How do you feel about rewilding and cloning extinct animals?

[Hardcastle]

Just curious, will share my thoughts later.

[CoolJohnson]

I don't care much, but it would be interesting to see a Dinosaur brought back to life.

The most likely candidate appears to be the Woolly Mammoth. However, Mammoths are just furry Elephants so I do not care as much about the revival of these prehistoric pachyderms.

[Methane]

I think it’s very interesting, the opportunity to bring long-dead creatures back to life. But I think many of these creatures are inevitably going to end up as zoo attractions.

There’ll be too much caution about haphazardly introducing new species to an ecosystem; I have heard of ambitious projects to recreate Pleistocene ecosystems, though.

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Feb 3, 2023 13:47:06 GMT Hardcastle said:

Just curious, will share my thoughts later.

With certain species, I think it would be great. But the downside is definitely not seeing these extinct animals, its well, humans.

You know the entire reasons Dodo’s went extinct? Because of human colonization and introduction of domestic dogs. 


Humans then thought Dodo’s were stupid; mainly because they didn’t evolve any strategy to evade them. That is because they essentially lived on a predator-free island.



Now with Sabre-tooth cats, I would fucking love to see how they would react to the ecosystem and mainstream predators in todays North American ecosystem. But there is one problem even affecting non-human predators today, and that is: Ranching.

With the expansion of animal agriculture, a Sabre-toothed cat would probably be treated like all the other predators. The ranchers would also probably manipulate that its a firstly introduced species, unlike wolves and snow leopards and mountain lions which have been here and the ranchers just had to learn to live with them.
With a Sabre-tooth cat’s brutal strength even known for taking down mammoths, it could ambush fully grown beef cattle. They wouldn’t just be losing a calf or a cow occasionally to a wolf or a mountain lion, they would be losing bulls, which are one of their TOP productions. 

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Feb 3, 2023 22:35:57 GMT Wyatt said:

Feb 3, 2023 13:47:06 GMT Hardcastle said:

Just curious, will share my thoughts later.

With certain species, I think it would be great. But the downside is definitely not seeing these extinct animals, its well, humans.

You know the entire reasons Dodo’s went extinct? Because of human colonization and introduction of domestic dogs. 


Humans then thought Dodo’s were stupid; mainly because they didn’t evolve any strategy to evade them. That is because they essentially lived on a predator-free island.



Now with Sabre-tooth cats, I would fucking love to see how they would react to the ecosystem and mainstream predators in todays North American ecosystem. But there is one problem even affecting non-human predators today, and that is: Ranching.

With the expansion of animal agriculture, a Sabre-toothed cat would probably be treated like all the other predators. The ranchers would also probably manipulate that its a firstly introduced species, unlike wolves and snow leopards and mountain lions which have been here and the ranchers just had to learn to live with them.
With a Sabre-tooth cat’s brutal strength even known for taking down mammoths, it could ambush fully grown beef cattle. They wouldn’t just be losing a calf or a cow occasionally to a wolf or a mountain lion, they would be losing bulls, which are one of their TOP productions. 

Ehh, I doubt it. It'd be a huge problem, but not much for bulls. There's no reason to go for those.
A bull can toss a bulldog, so it could toss a smilodon.

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Feb 3, 2023 22:42:54 GMT Bolushi said:

Feb 3, 2023 22:35:57 GMT Wyatt said:

With certain species, I think it would be great. But the downside is definitely not seeing these extinct animals, its well, humans.

You know the entire reasons Dodo’s went extinct? Because of human colonization and introduction of domestic dogs. 


Humans then thought Dodo’s were stupid; mainly because they didn’t evolve any strategy to evade them. That is because they essentially lived on a predator-free island.



Now with Sabre-tooth cats, I would fucking love to see how they would react to the ecosystem and mainstream predators in todays North American ecosystem. But there is one problem even affecting non-human predators today, and that is: Ranching.

With the expansion of animal agriculture, a Sabre-toothed cat would probably be treated like all the other predators. The ranchers would also probably manipulate that its a firstly introduced species, unlike wolves and snow leopards and mountain lions which have been here and the ranchers just had to learn to live with them.
With a Sabre-tooth cat’s brutal strength even known for taking down mammoths, it could ambush fully grown beef cattle. They wouldn’t just be losing a calf or a cow occasionally to a wolf or a mountain lion, they would be losing bulls, which are one of their TOP productions. 

A bull can toss a bulldog, so it could toss a smilodon.

Thats a very fair point but it depends on what the individual cattle is and what it’s breed is as well.

A Smilodon could probably take a Black Angus or Jersey bull. I do though think a Longhorn bull would be indestructible.