Maya (Chinese: 玛雅) is a cloned female arctic wolf that was born from a beagle surrogate mother in China.
She was born on June 10, 2022, and news of her birth was revealed to the public on September 19 of the same year at Harbin Polarland, in China's Heilongjiang Province, by the biotechnology company Sinogene.
Although she was born on 10 June 2022, researchers decided to wait 100 days before unveiling her to the public due to the high likelihood that she would die young.
Researchers said that it would be impossible to release her into the wild due to her lack of socialization with other wolves for the beginning of her life.
Sinogene, the company behind Maya, said that it will be working with the Beijing Wildlife Park to research more applications for the cloning of rare and endangered animals in China.