It was created by a grad student at the University to add some punch to his thesis, "Why Zoos aren't all that interesting." It died of Peterson's disease, leaving the student in great dismay as to what to unveil at the end of his thesis presentation, as he had been growing the thing for four years. Fortunately, enough cells were intact in the sizeable stool sample that the beast left in its trail to the grave that the student was able to clone another one. This turned out for the better, as the thing was much cuter at 4 months than 4 years.