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I'll take one of the smaller giraffe. So they came keep my bushes trimmed . Cyborg monkeys sound awesome .
I don't have any references, but they did this with an endangered tortoise years ago, (ploughshare i think). And the males ended up dying from the collection routines they were subjected to.
I really don't want to see tortoise semen collector as a possible job. I do wonder why they are using electrical stimulation to collect it
I don't have any references, but they did this with an endangered tortoise years ago, (ploughshare i think). And the males ended up dying from the collection routines they were subjected to.
There's a Yangtzee River Turtle that's the last female of her species and they're using AI on her. But I don't think it talks about how hard the process is on the male turtles:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/asia/china-turtle-extinction-insemination/
It was basically the same, electrical stimulation.
I could see if you had a tortoise that was young and going through that hormonal stage when they are just becoming mature, a mount collector might work.
Older fellows probably won't fall for it.
This all sounds like a lot of work, better to just let tortoises be tortoises. The stress, the possible injury, the low chance of success.
I imagine it's better than 'manual stimulation' as it were.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/asia/china-turtle-extinction-insemination/
or dead ...….. assuming it is frozen properly , I believe the problem is timing in healthy dogs , which is a big deal with the shortened lifespan of frozen or chilled semen , maybe one of those is the problem in pigs ……. they got the timing in dogs down pat ......... I've had success with frozen semen and transcervical inseminations , semen frozen 8-10yrs , from long dead dogs …my dogs right now , their father was dead 5yrs before they were born ……..…. looking back at the life of an old dog or dead dog is 20/20 , you know without question what your breeding too ..... i'd think timing with turtles and tortoises would require information not yet available …….Overall, AI is used when there are very high quality parents who couldn’t “get around” enough as people would like them to, to get enough offspring.