Chinese scientists make breakthroughs in captive breeding of Malayan pangolins
STORY: Chinese scientists make breakthroughs in captive breeding of Malayan pangolins
DATELINE: May 6, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:18
LOCATION: NANNING, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the newborn Malayan pangolins
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YAN DINGYU, Associate researcher with the Guangxi Forestry Research Institute
STORYLINE:
A newborn Malayan pangolin snuggles in its mother's arms, struggling to open its eyes at the Pangolin Rescue and Breeding Base of the Guangxi Forestry Research Institute. It is a captive-bred third filial generation pangolin and the sixth born at the base.
Chinese scientists have tackled the difficulties of the captive breeding of critically endangered Malayan pangolins to the third filial generation. Study results were published in the journal Communications Biology in October.
Yan Dingyu, an associate researcher with the Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, and his team have been breeding and observing 33 wild Malayan pangolins and 49 captive-born offspring since
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