Are the natives still eating the ones they find or are they now protected?
I would imagine there is some kind of reward program or somesuch.
The thing that gets me is I’ve seen pics of a few of the excavations. You see this dark thing in the ice. Then you glance towards the horizon. You see ice with more ice on top of it.
What you DON’T see is even the tiniest hint of vegetation or trees or anything that could feed 6 ton animals who are consuming roughly 750 pounds of roughage per day.
Not even any of the famous buttercups...
Whatever...
Funny you should say that. I have a custom-made hunting knife with a handle made from mammoth ivory. I was showing it to a friend known to be a tree-hugger, and her response was, "Shame on you. Don't you know mammoths are endangered?"
I was speechless as I struggled not to laugh.