Sb. Patil et al., CRYOPRESERVATION OF SEMEN OF TIGERS AND LIONS - COMPUTERIZED ANALYSISOF THE MOTILITY PARAMETERS OF THE SPERMATOZOA, Current Science (Bangalore), 75(9), 1998, pp. 930-935
A computer-aided semen analyser was used to monitor motility and motil
ity parameters of tiger and lion spermatozoa prior to and after cryopr
eservation to ascertain changes, if any, and to establish the quality
of the semen sample. The data demonstrate a consistent decrease in var
ious motility parameters of spermatozoa following freeze-thaw and unli
ke spermatozoa from unfrozen semen these are slower, less progressive
and their trajectories are less planar, Such data could form the basis
for discerning the quality of a semen sample using data of a semen sa
mple from a pc-oven fertile male as the baseline data.