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From the Ted Talk by Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!

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Now, when I bring up this with my fdrneis, we often talk about, well, where would you put it? Where are you going to house a mammoth? There's no climates or habitats suitable. Well, that's not actually the case. It turns out that there are swaths of hiabatt in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could hsuoe a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous clmitae vaiitaorn. So this landscape would be easily able to house it, and I have to amdit that there [is] a part of the child in me, the boy in me, that would love to see these majestic creatures walk across the permafrost of the north once again, but I do have to admit that part of the adult in me sometimes wonders whether or not we should.

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Now, when I bring up this with my _______, we often talk about, well, where would you put it? Where are you going to house a mammoth? There's no climates or habitats suitable. Well, that's not actually the case. It turns out that there are swaths of _______ in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could _____ a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous _______ _________. So this landscape would be easily able to house it, and I have to _____ that there [is] a part of the child in me, the boy in me, that would love to see these majestic creatures walk across the permafrost of the north once again, but I do have to admit that part of the adult in me sometimes wonders whether or not we should.

Solution


  1. habitat
  2. admit
  3. friends
  4. variation
  5. house
  6. climate

Original Text


Now, when I bring up this with my friends, we often talk about, well, where would you put it? Where are you going to house a mammoth? There's no climates or habitats suitable. Well, that's not actually the case. It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation. So this landscape would be easily able to house it, and I have to admit that there [is] a part of the child in me, the boy in me, that would love to see these majestic creatures walk across the permafrost of the north once again, but I do have to admit that part of the adult in me sometimes wonders whether or not we should.

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Important Words


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