ENDANGERED SPECIES: London Zoo breeding procedure for tigers

ENDANGERED SPECIES: London Zoo breeding procedure for tigers; INT MS Zoo staff carrying anaesthetised male tiger Lumpa into room on stretcher TBV & MS Staff preparing tiger for procedure (2 shots) EXT Taina Strike (Zoological Society of London) interview SOT - although tigers breed quite well in captivity, having a tiger that's not breeding means she's not expressing her genes into gene pool INT GV Medical team with Raika who is to be artificially inseminated with Lumpur's sperm MS Staff carry Raika on stretcher into procedure room Vets gowning up in preparation TCMS Vet checking Raika Thomas Hildebrandt (Institute for Wildlife Research, Berlin) interview SOT - if these are successful then it's big breakthrough for the species/ to apply this technology and work with these animals is new direction for future CMS Electroejaculator machine MS Vets with tiger CBV Vet artificially inseminating Raika i/c Door of Sperm Lab opening to show lab worker busy inside MS Lab technician using pipette CBV Bill Holt looking at computer screen and monitor beside showing sperm Bill Holt (Institute of Zoology) interview SOT - some of work we do is directed towards keeping sperm alive/ eg may not have male and female in same place/ may need to collect semen from one place and move it quickly to another country/ that's what needs technological development CUTAWAYS BV Holt looking at monitor and computer screens in lab CS Details on computer screen