Cloned black-footed ferret gives birth for first time ever, a landmark in Colorado-based reintroduction efforts ...Middle East

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ferret recovery program based in northern Colorado. Antonia, cloned from frozen material from long-dead Willa, is helping raise her now 3-month-old kits as part of an effort to expand the gene pool of ferrets being reintroduced in Colorado and other states. While thousands of conventionally bred ferrets have been dropped into prairie dog colonies in Western states, they all descend from just seven of the animals captured in Wyoming in the 1980s.  Antonia’s descendants have three times the

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