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Re:We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Worth the... by hprotagonist on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:53PM (#13916191)
>(captive) elephants could almost certainly be used to raise cloned wolly mammoths

Their native habitats are about as totally different as you can get without being underwater. Why do you assume their behaviors will be similar?

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Re:We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Worth the... by sp332 on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:06PM (#13916301)
We know enough about woolly mammoths to know that they behaved and ate in a roughly similar way to elephants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Palaeobiology
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Re:We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Worth the... by M_Grey on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:11PM (#13916332)
I'm really not convinced, especially when you add the role of environment; the epigenetic factors.
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