In a move to restore a bit of Pleistocene flavor to Siberia, a few dozen rare wood bison from Canada apparently are fated to live out their lives in Russia's far east, Reuter's Danny Glenwright reports. He does a nice job squeezing some skeptical views that this ecological adjustment truly offers the prospect of bison repopulating part of Siberia--from which they disappeared 5000 years ago. Oddly, the story does not spell out what the creature are: members of a rare subspecies of the more common American bison, such as those in Yellowstone.
