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>Several years ago, 80 bison were reintroduced two centuries after their disappearance from these territories... I had no idea there were bison in Europe. The
by Fricken 3y ago
>Several years ago, 80 bison were reintroduced two centuries after their disappearance from these territories...
I had no idea there were bison in Europe.
The provided hyperlink leads to an article about bison being reintroduced in Mexico. Here is an appropriate article about bison being rewilded in the Southern Carpathians:
https://rewildingeurope.com/blog/free-roaming-bison-population-in-the-southern-carpathians-continues-to-thrive/#:~:text=Remarkable%20return-,Between%202014%20and%202021%2C%20Rewilding%20Europe%20and%20WWF%20Romania%20translocated,rewilding%20programme%20is%20also%20evolving https://rewildingeurope.com/blog/free-roaming-bison-populati....
- ReleaseCandidat 3y agoYes, there are some of them in various european countries. https://www.eurowildlife.org/news/wisents-in-slovakia-the-population-has-increased-three-times-since-2004/ https://www.eurowildlife.org/news/wisents-in-slovakia-the-po... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison
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- auselen 3y agoI’ve read about them after getting introduced to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Żubrówka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Żubrówka
- jnurmine 3y agoI am of the firm belief that this drink, mixed with apple juice, should be marked as Unesco world heritage already.
- yread 3y agoThere is also the beer https://zubr.cz/cs https://zubr.cz/cs
- KptMarchewa 3y agoAnd probably unrelated polish beer zubr.pl
- renegade-otter 3y agoThere is bison in Chernobyl: https://www.rferl.org/a/bison-chernobyl/28357813.html https://www.rferl.org/a/bison-chernobyl/28357813.html
- Rinzler89 3y agoThere is almost every EurAsian animal in Chernobyl. Once humans fucked off, animals took over.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoThis happened very quickly during the early panny-D as well
- _heimdall 3y agoThe real lesson is that humans don't need to fuck off for this to happen, we just need to stop intervening so much in nature. People honestly can't seem to handle sitting idle, we run around doing as much stuff as we can because we don't know what "enough" means.
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- m463 3y agoIt would be interesting to compare population density of europe vs the rest of the world over history. I have imagined that europe was always heavily populated, while north america was sparsely populated (allowing endless bison). Might not be that true, maybe europe wasn't that dense, and also disease killed so many when the first europeans arrived.
- panick21_ 3y agoThe US used to have many competitors to the bison. Many different kind of larger bison. Different types of horses. Giant sloths and so on. The European Northern plane just turned more into forest rather then remaining more open.
- svachalek 3y agoContact with Europeans spread new diseases that killed off the vast majority of the Native American population. So it's likely Europe was more populated but not to the degree that settlers found here -- they were moving into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago> I have imagined ... north america was sparsely populated (allowing endless bison) The "endless bison" in America was actually only during a relatively short period of time. IIRC there was a gap of almost a century between when the Native American population was decimated due to disease, and when settlers of European ancestry headed out west. During that gap the bison population exploded.
- pchristensen 3y agoThe book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created goes into a lot of detail about this.
- Maken 3y agoPrehistoric European cave paintings should make that obvious.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoRomanian postage stamp from 2001: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Romania_stamp_2001_2400L_Steppe_Wisent_Chauvet_Cave.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Romania_... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/23/first-impressions https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/23/first-impressi... Also check out Herzog's 2010 documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" The nonstop gibberish about "AI" bores me to tears. These paintings suggest a different view of what it means to become "conscious". http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/e-reserve/shestakow/SHESHAAH1051.pdf http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/e-reserve/shestakow/SHESHAAH105...
- lancesells 3y agoCave of Forgotten Dreams really moved me. I know part of it is Herzog's narration but it was something about the age of the drawings and thinking of the people creating them as either decoration or maybe storytelling.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226463/
- fuzztester 3y ago>I had no idea there were bison in Europe. I've been on nodding terms with these guys for some years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur
- adrian_b 3y ago"Bison" is an European word (with several variants like "Wisent"), so it makes sense that originally it was the name of an European animal. It became applied to the American bison when the American colonists have encountered an animal similar to the one known by them in Europe. The European bison is a distinct species from the American bison. In the more distant past bisons were widespread all over the Northern Eurasia and Northern America. They have been preferentially hunted everywhere, so their populations have dwindled and fragmented, becoming isolated, then they have become differentiated. The European bison is somewhat smaller (because it had been mainly a forest animal) and it had become completely extinct in the wild a century ago. Fortunately, there were enough captive, which have been bred and then reintroduced in the wild in some of their former territories, e.g. in Poland and Romania.
- petre 3y agoIt's another species, wisent, zubr, zimbru: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison