a certain calling size based on the city. when the winter death rate as low more young animals survive, so we raise our kill, quote, a bad that lets us maintain the population at the size that we want need will help

pause to the 100 insures the population doesn't grow too large. the herds have enough food and don't need to compete with shami for resources. here on the remote and rugged mountain top, the alpine ibex or thriving that about fines technology. that's like dw science is now on take talk. what do we do gravitational ways that that is when the people begin getting high and laughing gas out of the drums boogie to the beads and what's the perfect kid football find the on says gets most dw signs on new, tick tock channel. the bulls were ones, the most widely spread predator in the world. the skilful hunters ranged over much

of the northern hemisphere, then humans hunted them nearly to extinction. in the 1990 suppose were granted protected status across europe, and their numbers have been rising steadily. ever since researchers have been documenting their return today about 180 wolf packs brome across germany. much to the dismay of many farmers and shepherds. last year was killed molten, $4000.00 farm animals and germany to be as tins flocks of being attacked twice already. wolves killed 70 of his sheep and a few goats, and several more sheep had to be snorted off to woods due to injuries. tim likes wolves, but he says enough is enough enough inside for him generally in favor of the cooling problem, manama is meaning moves that have managed to get past are safety sensor several time, much involving these electric fences were no match for the woods. for the shepherd,

the presence of wolf packs and that his foam is no longer an option. as long as they were, you rather kidding from this region, a 150 years ago? 100 because of exactly this problem. beautiful. it didn't work your car work the way they imagined it working in a heavily populated region like north ryan was fairly young. the and here to reintroducing goals is a very, very difficult to help and even say it's impossible in many areas of garnishment. okay. here in gemini, several different states agencies and hundreds of ex, but some monitoring the rules forest is and volunteer experts and samples of will firing down to the sinking back institute near frankfort. every sample is analyzed . kathleen, the goal is to establish a genetic data base of every will fin gemini maintained here at the institute. i'm going to have this up. i know here in germany we have almost 3700 separate wolf profiles with the boys. they're all stored in our electronic database and we send it. and the information also includes which wolves are related to each other,

what it would pack they belong to the ones that when the sample was taken and so forth. and i'm going to use this just every time i get a new genetic profile in our database law that both gets its own. i d, the boys i g, w for genetic goals number, you know, math. so we maintain a consecutive list of, of those numbers for this and then combine the 4th law for the new model. when a foam animal is mold, assault police taken from the wound and compared to the data base. when there's a genetic match. and it's clear that the livestock was killed by a wolf. the farmer couldn't receive compensation from the states. and if the same wolf is determined to have carried out several different attacks, the farmer can apply to half the wolf cold. even though it says strictly protected species, this kind of upset can take a long time. sometimes even years, it has been by then it will pack might already have up to the new comes. so it doesn't really work. and yet, so nice. the regulations for protecting hubs of sheep and goats. a very strict and

complex, too complex. some critics say, a biologist and also hands the tips on and steal the, says the bad on kidding move shouldn't be absolute rules, so no longer at risk of extinction. and he says that even if the rules and loosened the species, went beyond districts with adult trouble or hoops here in germany or part of the whole population that spans much of europe for probably northern your asia as well . and they've never been at risk of extinction gets in the past or now. so there's no sensible reason to ban hunting was important. invoice equity has to be all but frank fast believes will still need to be strictly protected. and they posed little danger to humans in order. if you rep, i mean 9 people have died. since wolves returned most of them from rabies, then ruins about when you're looking at the past 70 years in this very large geographical area, meaning all of europe. it's safe to say that the statistical probability of

a wolf attacking the human and for any reason on all is very low. so there are a number of series, why that is the case or the c. and one is that what was might regard us humans as a kind of predator good, as for, for salt, something best left alone, some of these in willis. so when it comes to rules, conservationists and farmers them to a way, see i to i here in germany and elsewhere in the wild dogs are closely related to wolves for more than 15000 years now. they've been our faithful friends and they have a very special skills, an amazing sense of smell. that's why, especially trained dogs health search for survivors when disaster. yes. but those missions are dangerous for the dogs too. so good high tech, a i robot one day replace our k 9 friends when it comes to search and rescue operations, which knows those best. my low says no. he's being

trained as a rescue dog to identify since follow their treat l and report to find the sense samples include human blood and burial shrouds. the team hides the samples. now it's my lowest turn. he still has plenty to learn about how to carry out search and rescue operations for the man said, i tied up in the r valley. the flood water rushed through and left the mountains of rebel and its way back. and the chance of finding survivors wasn't all that high unfortunately. oh, so that's when our dogs would come in. that's come. but dogs have to be highly skilled to work in a crisis. own milo isn't quite there yet. rough terrain, steep hills and distracting odors. all make searching for traces of evidence near the water, especially challenging under water searches are also difficult. dining robots and underwater drones take

a long time to completely search an area. trained dogs can narrow down where to search. team leader yano. so josh is preparing a lower. the pipe is filled with burial shrouds and heavy rocks. the training session will take place that the link and the black forest. now the lower will be submerged. we're planting a node or for the dogs to find later on. it's nice and deep below us here on a train dog can detect a sent up to 20 meters under water. even some are jones doesn't know exactly where the lower is is has to be the handle or shouldn't know where the lower is. because if they show even the slightest sign or expectation, the dog notices right away for often when do but take. so now it's time to hop on board. milo is only allowed to bar when the boat is directly above the odor

particles. but this isn't the right spot. there is nothing here. milo is anxious and over eager. i got the and we haven't been out on a boat often so he doesn't have to signal down yet. random parking won't pass muster. milo needs to be more precise. he failed this training exercise, but he'll be given another chance. robots, on the other hand, don't get stressed or anxious once they've been programmed, they do if they've been told. the european japanese cursor project has designed robots to search for certain libraries and a disaster zone. their older sensors can locate people trapped under the rubble of a collapse building. for example, could robots like this replace search and rescue dogs? yeah, and those young doesn't think so. he and his dog venga,

were also called to the r valley in western germany after the catastrophic floods there a few years ago. a little but a robot is and this is what you have to pick it up and bring it to the right place . it needs a technical equipment, batteries and things like that. along with the oro valley flood is a good example. a search there would have taken much, much longer with a robotic than a dog one driving real quick. so the dog can detect his son from quite a distance ultimatum and then go to the right place and pinpoint where it's coming from quite quickly, the highest. i'll stop by it in the state until sundays. that's because highly trained dogs. nose is still superior to a mechanical one. dogs have up to 300000000 all factory receptors, and can smell human sweat, hormones, blood, and even people's breath, an incredibly tiny amount. mylo isn't quite there yet. right now he's learning how to be placed it up with a rope and keep his cool. he also has to get used to noisy helicopters and

flying to a disaster science. the lesson plan includes every possible scenario he might encounter on the job. now it's time for his 2nd try at the link. a search mission on the water is one of the toughest jobs of rescue can face. it's essentially now i have to keep a sharp eye on any changes in his behavior. some are a jones, his job is to interpret my low signals. she's convinced he has what it takes up. so now he's signaling straight ahead and we're right over the spot with the odor. with the older lawyer, he's indicating the correct spot of that type fitness forgot to put bingo milo barks to report the sent. the searching was good. right? you stuck your nose all the way down close to the water. good job, definitely pointing out like milo has shown you have what it takes. yeah. the my, the other thoughts, my little did a great job today. i believe was

a lot calmer before he got on the boat and on the boat to boat off and we're going to, he's made some real progress and forth with so let's infinity of the patient's training at a strong bond between dog and handler. make all the difference. it's my cousin and i really like his loyalty is very focused on me. that's nice because it makes the job easier and it helps cement or bond that established. and i love his lively personality and connect 2nd story. when it comes to search and rescue missions, a dog and a human handler are still an unbeatable team. dogs are fast, precise resorts full and tenacious, and don't need electricity or internet access. robots are also getting more and more sophisticated, but there's still a long way to go before a robot knows consult smith, k 9 line. that's all for now. thanks for watching tomorrow today. and to join us again next week for another

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