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Now for the digression, about fleas and carried infections.
Shortly after our species encountered the mammoths, the fleas from our faithful canine companions transmitted a bloodborne disease to which we and the canines carried an immunity, but the mammoths were not immune and as a result, they all died from it, thereby depriving me of the chance of ever meeting a live mammoth.
We're really going off topic here, but they have been able to sequence DNA from fully-frozen specimens from Siberia. We might just get to see those live mammoths yet