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Nan Schaffer, veterinarian who helped unlock the science of rhino reproduction, has died, aged 72

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Nan Schaffer, veterinarian who helped unlock the science of rhino reproduction, has died, aged 72
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“One of the great tragedies of the 21st century,” Nan Schaffer once said, “will be humanity’s homogeneity.” The remark was less a warning than a diagnosis. In a world where landscapes were being simplified and species reduced to remnants, she concerned herself with what would be lost when difference itself began to disappear. For species like rhinoceroses, that erosion of difference was already under way. In the controlled stillness of a zoo enclosure, where a four-ton animal may refuse to breed

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