Questions 3: Ice Age Animals

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

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Right before Holiday Break here, so things are busy.  Figure it would be fun to try some Ice Age questions . . . Yeah, I’m not really sure where I’m going with this either.  Consider it an end of the year adventure?

  1. Which Ice Age animal would you like to have as a pet?
  2. Do you think Ice Age animals should be used more in non-Earth genres?
  3. What you think about the possibility of cloning a mammoth and reviving the species?
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Charles E. Yallowitz was born, raised, and educated in New York. Then he spent a few years in Florida, realized his fear of alligators, and moved back to the Empire State. When he isn't working hard on his epic fantasy stories, Charles can be found cooking or going on whatever adventure his son has planned for the day. 'Legends of Windemere' is his first series, but it certainly won't be his last.
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22 Responses to Questions 3: Ice Age Animals

  1. L. Marie's avatar L. Marie says:
    December 20, 2024 at 11:38 am
    1. Even if they are of the variety of the Ice Age movies (talking mammals), none of them would be convenient to have. Where would you park a woolly mammoth?
    2. I saw a long list of fiction books featuring mammoths on Goodreads. One takes place in Victorian-era London.
    3. I would point to the Jurassic Park/World movies and the warnings they shared. 😊

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  2. noelleg44's avatar noelleg44 says:
    December 20, 2024 at 1:56 pm

    I would love to see a woolly mammoth cloned. We have a lot of experience handling elephants so I don’t think it would be that much more difficult to handle a woolly mammoth. As for anything else, Jurassic Park scared the whey out of me, and I can’t really see having any other ice age mammal as a pet, since the extinct ones seem to be rather large! However, voles were an ice age animals and they are still around.

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  3. tidalscribe.com's avatar tidalscribe.com says:
    December 20, 2024 at 3:20 pm

    I was just listening to one of our fun, but intelligent science programmes on the radio and they posed the question could we and should we clone a mammoth. The obvious mother to be implanted with the recreated mammoth embryo would be an African elephant. Not an easy task apparently, I now know a lot more than I did about lady elephant parts. But suppose it could be done. the length of a mammoth pregnancy is not known and what size would it grow to in the womb! If a healthy infant was born it would not be suited to today’s climate. Mammoths were sociable and intelligent, it would have no mammoth family. In the meantime what would the poor mother elephant make of the strange creature; she would have no knowledge like we do.

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    • Charles Yallowitz's avatar Charles Yallowitz says:
      December 20, 2024 at 3:40 pm

      I don’t think the mother would be freaked out. It’s an elephant and not a human. There have been many stories of a baby being raised by a different species. The baby mammoth would probably be cared for by humans too like an orphaned animal of today’s age.

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  4. John W. Howell's avatar John W. Howell says:
    December 20, 2024 at 4:21 pm
    1. I think I would like to have a Giant Owl as a pet.
    2. I think Ice Age animals should be used in the Sci-FI sense of other planet beings landing on Earth during the Ice Age.
    3. I think it should be possible to clone a mammoth. Surely an elephant could be the surrogate

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  5. V.M.Sang's avatar V.M.Sang says:
    December 21, 2024 at 4:45 am
    1. I’m not sure an ice age animal would make a good pet. For a start, many are HUGE. And dangerous. But if I must choose, then perhaps the giant owl. It could hunt and bring game.
    2. It depends. If it’s in our universe, and just another planet i.e. science fiction, then, No. It’s unlikely evolution would take the same path elsewhere. But in fantasy, Yes. After all, other animals and plants from Earth are used.
    3. No. The world isn’t the same now as then. And with climate change, it’s going to be even more different. It would be cruel. And who knows what unintended consequences would arise? Just because we can do something, doesn’t mean we should.

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    • Charles Yallowitz's avatar Charles Yallowitz says:
      December 21, 2024 at 6:19 am

      1. Owl seems to be popular. To be fair about the size, some breeds of dog and horses in general are pretty big. We still make pets of them. Just have to make the space.

      2. Makes sense.

      3. I’m not sure how different our world is from back then. We’re not talking dinosaurs. Humans were alive at the same point as these creatures, so our environment wouldn’t be that foreign. As for climate change, some scientists do think that reintroducing mammoths to the Arctic can help reverse it. Something about their presence lowering greenhouse gases and keeping the Arctic cool.

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  6. DebyFredericks's avatar DebyFredericks says:
    December 21, 2024 at 11:19 am
    1. Which Ice Age animal would you like to have as a pet? The giant Irish elk would be cool, especially if I could ride on it.
    2. Do you think Ice Age animals should be used more in non-Earth genres? No, I think for time travel it would work, but I don’t see convergent evolution happening on distant planets. They will have their own species.
    3. What you think about the possibility of cloning a mammoth and reviving the species? My gut reaction is that this would be cruel. The entire ecosystem and climate they dwelt in is gone, and there is no reason to just drop a living thing out of their time. Especially if it’s just for idle curiosity.

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    • Charles Yallowitz's avatar Charles Yallowitz says:
      December 21, 2024 at 11:23 am

      1. Riding that elk reminds me of the mount in ‘Princess Mononoke’. Though I think this would be bigger.

      2. It’s interesting how people have brought up evolution being different on other planets. I wonder if that’s how it would really be since we don’t know exactly.

      3. I mentioned in another comment that there might be more than curiosity with reviving the mammoth. Scientists do think they could repair the Arctic and help reverse climate change. They’re existence might reduce greenhouse gases and cool the area down.

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  7. coldhandboyack's avatar coldhandboyack says:
    December 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm

    Interesting. Maybe a dog bear, because they were kind of cool. Or, maybe one of those tiny little horses. I just finished a science fiction world with ice age creatures. This is for my pseudonym, so decent people shouldn’t read it. I am in favor of the cloning process. There isn’t a particular value to cloning a mammoth, but I’m sure it’s the one that would bring big bucks into research and development.

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  9. Jennie's avatar Jennie says:
    December 25, 2024 at 2:08 pm

    Definitely a wooly mammoth.

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