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Yeah, I mean, the only reason the Rocky Mountain locust went extinct is because of extreme vulnerability in their larval stage. Between American bison, passenger pigeons, Rocky Mountain locusts and indigenous peoples, I'd say that the US is pretty well-defined by the human capacity for killing stuff. As for the prospect of chimeras, I can only hope that if such animals do become viable, those responsible for creating them will take the time to really try to understand possible repercussions of releasing them into the wild. I'm sure that they know better than me about ecological systems, but complex adaptive systems are hard to predict. But yeah, I'd totally go see a mammoth.