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.
Leave a Reply