Article: Animal cloning enters a new arena with bulls.(Q)

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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