Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"

On 1/19/2025 12:43 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/18/2025 9:48 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 1/18/25 09:04, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/17/2025 8:17 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 1/17/25 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
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https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences- mammoth-20038093.php
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“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”
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You know, the woolly mammoth was killed off by humans for a good reason.   Walking through people's forts and homes is a bad thing.
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     Certainly from the POV of the locals who  share time with the
Wooly Mammoth it was a reason to get rid of the annoying pests.
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I suspect that the "walking feast!" POV had more to do with it.  (One of our ancestors' hunting methods was 'stampede an entire herd off a cliff' when one mammoth would provide more meat than they could eat before it spoiled.)
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     Mammoth Jerky?
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     But the stampede over a cliff seem more like extermination than
hunting. But who knows what the people of the time were thinking and it
must have been a nuisance to have the walking feast walk right thru
the camp. Forts is surely speculation..
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Well, there is the little matter of _why_ mammoths would walk thru a human encampment with all the fires and sharp pointing things....
 ...and why humans would camp where mammoths _could_ walk thru them.
 

If the villages had stored food, that seems reason enough. It still
happens with elephants in Sri Lanka.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/04/world/human-elephant-conflict-sri-lanka-cnnphotos/
"Many homes in Sri Lanka have a specific room used to store rice, which
elephants can smell from miles away. Using their massive size, elephants
can collapse walls onto sleeping families, destroying entire homes to
get at the food inside."
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