# Canonical recap data for First Cloned Mammal: Dolly the Sheep (1996)
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slug: dolly-sheep-clone
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1996/dolly-sheep-clone"
title: "First Cloned Mammal: Dolly the Sheep"
subtitle: Scottish scientists cloned a sheep from adult DNA, breaching the apparent barrier to reproductive cloning and sparking urgent bioethical debates that persist today.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1996-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1996
decade: 1990
country:
name: United Kingdom
slug: united-kingdom
summaryShort: Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are a pair of identical crab-eating macaques that were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996. They are the first cloned primates produced by this technique. Unlike previous attempts to clone monkeys, the donated nuc
summaryLong: Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are a pair of identical crab-eating macaques that were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996. They are the first cloned primates produced by this technique. Unlike previous attempts to clone monkeys, the donated nuclei came from fetal cells, not embryonic cells. The primates were born from two independent surrogate pregnancies at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/World-famous_sheep_%2828147270737%29.jpg/1280px-World-famous_sheep_%2828147270737%29.jpg"
heroImageCredit: "\"World-famous sheep (28147270737)\" by Mike McBey is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/."
importance: 77
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Zhong_and_Hua_Hua"
  title: First cloned monkeys
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- tech-launch
metaDescription: "Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are a pair of identical crab-eating macaques that were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same cloning technique "
wikidataQid: Q47498369
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20180128050541/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Zhong_and_Hua_Hua"
  capturedAt: 2018-01-28
  label: First cloned monkeys
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Zhong_and_Hua_Hua"
