Can elephant be turned into mammoth?
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It takes millions of years for evolution to take place. So even though it seems like your experiment should work and the animals should adapt to their surroundings...it wouldn't. Not for many, many generations at least. Do some research on mammoth evolution, or even evolution and general, and you'll find the flaws in your idea.
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1) Differentiate it and put into the refrigerator\nThen integrate it in the refrigerator\n2) Redefine the measure on the refrigerator (or the elephant).\n3) Apply the Banach-Tarsky theorem.\n\n\nNumber theory:\n1) First factorize, second multiply.\n2) Use induction. You can always squeeze a bit more in.\n\nAlgebra:\n1) Step 1. Show that the parts of it can be put into the refrigerator\nStep 2. Show that the refrigerator is closed under the addition.\n2) Take the appropriate universal refrigerator and get\na surjection from refrigerator to elephant.\n\nTopology:\n1) Have it swallow the refrigerator and turn inside out.\n2) Make a refrigerator with the Klein bottle.\n3) The elephant is homeomorphic to a smaller elephant.\n4) The elephant is compact, so it can be put into a finite collection\nof refrigerators. That's usually good enough.\n5) The property of being inside the refrigerator\nis hereditary. So, take the elephant's mother,\ncremate it, and show that the ashes fit inside the refrigerator.\n6) For those who object to method 3 because it's cruel to animals.\nPut the elephant's BABY in the refrigerator.\n\nAlgebraic topology:\nReplace the interior of the refrigerator by its\nuniversal cover, R^3.\n\nLinear algebra:\n1) Put just its basis and span it in the refrigerator\n2) Show that 1% of the elephant will fit inside the refrigerator.\nBy linearity, x% will fit for any x.\n\nAffine geometry:\nThere is an affine transformation putting the\nelephant into the refrigerator.\n\nSet theory:\n1) It's very easy!\nrefrigerator = { elephant } 2) The elephant and the interior of the\nrefrigerator both have cardinality c.\n\nGeometry:\nDeclare the following:\nAxiom 1. An elephant can be put into a refrigerator.\n\nComplex analysis:\nPut the refrigerator at the origin\nand the elephant outside the unit circle.\nThen get the image under the inversion.\n\nNumerical analysis:\n1) Put just its trunk and refer the rest to the error term.\n2) Work it out using the Pentium. \nStatistics:\n1) bright statistician.\nPut its tail as a sample and say "Done."\n\n2) dull statistician.\nRepeat the experiment pushing the elephant to the refrigerator\n\n3) Our NEW study shows that you CAN'T put the elephant\nin the refrigerator.
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I think it would be cool.   In the wild they hang out in packs and play with their kids all day...eat... nap...and walk around.  I could do that.\nThey also get each other's back if something threatens them they put the babies in the middle the big elephants on the outside of a huge circle and they raise their trunks as if to say "bring it on...you gonna fight me you gonna fight my whole family"   Even lions leave pack elephants alone.\nThey also live really long and I believe they are the only animals proven to mourn their own dead.  They are so cool!!
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Yes, it has DNA. A fair amount of DNA sequenciing has been done on DNA from a frozen mammoth. Researchers have also been able to assemble the complete sequence of the mitochondria.
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there's no f'n way.\n\nhey, isn't that how to get an elephant into a v.w.?
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If I'm understanding your question correctly....\n\nIf you have to divide the elephants this way, you know that each person is gonna be getting at least a portion of their elephants from the butcher, right?  :(  poor elephants...  you couldn't have done this same question with, say, apples???  Just lovely....\n\nWell, from the mathematical perspective however, the person to get half the elephants would get 8 1/2 elephants.  The person to get one third would get 5 2/3 elephants.  The person to get a ninth of the elephants would get 1 4/5 elephants.\n\nSo who gets the 1 1/10 elephants left over?  The butcher?  :(\n\nSince you mention "no add no less," and that seems impossible, it would seem that this is supposed to be one of those math riddles?  But even if you made elephant soup, I have no clue how this could be done without leftovers!  The way they're to be divided between the three people, there's 1/18 of the elephants left...  if this is some kinda riddle, I have no clue how that fact is to be resolved.
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Elephants have 24 teeth: 12 front teeth, called premolars, and 12 back teeth, called molars. The teeth come out in order, from front to back. Because grass is very tough, the elephant teeth slowly wear out. When the last molar wears out, the elephant usually dies because it can't eat.\nhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant\n\nElephants, as you might have expected have the largest teeth in the world. An Elephants tusks are actually modified incisors. They arise from the upper jaw and only 2/3s of them are visible because they are deeply embedded in the elephants skull. The heaviest pair of tusks, and therefore the heaviest pair of teeth of any extant (still living species) animal belonged to an African Elephant Loxodonta africana shot in 1897. One of the pair was slightly larger than the other but together they weighed 211kg or 465lb. \nhttp://www.earthlife.net/mammals/teeth.html
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Elephants have the equivalent of a radiator or oil cooler in there ear structures - many small blood vessels close to the skin surface - Making a large surface area. They can divert blood to their ears for cooling. By flapping their ears they move more air over the surface to enhance the cooling effect. Their thick hide does not allow sweating so this is there replacement means of not overheating. Me? I prefer a cold beer!!!
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It would turn into a llama.
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Because elephants are such slow breeders it would probably take tens of thousands of years , however you can never predict what mutations will be thrown at you ,so not necessarily that long.(a mutation for a 'dwarf' elephant could conceivably arise in the first generation of your bizarre breeding programme for pet elephants)
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nope... they have a difference level of chromosomes,\n\n\nthey more than liekly could try.. but the results would be more than likely dead and birth from physical problems such as no lungs, or no heart etc..\n\ndifferent animals have maanged to mate ouside thier chromosome levels, such as the donkey and horse, and the lion and tigers (Ligers).. normally these animals do not last a full age and have birth defects.
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Woolly mammoths and and Sabertooths.
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During the ice age, mammoths were hunted by both neanderthals and modern humans for their meat, fur, and tusks. This helped cause extinction of the woolly mammoths. Further more, after the last ice age, the mammoths couldn't cope up with the new environment, because they had too much fur.
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Deinotherium ("terrible beast") was a huge prehistoric proto-elephant that appeared in the Middle Miocene and continued until the Early Pleistocene. During that time it changed very little. In life it probably resembled modern elephants, except that its trunk was probably not as long, and it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw.\n\nDeinotherium was the second largest land mammal; only Indricotherium was larger. A big male stood about 4 to 4.5 meters tall at the shoulders. Its range covered parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Adrienne Mayor, in The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek and Roman Times, has suggested that Deinothere fossils found in Greece helped generate myths of archaic giant beings. A tooth of a deinothere found on the island of Crete, in shallow marine sediments of the Miocene (see link) raises questions: was Crete connected to the mainland during that time, or did Deinotheres share the often underrated swimming abilities of modern elephants?
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So far the DNA recovered from the best specimens has been too fragmented to successfully clone, but the Japanese have their sites on achieving that goal. Recent advances in reconstructing fragmented DNA have renewed interest in the task, and the techniques have been used to reconstruct mammoth DNA to a level that has allowed it to be compared to modern elephant DNA to determine that they are most closely related to Asian elephants. Many people, myself included want to see a mammoth cloned, and as technology improves it becomes more and more a possibility. As the arctic ice sheets melt and the permafrost thaws from global warming it becomes more likely that further well preserved mammoth bodies will be found in the future.
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I agree w/ eggman.\n\nMummification has to do w/ drying out as a means of preservation. But it doesn't always have to be dried out. Sometimes it is done as a form of burial which is a good method of isolation from the reaches of bacteria when done in the right setting. The bog bodies of Great Britain & other parts of Europe are a great example.\n\nThe 'bog bodies' are awesome specimens of mummification. If you haven't seen them then you should Google it. Their bodies were preserved well, some with the hair & wardrobe still intact. That is pretty neat considering some, but not all, of these bodies are from the Bronze Age.\n\nI love to PowerPoint pictures of them & show my students. The gross factor is wonderful!\n\nFreezing as a form of preservation can be both good & bad. Think of it as putting a steak in a freezer bag, putting it in the freezer, & leaving it for 20 years. It still may resemble the steak but won't taste all that good nor look that good. So it preserves pretty well as a whole but, like eggman said, not at the cellular level.\n\nFunny story about Wooly Mammoths being preserved though freezing...There is more than one version of the story but I like this one better it makes more sense...Also, this may just be one of those geologist myths...(as told by my prof & read in magazines)\n\nWhen the first mammoth was discovered, scientists had a "cookout" w/ the meat that was around 10,000 years old.\n\nOn a dare to each other they decided to cook & eat the meat. Problem is w/ 10,000 year old mammoth meat you don't know how many times the freezer "went down", if you know what I mean!\n\nWell supposedly the meat partially rotted either before it completely froze or sometime later during a thaw. It had started to decomp. It made them sick.\n\nMoral of the story...don't eat meat that is older than you or that you weren't old enough to remember seeing put into the freezer.\n\nI love to gross my students out w/ that story when I am passing my sample of mammoth hair around the room.\n\n:)
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Mastodons are extinct elephant-like mammals which began to roam the North American continent about 20 million years ago.  The meteorological changes  prehistoric earth underwent spelled the demise of the dinosaur; however, this was advantageous for the mastodon.  During the Pleistocene Epoch (1.5 million - 10,000 years ago), the surface world grew very cold.   Thick sheets of ice covered the ground, and resources became scarce.   Mastodons now were among the largest animals on earth, and fared well, certainly because larger animals are better at competing for the few available resources.   \n\nAlthough mastodons appeared on the scene about 20million years ago, a relative, the mammoth didn't appear until about 1 1/2 million years ago.\n\nBoth the mastodon and the mammoth lived throughout the current United States, many remains have been and are being discovered in the vicinity of the Great Lakes.\n\nThe order in which mastodons belong, and to which elephants also belong, is the order Proboscidea. From this class title comes a reference to the trunk possessed by both the mastodon and the elephant; "pro" meaning before and "boskein" meaning to feed. Of course the trunk is and was used for more than just feeding. Our modern elephant demonstrates the agility and strength of the trunk and proves its significance in day-to-day life.  Diseases that affect the trunk of the modern-day elephant have resulted in sickness and ultimately death for the animal.   In such cases, the magnitude of this unique appendage is evident.\n\nThe now-extinct mastodons were large, but were shorter than modern elephants and sported shorter, thicker legs. The earliest probscideans included some members that were pig to cow-sized, and are a distant relative to the manatee. These relatives were herbivores and lacked tusks.  The heavy, shaggy coats possessed by the ancient mastodons are not visible on our modern version, presumably due to climatic changes in out Earth's history.\n\nAnother notable and enlightening difference between the ancient mastodons and modern elephants is the shape of the teeth. Mammoths’ (now extinct, but not as ancient as the mastodons) and elephants’ teeth are flat with a ridged grinding surface. Mastodon teeth are rounded and pointed for clipping leaves and twigs, for they were primarily forest-dwelling creatures.  Research on the teeth gives clues to the lifestyle, habitat, and feeding habits of the ancient proboscideans.  Unlike the modern elephant, which is reserved to warmer climates, the ancient mastodon occupied a larger area which covered a wide sector of northern continents.  The link between the archaic mastodon and the modern elephant is the woolly mammoth, also an extinct mammal.   \n\nIt seems that the mastodons were the precursors to the bison in early North America in regard to their relationship with human inhabitants. It is believed that the early Indians spear-hunted the mastodons as they later did the easy-to-kill bison. Many recovered mastodon fossils bear evidence that man-made tools were the cause of death and butchery after death is evidenced by tool marks on the bones.  The slow-moving mastodon did not have a natural fear of man and made for an easy target for early hunters.  Some scholars believe in addition to spear-hunting, ancient hunters might have herded a great many of the animals over cliffs.\n\nOther predators of the mastodon (mammoth also) were the Dire Wolf, which is larger than the current wolf, and the famous Saber-toothed cats.\n \n\nMastodons disappeared at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago.  It is not known exactly what happened to them.  Two theories take center stage; due to climactic changes, the mastodon died out, or primitive hunters hunted them to extinction.  No conclusive proof exists.\n\nIt was believed early in the 20th century that, in the proper environment, mastodons and mammoths still lived.  Of course none were found still living.