Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
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 t...
If an 80 year old rancher can source parts for DNA, and then clone and breed the resulting animal, and also sell it's semen to other people across the country... Wtf else is going on with cloning no one knows about?
I remember shortly after Dolly was born, everyone was talking about cloning.
Then a few months later China claimed to clone a monkey (it was eventually found to be fake)
But everyone was silent about it after the initial news release. Almost no one was talking about it and most people don't even remember it.
I think this was on purpose to hide the fact that we already have human clones and the first ones are likely 20+ years old now.
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/
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
Certainly sounds like there are lab services out there willing to play things a bit loose. Although I’m guessing you could substitute testicles for every instance of “animal parts” in the article. So more IVF than Jurassic Park. Although “Alternative Animal Ranch” really does inspire an Island of Dr. Moreau vibe.
Wait, how did he clone the sheep? That's a key part that seems to be glossed over.
The man cloned an animal and made a hybrid super sheep and the article just barely mentions the cloning!
It's like if a guy got stopped while riding a motorcycle with a shark over his shoulder, and a news article only mentioned the shark in passing. Explain the shark, please!
Edit: spelling
More info here:
He sent them into a lab to get cloned and then implanted the embryos into ewes. He got one pure argali male sheep out of that and then artificially inseminated other ewes with the argali sheep to produce hybrids.
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Shouldn't even be illegal, bring on the MEGA SHEEP
Thank you. I knew my people were lurking somewhere about
Someone is going to go over this law with a fine toothed comb.
Importing endangered animals? Clearly illegal.
Killing endangered animals and bringing in parts? Clearly illegal.
Bringing in endangered animal DNA and making more endangered animals? 🤔
I dunno... I'm not well versed enough in law, ecology, or animal husbandry. It really feels like this is a new area.
Let's take the hunting angle out of it. Say I brought in Siberian Tiger DNA for the express purpose of creating and breeding tigers and hybrids in captivity... wouldn't that just be species preservation?
The problem is that if any get out, they could interbreed with the native bighorn sheep and pollute their gene pool.
I don't think Tigers can breed with sheep
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Yeah, I can't see why they wouldn't be able to do this. As long as you're not abusing and torturing them I don't see a problem. Just make sure the animals don't escape into the wild.
THIS. IS. FUCKING. AWESOME.
Did you read the article? There's something just a little uncool about genetically modifying animals to be more profitable hunting trophies. Dude can rot for all I care.
This is how you get Pokemon.
Ignore the poor edit job.
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