CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A lioness at the Ukutula Conservation Center (UCC) and Biobank, in South Africa North’s West province has given birth to two cubs conceived via non-surgical artificial insemination (AI), using fresh semen collected from an adult male lion at the same facility.

Detailed explanation-2: -November 1, 1939, the first animal, a rabbit, conceived by artificial insemination was exhibited in the United States at the 12th Annual Graduate Fortnight at the New York Academy of Medicine. Gregory Pincus, an American biologist, removed an egg from the ovary of a female rabbit and fertilized it with a salt solution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reproductive management of beef cattle The first reported AI success in a domestic animal was performed by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1784 with successful AI in a dog. However, it was only in the early 1900s that a Russian scientist named E.I. Ivanhow accomplished the first successful AI in cattle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Artificial insemination is the process of injecting the semen obtained from a desired male bull of high milk yielding breed into the genital or reproductive tract of female animal during heat period.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first artificial insemination in animals was successfully performed by Italian physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani. In 1780, while he was working on animal reproduction, he developed a technique for artificial insemination in dogs.