I'm thinking that I'd not want to be the one tasked with collecting the sperm..

"made use of "semen collected from a 35-36 year-old Southern white rhinoceros" resident in the UK's Colchester Zoo some years previously, which had been frozen and stored"

One assumes it's the semen, not the rhino that's been frozen ;o)

Can I nominate Rebecca Loos to assist as I believe she has the requisite skills on her ...errm .. CV.

I know Rhinos are horny creatures, but I'm wondering not so much about who would collect the semen but how they'd go about collecting it. I'm also wondering whether I really want to know.

I almost picked the coat icon but I'm not sure I'd want to find out what's in the pockets.

Bend your imagination to the idea that bull semen is routinely collected for artificial insemination in agriculture, and then extrapolate using the concept that a rhino is just a bigger, stronger bull.

Hey presto, the thinking is complete and the mental energy required wasn't all that great after all.

I knew there was such thing as bovine artificial insemination but, not coming from an agricultural background, didn't really understand how it was done. Then one evening I saw, of all things, a comedy special with Buddy Hackett wherein he related a story about artificially inseminating a cow (from both ends of the process). I nearly peed myself from laughing so hard.

Not if you've seen a live showing of "milking" thoroughbreds before... *shudders*

I'm sure there's some segment of the population where someone could produce a double profit - selling the sperm, and the video of the action

Paris: Because there's probably already a video out there

When I was at uni, the first thing that we were told in AI lectures was "never talk to agrics about AI, just don't."

And I was wondering how Artificial Intelligence could be related with bull sperm...