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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:55:38 -0600
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On 1/18/2025 11:43 PM, 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.

Mammoths go where where mammoths feel like going when they are being 
chased by lions, saber tooth tigers, or dire wolfs.

Lynn