Pleistocene rewilding The mountain tapir is the only extant non-tropical species of tapir. Predators of mountain tapirs include cougars, bears, and, less commonly, jaguars. Good introduction areas might include forested ecosystems of the west and east coasts, and the more scrub-like or wetland ecosystem of the south. During the Pleistocene, large populations of Proboscideans lived in North America, such as the Columbian mammoth and the American mastodon. The mastodons all became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene era, as did the mammoths of North America. However, an extant relative of the mammoth is the Asian elephant. It now resides only in
Extinct animals from the Isle of Man and immobilise, any sheep which was pointed out" (W. Walter Gill). The following extract is believed to have been written by a Ms. A. L. J. Gosset; It continues ... It continues ... Manx horses also became extinct c. 1820–1830. Of them Thomas Quayle said, The Manx pig were known to the locals as 'purrs'. They had completely died long before Thomas Quayle wrote this about them; Four species of birds that once bred on the Isle of Man have gone extinct locally, of these the great auk is extinct worldwide. N.B. None of these animals were solely native to