"The First and Last Mammoth"
I found this on my laptop, it's an old idea/prediction of the resurrection of the woolly mammoth I think I made made in like 5 years ago and feel like it's one that I think I should share.
So, enjoy:
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"The First and Last Mammoth"
The Japanese and Koreans were able to not just discover a way to develop sperm from the frozen remains of woolly mammoths, but were able to use them in the lab and find that they can be used for artificial insemination. Funded by interested billionaires, the scientists proposed on the idea of receiving a large number of Asian elephant cows. The idea is to inseminate the elephant cows with the woolly mammoth sperm so that in around 50 years time, an almost full-blooded wooly mammoth would be produced.
As one would expect, this proposal was not received well by the Wildlife Conservation groups of the world. The groups would find this as a waste of time and due to the endangered species status of the asian elephant, it would preposterous to give a large number of valuable females to bring up a creature that would have no use.
While no AZA-accredited zoo or facilities gave their elephant cows to the project, a great number of circuses, private zoos, and unemployed timber mahouts sold their elephant cows to the project, given that if they are still reproductively active. With these elephant cows, plenty of funds, and no regulation against the project was placed earlier, the project was underway.
In the project’s lab, they got to work on the mammoth’s cells. Since finding mammoth sperm that is good for insemination was impossible, the scientists have decided to make their own sperm cells. By recreating the mammoth’s stem cells from the marrow of mammoth bones, they were able to convert the stem cells into sperm cells. In this process, they 3 separate rows of sperm cells (each from a different mammoth specimen). Once determined on what sperm were good for the project, the scientist then separated the sperm that make female offspring from those that make males. This was so because of the fact that female hybrids tend to be more fertile than males, a hybrid male would be useless for the project (not to mention how dangerous they could be), and a hybrid female is needed to be inseminated by mammoth sperm. By doing so will produce resulting calves that are more woolly mammoth-like than the hybrid mother for every generation.
When the project’s 33 elephant cows came into season, the project inseminated them all with lab mammoth semen (each of which’s sperm was injected into 11 elephants per bull). Out of the 33 cows, only 6 received conception. As the 22 months gestation period went, four of the cows absorbed their fetuses. At the month of calving, one calf was stillborn, whereas the other calf was born healthy. And thanks to the calf’s hybrid vigor, she grew very quick and was an interesting looking little calf.
The surviving calf was a little female, named Qíjī (Chinese for “Miracle”), was a headline hit to the world for a long time. But, at the same time, the little hybrid was a source of heated debate and even aggressive threats against the calf. Some groups stated that it’s an un-natural life form and that it should be euthanized. These sort of threats were almost met a couple times, so much so that the project’s security increased.
But despite the threats, the project continued.
When the calf was two years old, the other cows were re-inseminated with mammoth sperm to receive more calves (due to elephant cows being receptive once every two years). This was success as 22 months later, 3 more female calves were born. When the first calf was 9 years of age, she was artificially inseminated with mammoth semen and later gave birth to a female calf woollier than herself. The other calves followed her lead and this continued for 50 years, through many dangers from diseases to politics and even to radical environmentalists.
As this was being commenced, an incredible and seemingly impossible discovery was made in northern Canada. Uncovered by an oil company, a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth cow carcass was discovered and obtained by the company’s scientists. Upon examination of the cow’s carcass, they have discovered that the cow was in fact a few weeks pregnant with a 6-cell embryo. When they obtained the embryo and carefully thawed it, not only was it intact, but it also started to exhibit biological function and almost instantly exhibited mitosis.
Excited about the find, the scientists split the embryo apart to make many ‘clones’ of that same embryo. When doing this, they proposed on commencing embryo transfers on several asian elephant cows to get a full-blood woolly mammoth calf. This was again met with debate, but not as sharply as it was prior to the hybrid mammoth project in Asia. With the limited success or even attempts of embryo transfers on elephants in the past and not many facilities wanting to commence with this project, the proposal was almost rejected. That was until the African Lion Safari park of Ontario, Canada, and a couple of animal reproduction experts from the Colorado State University stepped in, wanting to commence with the project.
After 5 years of attempts and failures, the ending result was a beautiful female calf called Jasmine, as she became to the jewel of the whole north american continent. With her being a pure-blood woolly mammoth, she was deemed as the “First Mammoth”. As she got older, there were proposals of getting the mammoth sperm from Asia to have her produce pure mammoth calves.
But before that could be done, tragedy struck.
By the time Jasmine was conceived, the Asian mammoth project has developed 4 individual hybrids (two bulls and two cow) that were 99.9% mammoth and 0.1% elephant (by breeding alone, you could never make a 100% pure woolly mammoth). With these three, other hybrids were on the way. But the political environment in Korea was becoming more and more dangerous as North Korea was threatening to conquer the southern country. Sensing this, the project had actually sold the three hybrids to different locations. A bull was sold to the African Lion Safari park in Canada, while the other three were sold to Russia for the developing Pleistocene park. Shortly after the hybrids were sold and transported, North Korea attacked and bombed South Korea. This destroyed the project’s facilities, thus destroying both the projects other hybrids and semen tanks. This and Russia’s military response to this made more pure mammoth semen inaccessible.
Following this tragic event, a ban of the resurrection of extinct species has been brought forth by the United Nations (for political reasons and irrational fear) sealed the fate of the hybrids and the pure breed mammoth. While they are allowed to breed, they cannot use semen created from stem cells of frozen mammoth carcasses to inseminate the mammoth cows. With this, Jasmine will be bred to the hybrid bull and this will give Jasmine her a new title.
So, enjoy:
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"The First and Last Mammoth"
The Japanese and Koreans were able to not just discover a way to develop sperm from the frozen remains of woolly mammoths, but were able to use them in the lab and find that they can be used for artificial insemination. Funded by interested billionaires, the scientists proposed on the idea of receiving a large number of Asian elephant cows. The idea is to inseminate the elephant cows with the woolly mammoth sperm so that in around 50 years time, an almost full-blooded wooly mammoth would be produced.
As one would expect, this proposal was not received well by the Wildlife Conservation groups of the world. The groups would find this as a waste of time and due to the endangered species status of the asian elephant, it would preposterous to give a large number of valuable females to bring up a creature that would have no use.
While no AZA-accredited zoo or facilities gave their elephant cows to the project, a great number of circuses, private zoos, and unemployed timber mahouts sold their elephant cows to the project, given that if they are still reproductively active. With these elephant cows, plenty of funds, and no regulation against the project was placed earlier, the project was underway.
In the project’s lab, they got to work on the mammoth’s cells. Since finding mammoth sperm that is good for insemination was impossible, the scientists have decided to make their own sperm cells. By recreating the mammoth’s stem cells from the marrow of mammoth bones, they were able to convert the stem cells into sperm cells. In this process, they 3 separate rows of sperm cells (each from a different mammoth specimen). Once determined on what sperm were good for the project, the scientist then separated the sperm that make female offspring from those that make males. This was so because of the fact that female hybrids tend to be more fertile than males, a hybrid male would be useless for the project (not to mention how dangerous they could be), and a hybrid female is needed to be inseminated by mammoth sperm. By doing so will produce resulting calves that are more woolly mammoth-like than the hybrid mother for every generation.
When the project’s 33 elephant cows came into season, the project inseminated them all with lab mammoth semen (each of which’s sperm was injected into 11 elephants per bull). Out of the 33 cows, only 6 received conception. As the 22 months gestation period went, four of the cows absorbed their fetuses. At the month of calving, one calf was stillborn, whereas the other calf was born healthy. And thanks to the calf’s hybrid vigor, she grew very quick and was an interesting looking little calf.
The surviving calf was a little female, named Qíjī (Chinese for “Miracle”), was a headline hit to the world for a long time. But, at the same time, the little hybrid was a source of heated debate and even aggressive threats against the calf. Some groups stated that it’s an un-natural life form and that it should be euthanized. These sort of threats were almost met a couple times, so much so that the project’s security increased.
But despite the threats, the project continued.
When the calf was two years old, the other cows were re-inseminated with mammoth sperm to receive more calves (due to elephant cows being receptive once every two years). This was success as 22 months later, 3 more female calves were born. When the first calf was 9 years of age, she was artificially inseminated with mammoth semen and later gave birth to a female calf woollier than herself. The other calves followed her lead and this continued for 50 years, through many dangers from diseases to politics and even to radical environmentalists.
As this was being commenced, an incredible and seemingly impossible discovery was made in northern Canada. Uncovered by an oil company, a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth cow carcass was discovered and obtained by the company’s scientists. Upon examination of the cow’s carcass, they have discovered that the cow was in fact a few weeks pregnant with a 6-cell embryo. When they obtained the embryo and carefully thawed it, not only was it intact, but it also started to exhibit biological function and almost instantly exhibited mitosis.
Excited about the find, the scientists split the embryo apart to make many ‘clones’ of that same embryo. When doing this, they proposed on commencing embryo transfers on several asian elephant cows to get a full-blood woolly mammoth calf. This was again met with debate, but not as sharply as it was prior to the hybrid mammoth project in Asia. With the limited success or even attempts of embryo transfers on elephants in the past and not many facilities wanting to commence with this project, the proposal was almost rejected. That was until the African Lion Safari park of Ontario, Canada, and a couple of animal reproduction experts from the Colorado State University stepped in, wanting to commence with the project.
After 5 years of attempts and failures, the ending result was a beautiful female calf called Jasmine, as she became to the jewel of the whole north american continent. With her being a pure-blood woolly mammoth, she was deemed as the “First Mammoth”. As she got older, there were proposals of getting the mammoth sperm from Asia to have her produce pure mammoth calves.
But before that could be done, tragedy struck.
By the time Jasmine was conceived, the Asian mammoth project has developed 4 individual hybrids (two bulls and two cow) that were 99.9% mammoth and 0.1% elephant (by breeding alone, you could never make a 100% pure woolly mammoth). With these three, other hybrids were on the way. But the political environment in Korea was becoming more and more dangerous as North Korea was threatening to conquer the southern country. Sensing this, the project had actually sold the three hybrids to different locations. A bull was sold to the African Lion Safari park in Canada, while the other three were sold to Russia for the developing Pleistocene park. Shortly after the hybrids were sold and transported, North Korea attacked and bombed South Korea. This destroyed the project’s facilities, thus destroying both the projects other hybrids and semen tanks. This and Russia’s military response to this made more pure mammoth semen inaccessible.
Following this tragic event, a ban of the resurrection of extinct species has been brought forth by the United Nations (for political reasons and irrational fear) sealed the fate of the hybrids and the pure breed mammoth. While they are allowed to breed, they cannot use semen created from stem cells of frozen mammoth carcasses to inseminate the mammoth cows. With this, Jasmine will be bred to the hybrid bull and this will give Jasmine her a new title.
And this new title was the “First and Last Mammoth”.
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