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Pyrenean and Ibex
* Pyrenean Ibex
* January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean Ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
* Pyrenean Ibex, a recently-extinct species of wild goat
* Celia, the last natural-born Pyrenean Ibex
The Pyrenean ibex became the first taxon ever to become " un-extinct ", for a period of seven minutes in January 2009, when a cloned female Ibex was born alive and survived a short time, before dying from lung defects.

Pyrenean and became
The language fell into decay in the 14th century across the whole southern Pyrenean area and became largely absorbed into Navarro-Aragonese first and Castilian later in the 15th century, after their exclusive boroughs broke up ( 1423, Pamplona's boroughs unified ).
Gascony here includes the province of Comminges, which historically was a Pyrenean province, but later expanded all the way north to Muret in the southern suburbs of Toulouse, then was fragmented, and became an eastern fringe of Gascony.
In 2009, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog named Rufus became a minor celebrity for his daily commute from Pinner to Baker Street due to his size.
The Portuguese subspecies became extinct in 1892 and the Pyrenean subspecies became extinct on January 6, 2000.
By the mid-nineteenth century, another of the four subspecies, the Pyrenean ibex, came from the French Pyrenees and the Pyrenean subspecies became extinct in January 2000, when the last adult female died in the Ordesa National Park.

Pyrenean and extinct
In January 2009, scientists from the Centre of Food Technology and Research of Aragon, in Zaragoza, northern Spain announced the cloning of the Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, which was officially declared extinct in 2000.
The Pyrenean ibex ( Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica ) is an ibex, one of the two subspecies of Spanish ibex, extinct since January 2000 except for about seven minutes in 2009.
* Pyrenean Ibex-Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica Schinz, 1838 ( extinct )

Pyrenean and January
The last natural Pyrenean ibex, a female named Celia, was found dead on January 6, 2000, next to a fallen tree.
An ongoing project to clone to the Pyrenean subspecies resulted in one clone being born alive in January 2009.

Pyrenean and 2000
The biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. announced on October 8, 2000 that the Spanish government has agreed to their offer to use nuclear transfer cloning technology in collaboration with other scientific partners to clone the Pyrenean ibex from the tissue that was taken in 1999.

Pyrenean and ;
The Pyrenean region possesses a varied ethnology, folklore and history: see Andorra ; Aragon ; Ariège ; Basque Country ; Béarn ; Catalonia ; Navarre ; Roussillon.
These include: the Centre d ' Observació de l ' Univers ( Centre for Observing the Universe ), or PAM, of Montsec, which is an ambitious project that combines research, education and diffusion within the field of cultural and scientific tourism ; the establishment of the Tren dels Llacs ( Lakes Train ), a touristic railway that connects the provincial capital to the Pre-Pyrenees ; the creation of new exhibition spaces ( including the Museum of Lleida, the Paper Dresses Museum of Mollerussa and the Skiing Museum of the Val d ' Aran ); the organisation of routes to help discover the natural, cultural and monumental treasures of Lleida ( with the Castles of Sió Route, the Pyrenean Counties and Nostalgic Pallars Route, the Wine Route of Les Garrigues, and the Literary Routes of Pallars, etc.
* Pyrenean Desman ( Galemys pyrenaicus ), commonly restricted to northern portions of the Iberian Peninsuala and French Pyranees ;

Pyrenean and native
The Pyrenean Shepherd is a medium-small breed of dog native to the Pyrenees mountains in southern France and northern Spain, bred since at least medieval times for herding livestock, especially sheep.

Pyrenean and was
He retained his crown and his country but he was effectively a humiliated client of his enemies, he had lost his French territories and his Pyrenean realm was devastated and impoverished by war.
In 1354, John's son-in-law and cousin, Charles II of Navarre, who, in addition to his small Pyrenean kingdom, also held extensive lands in Normandy, was implicated in the assassination of the Constable of France, Charles de la Cerda.
* 16. 6 % of Midi-Pyrénées was a collection of small Pyrenean provinces, from east to west: the County of Foix ( eastern half of Ariège ), Couserans ( western half of Ariège ), Nébouzan ( extreme south of Haute-Garonne and extreme east of Hautes-Pyrénées ), Quatre-Vallées ( i. e. " Four Valleys ") ( east of Hautes-Pyrénées ), and Bigorre ( west and center of Hautes-Pyrénées ).
During the Hundred Days he was in command of an army defending the Pyrenean frontier.
The Pyrenean Shepherd was designed to be a sheepdog, and as such is full of the same sort of energy that other herding dogs have, but in a surprisingly small package.
The apparitions at Lourdes took place against the backdrop of a rich network of popular piety, which was common throughout the Pyrenean region in the 19th century.
He held on to the yellow jersey daily from the beginning of Stage 10 onwards, carrying it through all the Pyrenean mountain stages and into the Alps, but he was unable to retain it at the end of Stage 19, the queen stage finishing at Alpe D ' Huez.
* The innerland was mostly repopulated by speakers of the Aragonese language, a Western Romance language of the Pyrenean – Mozarabic group.
The Pyrenean border was re-opened again in February 1948.

Pyrenean and when
The smooth-faced Pyrenean Shepherd in its harlequin or blue merle coloration may have been one of the foundation breeds for the Australian Shepherd when sheep herders brought their sheepdogs to the American West when they flew to the United States as contract herders for the Western Range Association in the 1940s until the early 1970s.

Pyrenean and three
It is overlooked from the south by the Pyrenean peaks of Aneto, Montaigu, and Vignemale ( 3, 298 m ), while around the town there are three summits reaching up to which are known as the Béout, the Petit Jer ( with its three crosses ) and the Grand Jer ( with its single cross ) which overlook the town.
Aranese () is a standardized form of the Pyrenean Gascon variety of the Occitan language spoken in the Val d ' Aran, in north western Catalonia close to the Spanish border with France, where it is one of the three official languages beside Catalan and Spanish.

Pyrenean and were
The leaders of a Cathar revival in the Pyrenean foothills, Peire and Jacques Autier, were executed in 1310.
Furthermore, after the 16th century these Pyrenean provinces were made part of the military region of Gascony, and later in the 18th century they were ruled from Auch by the intendant of Auch, as with the rest of Gascony.
As a result Berengar's Pyrenean lands were confiscated unlawfully and redistributed by the imperial crown to others.
The Pyrenean ibix's third and fourth digits were quite large and bore most of the weight.
However, attempts to clone her have highlighted a major problem: even if it were possible to produce another healthy Pyrenean ibex, there are no males for the female clone to breed with.
Meanwhile, the Umayyads were gathering forces to attack Odo's ally in the Pyrenean region of Cerdanya ( maybe Catalonia ) Uthman ibn Naissa.

Pyrenean and from
* Hannibal sets out with around 40, 000 men and 50 elephants from New Carthage ( Cartagena ) to northern Spain and then into the Pyrenees where his army meets with stiff resistance from the Pyrenean tribes.
Besides the Pyrenean Kingdom of Navarre, he had extensive lands in Normandy, inherited from his father, Count Philip of Évreux, and his mother, Queen Joan II of Navarre, who had received them as compensation for resigning her claims to France, Champagne, and Brie in 1328.
The Pyrenean provinces developed strong peculiarities over time, protected by their isolated valleys, and they looked quite distinct from the rest of Gascony.
The term Pyrenean refers to things of or from the Pyrenees mountain range.
He narrowly escaped arrest from the Gestapo In 1942, and, crossing the Pyrenean mountains on foot, made his way to Algiers.
This extension rejuvenated a very complex tectonic framework inherited from the Tethyan evolution and the Pyrenean orogeny.
Another horticultural hybrid is Robertsoniana saxifrage ( S. × geum ), derived from kidney saxifrage ( S. hirsuta ) and Pyrenean saxifrage.
A more ambitious plan would be to remove one X chromosome and add a Y chromosome from another still-existing subspecies, creating a male Pyrenean ibex, but such technology does not yet exist and it is not known whether this will be feasible at all without irreparably damaging the cell.

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