animals

The book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond essentially details why the pre-Columbian American civilizations never really developed to the technological and political level of Europe. I read the book before, but I believe CGP Grey (in his video "Americapox") sums up the main, underlying...

In history, there a lot of extinct animals that died human contact. Things such as over-hunting, pollution, and construction. So, if you had to pick some extinct animals/species you wished survived, which ones would it be One rule: 1. Extinct animals had to go extinct because human activity...

Learning about presidential pets, it always fascinates me. Most of them had the usually dogs, parrots, and even horses, but some had crazier pets that were gifts, like bears, tigers, snakes, farm animals, alligators, a hyena. However, some of them like the tigers and bears were too dangerous to...

With a POD no earlier than 1890, find a way to prevent the extinction of the following species: Bonin Wood Pigeon Antiguan Burrowing Owl (subsp.) Guadeloupe Burrowing Owl (subsp.) Guadalupe Rufous-sided Towhee(subsp. consobrinus) North Island Laughing Owl (subsp. albifacies) South Island...

You can cheat here by the way. Probably should have put this in Pre-1900. How can you make it so that the thylacine is still alive (whether it be only in captivity, only in Tasmania or still roaming in mainland Australia) but the dingo is extinct (or at least as threatened as possible), or at...

So I made a post on "AHC: Kill the big cats" where I said that I thought the thread meant to make every member of Pantherinae extinct before 2019 and that got 20 likes. A couple of people thought the same as me, so I thought it would be interesting to see people's views on this. I personally...

So, assume that the Equus Ferus species is never domesticated by humanity at the beginning of the Bronze Age, either because of genetic mutations or because of extinction due to overhunting. The Botai culture does not develop. ITTL, there are no chariots to be used in combat, no knights, no...

Today the sumatran and javan rhinos of southeast Asia are both ranked as vulnerable, if still highly threatened by deforestation and poaching, and have become mainstays in zoos in recent years. However, with a POD until 1975, the idea of this thread is to make both species critically endangered...

The domestication of the ostrich, first by the bantu of the Nile River Basin and later among |kung tribes in the Kigala region [OTL Botswana] is generally regarded as a turning point for humans, with its eggs, flesh, and flexible diet allowing for a high-yield domesticate that allowed the...

Let's brainstorm some ideas for some alternate invasive/introduced species and how much of an impact they create on their new environment. Not all of them have to be necessarily detrimental to the environment they're established in, just enough that they're able to maintain a population in a...

The giant panda's population started to decline rapidly in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, and the population boom in China after 1949 created stress on the pandas' habitat and the subsequent famines led to the increased hunting of wildlife, including pandas...

So in the process of researching for my North American Native Timeline (working title), a subject that has always intrigued me is the possibility of alternate domesticated animals. Usually when I find an animal that has potential, it's more or less easy to determine if it could have been...

The goal of this thread is to wank history (or at least western history) so that rabbits are viewed as disgusting animals, and calling someone a rabbit or hare is to basically call them evil and treacherous; likewise, make it so that snakes are viewed as cute creatures often kept as pets...

How can you get the Western gorilla and Eastern gorilla population to increase to the point of them not becoming endangered anymore, or at least to prevent the Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) from becoming Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List (as that happened in 2016)?

The Asian water buffalo (or simply water buffalo) (Bubalus bubalis) is a large domesticated bovid of Asian origin, with its ancestor possibly being the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee). The yak has also been domesticated. The American bison (Bison bison) and muskox (Ovibos moschatus) have...

According to The Modern Farmer, people have been farming deer since the 1970s. The link provided also explains the benefits deer farming has over conventional livestock farming. The one fundamental problem I have with this is that they're still farming wild deer. Which means that they are not...

Was recently watching Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, and a strange thought came to me while watching the section on domesticated animals. For most of their history, many cultures just didn't have any animals coexisting with them that could be domesticated, while other areas only had...

Okay everyone, here is something that could be of interest. No, this is not what-if certain animals that went extinct survived to our time because this is not allowed and too much to speculate. Instead, what animals from Europe and or Africa could've thrived in Mesoamerica (i.e. Mexico and...