Carpathian wisent
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.
| Carpathian wisent | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †B. b. hungarorum |
| Trinomial name | |
| Bison bonasus hungarorum (Kretzoi, 1946) | |
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 area hosted a population of 30 animals by the end of 2017.[3]
See also
References
- "După 200 de ani, zimbrul se întoarce în Carpaţi FOTOGALERII". archive.is. 23 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012.
- 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.
- "Southern Carpathians". Rewilding Europe.
External links
- The Extinction Website - Carpathian European Bison - Bison bonasus hungarorum.
- European bison / Wisent
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