A cloned horse living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park could play a crucial role in helping an endangered wild horse species survive. KPBSErik has more ⤵️
Kurt—the world’s first successfully cloned Przewalski’s horse—is thriving at his home at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and learning the language of being a wild horse from Holly, a young female of his own species on Sep. 15, 2022.
A cloned horse that could be an important key to reviving an endangered species went on public display at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park recently.There is a small, captive herd at the Safari Park, and there is hope that the cloned animal, known as Kurt, will one day breed with the mares there. “We plan to have Kurt produce many offspring here,” said Oliver Ryder, the director of Conservation Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “We are considering also producing more copies of Kurt because he’s so valuable. And it’s possible that eventually Kurt would go to another institution. To allow the establishment of this lost genetic variation.”
Kurt was born in the summer of 2020 at animal cloning company ViaGen’s facility in Texas. He just recently arrived in San Diego.
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