Did you know that if researchers clone the Woolly Mammoth, they will use an endangered Asian Elephant? Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth could be really dangerous and potentially harmful for the environment, and the many elephants involved. “Cloning a mammoth will require you to experiment with probably many, many Asian elephants," said Dr Tori Herridge back in 2014.
If the cloning is not successful, the elephant or elephants could die. Scientists should not bring Woolly Mammoths back because they could be a very dangerous animal, and their habitat and food source have also changed. If scientists clone Woolly Mammoths, they could carry a virus from the past and we, the human race, could end up with two extinct animals or other disasters, such …show more content…
Carl Zimmer told National Geographic, “If 99% of all living things are extinct, why are we so consumed with playing God? Things come, things go, that’s it” (2017). If the South Korean scientists clone the mammoth, they'll need an adult elephant to carry the fetus to term, and that might prove cruel treatment of the elephant chosen for that task (Times, R. B., 2014)
The Woolly Mammoth was hunted down by humans. “Some experts hold that mammoths were hunted to extinction, beginning some 10,000 years ago, by the species that was to become the planet's dominant predator, humans” (AFP, 2010). If Woolly Mammoths were hunted down to extinction, that means they must be really dangerous animals that humans didn’t want them alive anymore. They can help us protect species that are close to extinction, that is what scientists and researchers would say, but from what we know now, animal will continue to go extinct and instead of de-extincting the Woolly Mammoth, we should worry about helping the other animals who are in real danger, such as the Asian Elephant. Us humans will continue to hunt no matter what law says. Eventually we will push other animals to the endangered list or
If the cloning is not successful, the elephant or elephants could die. Scientists should not bring Woolly Mammoths back because they could be a very dangerous animal, and their habitat and food source have also changed. If scientists clone Woolly Mammoths, they could carry a virus from the past and we, the human race, could end up with two extinct animals or other disasters, such …show more content…
Carl Zimmer told National Geographic, “If 99% of all living things are extinct, why are we so consumed with playing God? Things come, things go, that’s it” (2017). If the South Korean scientists clone the mammoth, they'll need an adult elephant to carry the fetus to term, and that might prove cruel treatment of the elephant chosen for that task (Times, R. B., 2014)
The Woolly Mammoth was hunted down by humans. “Some experts hold that mammoths were hunted to extinction, beginning some 10,000 years ago, by the species that was to become the planet's dominant predator, humans” (AFP, 2010). If Woolly Mammoths were hunted down to extinction, that means they must be really dangerous animals that humans didn’t want them alive anymore. They can help us protect species that are close to extinction, that is what scientists and researchers would say, but from what we know now, animal will continue to go extinct and instead of de-extincting the Woolly Mammoth, we should worry about helping the other animals who are in real danger, such as the Asian Elephant. Us humans will continue to hunt no matter what law says. Eventually we will push other animals to the endangered list or