In 2019, artificial insemination (AI) successfully produced for the first time in the world a jaguar cub. Unfortunately, shortly after its birth, its mother attacked and ate it. Since then, a new attempt at inseminating the same female jaguar has been made, in addition to other procedures of the like in a bid to save certain species.
On February 16, 2019, the first jaguar cub ever born from AI arrived at the Associação Mata Ciliar in Brazil, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) reported at the time.
The birth was the result of an AI procedure performed by scientists from CREW and represented a major scientific advancement for the conservation of this species.
