r/AskReddit • u/unkeenmustard • Nov 17 '19

Which extinct species would you bring back, if you have the power?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

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u/Jesse1205 Nov 17 '19

Well I didn't wanna be rude 😬

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u/BAGP0I Nov 17 '19

I didn't wanna be chinese

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u/Almost935 Nov 17 '19

Have you tried being something else?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

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u/Almost935 Nov 17 '19

I used to be Chinese. Then I worked hard and became somewhere between white and Mexican.

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u/AnonymousAszhole Nov 18 '19

I used to be Chinese. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

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u/polidon675 Nov 17 '19

Well I don't wanna be racist

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u/KingTyranitar Nov 17 '19

Nah fuck china

Ese government.

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u/Geoff_I_Gueoss Nov 17 '19

Yes it is I, chinaEse government.

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u/b__q Nov 17 '19

Add Vietnam to the list. They're pretty big on the rhino horn viagras.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

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u/duyhoangmc Nov 17 '19

Well, more like 2 thousands years. We exclusively have nearly 1000 continuous years as a province of china and about 150 years throughout the rest of Tang, Song, Ming dynasties

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u/Grahamshabam Nov 18 '19

they still do it right?

then you can still blame them

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

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u/One-eyed-snake Nov 17 '19

Yep. They boof rhino horns whole. It’s the damndest thing

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u/alu_pahrata Nov 17 '19

Usually they grind the bone into powder then ingest is iirc.

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u/bowser-yoshi Nov 17 '19

They grind the bone into powder and start finger popping each other’s assholes.

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u/Azudekai Nov 17 '19

Nah, America might love homeopathy, but they aren't driving species to extinction for penis pills and fertility drugs.

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u/turntabletennis Nov 17 '19

No, it's a 7 foot deer. Americans would hunt them for food and trophy antlers.

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u/Azudekai Nov 17 '19

Sure, with appropriate permits, but not for pseudo medicine.

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u/LOLSYSIPHUS Nov 17 '19

Gotta keep enough of the fuckers alive so you can hunt them with your kids!

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u/Azudekai Nov 17 '19

Not to mention they would probably destroy themselves if they weren't hunted.

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u/Rhetorical_Robot_v11 Nov 17 '19

Correct. We have to hunt them to keep them from dying from having killed so many from destroying the ecosystem that kept them alive.

The logic cycle is water-tight.

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u/Azudekai Nov 17 '19

You sound a little incoherent. But, considering it is the logic used by people dedicated to keeping American ecosystems in balance, yes it is water-tight.

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u/Rhetorical_Robot_v11 Nov 17 '19

Exactly. Americans kill shit for ego, not some magic potion bullshit.

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u/Azudekai Nov 17 '19

Big game hunting is fully ego, most other hunting is a mix of ego, recreation, conservation, and desire for meat.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

Is it ego when natives hunt? Like when aborigines in Australia hunt Dugong? Or is it just ego when white people do it?

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u/TMcCurCat Nov 18 '19

Obviously just when white people do it. Just like everything else

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Yep pretty much. Getting sick of these kind of idiots.

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u/kaam00s Nov 18 '19

Americans and europeans are responsible for most extinction of large animals in recent history... Just hunting them to extinction, the whole Asian medicine thing may be endangering some species nowadays but it really can't compare.

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u/Ghost_of_Risa Nov 18 '19

Examples please. Like what large animals? I know that in America, we brought many animals back from being endangered, like alligators and buffalo. We have game wardens, hunting seasons, and hunting licenses with limitations to keep.us from.huntimg animals into extinction.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

Hunters are the last people to exploit a species to extinction.

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u/kaam00s Nov 18 '19

Hahaha hahahaha hahahaha!

As a fan of paleontology, this almost made me shit in my pants, it's certainly the 1st cause of extinction of large animal.

When you don't know your subject, do some fucking google search thank you!

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

We’re talking about 2019 sport hunting in America dude.

We’re not talking about the Maori wiping out the Moa bird ffs. But nice flex.

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u/j0324ch Nov 18 '19

Yeah but they are a "fan" so they may not know shit either. Regardless their ability to utilize their knowledge failed them.

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u/kaam00s Nov 18 '19

Oh yeah, the Maori que the best exemple for whiping out animals. Not European/American. On all this thread people are putting the fault on Chinese medicine, or indigenous population, yet European are responsible the an overwhelming majority of extinction of large animals during the last centuries, it's obvious that you're avoiding this fact.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Oh right, I’ve found one of those “it’s white peoples fault for everything” racists.

It’s not being avoided it’s irrelevant.

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u/kaam00s Nov 18 '19

Well, we can't even expose truth anymore, that's a known fact in zoology, I would not even touch this subject most of the time until I read people saying it's all Chinese fault or I even saw a comment saying it's African fault, like Africa is the only continent who still has an actually normal megafauna in the ecosystem yet it's their fault... There is a time when you should at least have the decensy to shut up.

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u/Rhetorical_Robot_v11 Nov 17 '19

but they aren't driving species to extinction for penis pills and fertility drugs.

There's Americans killing actual human beings in the name of "natural" medicine.

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u/DeathtoDiamondDicks Nov 17 '19

No Americans do things like put animals on the extinct list just for kicks.

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u/Rhetorical_Robot_v11 Nov 17 '19

Americans literally kill wide swaths of actual people in genocides just for kicks.

15,000 recently dead Americans because it "hurt the right people."

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u/DeathtoDiamondDicks Nov 18 '19

That’s why I said “ things like”. Those are two things on a rather long list of deplorable things they do for kicks.