SAN DIEGO – Kurt, the world’s first successfully cloned Przewalski’s horse, is thriving at his home at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and learning the language of being a wild horse from Holly, a young female of his own species. Kurt and Holly’s pairing is a step in a long process to bring back lost genetic diversity to this endangered species. Kurt is a clone of a male Przewalski’s stallion whose DNA was cryopreserved 42 years ago in San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Biodiversity Bank.Kurt moved from his birthplace at ViaGen’s cloning facility in Texas to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in March 2021. Kurt’s birth in August 2020 was only the first step in bringing his important genetics back to the Przewalski’s population. He was born to a surrogate mother, a d
