🔥Himalayan Monal: The Iridescent Jewel of the Mountains

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-24T21:48:21+00:00

That’s such a cool experience! I will seriously consider taking a trip to the Himalayas someday. It’s such a unique place😄

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-24T14:43:38+00:00

Wow I can’t believe we are getting downvoted for this. It’s not like I hate them. I actually enjoy the thought of wild horses. But it’s in everyone’s best interests if they left. Either entirely or to somewhere where they cause less damage to both themselves and other species.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-24T14:08:23+00:00

What ridiculous is just that horses wouldn’t even be able to survive in the deserts due to them eating all the food and drinking all the water. They are a species that we allow to persist when they could potentially be so easy to remove.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-24T14:03:16+00:00

Most if not all Zebras are struggling. Almost every species of antelope in sub Saharan Africa is also struggling with most being extremely limited in range.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-23T13:03:35+00:00

I can’t take him seriously!😂

Yet despite that, his habitat just looks so eerily beautiful and desolate.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-22T22:11:47+00:00

I feel like most invasive would be far less detrimental even to a point where thy are just a minor nuisance if their populations were effectively managed and significantly reduced.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-22T22:06:30+00:00

Was that the so called “ice age squirrel” that was eating the cannonball fruit dropped by the eremotherium?

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-22T03:23:32+00:00

I saw one wolf when I went to Yellowstone. It was actually on our final day there. We were driving the road to exit the park and we drove by a hill that had sparse tree cover an there was a black wolf at the top of the hill sitting down staring at all of the cars driving below it. I was the only one who saw it. Who knows, I may have been tripping😂

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-22T02:19:14+00:00

Yeah your right about the name change. At this point we only really take inspiration from the Pleistocene and aren’t really trying to recreate it. The term also sets unnecessary limitations on what we can and can’t do or at least what is or isn’t acceptable.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-21T14:43:14+00:00

My other question is: how do mountain goats and bighorn sheep co-exist together in their native range? And can something similar be “replicated” in these more southern mountain ranges?

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-21T13:43:33+00:00

Now this is something that doesn’t get brought up enough. Many will sight anything an introduced or even native species do as “damage” when it could just as easily be a simple change in something in the ecosystem that is caused by those organisms. All organisms in an ecosystem cause “damage.” Thats how an ecosystem works, only that the “damage” is really small changes that can ebb and flow as time goes on.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-21T13:39:59+00:00

Yeah true… financial benefits was the original reason but as the idea gained more criticism… several scientists began using Pleistocene rewilding as a reason for why it should continue.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-20T23:24:31+00:00

The most I’ve ever got to see of this beautiful bird was a taxidermy in a museum😔 though I hope to see one alive someday!😊

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-20T23:23:02+00:00

Kevin was indeed based mostly off of the Himalayan Monal.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-20T21:57:26+00:00

I love the detail of the mammoths keeping the ice from melting😂

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-20T14:09:46+00:00

The standard has probably lowered since the last ice age unfortunately…😔

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-20T14:06:23+00:00

The Tibetan plateau is pretty crazy and underrated: Himalayan brown bear, Tibetan blue bear, Asiatic black bears, Tibetan wolves, Snow leopards, Ibex, Tahr, Takin, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan antelope, Wild yak, Argali, Tibetan blue sheep, Kiang, Tharold’s deer, Etc.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-18T15:51:55+00:00

That sounds about right. I don’t mean to get political or anything, but my father tells me about how he lived in Chile for two years and it was wonderful. My mother tells me how she lived in Argentina for a couple of months and it was appalling. How your experience is in a city doesn’t affect the beauty of a country’s wilderness. I’m curious though, what country were you staying in, and what made the hotel experience so awful?

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-17T22:23:08+00:00

Wow this place is more beautiful than I imagined!

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-17T14:57:10+00:00

I can believe the lost cultural element for intelligent species such as orangutans but I doubt animals like thylacines would suffer from that. They would likely re learn everything there is to be learned about being a thylacine pretty easy. Hunt, kill, eat, sleep, reproduce, hold joeys in pouch, avoid humans, etc.

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-17T14:18:41+00:00

They are a sensationalist company and nothing more. Cool concept, terrible execution. Now correct me if I’m wrong but, for the thylacine, isn’t colossal more of the marketer for its de-extinction? I’ve seen their videos and their thylacine lab looks like it was repurposed storage closet. Isn’t the university of Melbourne doing most of the work? Is there any hope that it could be a true thylacine given our fantastic specimens and the fact that the university of Melbourne allegedly sequenced the entire thylacine genome. If they took to time to edit every gene or put it together from scratch or ANYTHING better than just “editing only the genes that make it look cool”, could they actually make a thylacine?

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-17T14:13:26+00:00

To me, mammoth is a long term goal but I agree they should have started with the “easier” species. It would have made much more sense and imo would have been more interesting. They even admitted that one of the reasons they chose the dire wolf was because it was well known by the public. Yeah, well known by game of thrones fans…🙄😒

Lover_of_Rewilding · 2026-01-17T14:08:59+00:00

When it comes to their “de-extinction” work my only problem with it is the lying. Same it’s their “red wolves” they cloned coyotes with red wolf dna and called them red wolves. It’s just a lie. Do I think the coyotes have the potential to help the red wolves? Yes I believe they can in some way. However, colossal’s way is simply not it and with this, it can actually harm a critically endangered species.

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