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Well the keepers of the land hunted them to extinction not the wolves or bears
Might be the only animal that they wouldn’t have the “right” to hunt
It seems like a very interesting project. A real life Jurassic park. What could go wrong lol
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09-15-2021, 10:35 AM
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Seems like a very interesting project from the scientific perspective, however I can't find any reasons WHY this would be a worthwhile investment of millions of dollars.
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09-15-2021, 12:52 PM
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Talk about tone deaf. Does right now seem like a good time to mess with Mother Nature. Their extinction was probably caused by mammoth Covid.😊
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09-15-2021, 02:05 PM
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Seems like a very interesting project from the scientific perspective, however I can't find any reasons WHY this would be a worthwhile investment of millions of dollars.
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It gets people attention, it opens the door to cloning, it's high profile, etc. Imagine the billions to be made in the pet industry alone. Pet dies, no problem, we can clone it.
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09-15-2021, 03:39 PM
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09-15-2021, 04:01 PM
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It gets people attention, it opens the door to cloning, it's high profile, etc. Imagine the billions to be made in the pet industry alone. Pet dies, no problem, we can clone it.
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The problem with pet cloning is that the appearance would be the same but the personality wouldn't. To me, it really doesn't make much sense to release strange mutants in an established ecosystem. Fast forward 50 years and they'll be culling them from helicopters.
I do admire the scientific ambition of the individuals taking on such a task, and it certainly would be interesting to work on a project like that.
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09-15-2021, 04:01 PM
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If this ever happened, somebody gone be rich. What a f..n b.s!
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09-15-2021, 05:50 PM
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Well the keepers of the land hunted them to extinction not the wolves or bears
Might be the only animal that they wouldn’t have the “right” to hunt
It seems like a very interesting project. A real life Jurassic park. What could go wrong lol
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You sir have a one track mind. Sad really.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/world...scn/index.html
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09-15-2021, 07:30 PM
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If they were raised for a delicacy meat it would be worth more than Kobi beef
Maybe that's the end game.
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09-15-2021, 07:52 PM
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2X on that, turns everything into a shot @ FN people.
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09-15-2021, 09:06 PM
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Seems like a very interesting project from the scientific perspective, however I can't find any reasons WHY this would be a worthwhile investment of millions of dollars.
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As if we didn't have more urgent needs to worry about. Must be a government grant involved.
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09-15-2021, 10:08 PM
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sounds to me like a kickstarter program.
Sure fire money maker, invest only $11,199 and get back 40x your investment in 3 short years!!
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I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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09-16-2021, 12:42 PM
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That is about the last ones that were stuck on wrangell island
Of course inbreeding will be an issue with large mammals stuck on a secluded island
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09-16-2021, 12:49 PM
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09-16-2021, 12:52 PM
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Seems like a very interesting project from the scientific perspective, however I can't find any reasons WHY this would be a worthwhile investment of millions of dollars.
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You know they are investing millions with a M not billions with a B
That’s probably pocket change to the investors backing this
Do you buy a new mega yacht or keep the old one and bring mammoths back from extinction 🤷*♂️
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09-16-2021, 02:12 PM
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You know they are investing millions with a M not billions with a B
That’s probably pocket change to the investors backing this
Do you buy a new mega yacht or keep the old one and bring mammoths back from extinction 🤷*♂️
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The proposed project won't bring back the wooly mammoth, but make an elephant/mammoth hybrid, a mutant of an animal. I can't think of any good reason to introduce a whole population of them into the ecosystem.
It is intriguing from the scientific perspective, however the concept lacks logical reasoning justifying it's very existence IMHO.
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09-16-2021, 02:31 PM
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Did you read the link in your article about the mammoth trap they just uncovered in Mexico? There's plenty of evidence that early hunters wiped out the mega fauna in North America.
I think the money would be better spent saving the caribou than reconstructing the mammoth population.
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09-16-2021, 07:11 PM
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Did you read the link in your article about the mammoth trap they just uncovered in Mexico? There's plenty of evidence that early hunters wiped out the mega fauna in North America.
I think the money would be better spent saving the caribou than reconstructing the mammoth population.
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I don't think it was the link WDF was commenting on, but rather the wording used on the post by Marky Mark.
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09-16-2021, 07:52 PM
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Did you read this, more then one cause of the demise according to your article.
Buy you only put it squarely on one reason.
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09-16-2021, 07:54 PM
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I don't think it was the link WDF was commenting on, but rather the wording used on the post by Marky Mark.
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Correct, gets tiresome reading a good post then he throws out that ****!
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I just put in my zone 534 woolly mammoth bow tag.
Once I hit 20 I’m hoping my number will come up. Until then just putting in an X.
Now to start making my special arrow head.
Now to make the bow.
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The $15 Million Woolly project.........
