e applied to eliminate certain undesirable traits such as the mad cow disease that ravaged Britains livestock a few years back (Harley 3). One large and very important aspect of cloning is its potential to bring endangered animals species back into prominence on earth. The most recent experiment with endangered species had to do with an animal called a gaur. The gaur, a wild boar that is usually found in India and Southeast China, is feared to be nearing extinction because only 36,000 are known to exist in the wild (Lanza 1). Cells taken from the dead body of another gaur were put into the uterus of a dairy cow that became a surrogate mother for a gaur that scientists named Noah. Unfortunately, Noah died within two days of its birth from complications due to dysentery probably unrelated to the cloning procedure, stated Philip Damiani, a researcher with the team that cloned Noah. However, Damiani went on to state that, [Noahs] birth brightens the prospects that we can apply this technology to many species on the verge of extinction. Of the creatures headed up the ramp of the ark of endangered species, (Lanza 1) gaurs are only one of many. Scientists hope to clone endangered species such as the African bongo antelope, the Sumatran tiger and the ever-popular Chinese giant panda. Cloning has become a more approachable solution to the endangered species problem in recent years because of Zoos deficiency in being able to reproduce and maintain significant numbers of endangered animals. It is also apparent that most zoos do not possess the equipment to collect and successfully preserve semen; something that is vital to the reproduction process. However, by simply freezing the tissues of a dead animal that is a prospect for cloning, scientists can clone as many animals as they need from that material (Lanza 1). Many scientists feel that cloning would decrease the biological diversity of a certain cloned species, (i.e.-create a singul...
