4 Megafauna REWILDING Projects in Europe

[@Eco-Nerd]

Hey guys, it's been pointed out to me that Iberian Lynx and Kulan have not been reintroduced to the Iberian Highlands yet but Rewilding Europe plan on reintroducing both species. The Ibex seen in the videos are actually Alpine Ibex, a close relative of Iberian Ibex. There were no videos of Iberian Ibex available to use and so I used Alpine Ibex clips to help portray the story. Thanks for watching the video! 🙌🙌

[@darnelljones1918]

I think it’s fitting to rewilding Asiatic Lions, Spotted hyenas and African wild dogs to Eurasia to replace their ancient ancestors

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@darnelljones1918 it would be amazing to see lions and hyenas but we're a long way away from any introductions like that sadly! Don't think African Wild Dogs had a particularly close European relative. There was the European Dhole but that's much more closely related to the dhole or Asian Wild Dog!

[@darnelljones1918]

@@Eco-Nerd but what about the Eurasian hunting dogs. Surely they’re from the same Lycano family and plus Dholes are more like jackals cousins in the wild dogs family if you catch my drift. Unlike Dholes, Wild dogs need a lot of space and they’re endangered. So it fitting for a mid- large group size of them to roam vast areas of space so that they can raise their pups and defend themselves against new predators such as bears and wolves

[@darnelljones1918]

It’s never hurts to reconsider. Besides African Cheetah was reintroduced to India and they’re foreign but neither is their ancestors

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@darnelljones1918 Asiatic Cheetahs are native to India. Asiatic and African Cheetahs are the same species just different subspecies. India would've preferred to reintroduced Asiatic Cheetahs but they are so rare that it would've been difficult

[@CJ-BZ]

“Europe’s Okavango” that is some seriously powerful imagery right there. Beautiful and necessary work being done

[@Eco-Nerd]

Yeah it's really incredible! Such a change to European wild spaces in our life times. Thanks for watching the video 😊

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Chernobyl has turned from horror story to a story of rebirth snd healing

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

Love to see a fellow Irish ecology enthusiast. Loved the físeán 💪👍

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 Go raibh maith agat mo chara 👍

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

@@Eco-Nerd Tá fáilte romhat a dheartháir

[@bryanfarrell2029]

Great video and I always love seeing the great work being done by @RewildingEurope being shouted from the rooftops...and/or treetops 🌍

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@bryanfarrell2029 Thanks Bryan!

[@arkprice79]

I really love all these rewilding projects in Europe Rewilding Europe is absolutely incredible

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

Above comment was in response to the Elk & Moose are not the same comments. This video makes me proud to be a European & excited for the future. Thanks for the video, looking forward to more.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@user-st3mr9ov2b thank you very much!

[@Aethuviel]

Now let's rewild Lapland in Sweden. Say what? It's a huge reindeer farm, for the modern reindeer industry. Reindeer farming is only a few hundred (400-800) years old, and back before industrialization, they had to keep relatively small herds, and coexist with predators, as well as wild reindeer. Now, the wild reindeer is extinct in Sweden, and "domestic" reindeer roam free with impunity across half of the country's area. They live like wild animals, but are still given the privileges of domestic livestock, which means wolves are completely absent from this northern half of Sweden, this "pristine wilderness" (it would indeed make perfect habitat for 1000+ wolves). Instead, the few wolves we have are forced down south, where they are put into conflict with sheep farmers, and are at much higher risk of being killed by traffic. Sweden's wildlife is very much in control of the reindeer industry and the hunting lobby. I am not against hunting per se and want to become a hunter myself, but that subculture here is deeply entrenched in early 20th century wolf hate and outdated ideas of nature.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@Aethuviel that's interesting! I know that wolves in Sweden are often culled which is such a pity. There are so many ways of coexisting with wildlife! Yeah I agree with your stance on hunting, there are benefits to it and often hunters are wildlife advocates but like in any group of people, there are people in hunting groups who only have their own interests in mind and don't care about the wildlife

[@skitkorvboogie]

From what I can gather I’d say the wolf population in Sweden is too small to recover. Since they’re so few they’ve become gravely affected by inbreeding.

[@Aethuviel]

@@skitkorvboogie All we need is to allow more Russian wolves to wander in. Problem is that the reindeer farmers tend to shoot them as soon as they show up. Sweden's wolves were completely extinct 1878-1978, all we have are Russian wolves that wandered in.

[@RCSVirginia]

To @Aethuviel You should travel to Lapland and personally present this proposal to the Sámi who live there. I am sure that you will be greeted warmly and that they will be quite receptive to your idea.

[@mdmoinmiah7892]

this video is excellent, thank you for sharing

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@mdmoinmiah7892 thank you very much!

[@Eco-Nerd]

Hey guys, Moose (Alces Alces) are known as Elk in Europe and I'm Irish (which is in Europe) hence the "known as moose in America" comment. Elk (Cervus Canadensis) are known as Wapiti in Europe. Early European settlers in America actually misnamed Elk (Cervus Canadensis) because they were so large they assumed that's what Elk were. It has since caused lots of confusion 🤯 A couple of people have tried to correct me so I'm just putting it here to clear things up 😊

[@RCSVirginia]

To @Eco-Nerd Yes, our Elk are your Red Deer, and our Moose are your Elk. I'm not sure if they are cognate species or races of the same species.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@RCSVirginia It's even a little more confusing than that 🤯 Red Deer are a separate species as well (cervus elaphus) we don't actually have what is known as Elk in America (cervus canadensis), in Europe but it is the closest relative to Red Deer, even though it's about twice the weight. Moose and what we call Elk in Europe (Alces Alces) are the same species

[@sing2118]

It's funny these different names between countries, in France (I'm French), the Moose is called Elan or Orignal in Canada and the Elk is called Wapiti too. We also have the Reindeer which is called Caribou when it is in North America or Renne when it is found in Scandinavian countries. But at least in France we didn't call the "Penguin" of the southern hemisphere like the Penguin of the northern hemisphere. In our country the little Pinguin is "Alca torda" (le petit Pingouin) and the great Pinguin "Pinguinus impennis" (le grand Pingouin) and the penguins of the southern hemisphere are called Manchots (Sphenisciformes) which avoids confusion but as the English term is more popular, many French people call the Manchot a Penguin and do not know the real Penguin, which shows that the different languages bring a lot of confusion and fortunately Latin names exist...

[@mdmoinmiah7892]

this video is great, looking forward to your next one

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@mdmoinmiah7892 I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!!

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

I don't agree with releasing domestic horses and let them go feral in same are as Przewalski's horse. It is risking hybridizing and watering down Przewalski's horse genetics.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@lamebubblesflysohighyeah I've wondered about that myself. I assume some precautions have been taken. I know Przewalski's Horses and Domestic horses have a different number of chromosomes so they may be reluctant to breed in a wild setting

[@godparticle3833]

Yeah that is not ideal.

[@paulmyers3978]

I'm not sure if this is how they went about it, but if I were to approach a similar project, I would release the greatest number of Przewalski's wild horses as possible, fully reproductively active, not gelded, then supplement herd numbers with geldings of similar breeds to get the full herd benefit. Eventually the primitive breeds will die out leaving only the true wild horses after they've had time to build their population

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@paulmyers3978 yeah I understand that logic, especially because Przewalski's Horse itself was never native to Europe, good to have some European Wild Horse gentics in there . I also understand keeping them seperate as Przewalski's Horse and the Tarpan (the ancestor of domestic horses) were seperate subspecies! I'm sure Rewilding Europe have done their research and are doing what's best 😊

[@klaverenvrouwke]

That’s not happening anywhere. They use different breeds in different projects. The only place that I know of that mixes breeds is Lika plains where they mixed koniks with a local breed. But nowhere are przewalski’s mixed with domestic breeds. And there is no risk of “natural mixing” either as the reserves are on opposite sides of Europe

[@thenewhope8171]

love it, I also have a membership in mossy earth to help this process along

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@thenewhope8171 brilliant! They're doing amazing work!

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

Well done you for supporting Mossy Earth.

[@dawidm08277]

Thank you for another episode i cant wait for more

[@Eco-Nerd]

Thank you Dawid 🙌🙌

[@SorenAlba54]

The continent of Europe is just as diverse like North America, Africa and Australia combined with its flora and fauna. Such projects like these will ensure the future of a more natural world where perhaps, just perhaps, mankind and the animal kingdom can truly coexist.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@SorenAlba54 hopefully some day 🙏 🙏

[@SableScimitar]

Awesome video and a great summary of some of the most exciting projects! Great job on gathering relevant footage as well!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@SableScimitar I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!

[@gabb5095]

Hello, I'm Brazilian and I'm passionate about the concept of rewilding! I did a scientific initiation project at school about this. It would be cool if you made a video about rewilding in Latin America (including megafauna rewilding). Obs: Sorry if I wrote something wrong, my English is bad 😅

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@gabb5095 hey, thanks for the suggestion! Your English was perfect, no need to apologise 🙂 I'll add your suggestion to my list! Do you know about any cool rewilding projects in Latin America? In my video "5 most famous rewilding projects in the world" I speak about one South American project 😎

[@gabb5095]

​@@Eco-NerdThanks for the compliment! Well, I know some fauna reintroduction projects in Brazil (for example, the reintroduction project at Instituto Onça Pintada) but they don't use the term "rewilding".

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@gabb5095 cool! I must check it out

[@sing2118]

@@Eco-Nerd Yes, we want Giant Sloth and Armadillo... It may be possible thanks to genetics in several decades even if it will not be the same species but hybrids (complicated but not impossible), could you make a video on de-extinction, projects and possibilities it would be not bad? I get carried away by the South American megafauna but I love it too much...

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@sing2118 Thank you for the suggestion! I'll put it on my list! I haven't heard of any attempts to bring back Giant Armadillos or Ground Sloths but I would love to see that some day 🤞

[@RussTillling]

Great video with loads packed-in!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@RussTillling Thanks Russ! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@guerreiro943]

You deserve way more views

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@guerreiro943 thank you very much!hopefully the channel will keep growing 🤞

[@mickhack8034]

The Netherlands, despite being overpopulated is transforming aswell. The return of the Wolf is the best example of this and i for one would LOVE if we decline the population dramatically (via immigration) and let nature run its course

[@Bo-my5bn]

Super well-done video, love all rewilding news such a fascinating topic!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@Bo-my5bn thank you! Yeah it's amazing, got a lot of us wrapped up in it!

[@alanoriordan4088]

Pure vibes

[@Eco-Nerd]

Thanks Alan!

[@niamtxiv]

Wonderful

[@Eco-Nerd]

Yeah it's great to see the work that's being done! Thanks for watching the video!

[@user-om9gk4wl3t]

Thank you for your inspiring work! I’m looking forward to more videos like this! (-although, my naive, greedy heart still waits also for the return of the wooly mammoths and rhinoceros…)

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@user-om9gk4wl3t Thank you!! Me too, maybe some day 🙏

[@dondomingo6578]

Love this guys accent

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@dondomingo6578 thank you 😎

[@siebensunden]

Just a small sidenote: Correct pronunciation of Hucul is Hutsul, not Hukul. Great video anyway.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@siebensunden Thank you 😎

[@coleopteraa]

awesome video!!! for the domesticated cats and dogs now in feral packs, are there any issues or imbalances within the ecosystem? since they'd typically be invasive but the species in the exclusion zone have adapted

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@coleopteraa to the best of my knowledge, no. The cat population is regulated by the amount of prey so the population doesn't get too high unlike our pet cats which are in artificially high numbers because of the food and care we give them, they just kill for fun every night. As Chernobyl is in Europe, the prey are adapted to wildcats so it's not drastically different to their usual predators. The dog population mostly sticks to the city as the wolves attack them if they venture in to the woods. Humans have started feeding and giving care to the dogs as death rates were very high and humans don't like to see dogs dying. Hope that answers your question!

[@coleopteraa]

@@Eco-Nerd thanks so much! again, great content!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@coleopteraa thank you!! Glad you liked it!

[@user-xo6yq7ht6e]

Don't be too hard on yourself. Now you know. There were and are bison in Romania. The Romanians need validation for their efforts; everyone does.

[@Woyto15]

Poland and Belarus were 1st to reintroduce bison into puszcza białowieska!

[@willshow5958]

i hope they manage to live through the war , a sad part that i never even thought about till now.. oh an elk and a moose are two different animals in canada.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@willshow5958 Hey guys, Moose (Alces Alces) are known as Elk in Europe and I'm Irish (which is in Europe) hence the "known as moose in America" comment. Elk (Cervus Canadensis) are known as Wapiti in Europe. Early European settlers in America actually misnamed Elk (Cervus Canadensis) because they were so large they assumed that's what Elk were. It has since caused lots of confusion 🤯 A couple of people have tried to correct me so I'm just putting it here to clear things up 😊

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@willshow5958 yeah obviously wars are terrible for so many reasons, nature is rarely the part that makes the news! Thanks for watching 😊

[@willshow5958]

@@Eco-Nerd yes thats why i said in canada they are 2 different animals

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@willshow5958 ah sorry, people keep trying to correct me on the matter so I've just copied and pasted that message. I understand what you meant now 😊

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

The Scandinavian name for European moose, Alces alces, are Elg. That’s propably part of the explanation for naming the Elg as Elk.

[@luvadane]

In the Iberian highlands, you could wonder whether some farmers just let go of modern life, embracing the wildlife moving in and living purely off the grid. They stopped farming, and lived off of hunting and fishing, is that legal?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@luvadane Yeah as far as I know it's legal to hunt deer, wild boar and to fish in Spain and Portugal but there are seasons for when you're allowed to hunt and fish so I guess it could be done 😊

[@timkbirchico8542]

I live in the Sierra Nevada of Andalusia, there are many wild boar and Ibex here. The boars come on my land most nights in spring. They have never been extinct here.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@timkbirchico8542 That's cool! Wild Boar seem to be very hard to get rid of so I'm not surprised they've always being present. They're extinct in my own country, Ireland and were extinct in UK until a reintroduction but they're are less places to hide on island countries

[@timkbirchico8542]

@@Eco-Nerd Hi yes its cool. I have seen many boar and Ibex here. Some genets too. Golden Eagles, vultures, the list goes on. there used to be more but the ongoing drought has taken its toll. I come from Liverpool and was disturbed by the lack of wildlife in the UK. There is much more wildlife here than in UK. Good luck with your channel.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@timkbirchico8542 wow! Sounds amazing! Yeah Ireland is sadly even less biodiverse than the UK so I can understand how impressed you'd be by the Spanish wildlife! Thank you 😊

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Lions will soon roam the streets of London at night again soon?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@StevenHughes-hr5hp Who knows 🤣

[@skurinski]

Do the other Rewilding Europe regions too

[@ariadgaia5932]

This is such good news! And your voice with that accent is just incredible to listen to! And you call yourself Ecology Nerd!?!? Love it! 😍 Instant subscriber! 🥰

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@ariadgaia5932 that's a very nice compliment, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😊

[@dondomingo6578]

His accent harks back to Elizabethan English. Another reincarnation!

[@sryan4925]

Guessing Limerick, good hiberno-english front an Irish lad!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@sryan4925 right province, wrong county 😉

[@lukaskucera7976]

Is there any Rewilding projects in Czechia and if so where can I read about it?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@lukaskucera7976 I've found one, if I find more I'll send them on! Here's the link rewildingeurope.com/rew-project/large-carnivores-monitoring-conservation-in-the-western-carpathians/

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@lukaskucera7976 here's a cool one actually en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovice_Nature_Reserve

[@dozydog9874]

I think we should all be given the opportunity to choose which animals we can put in other people's land ..what could possibly go wrong?

[@jancyvargheese5351]

Are racoon dogs native to Europe? I thought they were only in Asia? Is the saiga antelope also native to Europe in the last few hundred years?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@jancyvargheese5351yeah raccoon dogs are only native to Asia, they're found in most European mainland countries now though. They're classed as invasive, they likely don't have such a negative affect in Chernobyl because there's a full range of European predators there to keep their population in check. Saiga antelope went extinct in most of Europe thousands of years ago, likely due to humans but they were in Ukraine until the 18th century!

[@adriaan2618]

8:22 one of the only? It is either '...the only...' or ' ...one of the few...', Otherwise great video.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@adriaan2618 "One of the only (idiom) : one of very few : one in a small class or category "That was one of the only times I ever saw my father cry." "This is one of the only places in the world where the plant is found."" As per the Miriam Webster website, one of the world's leading dictionary publishers. Thank you for the compliment 😊

[@jancyvargheese5351]

We should reintroduce jackals to the Uk and Western Europe? Did jackals in the last live in the Uk or Western Europe?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@jancyvargheese5351I don't think there has ever been jackals in the UK. They've already found their way in to Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Netherlands so it looks like they won't need any help being introduced to Western Europe!

[@romerosignatus]

I like this type of content but there is a lot of misinformation. I'm starting a job at rewilding spain, the images shown are from alpine ibex instead of iberian ibex and there is still no iberian lynx nor kulan here.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@romerosignatus hey thanks for watching and thanks for the comment. "Iberian lynx have been released and are recolonising and reproducing across the landscape." "Arid areas are feeling the benefits of natural grazing, with kulan improving the conditions for a variety of steppe bird species." These quotes are directly from Rewilding Europe's website but I see now that it's their "vision for the future". There was no stock footage of Iberian Ibex available and I thought the closely related Alpine Ibex would be suitable for commentary reasons. I'll make a note of the corrections in the comment section.

[@romerosignatus]

@@Eco-Nerd thank you for the response. Probably in the next couple years the lynx will be reintroduced, now we are studying the current wild rabbit population in the area.

[@romerosignatus]

@@Eco-Nerd maybe I can provide you with some footage of serrano horses or iberian ibex for future videos.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@romerosignatus cool! I saw on the website that rabbit population is still quite low. Is it rising??

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@romerosignatus that would be brilliant! I'd really appreciate that Romero 🙏

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

All the Bison that lived in Britain are extinct.

[@bardroyal7893]

But can they be brought back?

[@Eco-Nerd]

Hey Jonathan, yeah they are! Bison have been reintroduced to a Rewilding Project in Kent though!

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

@@Eco-Nerd The European Bison never lived here.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@jonathanroberts-bj7yl that's correct! Its cousin the Forest Bison once lived in the UK but now there are a small number of European Bison living in Kent

[@jozebutinar44]

​@@jonathanroberts-bj7ylidiot you are an european 😂😂😂😂

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

U.N Proposition 20. That's the REAL reason behind Re-wilding.

[@21stcenturypeasant5]

It doesn't really have anything to do with it, besides if you somehow connect the recreation of original river-flows to the cooling of atomic reactors... Otherwise it really doesn't have anything to do with it.

[@macfiercesome]

The Bison seen lying down at 3.22 looks more like an American Bison.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@macfiercesome it could be! A lot of stock footage isn't labelled. European Bison bulls can look a lot like American Bulls when they mature though. Here's a mature European bull for example images.app.goo.gl/nFGCvUvmmL6WoN3E7

[@brianwelch1579]

Your description says they are reintriducing AUROCHS? when did they bring this species back from the grave?!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@brianwelch1579 Well cattle are domesticated aurochs and Tauros Cattle are almost identical in DNA to Aurochs and their breeding and reintroductions are ongoing!

[@RCSVirginia]

@@Eco-Nerd From what I understand, Tauros Cattle are not as large as Aurochs, have smaller horns and are not nearly as aggressive. However, one Tauros did kill someone not too long ago.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@RCSVirginia Tauros cattle are about the same size as the aurochs but there is evidence that early aurochs were larger, it's likely that the species got smaller as humans were hunting the larger animals, this has happened to deer in many countries as well. We have no way of knowing how aggressive aurochs were but I think you might be referring to Heck Cattle, they were an earlier attempt at backbreeding the aurochs, Heck Cattle are smaller but they are crazily aggressive because Spanish Fighting Bulls were used to breed them 😊

[@Qingeaton]

So then the question becomes obvious. Why aren't the animals of the Chernobyl exclusion zone deformed and weak from radiation? I'm glad they aren't, but why is it safe for them and not humans? Because we live longer lives?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@Qingeaton it does affect them and cancer is an issue but the fact that they have shorter lives does benefit them! The lack of humans and all that comes with us is a lot trickier to live with than the high radiation

[@arinasosnovskaya5298]

There's not that much radiation left. A lot of heavy radioactive soil and trees were scraped off and buried in landfills. There are a couple places that are still dangerous (and Russian troops managed to dig their trenches right in the Red Forest, the most dangerous zone. Ukrainians didn't know if they want to laugh or cry) but hey, the survival of the fittest. The bad genes get culled quickly. BTW, I'm a Kyiv native who lived through Chernobyl catastrophe. I was a teenager then and I remember everything very well. I'm so glad that the Nature showed us what it is capable of, and I hope that the horrible scars of the war will be healed eventually.

[@RobSmith-ye3rk]

Cave lions?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@RobSmith-ye3rk ??

[@palavpalavets5911]

Introducing bears and wolfs in that area is senseless hippie initiative asking for trouble as the area is well populated and the locals will be unsafe.

[@eddemian]

I'd like to reintroduce the European Bison to Armenia

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@eddemian that would be cool!

[@deatherutts]

Thought bovines farted bad gas causing climate change 😅😅😅😅😅

[@annemaria5126]

It is or...wild great animals....let nature free, or.......humans take over all nature (what they have been doing for millions of years). Cannot be both. In my opinion these two opposite visions will fight untill one option survives. Which one it will be? The one with the most destructive weapons. But then........what moves overthere? What sprouts out of the soil? After centuries?......

[@mysoneffa2417]

Fallow deer are a bad choice; they are a Persian Domesticated species imported to Europe by the Etruscans before Rome.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@mysoneffa2417 Fallow Deer once lived all over Europe until they were hunted to extinction across most of their range. Turkey, Iran and the Balkans were the only places they remained so it was actually an accidental form of rewilding by the Etruscans and later the Normans in Great Britain to reintroduce them to Europe

[@mysoneffa2417]

@@Eco-Nerd No the contemporary Fallow deer are a DOMESTICATED Species that went Feral long after the Fall of Rome not before. They're about as wild as an escaped milk cow.

[@mariamoreno6342]

Habláis sobre proyectos y trabajos en España......y no szbeis una palabra en español.......

[@karenbartlett1307]

An elk is not "known in America" as a moose, or vice versa. They are different species.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@karenbartlett1307Hi Karen, Moose (Alces Alces) are known as Elk in Europe. Elk (Cervus Canadensis) are known as Wapiti in Europe. Cervus Canadensis (Elk in America) were actually misnamed by early European settlers and it has since caused a lot of confusion between Americans and Europeans. We call moose (Alces Alces), elk over here in Europe hence the "known as moose in America" 😊

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

You might have to double check that. Whilst, yes they'll be indigenous to their respective regions, they are the same species, just known by different names.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@user-st3mr9ov2b They may both be species of "deer", but they are not the same animal "known by different names". Look up videos of moose and then of elk.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@Eco-Nerd Ok, thank you.

[@user-xo6yq7ht6e]

That's a lie. The Communists introduced Bison in Romania on the 1960's

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@user-xo6yq7ht6e those bison were kept in an enclosure and not living in the wild. And if I had made a mistake, a mistake is not a lie

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

You are incorrect.

[@recordshopbenoneill6129]

Wdym

[@MatthewAbbottHighskies]

4:50 "... elk, known as moose in america" Elk and moose are not the same species . Please be careful not to spread misinformation

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@MatthewAbbottHighskiesthanks for watching the video! Alces Alces is called moose in America but called Elk in Europe Cervus Canadensis is called Elk in America but is called Wapiti in Europe. Elk was the common name for Alces Alces until European settlers accidentally misnamed what is now called Elk in America, Cervus Canadensis. I'm fully aware Alces Alces and Cervus Canadensis are two very seperate and beautiful species.

[@Fasalot]

​@@Eco-NerdNo moose in Europe is called moose in Poland łoś so please don't spread disinformation

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@Fasalot I am European too and English is my first language. I am not saying it is called Elk in every European language. I am saying it is Elk in European English, the language I am speaking in, in the video. The word 'moose' originated in North America after European colonisation and the only word in English for Alces alces before that point was 'Elk'.

[@Fasalot]

@@Eco-Nerd In Eastern Europe when you speak English you say moose