The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is now home to the world’s second successfully cloned Przewalski’s horse, a critically endangered species previously considered extinct in the wild until 1996, it was announced Thursday.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is now home to the world's second successfully cloned Przewalski's horse, a critically endangered species previously considered extinct in the wild until 1996, it was announced Thursday.
The foal was given the name"Ollie" in honor of Dr. Oliver Ryder, director of Conservation Genetics at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Ryder began his career at the zoo in 1975 under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Benirschke, who was instrumental in founding the conservation research program at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
The world's first cloned Przewalski's horse, Kurt -- named after Benirschke and also living at the Safari Park -- is the genetic twin of Ollie, as he was born in August 2020 from the same stallion's living cell line. That cell line was cryopreserved more than 40 years ago in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Biodiversity Bank's Frozen Zoo.
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