One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age

[Demeter]

Source: Yahoo-AP

Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.

Later, the predators will come — Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards.

Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming...

Zimov is trying to recreate an ecosystem that disappeared 10,000 years ago with the end of the ice age, which closed the 1.8 million-year Pleistocene era and ushered in the global climate roughly as we know it.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_ice_age_park

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IN A WORD, FASCINATING!

[dipsydoodle]

1. Great find

Thanks for that.:thumbsup:

[HillbillyBob]

2. An' I thought we were being ambitious turning an 8 ac tract

of former tobacco field and woods to an organic homestead.