A South Korean zoo has begun displaying a rare breed of Korea’s indigenous dog cloned by a local research group.
 
Daejeon O-World zoo on Wednesday opened to the public a clone of a short-haired, spotty sapsaree dog donated by a research team led by Professor Kim Min-kyu at the Chungnam National University.
 
It is one of the two male cloned sapsaree dogs born in February. The research team cloned them by fusing somatic cells from the Korean Sapsaree Foundation with the ovum of a female sapsaree dog and breeding them in the uterus of a surrogate dog.
 
Professor Kim was a part of the South Korean research team that produced the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.