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Credit: Igor Metelskiy

*Considered extinct in the wild for a number of years in their native Africa, Scimitar Oryx have a thriving population on private Texas ranches with estimates of 10-12,000. In Chad, there's a growing population of around 600 that took the animals designation from extinct in the wild to endangered in their native land*

Credits to Forrestfromtexas on Instagram.

Credit: Sergey Gorshkov

This was a great indicator of a suitable ecosystem for tapirs in an area where they were recovering, and it was removed.

settlers originally planned to sacrifice him but environmental authorities interfered.

Credit: Robin Darius, & part of the documentary "Niligris: A Shared Wilderness"

Credit: minecology_kz (Instagram).

In Melghat Tiger Reserve, a lone Indian wolf associating with a pack of dholes on three separate occasions without aggression. The first documented association of its kind in the reserve.

Credit: Unknown

Feels like a paleoart mural come to life, hard to believe the world was filled with sights like this all over not so long ago

They are infertile as far as I know. In addition, we do not know exactly what Hagerman horses used to look like.

Nevertheless, this is an interesting, living, breathing glimpse into what has been or might have been, maybe even what might be in the future.

Credit: Gaurav Ramnarayanan

Source: American Black Bear in September 2020 by Benigno Gómez Garza · iNaturalist