Cloning an Endangered US Animal

CLONE, CLONE ON THE RANGE....

Where the deer and the antelope play...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a Black-footed Ferret named “Elizabeth Ann” from the frozen cells of an ancestor.

The primary threat to Black-footed Ferrets? Bubonic plague carried into western American Prairie Dog colonies by a black rat that hitched a train ride from San Francisco. The plague first came to San Francisco on ships from China around 1900.