article_snippet.sent: the center is also focused on breeding the animals.
article_snippet.sent: Wendy Kiso, a research and conservation scientist, spends her days at an onsite lab, trying to figure out how to keep the species from going extinct.
article_snippet.sent: Part of her lab includes several tanks that "cryo-preserve" elephant sperm at negative-196 degrees.
article_snippet.sent: We process the semen and We extend the semen in such a way that We can freeze the semen," Kiso said.
article_snippet.sent: This is a genetic resource bank for Asian elephants.
article_snippet.sent: Mike, the newest pachyderm to join the group, was born at the center's birthing barn nearly two years ago.