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Toppy is the name given to seven cloned [1] Labrador Retriever dogs, born in late 2007 to three surrogate mothers. [2] They were the world's first cloned working dogs, and were used by the Korea Customs Service.
Each Toppy is a clone of a successful sniffer dog in Canada. [3] The Toppy dogs needed 16 months of training to qualify to work for the South Korean Customs Service. [3] Only 10-15% of dogs are genetically predisposed to being effective detection dogs. [4]
The project cost ₩300 million (about US$240,000), and was funded by the Government of South Korea; [2] it was led by Lee Byeong-chun, a former aide to Hwang Woo-suk, who fell from grace after his stem cell research turned out to be fabricated. [4]
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
general notability guideline. (August 2020) |
Toppy is the name given to seven cloned [1] Labrador Retriever dogs, born in late 2007 to three surrogate mothers. [2] They were the world's first cloned working dogs, and were used by the Korea Customs Service.
Each Toppy is a clone of a successful sniffer dog in Canada. [3] The Toppy dogs needed 16 months of training to qualify to work for the South Korean Customs Service. [3] Only 10-15% of dogs are genetically predisposed to being effective detection dogs. [4]
The project cost ₩300 million (about US$240,000), and was funded by the Government of South Korea; [2] it was led by Lee Byeong-chun, a former aide to Hwang Woo-suk, who fell from grace after his stem cell research turned out to be fabricated. [4]