Avi Blizovsky
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The striped feral cats at the New Orleans Endangered Species Center are doing everything their friends do, but the people who cloned them say their kittens are the latest proof that cloning can help save endangered species.
Ditteaux, a clone of a male African wild cat named Jazz gave birth to eight kittens from two clones of Nancy - a female who is not related to Jazz.
"It was not unexpected. Cloned sheep, mice and cattle were able to multiply naturally. But this is the first time that cloned wild animals, and in particular wild cats, have succeeded in multiplying. So say the scientists at the Audubon Center for the Study of Endangered Species.
By improving the cloning process and encouraging the cloned animals to breed and have babies, we can revive the genes of individuals who might not have been able to breed otherwise and thus we can save the genes of animals in the wild, said center director Betsy Dresser.
Well preserved skin samples from long dead animals still cannot be cloned but breathing animals can be cloned and the cloned animal can reproduce. saying.
The kittens, five of which were born on July 26 to Madge the cat and three on August 2 to Katy the cat will soon be on display at the Audubon Zoo. When they grow up they will be transferred to a cat colony at the Audubon Endangered Species Research Center.
They know endangered animals
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