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In New Orleans, in the heart of the study of endangered animals Audubon center was born an unusual kitten. Kitty Crystal was born from normal cats through IVF experiment.
February 6 Crystal was born, but the story of the birth of the kitten out already in 2003. It was then six years on wild male African black-footed cat Ramses from Zoo Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo was taken seed. Until 2005, he was kept frozen in liquid nitrogen before samples have been submitted to the center of New Orleans. There was thawed sperm and eggs is connected to another African black-footed cat Zora.

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2.Dalee were received and 11 frozen embryos. In 2011, 2 December, seven of them through IVF were introduced domestic cat Amelie and 67 days after she gave birth to a kitten Crystal, referring to the form of the African black-footed cat. Thus the rarest kind feline was successfully obtained through a surrogate mother a closely related species, and this opens up a whole new way in the restoration of rare species of animals.



3.Ameli although not a pioneer in this type of bearing kittens. In 2011, in the same New Orleans from the domestic cat two kittens were born African black-footed rock from the first four embryos Zora and Ramses. Birth of Crystal only confirmed the success of the method for future work in this direction.



4.Afrikanskie Blackfoot cats are endangered species. This is one of the smallest wild cats of Africa. There are only 53 individuals in 16 zoos in the world. In the wild nature as they left quite a bit.

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