Ecotasia's video: What is Pleistocene Rewilding

So every few years some scientist is like, species in North America evolved alongside lots of megafauna, like mammoths, giant ground sloths, american cheetah, and american lions, which dispersed the seeds of several plants and hunted prey animals like the pronghorn much faster than modern north american predators; so why don't we replace what went extinct at the end if the ice age with modern elephants, lions, and cheetahs. This idea is called Pleistocene rewilding which I have illustrated here in planet zoo. Of course this idea garners many criticisms, primarily because it relies on the overkill hypothesis that humans wiped out North American megafauna and so we need to fix that, and that ecosystems are essentially the same as 12,000 years ago, and the potential of introducing invasive predators or disease to North america. Footage from Planet Zoo and Far Cry Primal I try to achieve the most well researched content I can, that said it is impossible to create content that is exhaustive on a given topic and therefore I implore you to investigate a given topic further. Welcome to Ecotasia! On this channel you can find wildlife footage and short documentaries on the natural world. I am an early career biologist who was inspired by the likes of the BBC Natural History unit, PBS, and Animal Planet as a child and then more recently by various nature YouTube channels to share my love for animals and nature. My goal is to document and highlight the interesting ecology and behavior of organisms I encounter, as well as cover and elucidate conservation and biological topics. Please Subscribe so you can join me to marvel and to learn twice a month. Underwater Worlds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAJNusnxcNoHUx_sNDYT92k Journey through the Undergrowth (Macro footage of insects and Arachnids) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZC-4h2hpK09I-FF563TQzlc Bird Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqNM9k7OoY&list=PLYx5OP7sbAZACa11LD1wDQhn0SI2-SV1f Birding Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAYjq78IuGJI4wc0GXDRHTd Conservation Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAIUm5UCl84q2KU2nI3YLpx