Noori, a cloned Pashmina goat, is seen at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), in Shuhama, 25 km (16 miles) east of Srinagar March 15, 2012. Noori who weighed 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) at birth on March 9, 2012 is the world's first cloned Pashmina goat and is doing well so far, said Doctor Riaz Ahmad Shah, who heads the project at SKUAST. Pashmina goats, which grow a thick warm fleece, survive on grass in Ladakh where temperatures plunge to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).Reuters
Noori, a cloned Pashmina goat, is seen at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), in Shuhama, 25 km (16 miles) east of Srinagar March 15, 2012. Noori who weighed 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) at birth on March 9, 2012 is the world's first cloned Pashmina goat and is doing well so far, said Doctor Riaz Ahmad Shah, who heads the project at SKUAST. Pashmina goats, which grow a thick warm fleece, survive on grass in Ladakh where temperatures plunge to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).ReutersNoori, a cloned Pashmina goat walks inside its enclosure at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), in Shuhama, 25 km (16 miles) east of Srinagar March 15, 2012. Noori who weighed 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) at birth on March 9, 2012 is the world's first cloned Pashmina goat and is doing well so far, said Doctor Riaz Ahmad Shah, who heads the project at SKUAST. Pashmina goats, which grow a thick warm fleece, survive on grass in Ladakh where temperatures plunge to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).ReutersA coyote cloned by South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk and his team is pictured on a farm at a wildlife protection centre in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, October 17, 2011.ReutersVeterinary researchers called for horse breeders and owners to abandon the practice of hot iron branding, which they say is harmful to the horse and produces marks that are often unreadable.ReutersThe world's first cloned camel, Injaz (front), is seen at the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai, April 15, 2009. The female camel calf was born on April 8, created from cells harvested from the ovary of an adult she-camel which were grown in culture before being frozen in liquid nitrogen.ReutersA cloned fluorescent dog Ruppy (R), a seventeen-month-old beagle, and her three-month-old puppy are seen at Seoul National University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Seoul May 13, 2009. The puppy is one of "2nd generation Ruppies", offspring of "Ruppy", the world's first transgenic dogs which carry fluorescent genes. They took a fluorescent protein, much like that produced by some sea anenomes, and inserted it into the cell of a beagle. The name "Ruppy" is a combination of the words "Ruby" and "Puppy", and the offsprings of such dogs will possess the same fluorescent gene as their mothers.ReutersFive cloned puppies, the offspring of Bernann McKinney's late bullterrier Booger, are seen with one of their surrogate mother dogs at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul August 5, 2008. RNL Bio, a South Korean company dedicated to the development of stem cell therapeutics and the commercialization of dog cloning technology, announced on Tuesday that the firm successfully cloned McKinney's pet dog and was commencing its world-wide dog cloning services. Five clones, named as Booger Bernann, Booger Ra, Booger Lee, Booger Hong and Booger Park, were born from two surrogate mother dogs on July 28, 2008.ReutersThe world's first cloned dog Snuppy (C, bottom) and its puppies are seen with researchers at Seoul National University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Seoul September 5, 2008. The cloned dog Snuppy, an Afghan hound, impregnated two dogs through artificial insemination to produce 10 puppies, which were born in May. Snuppy was produced in 2005 by a lab once headed by Hwang Woo-suk, who fell from grace after two of his papers on cloning human embryonic stem cells were found to be based on fabricated data. Independent testing proved that Snuppy was cloned.ReutersSnuppy (R), the first male dog cloned from adult cells by somatic nuclear cell transfer, and a male Afghan hound from which an adult skin cell was taken to clone Snuppy, are seen in this handout photo released in Seoul, August 3, 2005. Man's best friend joined the list of cloned animals as South Korean scientists led [by Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang] announced on Wednesday they had created the world's first cloned dog from an Afghan hound.ReutersA famous veterinarian has stated that slaughtering without stunning the animal is just not acceptable.ReutersGloria, the first baby cow of cloned cow Vitoria (R), is seen on a government farm outside Brasilia, October 4, 2004. Gloria was born at the agrarian research farm outside of the capital Brasilia, on September 19.ReutersK.C. (top), the first animal produced by cloning from a cell taken from a carcass, is pictured is with her traditionally bred calf Sunshine, who was born December 17, 2004, in this undated photograph released by animal cloning and genomics services company ViaGen on November 12, 2009. ViaGen owns the intellectual property rights to the technology that in 1996 produced Dolly the sheep, the world's first animal cloned from an adult cell, at Scotland's Roslin Institute.ReutersThe world's first clone of an adult animal, Dolly the sheep, bleats at photographers during a photocall at the Roslin Institue in Edinburgh January 4, 2002. [Dolly created by Wilmut and his team of genetic scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh in 1996 has arthritis in her left hind leg at the hip and the knee.]ReutersPrometea (L), the first world cloned horse, and her mother Stella Cometa eat grass in the grounds of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, northern Italy, August 7, 2003. [Italian scientists said on Wednesday they have created the world's first cloned horse from an adult cell of a horse who gave birth to her genetic twin. Prometea weighed in at 36 kilos (80lbs) when she was born during a natural delivery on May 28, 2003 in Italy after a normal, full-term pregnancy.]ReutersIdaho Gem (L), the first successful equine clone in the world, follows its surrogate mother Idaho Syringa (R) in a corral at Idaho Gem's unveiling at the University of Idaho (U.I.) in Moscow, Idaho on May 29, 2003. A team of scientists from U.I.-Utah State University announced that Idaho Gem was born on May 4 after the team successfully cloned the hybrid mule using new cloning techniques. The team, headed by U.I scientist [Gordon Woods], started its work on this project in 1998. This scientific breakthrough may shed new light on the causes of specific cancers in humans.ReutersNikolaus, Thailand's first cloned calf, is licked by the cow that it was cloned from at the SK Pattaya Ranch in Ban Bung district in the Thai province of Chonburi on April 9, 2001. The Research Centre for Bioscience in Animal Production, a division of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Chulalongkorn University, successfully cloned the calf using DNA taken from the cow's ear, implanted in an egg and then inserted into the uterus of a surrogate cow. Nikolaus was born April 3, 2001.ReutersA cloned piglet curiously approaches a visitor with his litter-mates in the background at the College of Veterinary Medicine on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, September 5, 2001. The Veterinary School and the University's Center for Biotechnology and Gonomics announced that A&M University has become the first academic institution to have cloned three different animal species with the reproduction of pigs, goats and cattle.ReutersTwin baby monkeys born from cloned embryos clutch each other at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Oregon March 4. The procedure used to produce the monkeys last year, nuclear embryo transfer, confirms that genetically identical twin monkeys can be reproduced.ReutersAn international team said July 22 it had cloned not one mouse, but dozens, from adult mice. Ryuzo Yanagimachi of the the University of Hawaii, said they had cloned several generations of mice and hoped their method would prove to be a breakthrough for both animal breeding and basic scientific research. Three generations of cloned mice are shown here. The second level combines both the second and third generations, demonstrating the magnitude of the process.ReutersFive piglets, named Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom were cloned earlier this month at a Virginia Tech University research facility by the PPL Therapeutics, the British biopharmaceutical company that helped to clone [Dolly the sheep]. The first ever litter of pigs follows similar cloning [of cattle, mice and sheep.]ReutersThe world's first-ever cloned cat, called "CC," is seen at seven weeks old with Allie, her surrogate mother, in this December 22, 2001 file photo. The kitten is the first successful product of a program aimed at letting people clone their beloved pets at Texas A&M University in College Station. ["CC" joins a growing list of animals that have been cloned from adult cells, starting with Dolly the sheep and now including pigs, goats, cattle, mice and an oxlike creature called a gaur.]Reuters
Scientists from Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology in Srinagar have successfully cloned a rare Pashmina goat. They have named the cloned goat, born on March 9, Noori, which means light in Arabic.
Scientists across the world have cloned several animals like Noori. In 2010 Argentinian scientists cloned a horse and in the following year South Korea cloned a coyote.
Here are some pictures of Noori and other cloned animals:
