egyptiandan said:That I'm afraid is a sad story
They did have a group at the zoo that included a male. They could never get him to breed naturally, so they decided to harvest sperm (with an electric cattle prod). They got the sperm and inseminated the females they had. They did get fertile eggs from this and 1 did hatch. Unfortunately they tried again to get sperm from the male, but couldn't. He stopped eating after the procedure and died 30 days later. As it should be, they have never harvested sperm from another tortoise, at any zoo, after this incident.
I know they have at least one female and the CB animal (now adult and unfortunately a female) still at the zoo.
narattah said:Aren't there a big breeding program at Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar?
You have probably seen this Yniphora video that says it,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdgiCbwT0I
Neal Butler said:narattah said:Aren't there a big breeding program at Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar?
You have probably seen this Yniphora video that says it,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdgiCbwT0I
I believe this is the guy I was talking about.