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-sounds like a magazine title no one would want to subscribe to Βsome recently extinct animals that were considered for de-extinction.(talk about a controversial topic)
did his for an upcoming class projeect
sad that for every 1 animal on here at least 20 more were driven to extinction because of humans.
oh and as for the Aurochs those are not udders .......
-5/5/16- added a doodoo bird
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Hopefully the African forest elephant and the northern white rhino won't join this list of extinct creatures.
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they dont deserve it....... never............. weirdly plants are the best for de-extinction well some of them 8T
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you do have a point, plant should be considered for de-extincion before animals are even mentioned. IIRC the dodo is essential for a certain tree to spread.
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The dodo part is a "myth". That tree, tambalacoque, was once thought to be dying out and it was caused by the dodo's extinction. But we now know the tree has many living individuals left and can germinate without being digested, and that the dodo isn't even a likely candidate for its dispersal to begin with. However, its possible other now-extinct species did distribute the seeds, like the broad-billed parrot or tortoises. Other species from North and South America work similarly, they mainly depended on ground sloth to eat their fruit and disperse the seeds, and now either suffer or have been helped by humans to flourish.
I also see some inaccuracies with the animal depictions but this is pretty old so I won't go into that.
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is the dodo bird's color scheme from ZT2 RR?
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good question. Aurora Design's dodo and the one I drew seem to share the same reference: Β s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/7β¦
the dodo statue at the Singapore(IIRC) museum. thus the similarities.Β
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Hard to beleive you forgot the Raphus in the first place, thats probably the most poular one of them.
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Yeah!
Also, the much loved woolly mammoth needs to come back!
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Good chart, quite Β surprissed the Dodo wasn't in it (though to be fair the Dodo became extinct before all the animals pictured except the Auroch).
As for de-extinction, I think that while it might be possible we might be overestimating our current abbilites, we can barelly manage to breed certain species of animals in captivity and most attempts to clone extant mammals and birds haven't go well. Also our only attempt so far to de-extinct a mammal didn't quite work out as some other comments have pointed out. That said I deffinitivelly can see it's uses particullary for aiding on conservation efforts on endangered animals or trying to restore keystone species in degraded envioriments.
That said I can't help but feel a little biased. The sheer awesomeness of seeing a living individual of a species of which has been completelly gone for decades or centuries can't be overstated.
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dodo? welp. I can't believe I keep forgetting the mos obvious animals... thank you, I will try to add it by latter in the day.
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It would indeed be interesting if de-extinction became a thing. After all it only enriches the ecosystems, which is the same thing we do when repopulation areas with species that went extinct there by mankind or by just protecting endangered animals.Β
It'd be awesome to see swarms of passenger pigeons and to watch thylacines roaming Australia and Tasmania again. Not to mention the European megafauna, hopefully we'll ever get Tarpans back the same way we're doing with Aurochs now.
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It has technically happened. Well, for a few minutes at least:
www.quora.com/Could-you-use-biβ¦
Apparently Passenger pigeons were quite the sight.
There might be a bit of unrest between the dingo and Thylacine in Australia. Best stay in Tasmania.
About the tarpans, they are breeding some horses to look similar to them.
Getting Europe back to a mammoth steppe ecosystem would require a lot of megafauna.
According to Sergey Zimov:
"On each square kilometer of pastures lived 1 mammoth, 5 bison, 8 horses, 15 reindeer. Additionally, more rare musk ox, elks, wooly rhinoceros, saiga, snow sheep, and moose were present. Wolves, cave lions and wolverines occupied the landscape as predators. In total, over 10 tons of animals lived on each square kilometer of pasture- hundreds of times higher than modern animal densities in the mossy northern landscape"
reviverestore.org/projects/wooβ¦
The large animals would have been integral to maintaining the ecosystem, pushing down saplings, transporting nutrients, all that good stuff.
www.pnas.org/content/113/4/838β¦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qRzj0β¦
Then you need the predators to prevent the steppe from going all Yellowstone on us.
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Oh, yes, I heard about that before! Quite awesome that we're capable of it. Sort of.
Now that you mention it that could indeed be a problem: thylacines and dingos together. Weren't the dogs together with prosecution the reason why they went extinct in Australia?
Didn't know about the Tarpans. I knew we have Koniks as a replacement in quite some nature areas.Β
That would indeed be a really big investment and I personally don't see it happening since Europe is kinda filled with concrete and humans. Would be awesome though. I'd be happy if we could at least reintroduce Tarpan and Aurochs and make sure the Wisent population increases. Not so sure about mammoths, woolly rhino and the like. Are scientists in an agreement yet on if it's mankind that was the drop that made them go extinct?
Anyway, those numbers are quite astonishing. It's amazing what nature is capable of. The link to the Sergey Zimov's site was a really interesting read. I like it how he mentioned the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. That nature area is quite a mindblow, seeing how so much large animals can survive on such a small surface. Too bad it gets given such a bad image by people who don't know anything about it. It's quite annoying...
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reintroducing giant predators and prey that have been dead for several hundreds of years kinda seems....drastic (ok, mostly with the european megafauna.
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It sure is, but it's not something unethical imo. If it went extinct by us I see no reason to not resurrect it, but of course the scientific community needs first to agree on which species went extinct by us and not by climate change and the like. And there's the problem with certain places in the world having such a dense human population...
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I am most interested in the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon and even more the Thylacine
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what do you think about de-extinction paleop ?
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good question. I personally say the method known as back breeding (selective breeding to replicate phenotypes of a related extinct species) would have to be my favorite approach in some ways. IE. Aurouchs: Heck cattle Β Quagga: Rau Quagga
as far as bringing species back.... I'd like to see all of these species restored as long as it does not destroy the ecosystem. (and as for the passenger pigeon, hopefully the american chestnut trees can repopulate.)
then again there is T. rex...... 
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im for DE-exctintion but they should only bring back the ones that was caused by man as for the other extinct animals if the are looked cared for probably i do not mindedΒ
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I get really sad just thinking that we'll almost certainly never get to see these animals (unless de-extinction does become a thing) :, (
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Nice. And sad to see these guys go.
I do believe they attempted to resurrect the Ibex, and were successful for about 7 minutes, before the only cloned kid died shortly after birth.
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from lung defects.
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Well technically the Great Auk and the Passanger Pigeon are MR AwesomeBro simulator
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Interesting, really. I've only heard of the auk, quagga, and thylacine
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Can you do the other 20 more? This is cool! And I would LOVE too see these animals at a zoo!
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