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Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2016

Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species.

From Time Magazine Archive

To increase the gaur's chances of survival, they picked a likely mother from the zoo's own small gaur herd�its 17 members, including the latest addition, account for about 10% of all the gaurs in captivity.

From Time Magazine Archive