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then why are they trying to bring it back along with the mammoth?
Contrast?
Guilt.
Research fund money.
It's a sliding scale.
Asking if they could, but not if they should
(They should, just to flex on the British)
Looney tunes needs live ones to train its new AI character
You're unable to think of a reason other than for our own gluttony...? It would be super fucked up to bring them back just for the reason to eat them. Seriously, that's some deeply disturbing horror shit. And somehow that's the only thing you can imagine?
As apposed to “for the science”… which actually is one of the major tropes in horror? Quite possibly one of the oldest (though supernatural horrors were the first.)
Even if I were that dense… these people are forgetting to ask if they should bring that specific species back. There are so many others to choose from; they went with the media hype rather the useful-science route.
It’s unlikely that the dodo’s ecological role hasn’t already been filled by something else in the 4+ centuries it’s been absent.
Its return to the wild would likely pressure otherwise extant species that have stepped into that roll; and it’s unlikely to survive in the wild anyway- it’s not like we’ve stopped altering the world in its absence.
So that will relegate a species relatively artificial existence to being research or a novelty- a curiosity in zoos or food or something else. Maybe even an exclusive private island tourist trap…