It's not always all about human beings

We tend to get caught up in the politics and meliu involved in the issue of cloning, something I hope everyone can tell by now I favor -- even for humans for compassionate reasons, but this article goes to show it's not always just about us. I am so in favor of redressing the damage that human advance has caused in nature wherever possible. Replenishing threatened and even extinct species where possible, where in the latter complete or reconstructed DNA samples can be obtained, is one endeavor I stand firmly behind.

Leave it up to the Chinese to jump right on in and do the right thing.

China Clones Threatened Gazelle Species

By Associated Press

Thu Dec 8, 4:10 PM

BEIJING - China has cloned four Mongolian gazelles, a threatened species, by maturing the clones in goat wombs, the official

Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.

The clones were created by scientists in Linyi city in eastern Shandong province, Xinhua said.

Twenty-six goats were implanted with the clones, resulting in six baby gazelle births, it said. Two of them were stillborn.

The surviving four clones were "doing well, running and hopping a lot," Xinhua quoted the scientists involved as saying.

The name of the facility and scientists who carried out the experiment were not given.

Animal cloning has been done successfully in numerous countries. Other animals that have been successfully cloned are sheep,

cats, goats, cows, mice, pigs, rabbits, horses, deer, mules and gaur, a large wild ox in Southeast Asia.