Abstract:The follicular reserve and its ontogeny in the elephant are of interest because elephants have the longest reproductive life of all landbased mammals. They also have the longest recorded pregnancy, which allows a protracted view of the series of significant events involved in the development of the embryonic and fetal gonads. The large elephant population of Zimbabwe provided the opportunity to collect conceptuses from elephants culled for management reasons and hunted professionally. Five embryos aged 76-96 d… Show more
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