article_snippet.sent: the fate of the subspecies's the last known male northern white rhino left in the entire world.
article_snippet.sent: For an animal on the verge of extinction, the fate of the subspecies the subspecies rests on the fate of the subspecies ability to conceive with the two female northern white rhinos at  the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya.
article_snippet.sent: Rhinos are targeted by poachers, fueled by the belief in Asia that Rhinos horns cure various ailments.
article_snippet.sent: Experts say the rhino horn is becoming more lucrative than drugs.
article_snippet.sent: Though the three northern white rhinos are physiologically healthy, age might be a factor, says Paul.
article_snippet.sent: Rhinos on a plane: Life-saving mission across borders .
article_snippet.sent: The northern white rhino cannot mate with a black rhino, but there is a chance The northern white rhino could mate with a southern white rhino, Paul says.
article_snippet.sent: While southern white rhinos are not endangered --  
article_snippet.sent: Ol Pejeta has 19 -- southern white rhinos are not endangered --   are a different subspecies  from The northern white rhino genetically.
article_snippet.sent: Though the offspring would not be 100% northern white rhino, it would be better than nothing, experts say.
article_snippet.sent: In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that, as a technique, can be presupposed to be the most promising," Paul says.
article_snippet.sent: Bringing rhinos back to Uganda, one calf at a time .
article_snippet.sent: The need to preserve The northern white rhino is dire.
article_snippet.sent: the conservancy acquired the northern white rhinos --  two males and two females -- in 2009 from a zoo in the Czech Republic.
article_snippet.sent: Suni, the other male northern white rhino at the conservancy, died last year.
article_snippet.sent: There are no known northern white rhinos left in the wild.