Cross Breeds

How is cloning extinct/nearly extinct animals beneficiary?

Why can't animals just adopt to the situation and let nature take its course? adapt** oops

Public Comments

1. Often times animals are going extinct due to human interferance which is disrupting the ecosystem in ways that nature would not normally fuction. This will result in widespread upheaval of the cycle of life. Therefore, cloning these animals would allow to stabilize the ecosystems and return them to the state they would be in nature. You have to remember that many animals that are nearly extinct were caused by human intervention. As for animals that went extinct naturally, it allows us to study them better and determine their influence on an ecosystem.
2. I totally agree with you, for the animals who went extinct naturally (i.e. mammoths). But, I feel like the ones like the passenger pigeon (that humans killed off) and the tiger (that humans are killing off) deserve to run their course and not have humans wipe them out. So I feel like we owe it to them to boost there numbers if we can. BUT...on second thought, when you're cloning an entire animal, don't you run the risk of developing genetic disorders and such down the line, because you're not adding in any genetic variation? It's almost like inbreeding in a way. I don't know, just saying!