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Article: Domestic cat successfully acts as surrogate mother for African wildcat.
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- Transplant News
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- December 24, 1999
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A domestic cat has given birth to a rare cousin, the African wildcat, in an unusual surrogate birth experiment.
The Audubon Institute Center for Research of Endangered Species said the first known intraspecies birth could bolster endangered species and possibly even be used to resurrect entire species. "If extinction happens in the wild, the technology will be there to bring the species back," said Ron Foreman, chief executive officer of the center.
Jazz was born November 24, about 70 days after scientists had taken sperm from a male African wildcat named Sid and the egg of a female named Sheena. The resulting embryo was grown in an incubator ...