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gpt5 | 6 days ago

Interestingly, the most cloned animal in the world are horses [1].

Given how popular (and expensive) it is for horses, it likely delivers on the results people are looking for. Note that current cloning techniques don't clone the mitochondria, which represents 1%-2% of the genome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_cloning

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swiftcoder|6 days ago

Horses are also orders of magnitude more valuable (financially) than cats. Nobody is paying $70 million for a cat for their breeding program...