India Plans Cloning to Revive Extinct Cheetah

Friday, January 31st, 2003

Evidently India’s out of cheetahs but still has a few leopards left. According to India Plans Cloning to Revive Extinct Cheetah:

A leading Indian research institute has asked Iran to loan it a pair of cheetahs or offer some cells to clone an animal that has been extinct in India for about half a century, its chief said on Friday.
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He said an Indian leopard could serve as a surrogate mother for a cloned cheetah, adding that although the Iranian cheetahs were small in number they were identical to the species that disappeared from India.

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