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I personally think successfully resurrecting the Thylacine and reintroducing it longterm to Tasmania would be a better aim over all these comments on Mammoth cl
by lmpdev 2y ago
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
- VladimirGolovin 2y agoUnlike 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?
- AvocadosNombre 2y agoI believe there is an effort to use the fat tailed dunnart as a surrogate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_dunnart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_dunnart