Bison are being introduced to the Russian Arctic to replace extinct woolly mammoths. But why?

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Large herbivores could transform the local ecosystem by grazing and recycling nutrients, but the climate was probably more important in shaping the vast, frigid grasslands of the Pleistocene.

Bison are being introduced to the Russian Arctic to replace extinct woolly mammoths. But why? : Read more

 

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American Bison actually make sense, as opposed to European Bison, because American Bison are direct descendants of Steppe Bison, which were the beasts that lived in that part of the world.

European bison are hybrids between Steppe Bison and Aurochs, which were the animals from which domesticated cattle descend.