There is little doubt that it would be fun to see a living, breathing woolly mammoth...We’re just not sure that it would be all that much fun for the mammoth. The first mammoth would be a lonely zoo freak, vulnerable to diseases unknown to its ancestors.
-- from an
editorial in
The New York Times. Update, 25 Nov:
The absence of mammoths isn’t exactly a pressing problem. What is pressing is the number of species we are currently in danger of losing.
adds Olivia Judson, who has also written recently on celebrating new species (
All hail the apple maggot!) .
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