Only two northern white rhinos remain. And they're both female.
Sadly, this success story only stretches as far as the southern subspecies of the white rhino.
Ruth Appeltant
Post doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford
Ruth Appletant is a post-doctoral researcher in the Rhino Fertility Project at the University of Oxford. Ruth obtained a veterinary degree at the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 2011. Selected by the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) for a PhD grant, Ruth worked on cumulus expansion and in vitro maturation of porcine oocytes. Ruth undertook a post-doctoral position (JSPS fellowship) at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation (NARO) in Tsukuba, Japan. From 2017, Ruth worked for almost two years in the team of Prof. Dr. M. Georges in Liège, Belgium.
