Mammoth Clones Due in Five Years, Really!

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Saw a story on the Net that a mammoth clone may be due in about five years. Just saw the headline. Didn't click on the story.​

But if they clone one/some, they'll be new and not have older mammoths to show them how mamoths act. They'll have some instincts, but no real knowledge of how to socialize, feed, or deal with people or other animals.​

Is it really ethical to clone vanished species? ​

Should they ever be re-introduced into their former range? I'm not sure that even their forage still exists. What'll they eat?​
 
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I read an article on this yesterday. Apparently some primo frozen mammoth marrow was discovered by some Russian scientists. Article said the use of DNA recovery for cloning had also gotten much better in the last 15 years or so.

I dunno. Having some woolly mammoths roaming about might make life more interesting... Heck, maybe we could clone up a bunch of extinct species. E.g., dodo birds. Seems okay to me, especially for those we humans have killed off.

Just stay away from those velioraptors...:eek:
 
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Yay, mammoths!

If only we can keep those politically incorrect Native Americans from killing them all off this time. Show some respect for the environment, why don't ya! ;)
 
Cloning mammoths could be a great idea...
They could feed and cloth the homeless...wonder if they taste like chicken???
 
Despite that this probably foils my scheme to corner the world ivory market, I think I'll start knapping some Clovis spear points, in case there'll be a season for traditional primitive weapons.
 
It would bring the price of mammoth ivory down.
 
Wait until the Feds REINTRODUCE them to N. Ameica. The idiots did it with wolves here in Montana. Whats next...sabre tooth tigers?

Seriously I'd LOVE to see a wooly mammoth in my lifetime. Cool Science I can get behind and support.

Stop wasting money on the "green" BS and start cloning woolies!

FN in MT
 
If them wooly boogers are as hard to keep in the pasture as bufflers, I don't want nuthin' to do with them.:cool:
 
Iggy said:
If them wooly boogers are as hard to keep in the pasture as bufflers, I don't want nuthin' to do with them.:cool:
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I can see you with 100 head of woolies to look after...'spect you will be riding your fenceline every day lookin' for where they got out
 
Someone has to ask. It may as well be me.

Wonder what type rifle one will need to drop a critter like that?

Ain't they sorta like a Bigfoot?
 
oldman45 said:
Someone has to ask. It may as well be me.

Wonder what type rifle one will need to drop a critter like that?

Ain't they sorta like a Bigfoot?
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Any present day elephant rifle would work just fine on them.

My choice would be a double rifle.

I would be happy to let them put a couple of full grown ones on my deer lease.

I would rather hunt elephants than any other animal.

There is Nothing like elephant hunting.
 
Well, I've seen the reconstructed models and those suckers had really long tusks! The elephants in the zoo have tiny ones. Think how many sets of N frame grips we could be harvesting in just a few years!
 
Sheriff,

If them rascals is anything like a buf, they ain't too bad to handle.

You can make them go anywhere they want to go.
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Had a feller buy the ranch next to us and was gonna raise bufflers.

He said Wyoming law required landowners to "fence things out" thus any fences was our responsibility.

I told him first time his critters come on to my place, I'd call him and let him know that they was on my place.

I told him if they come on agin, I'd call him and tell him where the carcasses wuz layin'.

Having a Sharp's and a Trapdoor, them critters was kind on the edge of me testin out my "buffler gun" anyway.

That feller decided to build a 10' high fence outta ol powerline cable. 7 wires high and three of them electric.

Never had no problem with them buff and he sold the whole ranch for a sub division about 3 years later.

He's still got a buffler ranch on the state line south of Cheyenne. Guess he din't like me as a neighbor.:rolleyes:
 
A cloned mamoth, would never leave captivity. Realistically, it might be done for scientific research. There is a possibility that one would be kept in a zoo for a tourist attraction. There is no way that they would survive in the wild.
 
There was a movie made about the early 1950's which starred a dark haired actor whose name I forget. I think he was Rod Cameron.

In this movie he was a "white hunter" in Africa and went onto a remote/lost/undiscovered "plateau" and found wooly mammoths there.

Had to kill them with "gas" grenades I think. I don't remember why a "white hunter" needed "gas" grenades.....maybe for charging pygmies?????
 
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Hey Iggy
Is that the guy right off the interstate that sells buff meat and has pony rides and such? Just wondering, I seen some camels down there one time. It kinda looks like a circus from the road.

Wingmaster
 
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