Cloning Mammoths in Japan

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Someone, somewhere, has been on the brink of recreating the mammoth for the past 20 years. As cool as it sounds, I'll believe it when I see it.
 
Hmm, chicken fried mammoth. Sounds delicious. Hopefully the japs can pull it off.
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Think of all the people one of them could feed!! It may save the world!!
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"The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research" If the tissue was infected with the parisite maybe? I dont know maybe i have been watchin to many movies
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If there are any parasites living in the tissue, they've probably already been released. But the likelihood of a parasite surviving in those temperatures for that long is pretty much nil.

I guess I'd understand if people had some sound concerns over this, but I'm not seeing many.
 
While I think it would be very interesting to see what a mammoth would look like in real life, I have some concerns as to the welfare of one should they succeed.

A. Mammoths lived in herds. Would they let this mammoth stay with it's surrogate elephant herd, or would they (most likely) have it in some exhibit all alone.
B. Habitat. Would they be able to keep a mammoth in a habitat that would see to it's needs? How much trial and error will the poor thing have to endure while they figure that out.
C. Food. We can guess as to what a mammoth would eat, but what if there is something more specific that it would need that we don't have access to?

I think if they have the ability to do this, they should instead bring back animals that humans have made extinct only recently, that is, animals that would be able to survive in the present climate without human assistance and that would be able to use their instincts to relate to the current world. The Passenger pigeon comes to mind. As does the Dodo, or any number of species humans have eliminated in the last 200 years or so. Google extinct animals and birds. The list is quite long.

~ Of course. I can just see it now. BYC folks incubating dodo eggs...
 
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Oh man, a Great Auk or a Dodo??? What a choice! I guess the deciding factor would be which one smelled worse. LOL

As for the mammoths: they could always become a part of the rewilding efforts in Russia, I suppose. Perhaps at the Pleistocene Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
 
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