Rewilding Europe

[Spalea]

@Wolverine :

About #5: I'm not biologist, you know. Just very interested by the animals' life... So when you told "domestication of one specie is equal to extinction of the specie", I don't want to be too affirmative, but I really think that all the caracters, all the potentialities of one animal specy are only fully revealed in wild, not in a domestic surrounding which only favours a few features seeked by man.

If we really wanted to create again the Pleistocene landscape, we must not fear to mix the herbivores and the predators. This the wealth of these confrontations which leads the species to fully developp and grow. The natural selection favours the novel genes creation.

Otherwise, as concerns the tarpan you also mention the faculty of this small horses specy to repel the wolves. Indeed, from the same book I used this morning:

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I translate the concerned lines:

"... the tarpans formed several hundred-head herds leaded by one male. They were vigilant and shy but they didn't fear the carnivorous and repelled the wolves with their front legs" Reply