Animals climbed up that bristlecone that predated the flood, all but the unicorn
hoser, even the adept climbers would have needed really long straws to breeze. The pines and sequoias grow at 3400 meters, the flood covered Everest, ~ 9000 meters. those trees were lucky to not being uprooted by the churning torrents of rain falling at a rate ~10 meters an hour. and withstand the pressure of 5 km of water above them, suffocate because no CO2 to breathe. no sunlight for photosynthesis, or to float to the surface like most dead wood,
no wonder it left the snakes in the ark speechless, permanently.
all collateral damage,a really bad example for the warfare to come***, that is supposed to sort out who was interested in the awake & wt, or jw org, gave a glass of water to the [false ] prophet.
*** Armageddon is supposedly to be a greater disaster than the flood. welcome to wt land.