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Let's talk about cloning condors and black-footed ferrets....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there, internet people's bow again so today we're going to talk

0:26.2

about condors. Condors are on the verge of extinction if I was to create a flock

0:31.4

of condors on this island well you'd have nothing to say.

0:37.0

That of course is the late John Hammond.

0:41.6

U.S. Fish and Wildlife apparently took that quote as a challenge, spared no expense, mind you.

0:49.4

And because of that challenge, in December a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann was born to a surrogate mother.

0:57.6

She was created using frozen cells from another ferret named Willa who lived in the late 1900s as I heard it

1:09.8

recently described and felt really old.

1:16.1

This species on the verge of extinction.

1:20.4

In fact, in 1979 it was declared extinct and then some rancher in Wyoming is like

1:26.1

nah y'all are wrong I've got some here on the property. They became the basis for

1:31.8

the breeding program which has been pretty successful.

1:35.0

However, every black-footed ferret in existence today can trace their lineage back to seven ferrets. So Elizabeth Ann and those who may come

1:47.2

later who are like her are hopefully going to increase diversity in that pool because diversity is

1:56.2

pretty much always a good thing and it aids with species survival. It's worth

2:02.2

noting that fish and Wildlife is taking saving this species so seriously that some of them have already been vaccinated.

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