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==Legacy==
After the cloning was successfully demonstrated by Dolly's creators, many other large mammals have been cloned, including [[horse]]s and [[cattle|bulls]]. Cloning is now considered a promising tool for preserving [[endangered species]], usually by those who do not work in species conservation. Most animal conservation professionals point out that cloning does not alleviate the problems of loss of genetic diversity (see [[inbreeding]]) and [[Habitat (ecology)|habitat]], ergo must be considered an experimental technology for the time being, and all in all would only rarely be worth the cost, which on a per-individual basis far exceeds conventional techniques such as [[captive breeding]] or [[embryo transfer]]. The [[2000]]-[[2001]] attempt to clone a [[gaur]] failed, with the animal, '[[Noah (cloned gaur)|Noah]]', dying two days after birth, and the attempt to clone [[argali]] sheep did not produce viable embryos. The attempt to clone a [[banteng]] bull was more successful, as were the attempts to clone [[mouflon]], both resulting in viable offspring. The banteng example is a case illustrating the circumstances under which the uncertainties of cloning attempts are outweighed by the benefits.wow!!!
==Controversy over credit==
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