List of cloned animals



Banteng

  • A Javan banteng calf was cloned from frozen cells using a cow as a surrogate, delivered via c-section on April 1, 2003, then hand raised at the San Diego Wild Animal Parks Infant Isolation Unit. It died due to an injury when it was less than seven years old, about half the normal life of a banteng.

Black-footed ferret

Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret female, was born on December 10, 2020, at the Fish and Wildlife Service's Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado. She is a clone of a female named Willa, who died in the mid-1980s and left no living descendants.

Brown rat

Camel

Injaz, a cloned female dromedary camel, was born in 2009 at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates after an "uncomplicated" gestation of 378 days.

Carp

Embryologist Tong Dizhou successfully inserted the DNA from a male Asian carp into the egg of a female Asian carp to create the first fish clone in 1963.

Cat

  • In 2001, scientists at Texas A&M University created the first cloned cat, CC. Even though CC was an exact copy of her host, they had different personalities; i.e., CC was shy and timid, while her host was playful and curious.
  • In 2004, the first commercially cloned cat, Little Nicky, was created by Genetic Savings & Clone.
  • In 2019, the first Chinese commercially cloned cat, Garlic, was created by Sinogene Biotechnology.

Domestic cattle

Coyote

Sooam Biotech, Korea cloned eight coyotes in 2011 using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers.

Deer

Dog

  • Snuppy, an Afghan hound puppy, was the first dog to be cloned, in 2005 in South Korea.
  • Sooam Biotech, South Korea, was reported in 2015 to have cloned 700 dogs for their owners, including two Yakutian Laika hunting dogs, which are seriously endangered due to crossbreeding. They also reportedly charged $100,000 for each cloned puppy. One puppy was cloned from the cells of a dog that had died 12 days before.
  • Sinogene, a Beijing, China-based biotechnology company, was reported in December 2017 to have cloned Apple, a gene-edited dog, named "Longlong". In 2019, the first batch of monotocous cloned police dogs was born.
  • Argentine president Javier Milei owns five English mastiffs who are clones of his now-deceased dog Conan.

Frog (tadpole)

In 1958, John Gurdon, then at Oxford University, explained that he had successfully cloned a frog. He did this by using intact nuclei from somatic cells from a Xenopus tadpole. This was an important extension of work of Briggs and King in 1952 on transplanting nuclei from embryonic blastula cells.

Fruit flies

Five genetically identical fruit flies were produced at the lab of Dr. Vett Lloyd at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2005.

Gaur

Gaur, a species of wild cattle, was the first endangered species to be cloned. In 2001, at the Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa, United States, a cloned gaur was born from a surrogate domestic cow mother. However, the calf died within 48 hours.

Goat

Horse

  • In 2003, the world's first cloned horse, Prometea, was born.
  • In 2006, Scamper, an extremely successful barrel racing horse, a gelding, was cloned. The resulting stallion, Clayton, became the first cloned horse to stand at stud in the U.S.
  • In 2007, a renowned show jumper and Thoroughbred, Gem Twist, was cloned by Frank Chapot and his family. In September 2008, Gemini was born and several other clones followed, leading to the development of a breeding line from Gem Twist.
  • In 2010, the first lived equine clone of a Criollo horse was born in Argentina and was the first horse clone produced in Latin America. In the same year a cloned polo horse was sold for $800,000 – the highest known price ever paid for a polo horse.
  • In 2013, the world-famous polo star Adolfo Cambiaso helped his high-handicap team La Dolfina win the Argentine National Open, scoring nine goals in the 16-11 match. Two of those he scored atop a horse named Show Me—a clone, and the first to ride onto the Argentine pitch.
  • On 6 August 2020, Kurt was born the world's first successfully cloned Przewalski's horse. In a collaboration between ViaGen, San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG), and Revive & Restore, Kurt was cloned from a cell line of a genetically important stallion that had been cryopreserved at the SDZG Frozen Zoo since 1980.
  • In June 2022, "Zhuang Zhuang" was cloned by the Beijing laboratory Sinogene. He is the first from the "warmblood" group of breeds to be born in China and to be officially approved by the China Horse Industry Association.
  • On 17 February 2023, "Ollie" was the second successfully cloned Przewalski's horse. He is a genetic twin of Kurt, born from the same cell line.

House mouse

Monkey

Rhesus macaque

In 2024 it was announced that a rhesus macaque named Retro had been cloned by a SCNT technique.

Crab-eating macaque

Mouflon

  • A European mouflon lamb was the first cloned endangered species to live past infancy. Cloned 2001.
  • A cloned baby mouflon was born to a domestic sheep in the successful interspecies cloning of an endangered species in Iran in 2015.

Mule

  • Idaho Gem was ranked third in the world among racing mules.

Pig

  • 5 Scottish piglets
  • Xena
  • BGI, China was reported in 2014 to be producing 500 cloned pigs a year, with a success rate of 70–80%, to test new medicines.

Pyrenean ibex

  • A cloned Pyrenean ibex was born on July 30, 2003, in Spain, but died several minutes later due to physical defects in the lungs. This was the first, extinct animal to be cloned.

Rabbit

  • In France

Sheep

Water buffalo

  • Samrupa, the world's first Murrah buffalo calf cloned using a simple "Hand-guided cloning technique" was born in 2009 at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India, but died due to a lung infection five days after she was born. Garima-I, a buffalo calf cloned using an "Advanced Hand guided Cloning Technique" was born in 2009 at the NDRI. Two years later in 2011, she died of heart failure. Garima-II, another cloned calf was born in 2010. This buffalo was inseminated with frozen-thawed semen of a progeny-tested bull and gave birth to a female calf, Mahima in 2013. A cloned male buffalo calf Shresth was born in 2010 at the NDRI.
  • In January 2016 scientists at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes in Hisar, India announced that they had cloned a buffalo using cells of the ventral side of the tail of superior buffalo.
  • The world's first water buffalo was cloned in Guangxi, China by the Guangxi University in 2005 according to one reference.

Wolf

  • The arctic wolf was cloned by South Korean scientists, including the controversial scientist Hwang Woo-Suk in 2005. The two female cloned wolves were housed in a zoo in South Korea for public view. The wolves were called Snuwolf and Snuwolffy, which were names taken from Seoul National University. Snuwolf died in 2009 from an infection.
  • Maya the wolf was cloned by the Chinese biotechnology company Sinogene in 2022.