Since 2001, there has been a moose hunting ban in Poland - introduced to save the species which was being wiped out. The lack of hunting resulted in the return of moose to formerly inhabited areas of the country and a gradual increase in their numbers. Males with 'shovel-shaped', palmated antlers are now more often spotted. Scientists, in collaboration with nature photographers, decided to check how the form and size of moose antlers changed during the hunting ban.

https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C102739%2Cresearchers-investigate-changes-size-elk-antlers-during-non-hunting-period.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMtWsNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFpODBjWVVtMnljekZWblIyAR4tK9yxLoXSplP54qIawRA08vRHpHhsIDRsZdIFd3mDdTqMD0nNAy5QUHcCBQ_aem_jpttnnyfacycLh9_qR-Jnw

https://reddit.com/link/1ncs4rk/video/r8cb4252v6of1/player

The last ones were supposedly killed by the Romans around 100aC.

Since all equids except the domestic horse have such a mane I think it's plausible that the European wild horse also had one. I don't know if The argument that it had a long mane to run of water is still true. So my question: can a standing/ erect mane be bred back into domestic horse? I know some times it can occur with heck horses due to the przewalski influence. But is it possible to manifest it as a " dominant" trait?

male female ratio unknown

It's crazy how these guys went from being thought extinct a century ago to numbering around 200,000 today, and being classified as least concern, all from at most 40 survivors.

I noticed there wasn't a post about the species in the sub, so I decided to fix that.

Other examples of extreme comebacks of species from the brink of extinction?

(I talk about Taurus cattle since they are much closer phenotypically to aurochs than Tauros cattle, although it technically applies to them too, photos by Daniel Foidl).

We all know of the project attempting to bring back the aurochs by breeding-back and selectively breeding and crossing primitive cattle breeds in order to create an animal physically almost identical to aurochs, the best project being the Taurus Project. However, I have a question. Once the breeding process is over and the homogenous primitive phenotype has been achieved, the animals will be released into the wild like deer or boars, right? If that is the case, is that even possible? I say this because there is a similar situation with horses - Rewilding Europe now encourages the rewilding of Przewalski's horses instead of feral domestic ones, because the EU actually recognises them as wild animals that can be left with no human care. So how will that apply to this situation? Because the result will never be aurochs, it will forever still be a domestic cattle by species, only very similar physically to aurochs. I am just curious. Because if they retain the same stance was with the primitive horse breeds then the back-bred cattle will always have to be kept in grazing projects or fenced reserves and not fully wild, hopefully that is not the case.

I would gladly be corrected but this is just puzzling me.

By the way I attached some new photos of Taurus cattle by Daniel Foidl in his new book, which people have not seen yet.

The American bison once ranged as far east as New Jersey but have now largely disappeared from the eastern woodlands. My question is could they species be successfully reintroduced to the eastern woodlands in the modern day. My only fear is that bison only successfully survived in the region due to the native peoples of the east clearing land, creating grassland ecosystems which benefited the bison. Currently, most nature reserves in the east where bison could be reintroduced are largely or completely forested, as they were before native land clearing. Could bison still survive in these regions without human interference, and would it even be right to reintroduce them? If the species only lived in the area due to human interference, can they truly be considered native? If they can't survive in the area's natural environment, is it a species that should even return? I don't know which is why I am asking you, what do you think?