An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any old sheep. They were “massive hybrid sheep” created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then breeding an enormous hybrid species.
Primates are much harder to clone than sheep. Here’s an interesting article about the 2018 cloning and the 2022 cloning of which news just came out recently. https://bioethicsobservatory.org/2024/02/primate-cloning-a-step-forwards-or-backwards/45931/