Guess the country with animals

A mostly temperate country with a significant portion of it being mountainous. Moose is (most likely) extinct here but several other species of ungulates still occur in good numbers. A species previously thought extinct was rediscovered from here.
 
Oh, I guess I was misled because moose populations have decreased a lot in the US, and exist in small numbers.

Anyway, I’ll say Afghanistan.
 
J I N X said:
A mostly temperate country with a significant portion of it being mountainous. Moose is (most likely) extinct here but several other species of ungulates still occur in good numbers. A species previously thought extinct was rediscovered from here.
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Switzerland?
 
J I N X said:
A mostly temperate country with a significant portion of it being mountainous. Moose is (most likely) extinct here but several other species of ungulates still occur in good numbers. A species previously thought extinct was rediscovered from here.
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I'm torn because it's one of two countries, as I know which species you refer to...

I'm going to go with Germany.
 
amur leopard said:
I'm torn because it's one of two countries, as I know which species you refer to...

I'm going to go with Germany.
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Does Germany have any rediscoveries although? Cause NZ I think an alpine gecko was rediscovered or found to not be missing only like a year back, and of course there's takahe which also happen to occur around the same region which moose did. (And of course they're considered 'cryptids' here).
 
WalkingAgnatha said:
Does Germany have any rediscoveries although? Cause NZ I think an alpine gecko was rediscovered or found to not be missing only like a year back, and of course there's takahe which also happen to occur around the same region which moose did. (And of course they're considered 'cryptids' here).
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Bavarian pine vole is, I think, the species they are referencing, but it got rediscovered like right on the border between Austria and Germany and the name would imply Germany as would the moose clue.
 
WalkingAgnatha said:
Oh, thought it may have been a pine vole, but my brain lumped them with Lichtenstein so I just assumed that they would fall under Austria/Lichtenstein. Ans what happened to meese in Germany?
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Eurasian Elks (=Moose) were once extinct in Germany after a century-long decline, driven to hunting and deforestation.
Since the early 2010's they seem to come back, at least as vagrants, in the North-Eastern part of the country. The new settlers come from Poland where the species is expanding.
 
Thanks @J I N X .
This country lacks much of the biodiversity of its larger neighbours, having only a handful of endemic species, one of which is extinct in the wild.
It is one of 2 countries in the world, both from the same region, to have a national bird from this small but distinctive bird order.
 
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