The zoo issued a “Code Blue” and called the police to help find Nova, a 25-pound clouded leopard that escaped from its enclosure on Friday. The animal poses no threat to humans, the zoo said.
Researchers at the Brigham Young University and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are trying to protect the Sunda clouded leopard and the Mainland clouded leopard species through genetic research. In doing so, the team successfully sequenced the entire genome of both species for the first time.
Efforts to sequence the genomes of the world's animals tend to focus on those that most resemble humans with the work conducted almost entirely in the Global North, according to an analysis led by Washington State University.
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