Should they resurrect mammoths?

[Dr Mordrid]

Better start thinking about the ethics as they're sequencing the DNA from a frozen one found in Siberia;

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/051219_mammoth_dna.html

Dr. Mordrid

[Nowhere]

If they're extinct because of hunting...why not.

[Dilitante1]

but where would they live? Alaska? Canada? both have human populations that would be assumed as territory for these huge ranging creatures.

If allowed, what about bring thier natural predator back as well? to prevent over population.....(sabretooth tiger/bears) what would locals say to that ?

/devil's advocate mode

[gt40]

yes, but think about all those mammoth skin outewrwear the eskimos would have

[Gurm]

Well that depends.

Are you an advocate of gun control?



I ask because if you bring back mammoths, you really also need to issue mammoth hunting licenses to the Innuit in order to manage the herds.

But gun control types don't believe in herd management.

[TransformX]

I say bring them back and put them around the mexican border...

[Tjalfe]

I say bring them back and put them around the mexican border...

that may be a tad warm for them, being wooly and all...
Stick them up in the tundras in northern Canada, along with some sabre tooth tigers

[gt40]

Sure, now that the DEW line is gone, that would be our first (and only) line of defence

[Mehen]

I know they are a lot older and I'll sound like an idiot but...

Gogogo Jurassic Park!!

[Marshmallowman]

I say bring em back if we can, and do they dodo's while they are at it(I heard they are very tasty)

But realisticly I don't think the can can get enough genetic diversty into such a herd to make viable, It would be pretty sad bring them into existance again just as curisoty to die a lonely death

[KvHagedorn]

I say bring them back and put them around the mexican border...

Or build a double fence and fill the corridor with velociraptors.

[Mehen]

Or build a double fence and fill the corridor with velociraptors.

Yeah but then the crafty raptors would get out and start their own drug operation.

[Dr Mordrid]

Well...the fence will be there anyhow. Congress just voted 239-182 to fence several hundred more miles of the Mexican border, along with other changes to the immigration laws;

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051217-123709-6995r.htm

Dr. Mordrid

[TnT]

I want one!

But realisticly I don't think the can can get enough genetic diversty into such a herd to make viable, It would be pretty sad bring them into existance again just as curisoty to die a lonely death

I found what you said to be sad and really funny at the same time. I imagined a sad mammoth standing there all by his lonesome. Poor fella.

[Gurm]

I want one!



I found what you said to be sad and really funny at the same time. I imagined a sad mammoth standing there all by his lonesome. Poor fella.

Like in the movie Ice Age?

I can only picture Ray Romano going "Hey! Any LADY mammoths here? HELLOOOOO?"