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China clones gazelle species
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-09 11:14 China has cloned four
Mongolian gazelles, a threatened species, by maturing the clones in goat wombs,
the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
The clones were created by scientists in Linyi city in eastern Shandong
province, Xinhua said.
Twenty-six goats were implanted with the clones, resulting in six baby
gazelle births, it said. Two of them were stillborn.
The surviving four clones were "doing well, running and hopping a lot,"
Xinhua quoted the scientists involved as saying.
The name of the facility and scientists who carried out the experiment were
not given.
Animal cloning has been done successfully in numerous countries. Other
animals that have been successfully cloned are sheep, cats, goats, cows, mice,
pigs, rabbits, horses, deer, mules and gaur, a large wild ox in Southeast Asia.
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