Breeding back
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Breeding back is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of primarily domestic animals, in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that resembles a wild type
Heck cattle were bred in the 1920s to resemble the aurochs.
Taurus cattle bull in the Lippeaue Reserve, Germany
Heck horse in Haselünne, Germany
A Tamaskan Dog, bred to visually resemble a wolf
De-extinction
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De-extinction is the process of human intervention to generate an organism that either resembles or is an extinct organism. There are several ways to carry out the process of de-extinction. Cloning is
Breeding back
…to release these back bred animals into the wilds of Floreana Island to regain their niche following the successful extirpation of invasive species. De-extinction Otto Antonius…
Methuselah, the first resurrected Judean date palm through germination of 2000 year old seeds found in the Masada excavations in the 1960s
Drawing of the Montreal melon, a de-extinct cultiver of melon
A bull from the Taurus Project, a project aiming to de-extinct the aurochs through back breeding modern domesticated cattle.
Reenactment of a moa hunt in the early 1900s