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  • In species such as bucardo, cloning is the only possibility to avoid its complete disappearance. "

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

  • In species such as bucardo, cloning is the only possibility to avoid its complete disappearance. "

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • In species such as bucardo, cloning is the only possibility to avoid its complete disappearance. "

    DailyTech Main News Feed 2009

  • Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Bill Crider 2009

  • Seijas Rodriguez, J.M. Seguimiento de la población de bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) en el Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido.

    Pyrenees-Mont Perdu, France and Spain 2008

  • Inventario de la población española de bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) en el Parque Nacional de Ordesa.

    Pyrenees-Mont Perdu, France and Spain 2008

  • Just seven of the embryos resulted in pregnancies and only one of the goats finally gave birth to a female bucardo, which died a seven minutes later due to breathing difficulties, perhaps due to flaws in the DNA used to create the clone.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • Despite the highly inefficient cloning process and death of the cloned bucardo, many scientists believe similar approaches may be the only way to save critically endangered species from disappearing.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • The last bucardo, a 13-year-old female known as Celia, was found dead in January 2000 by park rangers near the French border with her skull crushed.

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

  • Technically classed as a genetically distinct subspecies of the Spanish ibex, the Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as it is called by the locals, used to roam the mountainous hillside of northern Spain.

    DailyTech Main News Feed 2009

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  • "Efforts are now under way around the world to reanimate a menagerie of long-lost creatures. Probably the first one to be resurrected is a subspecies of goat called the bucardo. The last of these mountain goats, which once roamed the Pyrenees Mountains, died at Ordesa National Park in Spain in a freak accident (it was killed by a falling tree) in January 2000."

    —Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 164

    September 22, 2008

  • Wow.

    September 22, 2008

  • What a way to go ... extinct :-(

    September 22, 2008