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To: long-gone who wrote (32)	3/14/2000 7:56:00 PM
From: Lilian Debray	Read Replies (2) of 183

Thanks, Richard. What would you disagree with? The summoning of Mephistopheles? It might be technically possible to clone a mammoth. It was presented as an exciting possibility in the film. But what would become of it? Would it be an unique and lonely freak show for scientists and zoos like Joseph Merrick, "the Elephant Man"? Like elephants, mammoth were social animals. A herd takes very good care of its young elephants and knows the value of imprinting. It was suggested in the film that being excluded from the herd may have led to the demise of those young males in the first place. Where would biologists raise a calf? Would the Dolgan agree to share their territory with such monsters? It is unlikely that they would transplant elephants in Siberia. Would they be raised in Asia or in Africa with its surrogate mother and her herd? Would they accept it? Those continents can no longer support their own populations of elephants. What would be the future of mammoths there? You might be able to recreate an animal but how do you put a species back in an environment that no longer exists?

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