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Humans as a whole obviously has nothing to fear from small groups of mammoths roaming the Siberian tundra. Small groups of people encountering said groups of m
by fogihujy 6y ago
Humans as a whole obviously has nothing to fear from small groups of mammoths roaming the Siberian tundra.
Small groups of people encountering said groups of mammoths in the wild, on the other hand, could quickly end up dead if a bull has a bad day and goes on a rampage.
I like the idea of fixing some of the damage our ancestors did. Especially given that it seems to have beneficial effects for the climate, and that giving the mammoths a new chance feels like the right thing to do.
Intentions alone don't make things end up like you originally intended, though. There's a LOT of things that need to be taken into account before such a beast can be released into the wild.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe Siberian tundra already has bears, wolves, and the coldest cold known to man. It also has very nearly zero population.
- fogihujy 6y agoDefinitely. The mammoths will probably fit right in. That does not mean it will be without noticeable and possibly negative consequences for the few people that do live there though. A rampaging elephant is no joke, regardless of the amount of hair it has, and elephants do seem intelligent enough to be moody on occasion. Who knows how they'll respond to being cloned back into existence and then put in a foreign environment without their ancestors' culture?