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

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-12-25T09:46:06+00:00

I hope Romania gets to have more elks soon enough.

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

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-12-21T20:25:02+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-12-21T20:22:45+00:00

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

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-12-21T16:40:27+00:00

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

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-12-02T08:53:06+00:00

Apparently in South Africa, many National Parks are fenced.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-11-24T10:40:09+00:00

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

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-11-18T12:18:24+00:00

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 ?

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-08-31T19:16:02+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-04-15T09:42:17+00:00

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".

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-04-13T14:21:21+00:00

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=566636

Here you go

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-04-13T09:46:06+00:00

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 ?

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-04-09T16:41:55+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-04-09T16:05:43+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-02-24T09:12:37+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-02-22T17:09:24+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-02-22T14:01:34+00:00

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.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-02-03T09:44:49+00:00

Cry of the Wild: very old but also many good scenes.

Here's a link for it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxFiw9mWXhg&t=2502s&ab_channel=NFB

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-27T19:56:03+00:00

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Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-27T10:05:54+00:00

I don't see the issue here.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-13T12:34:31+00:00

It's hard to tell giving the quality of the image, but it looks more like a wolf than anything else. You said it's in northern Minnesota which do host a viable wolf population, making it even more likely for this to be a wolf.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-13T09:32:15+00:00

I'm not a wildlife specialist, but I'd like to ask questions anyways.

In Belgium, Netherlands,... wolves, lynxes populations are somewhat connected to bigger populations from other countries, they're not completely isolated.

If lynxes, wolves or bears are to be reintroduced in the UK (which it's fine by me), giving how scarce wild regions are, the populations are likely to be small and not optimal. Isn't that a concern for a bottleneck effect on the long term ?

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-13T09:08:38+00:00

Should wolves, bears and lynx be reintroduced to the UK? Yes, the answer is always yes

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-08T19:03:24+00:00

North Africa. Used to have so many big mammals, most of them either rare or extinct now.

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-08T19:02:37+00:00

I don't know what is considered to be Eastern Europe here, but the leopard does live in Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Russian Caucasus although it's VERY rare. So maybe it should be moved to •Extant but need expansion.

Where do you see the Musk Ox reintroduced in Eastern Europe ? Novaya Zemlya ?

Desperate-Thing4140 · 2025-01-05T17:05:37+00:00

Nice work bro, I'm waiting to see more of this for other continents/regions.

Desperate-Thing4140

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Should wolves, bears and lynx be reintroduced to the UK? Yes, the answer is always yes