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It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its very close cousin, the [[Caucasian wisent]], probably because it lived nearer to [[Central Europe]]. The last Carpathian wisent was shot in [[Maramureș]] in 1852<ref>https://archive.is/20120323201146/http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/social/Dupa_200_de_ani-zimbrul_se_intoarce_in_Carpati_0_668333600.html</ref> and the subspecies is now entirely extinct.<ref name=Tokarska2011>{{cite journal | author = Tokarska, M. | year = 2011 | title = Genetic status of the European bison ''Bison bonasus'' after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery | journal = Mammal Review | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 151–162 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2010.00178.x|display-authors=etal}}</ref> |
It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its very close cousin, the [[Caucasian wisent]], probably because it lived nearer to [[Central Europe]]. The last Carpathian wisent was shot in [[Maramureș]] in 1852<ref>https://archive.is/20120323201146/http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/social/Dupa_200_de_ani-zimbrul_se_intoarce_in_Carpati_0_668333600.html</ref> and the subspecies is now entirely extinct.<ref name=Tokarska2011>{{cite journal | author = Tokarska, M. | year = 2011 | title = Genetic status of the European bison ''Bison bonasus'' after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery | journal = Mammal Review | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 151–162 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2010.00178.x|display-authors=etal}}</ref> |
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Wisents descended from the Polish population were [[Species reintroduction|reintroduced]] into the southern Carpathians by [[Rewilding Europe]] and the [[World Wide Fund for Nature]] starting in 2014, and the [[rewilding (conservation biology|rewilding (conservation biology]] area hosted a population of 30 animals by the end of 2017. |
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There have been plans to reintroduce European bison into Transylvania through the bison from Poland or the Caucasus. |
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Revision as of 16:00, 12 March 2019
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
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| Subspecies: | †B. b. hungarorum
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Bison bonasus hungarorum (Kretzoi, 1946)
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The Carpathian wisent (Bison bonasus hungarorum) was a subspecies of the European bison that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia and Transylvania. It may also have lived in what are today Ukraine and Hungary.
It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its very close cousin, the Caucasian wisent, probably because it lived nearer to Central Europe. The last Carpathian wisent was shot in Maramureș in 1852[1] and the subspecies is now entirely extinct.[2]
Wisents descended from the Polish population were reintroduced into the southern Carpathians by Rewilding Europe and the World Wide Fund for Nature starting in 2014, and the rewilding (conservation biology area hosted a population of 30 animals by the end of 2017.
See also
References
- ^ https://archive.is/20120323201146/http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/social/Dupa_200_de_ani-zimbrul_se_intoarce_in_Carpati_0_668333600.html
- ^ Tokarska, M.; et al. (2011). "Genetic status of the European bison Bison bonasus after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery". Mammal Review. 41 (2): 151–162. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2010.00178.x.
External links
- The Extinction Website - Carpathian European Bison - Bison bonasus hungarorum.
- European bison / Wisent
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