Cloning woolly mammoths: It's the ecology, stupid: http://bit.ly/15hNWda My thoughts on #TEDxDeExtinction are up at @SciAmBlogs
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Cloning woolly mammoths: It's the ecology, stupid! http://bit.ly/15hNWda My thoughts on #TEDxDeExtinction in a new post at @sciamblogs.
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Whew. #TEDxDeExtinction is over. I learned a lot, which is saying something, given that I spent a lot of time on this ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/species-revival/...
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Now zoo-bred condors are laying eggs in the wild. #TEDxDeExtinction
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And more trouble keeps emerging for condors--windmills may be a new threat. #TEDxDeExtinction
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And *then* May had to give condors annual vaccines for West Nile Virus. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Mike May taught CA condors not to land on telephone poles, to avoid electrocution. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Here's a new article about California condor. A new chick was just born. 400 in the wild. www.livescience.com/27846-condor-chick-hatch... #TEDxDeExtinction
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Interesting to hear about history of condor recovery. Many said, let them go extinct with dignity. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Extinct giant flightless ducks grazed weeds in Hawaii. Burney uses tortoises now as ecological surrogates #TEDxDeExtinction
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Burney goes in Hawaii cave to find what was once there, then bring in species to restore ecosystem. http://cavereserve.org #TEDxDeExtinction
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David Burney at #TEDxDeExtinction Over past 50k years, "humans are a biological invasion of the first order."
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Powell hopes to start restoring American chestnuts on strip-mined land. #TEDxDeExtinction
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ALL CHESTNUT TREES HERE ARE DOOMED--1911 New York Times headline. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html #TEDxDeExtinction
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American chestnut supported lots of animals--some extinct--before fungus wiped it out. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Next: William Powell of SUNY on reviving the American chestnut. Here's my Loom post on his work: phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/11/resurrecting-... #TEDxDeExtinction
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Wolves that are restoring Yellowstone ecosystem have dog genes in them. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Bison released into the U.S. west to restore population had cow DNA in them. Not pure. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Kent Redford is tying in our concepts of "pure" species with Furry conventions & Paleolithic sculptures #TEDxDeExtinction #actuallyworks
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Safari-based tourism in Europe? #TEDxDeExtinction
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Can you back breed cows to get back to an aurochs? #TEDxDeExtinction
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Bison stretched from Spain to Tibet in the Holocene. Now making a comeback. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison #TEDxDeExtinction
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Stewart Brand argues that Europe is ahead of US on rewilding . See Kolbert's article in the NYer www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121... #TEDxDeExtinction
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Hank Greely of my past few tweets is @hgreelytwit #TEDxDeExtinction
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Greely adds up the pro's and con's of de-extinction and says, fine if done prudently. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Greely: There is an ethical value to the wonder of bringing species back. i.e., it's cool. #TEDxDeExtinction
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Greely: Do we owe a moral duty to species we drove extinct? #TEDxDeExtinction
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Hank Greely: Would return of extinct species bring pressure to clean up their former habitats? #TEDxDeExtinction
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FYI, @bonesandbugs has sequenced passenger pigeon DNA from museum specimens www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S094... #TEDxDeExtinction
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