TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory.

garfaagel@sh.itjust.works · 1 year ago

TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory.

zephyreks@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

What keeps us from farming elephants? People already farm sturgeon for caviar.

cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

Primarily I think people just don’t like it, they’re one of the smarter animals (I don’t know why we overlook the intelligence of pigs) and by all accounts quite sensitive and gentle.

I assume if we could farm them then we would have, they’ve been used for entertainment and militarily for thousands of years. Maybe with our technology we’d have a better run, but then we’d be confronted with point 1.

Do zoos count as farming though?

TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory.

TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory.

Why woolly mammoth ivory could spell trouble for elephants