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Brain@lemmy.zip 3 months agoIt sounds like they do want to reintroduce them…
Colossal has long claimed that mammoths, should they return to the grasslands in the planet’s northernmost reaches in sufficient numbers, would help slow down permafrost thaw.
They also would be elephant hybrids so not quite mammoths of old.
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ok, that sounds a bit dumb. Obviously I didn’t read the article, does it explain how adding mammoths to the artic will slow permafrost that? It’s mammoth poop that great of an insulator?
Brain@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It says they believe that mammoths, bison, horses, and reindeer will trample the grass, knock down trees and compact the snow which will cool the ground, based on a small 2020 study in Siberia that showed places that kept those animals, minus mammoths, had lower soil temps.
I think a much larger test is in order before I buy that’s going to save the permafrost.