Mammoths ....... in Yellowstone?

[3325]

I don't think they're joking: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/0...fkkV6zIBGnHksyCcd6HJgzMPHUAFgOChrG9zShn6Yq_3V

 

[4cMuley]

 

[IDVortex]

All that money spent, yet they could've gotten a better ROI and invest in the military complex.

Wolly mammoth head mount on my way by 2032? I won't say no.

 

[3325]

Wolly mammoth head mount on my way by 2032? I won't say no.

Ivories flanking the fireplace. That's the traditional way.

 

[RuggedYogi]

“since most of their habitat has been lost to a warming planet since the ice age and human civilization over the past 20,000 years.”

This reads like human-caused global warming is somehow to blame for the mammoth going extinct. This would be men playing God, not the undoing of an extinction event caused by humans.

 

[z987k]

I think it'd be fun to have them up here.

 

[wesfromky]

Was a pretty good listen, and she has a book about de-extinction

Ep. 075: Cloning Mammoths | MeatEater Podcasts

Steven Rinella talks with paleogeneticist Dr. Beth Shapiro, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.Subjects Discussed: U.C. Santa Cruz and the Ewok forest; ancient DNA and the assumptions it has added to our world; black footed ferrets; the romance versus the reality of de-extinction; the...

www.themeateater.com

 

[Maxhunter]

This is crazy. What will the draw odds be like. I guess I better up my bow poundage

 

[Darryle]

While they are reintroducing everything, maybe some neanderthal with clubs and spears and turn them loose in the back yard of all these pro-reintroduction idiots.

Because you can, doesn't mean you should

 

[Wyo_hntr]

77gr tmk's true test...

 

[Ferrulewax]

While they are reintroducing everything, maybe some neanderthal with clubs and spears and turn them loose in the back yard of all these pro-reintroduction idiots.

Because you can, doesn't mean you should

I want short faced bears and some T-rex too.

 

[Caseknife]

That would really get the Tourons stirred up!

 

[long hunter]

One good thing is as they populate and spread out probably wont have to worry about corner crossings. Just follow the big hairy elephants. ANYONE EVER STOP AND THINK THERES A REASON THINGS GO EXTINCT.

 

[3325]

This is crazy. What will the draw odds be like. I guess I better up my bow poundage

I'm sure a few folks here will opine that a 6.5 something or other can handle it. Karamojo Bell, you know.

 

[3325]

While they are reintroducing everything, maybe some neanderthal with clubs and spears and turn them loose in the back yard of all these pro-reintroduction idiots.

Volunteers, anyone?

 

[3325]

I want short faced bears and some T-rex too.

Will this do?

 

[Ferrulewax]

Can we also reintroduce smallpox? How evil of us humans to make it go extinct. #saveplanetearth

 

[Wyo_hntr]

Can we also reintroduce smallpox? How evil of us humans to make it go extinct. #saveplanetearth

Have no fear, there are scientists cooking up way worse stuff than smallpox

 

[Bucky44]

I don't think they're joking: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/0...fkkV6zIBGnHksyCcd6HJgzMPHUAFgOChrG9zShn6Yq_3V

We had the Mammoth return discussion at moose camp here in Alaska last fall. My Athabaskan hunting buddies were all for it. Interior of Alaska has the room and very few people.

 

[walk2112]

On the plus side, this could give wolves something else to chase/murder besides elk and bison... but back here in the real world, imagine if the smart folks involved in this program put their brains and energy towards something more useful? What if we focused our 'de-extinction' efforts towards resurrecting common sense?

Besides, if you're going to re-introduce mammoths anywhere... do it right... do it where there's more room to roam and there's more historical evidence of a large population and a more appropriate climate for them (northern Alaska).
Oh wait, you can't make any money doing that... so what's their motivation again? "Rewilding"?... that's a heap of mammoth shit