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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:20:26 -0500
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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.


William Hyde