“Cloned Mammoths also would be different in behavior, since they would not have mammoth parents to raise them.”
Having PARENTS doesn’t matter, Silly! It takes a VILLAGE (i.e. Mother Government) to raise a Mammoth these days!
*SMIRK*
Heh. :-)
They’ve found lots of neat things about parenting in higher intelligence herd mammals: Like that zebra herds assembled from relocated calves have no idea how to respond to a lion, but zebras who have had contact between generations know how to respond even though none of the animals in question had ever seen a lion. Similar multigenerational teaching of the abstract has been shown with elephants as well.