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...updated story, though, Noah is not the skipper of the rescue project. Instead, it's the name given in advance to the clone of a dead gaur, an endangered wild ox found in India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. The new Noah is expected to be born any day now to Bessie, a cow living on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa. Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species. "The gaur is developing well," says...
Still, if Bessie's little gaur is delivered safely, the birth will come as a boost to many biologists in the U.S. and Europe who are engaged in a range of "assisted reproduction" conservation strategies. These include artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization. In particular, though, Noah's arrival will hearten the scientists at ACT, who recently signed a deal with Spanish officials to attempt to clone the bucardo, an extinct mountain goat native to the Pyrenees. The last bucardo died a year ago, struck by a falling tree in its final habitat, northern Spain's Ordesa National Park. Scientists...
...creation of Noah began with the fusing of skin cells from a male gaur and 692 cow eggs. Just 81 grew into blastocysts (clumps of cells suitable for implantation), and 42 of those were inserted into 32 cows, of which eight became pregnant. Two of the fetuses were later removed for study, while five cows sustained spontaneous abortions. Only Bessie and Noah are left...
...implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...