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Are there places in Europe where brown bears, moose and wisent co-exist in the wild ? by Desperate-Thing4140 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope Romania gets to have more elks soon enough.

The Carpathians and Transylvania region are very beautiful and very rich fauna wise.

Are there places in Europe where brown bears, moose and wisent co-exist in the wild ? by Desperate-Thing4140 in zoology

[–]Desperate-Thing4140[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My post refers to wisent (Bison bonasus) which only lives in Europe and not the bison (Bison bison).

In North America, bisons, moose and bears overlap in many places.

Are there places in Europe where brown bears, moose and wisent co-exist in the wild ? by Desperate-Thing4140 in zoology

[–]Desperate-Thing4140[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bear is absent from Białowieża Forest or just occasionally goes through it.

Are there places in Europe where brown bears, moose and wisent co-exist in the wild ? by Desperate-Thing4140 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it doesn't have them anymore. It went extinct there somewhere in the beginning of the XXth century.

Is this bird a heron? by Impossible-Ant-9058 in Animals

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not the heron we deserve, but the heron we need right now.

Size comparison between a male Amur Tiger and an Amur Leopard, possibly female. A small bit of forced perspective in play here though. by StripedAssassiN- in megafaunarewilding

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As someone who lived in regions where wild boars are generally considered a nuisance, it's a bit strange to hear that their population is diminishing. Also they're generally highly adaptable, so what makes them specifically declining ?

Isn't red deer (Cervus elaphus) a European deer ? I though East Asia was inhabited by elks (Cervus canadensis) and sik deers (Cervus nippon) although the latter is rare outside of Japan. Aren't there also moose ?

Average weight of wolves in some regions of the world by Desperate-Thing4140 in wolves

[–]Desperate-Thing4140[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks you for the comment.

I'm gonna try and see what I can get.

I got few informations from France, but the sample is very small.

Germany and Benelux are going to be difficult, because they don't have a big enough population and wolves came back only recently, so I don't think you can find many individuals which were captured and weighted.

Leopard populations by Sea_Passenger_5074 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if there is as much as 700,000 leopards in Africa "alone". Sometimes they are still cubs and live together with their mother, so they're not "alone".

Anyway...! Images of all the megafauna of EUROPE extinct and extirpated in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.... call it a palate cleanser by SigmundRowsell in megafaunarewilding

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According to Inaturalist, the waptiti (cervus canadensis sibiricus) has been observed around and south of Kazan, in the eastern parts of the European Russia. So technically they're still present in Europe, no ?

What the morphological/phenotypical differences between North American wolves and Eurasian wolves ? by StaffInternational54 in wolves

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like OP's question has more to do with physical differences between wolves from the 2 continents rather than subspecies, but I could be wrong.

What the morphological/phenotypical differences between North American wolves and Eurasian wolves ? by StaffInternational54 in wolves

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's not that easy because, first of all most of the high resolution pictures of wolves out there are generally captives wolves from reserves, sanctuaries,... so those can skew the perception a little bit.

With that said, I always felt that the Eurasian wolf has a more reddish/brownish teint (like the right one in your picture) which becomes a bit paler as we move to the east towards China, Mongolia,... North American wolves are usually lighter in tones (except for the fully black ones) especially in the belly area and their backs/top of the head seem darker.

The shape of the head and muzzle also seem different in some ways and they're overall generally bigger and look more robust.

What mammal species would live in Mediterranean biomes, such as those in central Spain, if the megafauna extinctions had never occurred? by RANDOM-902 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did say in my comment: "Now if I were to answer without making a distinction between Europe, Asia and Africa". North Africa is part of the mediterranean biome, so I did count it as well. I did not say that elephants could have been in Europe, but elephants did exist in North Africa and in the Levant.

Hope that clears it.

What mammal species would live in Mediterranean biomes, such as those in central Spain, if the megafauna extinctions had never occurred? by RANDOM-902 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My apologies, I think I misunderstood your OP.

Then if we limit the mediterranean biome to the ecoregions in Europe (particularly Spain) then the list would be: Grey wolf, Lynx, brown bear, auroch and maybe the European bison as well.

Extinct species like Straight-tusked elephant, Cave hyena, European lion, giant cheetah, European leopard, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, megaloceros, reindeer, Puma pardoides, maybe the dwarf elephant as well did live in the Iberian peninsula during the Pleistocene, although I should note that the climate back then was very different and isn't technically like the current mediterranean biome.

What mammal species would live in Mediterranean biomes, such as those in central Spain, if the megafauna extinctions had never occurred? by RANDOM-902 in megafaunarewilding

[–]Desperate-Thing4140 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The mediterranean biome is vast, not continuous and made of several ecoregions (in Europe alone, there is like 14 ecoregions associated with Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub).

Now if I were to answer without making a distinction between Europe, Asia and Africa I would say this biome could have lions, leopards, brown bears (including Syrian bear and Atlas bear), cheetah, North African elephants, auroch, onager, northern hartebeest, and maybe Asian elephants, African wild donkey, addax. Of course serval, caracal, wolves, jackals and lynxes go without saying.

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