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The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Gotta reproduce that mammoth jerky somehow.
Advantages: - smaller (but still a macro-sized animal) - multiple surrogate options rather than just African Elephants - the ecosystem would be better with its capstone apex predator back - it only died out so recently that it has footage from zoos
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Curiously, it turns out that elephants eating fauna actually promotes plant and tree growth. I remember reading something (ca 2007?) about the possibility that reintroducing elephants to the American Southwest could lead to reforestation of areas that are currently desert. Which, of course, doesn’t really provide good justification for de-extinctifying the mammoth (although as I say this, I wonder if they might acual…
Pleistocene Park and albedo. I don't think you've got this exactly right, it's about grassland, not forest. Also forest is supposedly bad for permafrost, raising temperature slightly. > Pleistocene Park is a truly fascinating and daring experiment in the far Arctic, in Siberia, run by the Zimovs, Sergey and Nikita Zimov, a father and son scientific team, and their families. And they have this theory that large megafa…
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In that case the humans started the global warming when made the mammoths extinct - how ironic, the industrial revolution is just the top of the cake
Agriculture in general significantly reduced the amount of carbon trapped in vegetation. One of the causes of the Little Ice Age is often proposed to be the reduction of human population (and correspondingly, land area under cultivation) and reforestation after the Black Death, Mongol invasions, and the Columbian Exchange.
I personally think successfully resurrecting the Thylacine and reintroducing it longterm to Tasmania would be a better aim over all these comments on Mammoth cloning Advantages: - smaller (but still a macro-sized animal) - multiple surrogate options rather than just African Elephants - the ecosystem would be better with its capstone apex predator back - it only died out so recently that it has footage from zoos
I personally think successfully resurrecting the Thylacine and reintroducing it longterm to Tasmania would be a better aim over all these comments on Mammoth cloning Advantages: - smaller (but still a macro-sized animal) - multiple surrogate options rather than just African Elephants - the ecosystem would be better with its capstone apex predator back - it only died out so recently that it has footage from zoos
Unlike the elephant / mammoth pairing, there aren't any marsupials similar to Thylacine (as far as I know). What surrogate options did you have in mind?
The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Is ti possible to do this for the giant ground sloth too, or there is no well preserved DNA sample for it so far?
So it would run amok and climb a skyscraper?