If recently extinct species were brought back, which ones would fit zoos most?

[Fanfin anglerfish]

And here we see a classic case of someone either inventing things off the top of their head, or adding two and two together and making five the Warrah were indeed close kin to an extinct species found on the South American mainland - Dusicyon avus - but diverged from said species around 16,000 years before the present, around 5,000 years before the first humans reached Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the closest regions of South America to the Falklands.

As such they were *not* a domesticated form of D. avus - which itself was neither a wolf nor a dog, and went extinct on the mainland around the 1700s, although there are scattered reports which suggest it may have survived in remote regions of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia until the late 19th century.

I did not think of it randomly I saw it from an article and it has good evidence that these warrah were just some type of canine.

 

[Great Argus]

I did not think of it randomly I saw it from an article and it has good evidence that these warrah were just some type of canine.

How about linking the article to give an actual bit of weight to this very poor rebuttal?

Also, we already knew it was a canine and you already also stated this, that proves nothing at all without evidence.

 

[Fanfin anglerfish]

If I could delete my own threads I would

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Bluebuck I think would be a realistic species to keep in captivity, probably would mix well with other commonly kept antelope species. (I mean I would think so, It is extinct so I have no idea.)

Toolache wallaby would also be pretty good for an Australian marsupial exhibit such as other related species that are kept now.

 

[Zoofan15]

Bluebuck I think would be a realistic species to keep in captivity, probably would mix well with other commonly kept antelope species. (I mean I would think so, It is extinct so I have no idea.

The Bluebuck was closely related to the Sable antelope and would make a decent addition to any mixed species savannah. Far more suitable (geographically speaking) than the Indian antelope (Blackbuck) so many of Australasia’s zoos shoehorn in with their giraffes, zebras etc.

 

[Mr.Ivory]

I have a feeling Quagga would be a good species to keep in captivity,

 

[Zoofan15]

I have a feeling Quagga would be a good species to keep in captivity,

It’s husbandry would be near identical to the living subspecies of Plains zebra.

Quagga stallions were reportedly highly strung. London Zoo’s last stallion broke its leg after kicking the walls of its exhibit in a fit of rage. It’s not hard to imagine these observations were exacerbated by the cramped living conditions of that era.

Kept in an open savannah exhibit, they would probably be no more aggressive than the Grant’s zebra stallion, which is no picnic to live with, but can live amicably with other species in most cases.

 

[Chlidonias]

Also the Warrah are now being considered as a introduced species and that they used to be humans on the falklands with their wolf companions until the humans went away and the europeans hunted the dogs that were left behind mistaken to be a wolf subspecies.

And here we see a classic case of someone either inventing things off the top of their head, or adding two and two together and making five the Warrah were indeed close kin to an extinct species found on the South American mainland - Dusicyon avus - but diverged from said species around 16,000 years before the present, around 5,000 years before the first humans reached Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the closest regions of South America to the Falklands.

As such they were *not* a domesticated form of D. avus - which itself was neither a wolf nor a dog, and went extinct on the mainland around the 1700s, although there are scattered reports which suggest it may have survived in remote regions of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia until the late 19th century.

I did not think of it randomly I saw it from an article and it has good evidence that these warrah were just some type of canine.

How about linking the article to give an actual bit of weight to this very poor rebuttal?

There was a new paper published recently, and hence a crop of popular articles on the internet last month. This is the original paper: Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

Basically there is evidence of probable human occupation on the Falkland Islands hundreds of years before European arrival (especially via evidence of human fires and midden sites). The occupation is still well after the earliest remains found of the Warrah, but the authors suggest that it strengthens the case for the Warrah having originally been introduced as a domesticated animal.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

The occupation is still well after the earliest remains found of the Warrah, but the authors suggest that it strengthens the case for the Warrah having originally been introduced as a domesticated animal.

Of course, looking through that paper it appears they still don't account for the fact the Warrah diverged from D. avus thousands of years prior to human colonisation of southern South America, so their speculation is still based on multiple layers of "what if" assumptions; that humans reached Tierra del Fuego thousands of years earlier than previously assumed; that they subsequently domesticated D. avus and produced the Warrah; and that they they reached the Falkland Islands thousands of years prior even to these new remains.

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

I mean’t animals such as thylacines or sea-cows. The dwarf elephants, crocs, giant turtles I consider prehistoric.

"mean't", also why would you consider those prehistoric when they also went extinct due to human influences like the other animals which've been listed?(Well at least the turtles and crocs). Also I feel this thread is less about people giving actual reasons for the animals and more just listing them, not really which would 'fit most'.

 

[Batto]

The dwarf elephants, crocs, giant turtles I consider prehistoric.

Yet all of them went extinct in the Holocene. You might consider that as "prehistoric", but then so would be other Holocene exctinctions you have deemed as "approptiate". That's why I asked: in regard to history, "recent" can be a rather ambiguous term.
As for the warrah: what others wrote.

 

[Batto]

Better not let the Taung child go anywhere near that show then.

Given Maori folklore, more "recent" children would have to be careful as well. ^^

 

[tetrapod]

Yet all of them went extinct in the Holocene. You might consider that as "prehistoric", but then so would be other Holocene exctinctions you have deemed as "approptiate". That's why I asked: in regard to history, "recent" can be a rather ambiguous term.
As for the warrah: what others wrote.

Not the Silician/Maltese dwarf elephant - it was Mid-Pleistocene. There was a species on Tilos that lasted into the early Holocene, but it was quite a bit larger.

 

[tetrapod]

Given Maori folklore, more "recent" children would have to be careful as well. ^^

And adult humans. Haast's eagle was known to tackle adult giant moa. All humans were potentially fair game.

 

[Batto]

Not the Silician/Maltese dwarf elephant - it was Mid-Pleistocene. There was a species on Tilos that lasted into the early Holocene, but it was quite a bit larger.

Yet with 1,4m height and 650kg still a DWARF in comparison to extent elephants, thus confirming my point despite your nitpicking.

 

[Batto]

All humans were potentially fair game.

Well, now you're finally getting the joke...

 

[tetrapod]

Yet with 1,4m height and 650kg still a DWARF in comparison to extent elephants, thus confirming my point despite your nitpicking.

Maybe it should be renamed mid-sized elephant...

 

[Bengal Tiger]

Passenger pigeons
Carolina parakeet
Dodo
Pinta Island tortoises (most likely extinct, so...)

 

[ParathePineapple]

Passenger pigeons
Carolina parakeet
Dodo
Pinta Island tortoises (most likely extinct, so...)

Considering the fact that Passenger Pigeons were kept in captivity at one point, same would go with the thylacine, I think these animals most likely would have been able to survive in captivity if still around as all of them here have close relatives still around in captivity.

 

[Fanfin anglerfish]

Passenger pigeons
Carolina parakeet
Dodo
Pinta Island tortoises (most likely extinct, so...)

Considering the fact that Passenger Pigeons were kept in captivity at one point, same would go with the thylacine, I think these animals most likely would have been able to survive in captivity if still around.

The pigeons have indeed been in captivity but to breed they need lots of other birds, possibly in the thousands to make just 1 egg.
Thylacines are basically ready for captivity whenever scientists crack the code to bring them back. Speaking of cracking the code, some scientists a while back found a female Pinta-island giant tortoise!

Golden toads could be in captivity too. Another animal nobody mentioned are Atlas brown-bear. They are African brown bears that would be cool to have. They are recent extinction animals because people had at least some type of gun when they went extinct.