Biological AH Thread

I want to have a thread discussing how the biological makeup of our lovely world could have turned out different through historic events. I feel like this is a part of history that we often overlook in our discussions and TLs, so let's talk about them here.

I would like to bring up, to kick off the conversation, the possibility of wolves continuing to live in Britain. Had, perhaps, the kingdoms of the British Isles not put bounties on the animals, they would likely have continued to have been hunted to save livestock, but may have lingered on in the countryside in small numbers.

Another conversation starter, the Carolina Parakeet, which went extinct in the wild in 1904. Had the southern colonies not been so agrarian, destroying the forests that these animals lived in, they probably would still exist, and thrive. Or, if populations had been maintained in the domestication process, domestic Carolina Parakeets would at least still be around.
 
Silphium? Provided it was different from asafoetida, of course. Though in any timeline like ours the wild plants are likely to be harvested to extinction, it seems possible a few more tries at farming it, and one might find the right conditions.
 
I had a few in the AHN Universe. The Great Auk and Cook (Stellar) Sea Cow were only critically endangered, but the Panda and Bowhead Whale (probable in the latter case) are extinct. Passenger Pigeons were rounded up and sort of domesticated, but with the inevitable overhaul for 3rd Edition, they probably won't even be threatened.
 
I'd kill for moas and elephant birds to still be around. Heck, there were a few specimens of the former still running around less than a thousand years ago IIRC.
 
Jefferson expected Lewis & Clark to report sightings of mastodon and probaby giant ground-sloth in the west...
 
I had a few in the AHN Universe. The Great Auk and Cook (Stellar) Sea Cow were only critically endangered, but the Panda and Bowhead Whale (probable in the latter case) are extinct. Passenger Pigeons were rounded up and sort of domesticated, but with the inevitable overhaul for 3rd Edition, they probably won't even be threatened.

Surviving passenger pigeons I think is a great idea!
 
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