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Article: Animal cloning enters a new arena with bulls.(Q)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2008
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Byline: DANIEL WOOLLS
By Daniel Woolls
The Associated Press
GUADALIX DE LA SIERRA, Spain
Alcalde, a hulking black bull, is quite the stud. He sires as many as 40 calves a year, most of them top-grade fighters, even though in human terms he would be almost 80 years old and is nearing the end of his life.
Victoriano del Rio, a fifth-generation breeder of fighting bulls, cringes at the thought of losing an animal with such good genes. So he is going to clone him - an unprecedented marriage of modern technology and the Spanish-speaking world's ancient, beloved pastime.
"I am extremely fond of this bull," del Rio said at his ranch in this town outside ...
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