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minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoI’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also? I would totally get one or maybe two.
minus-squaremakyo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoYeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-215 days agoThey’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage. Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
minus-squareThreeme2189@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoI don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoWhat about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
minus-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoIf they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
minus-squaretahoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoEven dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.
Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc