Day 3999: Botswana and a Bentley

"Leftovers": photography, digital.

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2GN2S ...

Helping now, helping later

A biotech startup called Colossal, which has dubbed itself the “de-extinction company," has its sights on reviving the 4,000-years-extinct wooly mammoth. The goal is both cool and scary at the same time since it would take a lot of genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and likely several lifetimes. But they're starting the journey with something much closer to home by monitoring orphan elephants in Botswana. The startup has entered a collaboration with Elephant Havens, a wildlife foundation based in the Okavango Delta that cares for orphaned elephants. The two organizations will embark on an extensive data-gathering operation, using artificial intelligence to analyze the animals’ behavior and pair it with genomic data on each elephant. Together, they hope the research will provide a blueprint for releasing the elephants into the wild now, and mammoth hybrids to the tundra in the far future.   Read more here

 I found a Bentley!

Driving on Jamboree Boulevard ...

coming from Corona Del Mar.

  

Close-up on the brake lights.
Imagine how strange I must have looked 

if the driver checked his mirror?

 

 

             A beautiful ($190,000.) car ....

   

and then it disappeared.

* I might mention that I was stalking from a 2010 squirrel-powered Honda Hybrid, Insight.

 

 

 

 

A great 2 minute video, cat massage, here.

 

Just because ...

  

White-crowned Hornbill

 

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