Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Tony Grubb asks If we could harvest an extinct animal for food for the world, what would be best? Dino burgers or Dodo chicken wings?

That is an easy question to answer because I actually did an episode on the subject. It would be the aurochs, the extinct ancestor of modern cattle, that our ancestors hunted.

The aurochs is basically just a bigger version of what we already have, so we have the infrastructure to use these animals today.

We don’t yet know how this would work. It might be that the aurochs can’t be domesticated in the same way that modern cattle can, and the entire project would be a failure.

That being said, I think it would be a lot easier than trying to raise dinosaurs….that and the whole Jurassic Park thing.