In South Korea they’ve found it’s very hard to successfully train dogs who can sniff out contraband. Only 3 trainees out of 10 qualify.
So when they realised they could clone one of their best dogs, they did it. Now there are 6 identical dogs keeping the country’s borders safe:
South Korea has put cloned dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs at customs. Six genetic duplicates of a single Labrador retriever have been working at the country’s main Incheon international airport and three other customs checkpoints …
The agency has said using clones could help reduce costs due to the difficulties in finding dogs who are up to snuff for the critical task of sniffing out contraband. Only about three out every 10 naturally born dogs it trains end up qualifying for the job.
[Via : The Associated Press: South Korea deploys cloned drug-sniffing dogs.]
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