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Latest world news: Published March 20, 2019 12:45:34 PM
Chinese scientists have cloned what they called the “Sherlock Holmes of
police dogs”, in a program they hope will help cut training times and
costs for police dogs, state media reported.
The dog, named Kunxun, was cloned from a police sniffer dog by the
Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Company and the Yunnan Agricultural
University, with support from the Ministry of Public Security, the
state-owned tabloid Global Times reported.
Sinogene is hoping to make it possible to achieve “volume production” of
cloned police dogs in order to significantly reduce training times, the
company’s deputy general manager Zhao Jianping told the Global Times,
but he added that cloning costs remain a major obstacle.
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Kunxun, now three months old, will undergo extensive training in drug
detection, crowd control and searching for evidence, and will become a
fully fledged police dog when it is about 10 months old, the official
China Daily said.
Training usually takes about five years and costs as much as 500,000
yuan ($105,000), with no guarantee of success, the paper said, citing an
animal expert at the Yunnan Agricultural University.
The paper did not say how much a cloned dog would cost.
South Korean scientists created the world’s first cloned dog in 2005,
and two years later the country began employing cloned Labrador
retrievers to sniff out drugs for the customs service.
In December last year, another man in China successfully cloned Juice, a
dog famous for its work in TV and movie productions.
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