Perhaps if wisent (European bison) is wiped out completly (it was close, as modern wisents are descendants of just 15 animals) then American bison is brought to Europe as replacement? Or other way around-wisent is introduced to America to replace excint American bison?
Wild animals NOT in their natural habitat
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The Midwest is cold for elephants. Anywhere that you could call "the Midwest" with a straight face is cold, miserable, and often snowy for months in the winter.
There's an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, though, and they do very well with heated barns in the winter (both African and Indian). I don't know how well the Africans will do, but Indian elephants should do just fine throughout the kinda-lower Mississippi (not the delta region, but stretches above it), and maybe much of the South along the Atlantic coast as well. African elephants might do well in southern California - at least before mass settlement. Indian elephants could notionally prosper in much of the rain forest in Central and South America, and Africans in the Pampas and Brazilian cedrado, and maybe the Venezuelan llanos.
I could see extensive introduction of llamas to North America, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa, etc. as part of various gold rushes.
Camels in the American Southwest and Mexico.
I wonder if we couldn't see coyotes introduced to England as a sport animal in the 18th century. Once coyotes got introduced anywhere in Europe I'm sure they'd spread like wildfire.
I'd love to see kangaroos in North America, though I'm not sure why they'd be introduced - a failed ranching initiative like with the emus?
People like to talk about how there are so many tigers in captivity in Texas - if they got loose and some of them managed to make their way south, I bet they could establish viable populations in Central America. Because the Darien Gap wasn't already impassible enough.
Atlantic salmon are being increasingly farmed in the US Pacific Northwest; as far as I'm aware, none have escaped yet, but it could happen.
Elephants lived in Syria and North Africa until Roman times, thus they also should be able to live in southern Europe and southern USA.
I just recently found something interesting. In the early 20th century, there was a proposal in congress to fund $250,000, in importing hippos from Africa to Louisiana, for meat and to combat an invasive plant species.
It sounds like a stupid plan (which is was), but I’m wondering how disastrous it would be
It sounds like a stupid plan (which is was), but I’m wondering how disastrous it would be
how about- they american minks in australia not foxes, to gain not only fur, but to keep rodent pops down
how about- the dingoes are taken to places like new caledonia, figi and other regions bye polynesians
how about- the dingoes are taken to places like new caledonia, figi and other regions bye polynesians
Dingoes are distantly related to Polynesian dogs. I'd imagine they'd probably be considered a nuisance since they aren't tame like Polynesian dogs so would be hunted and eaten to local extinction.
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interesting book author argues lions and cheetahs were introduced in india and not native to the subcontinent
Snow leopards are strongly adapted to live almost exclusively in very mountainois terrain and polar bears almost exclusively in polar regions, I'd expect both to do extremely poorly when moved to anywhere other than these regions, Infact polar bears moving south tend to hybridize themselves into non existence mating with brown bears
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They might kill of the population of Lynx as they will compete with them
Doubtful Lynx are more adaptable and mostly occupy a different niche, they wouldn't compete alot.
Tigers face too much direct competition with Lions but lack the social structure but Tigers would do quite well in the Equatorial rainforests.
What if some shipment of mountain lions (let's say about 3 males and 17 females) get lost in the alps on their way into vienna to be placed in a zoo, then them growing into a local population of mountain lions in the Alps and eventually elsewhere in europe, how would europeans cope with a potential infestation of big cats?
A small group of bison were moved to Siberia very recently as part of the Pleistocene Park project. 8 animals i think.
i've had an idea for my ASB ATL that, like IOTL, the Everglades end up riddled with invasive species, but slightly differently than IOTL with the end result being that its ecosystem becomes a cross of the Amazon and the Nile, particularly that Nile crocodiles and piranhas are introduced to it but the infamous Burmese pythons aren't
i also had the idea that, as invasive species get worse and worse, there's a conservation hunting movement where invasive species are okayed for seasonal or maybe even year-round hunting in an effort to stop them and, specifically, this could be demonstrated in a narrative project where a British sport hunter goes for that and particularly has a wallaby-skin rug by his fireplace, etc. (wallabies being an invasive species in Britain both IOTL and ITTL)