Arthur Schubarth of Montana used tissue and testicles from Marco Polo sheep to clone animal and create hybrid
  • vegeta@lemmy.world
    481·
    2 months ago

    to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the Earth.

    Like dog breeds, hybrid vegetables, racehorses, or any other myriad of plants and animals that we selectively alter the traits of?

      • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        So you just make shit up to post? Did you even read the article? Show me where it says that he was releasing them into the wild? I have a feeling if you even opened the link you just looked at the pretty pictures because the first paragraph says:

        An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota

        • Grimy@lemmy.world
          42·
          2 months ago

          I read this article https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/01/clone-hybrid-sheep-montana-sentence/, it mentions it much later and I did miss the part that specified captive. But he also sold to a bunch of places, including private individuals and other breeders. It’s not hard to imagine that some will make it into the wild even from captive grounds. He was told not to do it specifically for this reason.

          In 2014, Schubarth petitioned the state of Montana to allow Marco Polo argali into the state, but officials denied the request due to the potential for disease transmission to native species and the risk of the species establishing feral populations.

          Schubarth sold 11 sheep with one-quarter of Montana Mountain King’s genetics for $13,200 total to two people in Texas, prosecutors said. He also traded one of that sheep’s offspring for $10,000 and sold dozens of straws of its semen to breeders in other states.

          I guess I’m at fault in this though. Looking at it, I imagine nothing gets bred and then released into the wild. I don’t know much about hunting since I consider it a disgusting hobby.

      • Boris NotTooBadinov@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I must’ve missed that part. I thought it was only for captive hunting, which wouldn’t make it any different than the other exotic animals kept on captive hunting farms

        • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Na the dude you responded to is just making shit up. Nothing in the article says anything about releasing them into the wild and specifically says for captive hunting.

          An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 months ago

    Oh. He wants to hunt to the sheep. He wants to create them, let them loose, and then hunt them.

    I was imagining the sheep would be his hunting companion, like he’s a modern day Paul Bunyan with a giant sheep instead of an ox.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Well now I’m thinking of Babe the Blue Ox as being a mighty hunter.
      Maybe they call him the blue ox because he crushes his victims to death (starving them of oxygen!), leaving them blue?!

  • Boris NotTooBadinov@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Oh sure, when some guy in a lab coat does it they get the Nobel prize. I try to combine a bear and a pig, and all of a sudden someone wants to make a Federal case out of it

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    “I will have to work the rest of my life to repair everything I’ve done,” Schubarth told the judge just before sentencing.

    You’re 81. The rest of your life is not very long.

  • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I have more questions than answers why testicle tissue? Was it an actual clone? Or just using sperm in the testicles? If a clone how?

    While I knew cloning was possible, the fact that a random group was able to pull it off, is frankly scary as shit …

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh man if you find that thought scary, check out Thought Emporium on YouTube. He’s doing gene editing on bacteria in his garage.

      Apparently his generic engineered cure for lactose intolerance (tested on himself) only lasted for a few months, but it did work.

      • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        Sperm are stem cells

        You’re close. Sperm aren’t stem cells, but the stem cells that differentiate into sperm are found in the testes.