Mastodons were browsers, however - their teeth are quite a bit different from those of modern elephants and mammoths (the mastodon tooth is on the left - modern elephant teeth look like the mammoth tooth on the right).

You’re right, to an extent - it depends to some degree on the intelligence of the animal as well, though.

“Don’t you think that money would be better served going into cancer research?”

I don’t think anyone’s saying that we should clone billions of them.

Yeah, good point. I don’t know how generalizable gut flora are. The strain of E. coli you get in cattle can cause deadly diarrhea in human beings, for instance.

Good article, Isaac. The ethical issues around these initiatives need to be examined.

How would you use a steroid cream recreationally?

Might be worth looking for countercurrent vascular structures in this species. Some neat research on swordfish - https://researchoutreach.org/articles/into-the-deep-understanding-swordfish-eco-physiology/

Eggs come in different relative sizes. Look at the kiwi. It depends upon how females of the species divides up their total reproductive investment. Lots of little cheap eggs (r-strategy) or a few big expensive eggs (K-strategy).

As if that ever stopped an anti-vaxxer. All they need is YouTube videos.

Have they had any problems with anti-vaxxer koalas?

What’s wrong with Altimas?

And of course, once Lucky Pierre becomes our PM, the invidious influence of the WEF on our country’s governance will be eliminated, and everything will be great. Just great.

+1

Wild crows have been trained to pick up cigarette butts and deposit them in an appropriate container in a city in Sweden - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/01/swedish-crows-pick-up-cigarette-butts-litter

They’re different species.

...the special love between a person and their crows...

Obscure French weightlifter who also solved crimes, but not terribly well.

It will never end. The crows will pass on the tradition to uncounted generations to come.

Do they refrain from crapping on it?