The next step is to choose female southern white rhinos among those at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy to serve as a surrogate mother, Kenya's wildlife minister said.
Japanese newspapers reported that Shigeta's parents were seen kissing a baby when they visited their son in Cambodia, where he also had several children by surrogate mothers.
Females of a closely related species, the southern white rhino, became both the key to developing a rhino embryo in a lab and the leading candidates for surrogate mothers.
MAYA KOSOVER: They checked with the agency what is the situation with the surrogate mothers and the answer was that two of them are back in India already and they weren't there in the earthquake.
Now since Tal and Amir had each wanted a baby with their own sperm, they told Lotus … MAYA KOSOVER: We would like to rent two wombs, one of each sperm and to try to use, like, two surrogate mothers.