# Mammoth to be cloned **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165 "2011-01-19T03:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/21 "2011-01-19T18:27:14Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ooh! I hope they can figure out a way to shrink them down into lap dog sized mini mammoths! I’ll start on that after I finish the mosquito with a 4’ wingspan. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/22 "2011-01-19T18:33:26Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I’ll start on that after I finish the mosquito with a 4’ wingspan. Don’t forget to implement the lysine contingency! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/23 "2011-01-19T19:03:00Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > In the United States I think there’s only two or three elephant breeding programs (that aren’t zoos) that have actually produced calves. [Scott Riddle](http://www.elephantsanctuary.org/default2.asp) comes to mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/24 "2011-01-19T19:08:32Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ooh! I hope they can figure out a way to shrink them down into lap dog sized mini mammoths! I want a herd of miniature attack mammoths that are loyal to me. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/25 "2011-01-19T19:43:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > One of the difficulties elephants have is traveling the last four feet through the birth canal with the umbilical cord severed. …and it’s uphill both ways! But seriously, this is very cool news and I look forward to visiting my local mammoth park. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/26 "2011-01-19T19:47:40Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I want a herd of miniature attack mammoths that are loyal to me. Put’s **Skald’s** flying monkeys to shame. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/27 "2011-01-19T20:24:29Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ooh! I hope they can figure out a way to shrink them down into lap dog sized mini mammoths! [Mimmoths?](http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Mimmoth) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/28 "2011-01-19T22:57:29Z")
So in the movie; who plays the part of the incredibly hot chick in the vacu-formed skirt, wearing the impossibly high heels, and aflicted with wet-noodle ankles? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/29 "2011-01-19T23:25:53Z")
OK, for the mammoths, but what about the mastodons? OH won’t someone PLEASE think of the mastodons!!! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/30 "2011-01-20T02:45:52Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > So in the movie; who plays the part of the incredibly hot chick in the vacu-formed skirt, wearing the impossibly high heels, and aflicted with wet-noodle ankles? Wet noodle ankles? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/31 "2011-01-20T02:54:51Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Wet noodle ankles? I’m assuming that when the impossibly hot scientist has to run away she’s going to trip at one point or another. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/32 "2011-01-20T04:09:18Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’m assuming that when the impossibly hot scientist has to run away she’s going to trip at one point or another. And then . . . mammoth hentai. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/33 "2011-01-20T07:51:26Z")
Consequences smonsequences, as long as I’m rich. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/34 "2011-01-20T08:16:31Z")
And it’s name shall be… Fithp! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/35 "2011-01-20T08:28:48Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Assuming they actually manage to birth something, it won’t really be a mammoth. Higher animals are their behaviors as well as just their bodies. The creature may look like a mammoth but it will act like the elephant that is its surrogate mother and from which it will learn its behaviors. For those animals, like many fish, reptiles, and amphibians, which are independent right from hatching you could do something like this and get a product that actually replicates the ancient animal both in appearance and behavior. True, but how it differs from a normal elephant in that same environment would still be useful information. We may not know how mammoths behaved in the wild, but we’d at least know what they are genetically predisposed to do. As for things getting out of hand: that’ll only happen if the mammoths are allowed to be in the wild. I don’t think something that big is going to escape. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/36 "2011-01-20T09:50:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > for things getting out of hand: that’ll only happen if the mammoths are allowed to be in the wild. I don’t think something that big is going to escape. Maybe not, but I wouldn’t like to be on its way when it tries! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/37 "2011-01-20T15:51:45Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Assuming they actually manage to birth something, it won’t really be a mammoth. Higher animals are their behaviors as well as just their bodies. The creature may look like a mammoth but it will act like the elephant that is its surrogate mother and from which it will learn its behaviors. For those animals, like many fish, reptiles, and amphibians, which are independent right from hatching you could do something like this and get a product that actually replicates the ancient animal both in appearance and behavior. Solution: A big screen TV in the elephant enclosure with “Ice Age” DVDs running continuously should be able to handle the imprinting just fine. :eek:😃 IMDB has a number of other “classic” Mammoth films as well to run. ISTR one with a scantilly clad (animal skin in the ‘one bare shoulder’ style) actress astride a mammoth or perhaps a mastadon on a publicity poster. I can’t seem to master multi-quote so - Quote: [Freudian Slit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) Quote: Originally Posted by **smithsb** [[IMG]http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/buttons/viewpost.gif](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13373627#post13373627) So in the movie; who plays the part of the incredibly hot chick in the vacu-formed skirt, wearing the impossibly high heels, and aflicted with wet-noodle ankles? Wet noodle ankles? /end quote. Yes, standard scene from many movies where the cloned/irradiated/buried/frozen/invading monster comes to life or escapes and the hot scientist babe/reporter/girlfriend sprains her ankle during the escape requiring the protagninst to carry her to safety. Another variation has her captured by the beast (hardly ever eaten though) triggering the dramatic rescue scene. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/38 "2011-01-20T15:59:49Z")
Ah, got it. I think I need to bone up on my invading monster/hot scientist babe movies! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/39 "2011-01-20T18:48:54Z")
Can I just bone up on a hot scientist babe? Actually, **Freudian** , you only have to watch one, pretty much any one, to get the nuances. It’s kinda like a romcom or a romance novel that way. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165/40 "2011-01-20T19:15:43Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t a McMammoth already in the works. You know Japan is mainly behind this. Just to piss off the Sea Shepherds, they’re going to give up whaling right about the time they’ve got Mammoths ready to be the secret ingredient on Iron Chef. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammoth-to-be-cloned/568165.md?page=3)