http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/ A variegated compendium of bonobo scat. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8273 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:48 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8273 A mention of frozen testicles in the media! Quick! Someone alert Dave Barry!

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8274 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:48 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8274 A mention of frozen testicles in the media! Quick! Someone alert Dave Barry!

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8272 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:13:30 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/realizing_the_potential_in_fro/#comment-8272 “It’s still very much a long shot, but it’s not out and out impossible,” said George Seidel, a Colorado State University animal reproduction expert, when I talked to him in November about mammoth cloning. “It’s remarkable what one can do with embryos and get away with.”
1) Biological processes are unexpectedly robust and this “reanimation” demonstration serves to demonstrate the fact quite forcefully.
2) Even having the knowledge, let alone the intent or ability, to create a tool for human use out of the “miracle” of birth (which is caused by naughty goings on, as we have all been informed) is sufficient to induce apoplexy in a large percentage of people.
3) If not for the purposeful diddling around with reproduction we would still be gleaning course grains and snaring rabbits. If this were so there would be entire systems of belief predicated on how proper and sufficient such an existence is. That is, churches without parking lots, stained-glass windows, or PA systems. With boring carry-in dinners.
Whether or not such a situation is superior to what we enjoy now or have at any time since coarse grains and rabbits is for the reader to decide. I recommend that such musings be done on an empty stomach.
Still, a breeding herd of mammoths would provide great opportunities for the manufacturers of stoves, ovens and backyard grills. I’m talking about twenty-pound steaks and yard-long baby-back ribs here! Not to mention the challenge of a palatable presentation of the trunk. (I wonder if it wouldn’t be best cooked buried in the ground, like my favorite method for whole hog.)

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