January
3, 2019
After two
suitors failed to get a rare Asiatic lioness pregnant, Prague zoo now hopes
that artificial insemination will finally plant the seed for her species'
survival.
"Ginni,
our female Asiatic lion from Gujarat in
India, underwent artificial insemination on
Wednesday evening," the zoo said in a statement on Thursday.
With some
600 Asiatic lions living in Gujarat and another 143 in European facilities, zoo
director Miroslav Bobek said he held "great hope" in Prague's Asiatic
lions to preserve the dwindling species on a global scale.
The zoo
has been attempting to breed its three Asiatic lions from India since they
arrived in 2015, so far with no success.
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