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minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·30 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-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·29 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-up3·29 days agoEven dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
minus-squaremakyo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·30 days agoYeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 days agoWhat about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-230 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-up8arrow-down1·29 days agoI don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days agoOf course it seems wrong when you say it like that.
minus-squareJovialMicrobial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days agoPygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·30 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoThose are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.
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.
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
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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.
Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.
Pygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
Those are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.