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Commercial animal cloning
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<p>Commercial animal cloning is the <a href="/facts/Animal_cloning/Vb6SM4c7">cloning of animals</a> for <a href="/facts/Commerce/SL9xueYJ">commercial</a> purposes, including <a href="/facts/Animal_husbandry/aJforlQp">animal husbandry</a>, medical research, competition camels and horses, pet cloning, and restoring populations of <a href="/facts/Endangered_species/L7cIweSW">endangered</a> and <a href="/facts/Extinction/24p5NP2q">extinct</a> animals. The practice was first demonstrated in 1996 with <a href="/facts/Dolly_(sheep)/P1kNJQeY">Dolly the sheep</a>. </p>