> What’s the risk of bringing back a wooly mammoth? I imagine a big one is the needless and possibly intense pain and suffering for the surrogate mother eleph

> What’s the risk of bringing back a wooly mammoth? I imagine a big one is the needless and possibly intense pain and suffering for the surrogate mother elephant, and her experimentally-GMO'd calf. Elephants are highly social and by all accounts quite empathetic animals. Also the opportunity cost - elephant populations are highly endangered and every pregnancy cycle used up for this research is one less actual living elephant.