Extinct And Endangered

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DragonDust101

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Hello fellow Zoochatters,

In honor of the fact that pandas are no longer endangered, I'd like to ask you guys that if you could bring 5 species/subspecies of animals back from extinction, which would they be?

Mine would be
Barbary Lions
Atlas Bear
Quagga
Mexican Grizzly Bear
Haast's Eagles
And Moas
 
Do we have a timespan limit or not? :p If not.....

Thylacosmilus atrox
Mekosuchus inexpectatus
Deinocheirus mirificus
Desmostylus hesperus
Phorusrhacos longissimus
 
White belled pangolin
Tasmanian devil
Asian/African elephant
Sumatran rhino
Blob fish... (no I'm not kidding lol)
 
pachyderm pro said:
White belled pangolin
Tasmanian devil
Asian/African elephant
Sumatran rhino
Blob fish... (no I'm not kidding lol)
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You.... do realise none of those species are extinct yet?

And that the Asian and African Elephant are two different species? Certainly hope you know that one, being a pachyderm pro and all :p
 
Pandas not endangered???????????????? First time that I heard about that and I find it quite strange, being a so low-regeneration species and whose threatening factors didn't disappeared. Please, can you provide some reliable info about that?

By choosing 5 extinct species to come back to life, I would like:
Anomalocaris canadensis
Helicoprion bessonovi
Longisquama insignis
Nyctosaurus gracilis
Pterodaustro guinazui

However it's too difficult to choose, there are so many candidates! Riding a giant orthocone like in the BBC series would be fantastic too, haha. Or a Leedsichthys...
 
As for my five, I would choose the following:

Steller's sea cow
Thylacine
Moa
Passenger pigeon
Giant aye-aye
 
I would agree with many of the previous suggestions, especially:-

• thylacine
• quagga
• dodo
• Stellers’s sea cow

I would also add blaubok (bluebuck)which nobody else has mentioned yet.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
And that the Asian and African Elephant are two different species? Certainly hope you know that one, being a pachyderm pro and all :p
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There are actually three extant elephant species...funny that wasn’t corrected by any “pro“. But since Pachydermata hasn’t been a valid taxonomy term for quite a while ..
Speaking of Elephas: a large adult bull of Elephas namadicus next to an Elephas falconeri-now that would have been a sight.
 
Kakapo said:
Pandas not endangered???????????????? First time that I heard about that and I find it quite strange, being a so low-regeneration species and whose threatening factors didn't disappeared. Please, can you provide some reliable info for that?
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Yes, I believe in the last weak the icun red list changed pandas from endangered to vunerable! It's a good day for wildlife conservation
 
Batto said:
There are actually three extant elephant species...funny that wasn’t corrected by any “pro“.
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Indeed :p I didn't want to blow his mind *too* hard.

DragonDust101 said:
Also I meant recently extinct species, about 1000 bc to now
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Okay then :) I rather suspected this was your intention.

My new list:

Stellers’s Sea Cow
Aepyornis maximus
Eyles' Harrier (Circus eylesi)
Mekosuchus inexpectatus
Thylacine
 
Such a lot to choose from but I narrowed it down to five.

Giant moa
Great Auk
Reunion solitaire

Crested Shelduck, on my first visit to Martin Mere in 1987 I spotted a label for this species and spent time looking for it, then realised the label was part of an extinct species educational display. :o

And finally bluebuck, Tim May beat me to it, having seen this thread before I did.
 
my new list
wooly rhino
dwarf sicilean (bad spelling) elephant
dodo
Tasmanian tiger
and...
giant ground sloth.
 
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