World's first cloned ferret could help rescue its endangered species
All black-footed ferrets living today are descended from only seven individuals, leading to a very limited genetic diversity.
Bert, a male black-footed ferret peers out from a burrow in a cage at the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Wellington, Colorado April 11, 2007. By 1980 it was believed that the black-footed ferret was extinct when a group of only 18 was discovered in W(photo credit: REUTERS/RICK WILKING/FILE PHOTO)
