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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:51 am

Okeefenokee wrote:They wouldn't really be Mammoths, I don't think. No history. No knowledge. No wild herds. Just some experiments contained in a pen. It's not like they would set these things loose in the wild to wander into a town.

It would just be a sad Frankenstein with no real niche in the world.

Uh.. Russians are exactly that crazy.

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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Fife » Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:52 am

Okeefenokee wrote:They wouldn't really be Mammoths, I don't think. No history. No knowledge. No wild herds. Just some experiments contained in a pen. It's not like they would set these things loose in the wild to wander into a town.

It would just be a sad Frankenstein with no real niche in the world.

For safety's sake, don't humiliate him.


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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Okeefenokee » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:00 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:They wouldn't really be Mammoths, I don't think. No history. No knowledge. No wild herds. Just some experiments contained in a pen. It's not like they would set these things loose in the wild to wander into a town.

It would just be a sad Frankenstein with no real niche in the world.

Uh.. Russians are exactly that crazy.
Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.
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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:01 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:They wouldn't really be Mammoths, I don't think. No history. No knowledge. No wild herds. Just some experiments contained in a pen. It's not like they would set these things loose in the wild to wander into a town.

It would just be a sad Frankenstein with no real niche in the world.

Uh.. Russians are exactly that crazy.
Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.

Animal behavior, including your own, is mostly genetic.

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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Fife » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:02 am

Okeefenokee wrote:Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.



Perhaps you underestimate the power of adaptations.

How many North American mammals are just like they were 200, or 100, years ago?

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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by apeman » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:04 am

Okeefenokee wrote:They wouldn't really be Mammoths, I don't think. No history. No knowledge. No wild herds. Just some experiments contained in a pen. It's not like they would set these things loose in the wild to wander into a town.

It would just be a sad Frankenstein with no real niche in the world.
I'm just a mammoth looking for a home

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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Okeefenokee » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:09 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:

Uh.. Russians are exactly that crazy.
Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.

Animal behavior, including your own, is mostly genetic.
I don't think that's believed as strongly today as it was ten years ago, but I gotta get ready for work.
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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by Speaker to Animals » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:11 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:
Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.

Animal behavior, including your own, is mostly genetic.
I don't think that's believed as strongly today as it was ten years ago, but I gotta get ready for work.

Actually it's believed even more so. The problem is that scientists have to keep a lot of toned down so as not to lose their jobs when the marxists who control the universities lose their shit over it.

The new paradigm is around genetics and evolutionary psychology. In there lies some uncomfortable truths.

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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by C-Mag » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:00 am

Alexander PhiAlipson wrote:A slug from a rifled ten gauge should do the trick. Can you imagine the backstraps on those things? A single prime rib cut would tilt a smart car like the Flinstone's mobile. You could carpet a nice living room with its hide, and mount the head above the mantle--there's a conversation piece--but you would need significantly additional freezer space for the mammoth chopped meat, sausage, and roasts...
What to do with excessive mammoth meat? I hope I have that problem someday soon.
10 gauges are awesome !
I recently was given my Dads, he decided at 86 years old it was getting a little heavy for him to shoulder. I've taken it Turkey hunting 3 times, and without trying, I've downed 2 turkeys each time I pull the trigger. :D
Unfortunately ammo is pretty expensive and not as readily available unless you are in an area that has a lot of goose hunting. Just keep an eye out when you go through your local firearms stores and note how often you see 10 gauges. Anyway. Ammo is around a dollar and a half a shot. I've told a bunch of friends to buy up 10 gauge ammo for me at yard sales or whatever if they can get it around a dollar a round or less.

I have several boxes of slugs, they are amazingly heavy, I haven't played around with them, but these guys show what a 10 ga does to ballistics gell
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Re: Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

Post by C-Mag » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:03 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:

Uh.. Russians are exactly that crazy.
Maybe, but I still don't think they would really be mammoths. I think animal behavior is more than genetics. Animals in captivity aren't generally released into the wild because they don't naturally know how to survive. A lot is learned. The best you might be able to pull off is getting some elephants to teach some mammoths how to be elephants.

They aren't going to walk like mammoths, and they aren't going to quack like mammoths. They're only going to look like them. And if mammoth steaks get popular, the idea of bringing back a species just to subject it to factory farming sounds like the sort of next level cruelty that doesn't wash off.

Animal behavior, including your own, is mostly genetic.
So, your saying it's not my fault or my parents fault I'm an asshole. God just decided, ya know what we the world needs is a darkly disturbed asshole that is 6'2 and well built.
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