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  1. DragonDust101

    DragonDust101 Well-Known Member

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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
     
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  2. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Sea Mink
    Great Auk
    Dodo
    Stellar Sea Cow
    Yukon Horse
     
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  3. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Do we have a timespan limit or not? :p If not.....

    Thylacosmilus atrox
    Mekosuchus inexpectatus
    Deinocheirus mirificus
    Desmostylus hesperus
    Phorusrhacos longissimus
     
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  4. pachyderm pro

    pachyderm pro Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    White belled pangolin
    Tasmanian devil
    Asian/African elephant
    Sumatran rhino
    Blob fish... (no I'm not kidding lol)
     
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  5. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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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
     
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    pachyderm pro Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    That was actually a really good pun :rolleyes:
    I thought this meant animals facing extinction my bad:eek:
     
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    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...
     
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    Different species they are, but don't know if this mind at all... the own author of this thread purposed "Moas", that are not less than 10 different species ;)
     
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    Giant Panda no longer an endangered species - CBBC Newsround
     
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    ShonenJake13 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    As for my five, I would choose the following:

    Steller's sea cow
    Thylacine
    Moa
    Passenger pigeon
    Giant aye-aye
     
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    Thylacine
    Diprotodon
    Quagga
    Dodo
    And finally....
    Malagasy aardvark
     
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    Raven Parrot
     
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  13. Tim May

    Tim May Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    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.
     
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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.
     
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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
     
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    Nobody likes atlas bears or Barbary lions? That's a bit surprising!
     
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    Also I meant recently extinct species, about 1000 bc to now
     
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    Indeed :p I didn't want to blow his mind *too* hard.

    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
     
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    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. :eek:

    And finally bluebuck, Tim May beat me to it, having seen this thread before I did.
     
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  20. pachyderm pro

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    my new list
    wooly rhino
    dwarf sicilean (bad spelling) elephant
    dodo
    Tasmanian tiger
    and...
    giant ground sloth.
     
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