I have an idea for a dodo survival: Settlers of South Asian descent landed in Mauritius and domesticated some dodos, making it source of food and decorations 
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Saving Animals from Extinction
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I was only talking about the official qualification of those animals. If you don't like it and prefer to consider chow-chows different species came from Saturn that's your own problem with your own world of fantasy.
mowque
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There is no reason to think natives weren't a major factor. It doesn't take many kills for a slow breeding animals like the sea cow to be advesely effected. Even a 'small' amount of native hunting could easily have been enough to push it over the edge.
Granted, there were probably other more natural factors invovled.
SunDeep
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And I'm just talking about the official definition system, and saying that even the conservation of subspecies still matters when we're talking about maintaining biodiversity. And the 'chow-chows from Saturn' comment? Seriously, grow up...
I haven't said that these subspecies were not up to be conserved. And please, reduce your levels of butthurt, it's not good for health...
Ultimate Paragon
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One of these factors was probably the same problem that faces the Giant Panda and the Cheetah today: overspecialization. It was so perfectly adapted for floating that it couldn't climb up on land or adequately submerge itself. This probably made it incredibly vulnerable to a number of natural risks. I'm reminded of the proverb "the tree that does not bend with the storm will be uprooted".
Yes I have, but that was in the science-fantasy genre not fictional history one. Mammoths used as war elephants and kept nicely groomed.
i just say "my ASB ATL" to explain what larger project this is for. when i make posts like these, i'm generally looking at them as self-contained scenarios and will be adapting this more or less OTL discussion to the ATL. i'm considering events already in progress or which were directly and deliberately human-caused as being irreversible (so, for example, the Guadalupe caracara is still wiped out because it's extinction was a deliberate effort by mankind, while the warrah was already rare by the time the Europeans arrived at the Falklands, thus they still go extinct as well; contrast: the ivory-billed woodpecker is not only actually still alive today, but i'm almost assuredly going to make them a protected species earlier ITTL based on discussion here)
Any on islands would have to delay humans coming to them until the modern era with actual concerns for wildlife. The Mammoth you can't inbreeding really did them in. The equines, you have to give them a larger range than what they historically had which allows them to escape human hunters for the most part.
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You'd need a POD that prevents Roman expansion into Africa to save the Elephants.
I'm trying to figure out how to save the Llamas that once lived in the American south east. They were much larger than the current ones and would have been a suitable horse replacement, but horses were here then too.
there probably is, but i wouldn't know. generally speaking, domestication is a good way to prevent an animal from dying out even if wild populations go extinct and the domestic forms are much different.
I have an idea for a dodo survival: Settlers of South Asian descent landed in Mauritius and domesticated some dodos, making it source of food and decorations
No need for that. It's proved by 17th century paints that some dodos were sent to the gardens of some imperial palaces in India. If Dutch would have sent more there and breed, maybe dodo could have survived outside Mauritius (survival in the island, even if domesticated, would have been very complicated after some undesired species invaded it).
Survival in India would have been easier than in Europe, as apparently, all dodos sent to the Netherlands and England died soon.
But that raises an interesting question: are we talking about "survival" or "surviving and thriving", as in "just have the species exist to the present day" vs. "have the species exist to the present day in its original habitat"? Because it's pretty easy to get something like the Dodo to live on as a pet/curiousity species in India, but I wouldn't exactly call that "saving the Dodo".
"exist to the present day" is what i had intended, even if the animal is extinct in the wild (i'm envisioning that that's how the heath hen could persist, since the last population was essentially in captivity at Martha's Vineyard)