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Bringing the Shasta Ground Sloth out of Extinction
Topic Started: Sep 4 2016, 12:14 AM (1,823 Views)
the dark phoenix
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Well the poster, Dilong, is no longer here so I'd assume we can end this discussion?
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Jannick
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Sep 17 2016, 01:05 PM
Part of the issue with bringing back species that have been extinct for as long as the Shasta Ground Sloth is that the environment has changed drastically in that time. It would even be an issue for some species that have gone extinct in the last few hundred years, their habitat is gone.
Actually, for the Shasta ground sloth specifically, this is not that much of a problem. Desert ecosystems tend to change very slowly, not in the least because many desert species (plants, especially) are extremely long-lived. There are actually plants alive today in the Mojave desert that sprouted when there were still sloths walking around the place. Furthermore, we know from mummified dung remains that many of the plants they ate still grow in the same areas today. The only thing missing in the ground sloths habitat is its natural predator, but I highly doubt that sloth overpopulation would be a very imminent problem.
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