Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang but with horses

Picture of a group of lovely horses cloned from the same mare, and text reading 'Inside the pasture were seven clones of the same mare, all two years old or younger and being kept for a polo client. The chocolate-brown fillies looked so similar, it felt like a trick of the eye, although it was their behavior that caught me off guard. Instead of scattering around the meadow, they all grazed in a clump, and when they saw us walking through the pasture, they trotted over, moving in unison like a murmuration of starlings. Each one explored me in the same affable way as they took turns sniffing my sneakers, notebook, and hair. All seven trailed us back to the car. 'To many of ViaGen’s clients, cloning is appealing because of the potential they see to replicate an animal’s physical and mental makeup. ViaGen’s website assures customers that a clone can share the original’s temperament and intelligence. But some people have come to believe that clones get even more from the founder animal than that: They theorize that past experiences can be recorded in an organism’s cells through a process they refer to as “cellular memory,” and transmitted just like eye color. “There’s not a scientist in the world who will agree with me, except that I’ve seen it,” Veneklasen said.'
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Picture of a group of lovely horses cloned from the same mare, and text reading

'Inside the pasture were seven clones of the same mare, all two years old or younger and being kept for a polo client. The chocolate-brown fillies looked so similar, it felt like a trick of the eye, although it was their behavior that caught me off guard. Instead of scattering around the meadow, they all grazed in a clump, and when they saw us walking through the pasture, they trotted over, moving in unison like a murmuration of starlings. Each one explored me in the same affable way as they took turns sniffing my sneakers, notebook, and hair. All seven trailed us back to the car.

'To many of ViaGen’s clients, cloning is appealing because of the potential they see to replicate an animal’s physical and mental makeup. ViaGen’s website assures customers that a clone can share the original’s temperament and intelligence. But some people have come to believe that clones get even more from the founder animal than that: They theorize that past experiences can be recorded in an organism’s cells through a process they refer to as “cellular memory,” and transmitted just like eye color. “There’s not a scientist in the world who will agree with me, except that I’ve seen it,” Veneklasen said.'
From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine... "INSIDE THE CREEPY, SURPRISINGLY ROUTINE BUSINESS OF ANIMAL CLONING"

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Every clone requires a surrogate to gestate it. This article contains a LOT of passages that are bone-chilling in light of the recent attacks on women's bodily autonomy.

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