"Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen" >https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences-mammoth-20038093.php

“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo
bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”

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.

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"

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences-
mammoth-20038093.php

“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the
dodo bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”

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. >>>>>

     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.

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.)

     Mammoth Jerky?

     But the stampede over a cliff seem more like extermination than
hunting.

Buffalo were hunted this way, and in fact specific places were used many times over thousands of years.

Someone on a Canadian game show lost $50 for not knowing the name of
"Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump

Mammoths might be harder to stampede.

Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

"Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences-mammoth-20038093.php

“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo
bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”

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.

I am sure this is one of the good reasons, but my suspicion is anything
that was hunted to extinction like that must have tasted pretty good.

I feel very disappointed to never have been able to try mammoth or
passenger pigeon.
--scott

On 1/18/25 10:36, Scott Dorsey wrote:

I feel very disappointed to never have been able to try mammoth or
passenger pigeon.

Oh then you must be rooting for the Texas Company to be
very successful. I understand Dodos were equally delicious.

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"

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences-
mammoth-20038093.php

“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the
dodo bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”

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.

     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.

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.)

    Mammoth Jerky?

    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..

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"

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences-
mammoth-20038093.php

“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo >>>>>> bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”

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. >>>>>>

     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.

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.)

     Mammoth Jerky?

     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..

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."

pt

Please do not support wokeness. In this newsgroup we say Ceylon in order
not to offend people.

On 20/1/25 09:15, D wrote:
[SNIP]

Please do not support wokeness. In this newsgroup we say Ceylon in order
not to offend people.

Well, that's enough from you, you sad pathetic little oxygen thief.

Cheers,
Gary B-)