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Letter: Two more views on talk of species de-extinction (2)

Published 27 August 2025

From Gillian Peall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK

What are people going to do with animals that are de-extincted? They obviously aren’t going to dump such valuable specimens in wild, unbounded habitats. No, they will be confined, possibly in a zoo, where they will be gawped at – sorry, marvelled at – by endless streams of humans. They will be poked, prodded, measured and thoroughly studied by scientists, until they lie down and die. Would you do this to your dog?

Issue no. 3558 published 30 August 2025

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