Meet the World’s First Wild Arctic Wolf named Maya
(The Quiver): A China-based gene company has successfully cloned a wild arctic wolf for the first time ever. Over 100 days, After her birth in a Beijing lab, A video of Maya was made public by the Sinogene Biotechnology.
According to sources, the first-ever cloned wild arctic wolf, Maya, is 100 days old and healthy. A wild female polar wolf’s skin sample served as the source of Maya’s donor cells. Its surrogate mother was a beagle, and its oocyte came from a female dog.
Over 130 additional embryos were created using enucleated oocytes from a female dog and somatic cells from a wild female arctic wolf to complete the cloning of the arctic wolf.
Over 80 embryos were then implanted into the uteri of seven beagles, one of which gave birth to a healthy wolf.
The birth of the first wild cloned arctic wolf is a significant development for the use of cloning technology, which is crucial for biodiversity preservation and the preservation of rare and endangered species.
Dogs were chosen as the wolf’s surrogate because they share genetic ancestry with extinct wolves and are more likely to be successful in cloning than wolves.
Born in June 10th 2022, the cloned wolf Maya currently resides in a lab with her substitute beagle, and she will later be sent to the Harbin Polarland in Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China.
