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Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species
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The scientists have already spent the past two years collecting 420 genetic samples for the species—mostly from dead specimens found in the Cerrado savanna region—and are now waiting for legal authorization to start the cloning.
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If they receive government approval, the species they’ll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).
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If the Brazilian cloning effort is successful, the animals would all be carbon copies of each other and therefore not useful for maintaining genetically varied populations—such diversity is key to a population’s resilience in the face of various diseases and predatory threats. Instead, the cloned animals would live at the zoological garden.
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As long as Animal cloning can offer medical benefits it should be investigated.
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Cloning is stupid, sick, selfish and evil. There is no need for anyone to exploit animals for greed of humans.
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I have absolutely no problem with animal cloning; it is a necessary step in the evolution of human welfare.
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Cloning should not be outlawed as the technology seems to offer new opportunities in medicine.
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Keep on cloning, practice makes perfect
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There needs to be a purpose for cloning. Unless animals that are endangered are cloned then it's a waste of time.
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