So we got feel good feel bad you would think that I would know what my categories are by now But I have to scroll to see the next category feeling uncertain Yeah, choose between feeling good or bad feelings now restocked feeling like science. Let's do feeling uncertain
Feeling uncertain good choice. Good choice. Okay. Yellow means we did it that would make a lot of sense Yes, let's not read what we've already done before that would certainly make us feel uncertain about things Okay, feeling uncertain today bison are being introduced to the Russian Arctic to replace the extinct woolly mammoth Why this is an article from live science comm by Sasha pair and that is August 9 2023
Scientists have introduced bison to the Russian Arctic to take on the role of extinct mammoths to help restore ancient
Ecosystems. Okay, let's see where they're going with this 12 planes Bisons in brackets that says bison bison bison and I wonder if that's their scientific name It very well could be they have arrived at Ingelor Nature Park a protected area covering more than 2.2 million Acres in the northern Yamal Nenets Autonomous area animals traveled 5,000 miles 8,000 kilometers for us Canadians to understand that number from a nursery in Denmark and And disembarked from their long journey three weeks ago
So that would be probably like two months and three weeks ago in regular time
According to a statement before they can discover their new home. However, the bison also known as buffalo must first complete a one month quarantine I'm really liking this article Buffalo can easily adapt to the Arctic because historically it's their natural habitat the emal nennets Autonomous area department of natural resources and the environment said in a separate statement They can take on the role of mammoths which became extinct 11,000 years ago
Step bison and woolly mammoths roamed that Russian Arctic during the late Pleidazine epoch likes to see
Yep. Yep. That's it place to see epoch 2.6 to 11,000 years ago Oh a small population of disasterously damaged mammoths survived on an island off Alaska until about 4,000 years ago Most of these herbivores died out at the end of the ice age But the climate became warmer and the grassy plains gave way to shrubs and trees place to see ecosystem was treeless and had quite thick soils Mary Edwards and
Emerita professor of physical geography at the University of Southampton in the UK called live science What you can see in geological sections of these kinds of landscape is that over time they're storing soil carbon It's frozen by the permafrost and basically a big carbon stack animals that lumbered across these frigid plains Contributed to shaping the landscape by grazing and recycling nutrients
It's a nice cycle of animal dung fertilizing the ground and allowing the plants to grow outward sets The thought is that animals maintain the ecosystem Now in a bid to restore the place to see landscape and its ability to soak up carbon Scientists are introducing large herbivores such as plains vizens to different parts of the arctic or our Rewilding efforts we are bringing to the arctic animals which either lived here during the ice age or those who could live here in the modern climate
He told live science by email. So it does go on from there. I think we get the idea They're trying to do the ecosystem good by introducing not mammoths because we're out of those We're only interested in meatballing them by this point meatballing and also gummy bearing their bones Yep, that's what they're good for any animal, right? So, yeah, we should actually be able to find an update
But that's not what this opener's about. This is about this article. So I wonder how that's going for them. Yeah I hope they're doing well. I do like that. They didn't put all their eggs in and they is a very general term I don't actually know who they stands for in this situation But they didn't put all their eggs in the one basket of de-extinking woolly mammoths to be reintroduced to the russian plains
No, we would de-extinct it for meatballs. Yeah And I am curious if this is an area where they're also planning on reintroducing the oryx Because if you go back and listen to our de-extinction episode We talk about a lot of different plans for de-extincting species that used to inhabit parts including europe Which I I'm always torn on like especially when you're talking about Siberia if it's the europe or asia
But I don't know if that was the original stomping grounds of the oryx. Probably didn't come up in that article Okay, let me just search it. Did he spell oryx again? A? Oh god. I think it's a u r Oh wait oryx European bison or hybrids between stepbison. Oh, this is a comment. It's not in the actual article oryx cow I think it's a u r a u r o c h s No, it doesn't come up in the article a commenter says that they're closely related to
An orga, but that's it. It doesn't come up. Okay, and I would just be curious Are they trying to breed this bison to be more specific to what they think the one that existed there before Existed like or if they're just reintroducing bison that exists elsewhere in the world. It doesn't sound like it I think it's just introducing bison to kind of yeah add to the environment with their poop Which in any event probably helps everything so we should be happy with this. Yeah, or no
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