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It amazes me that there seems to be a plethora of custom cutlery and shaving items that have Mammoth Ivory components.
Does anyone know where all of this is coming from? Is there a lab somewhere cloning Mammoths and I didn't read about it?:shrug:
Just curious.
Chris L
And another question if I may add to yours Chris: how much usable ivory can one expect to get from one set of mammoth tusks?
150 million according to the Herald Tribune: Trade in mammoth ivory, helped by global thaw, flourishes in Russia - International Herald Tribune
Thanks Kees. Great article.
Chris L
Thanks for asking this. I've wondered about it for some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris L
African or European Mammoths?
(appologies to Monty Python):D
How many Wooly Mammoths were there?
Seven.
What were their names?Quote:
Originally Posted by English
Chris L
This is the answer! Now, we know why the Mammoth is an extinct species... those bloody first humans shavers who loved ivory scales!
One name we know: Manny - all his family was killed by ice age people!
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BTW1 sorry for the smilies... completely out of topic, but I am really found of Star Wars
BTW2 sorry for the stupid and meaningless comment... but I just had a hard working day, one big deception, and my brain just froze
In Russia in Siberia in ices, people found and find many mammoths. And many of them kept people at home. There there were many camps with prisoners (and now suffices), earlier they there cut wood in a taiga, prisoners found mammoths in ices... and ate them.
And when was the tsar, to St.-Petersburg from Siberia, people brought ornaments from bones of mammoths.
In areas of the far north the native people now have given up traditional hunting and instead dig them up to sell the ivory.
In Soviet Russia, mammoths eats you!Quote:
Originally Posted by manah
Sorry, bad joke. Anyway, how interesting, I wondered where all the mammoth ivory was coming from lately as I hadn't ever heard of it being used until recently.