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[ewx]

I wonder if this will work. After reading in a book about (IIRC) neanderthals that mammoths probably survived to just a few thousand years BP on isolated arctic islands (i.e., missing historical time by a whisker) I had something of a feeling of collectively missing the boat.

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[k425.livejournal.com]

It might work, but what would be the point, that's what I keep asking myself. I mean, yes, I'd love to see a woolly mammoth or a sabre-toothed tiger etc, but that shouldn't be a good reason for trying to bring them back. The climate and the environment aren't right for them.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it'd be worse than any other zoo or safari park...? I suspect also that part of the reason that mammoths died out on the mainland was because humans killed and ate them, not just climate change. But that's speculation.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Except that we'd be bringing them back purely for entertainment, to look at them. They died out because of a combination of factors, bringing them because we can and because we can look at them, even though the climate isn't right for them and they'll never be able to roam free, it just doesn't seem right to me, even though I'd /love/ to see them.