Veterinarian for Cloning

As the chief veterinarian at game parks in Africa and Australia, you oversee the care and feeding of reptiles, including the Komodo "dragon," as well as large herds of mammals in nature preserves in Kenya. The chance to manage the first group of cloned dinosaurs is a job too exciting to pass up. You plan to tell the judges that years of experience in animal husbandry in wild and domesticated stock lead you to believe that the management of dinosaurs is not an insurmountable problem. You plan to explore ecological research on declining populations of endangered species to see if this indicates if dinosaurs could be established at several parks around the world to maintain enough genetic diversity to avoid inbreeding and to prevent a disease or virus from wiping out the entire population of clones. You've already been involved in an experimental program in Tanzania where vaccinations of lions and cheetahs successfully boosted their immune systems and prevented the further spread of deadly viruses. As an animal care specialist, you'll need to investigate if similar techniques could be applied to dinosaurs so that their Mesozoic immune systems would be able to tolerate Cenozoic diseases. You'll also need to explore the feasibility of introducing certain dinosaur species into different habitats that match Mesozoic ecological requirements. Does research suggest that dinosaurs would adjust well to the wide assortment of grains and grasses that modern mammals depend on to fuel their active lives? Before establishing a successful captive breeding program of dinosaurs, you plan to explain to the judges what strategies zoos have developed for successfully raising the young of endangered species without their natural parents. As an expert on endangered species, you're also concerned about the accelerating rate of human-induced extinctions occurring worldwide. Could the cloned dinosaurs be used to help reverse the deadly loss of biodiversity around the world, especially of large-bodied mammals, by reweaving the holes that have been punctured in Earth's web of life as a result of recent species extinctions? You'll convince the judges that it's a simple enough equation--control the environment and you control the cloned organisms placed in it, especially if the animals' genetic variation has been carefully manipulated.