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Podcast: Ohio Outdoors Podcast - Sportsmen's Empire
Episode: Cloning For Conservation
Description: This week on the show our resident wildlife biologist (Jeff) talks about cloning a black-footed ferret and what that means for the future of conservation. The black-footed ferret was thought to be extinct from the wild until a small remaining population was discovered. Scientists were then able to clone a female black-footed ferret using frozen DNA samples in order to add genetic diversity to the remaining population. This potentially can lead to a whole new area and focus in the world of conservation as they would be able to bring animals back from extinction with science. We also spent some...