What extinct animal would you like to see return?

[staystill]

All of them except snakes of any kind and dinosaurs. Anything reptilian.

Snow leopards are almost all gone I hope they can be saved. The dodo bird and Sabertooth I would like to see them from a safe distance.

[Deserterer]

Originally Posted by NVplumber

When we think of extinct animals it seems the most of folks flash straight to the fossil record or critters that vanished within the last few centuries. I.E. the Dodo. It's my understanding that myriad species of critters go extinct everyday. But nobody is wailing in lamentation for ...ohhhh...the frilly willy paramecieum or some such form of life. LOL where's our critter nerds? The ones that look at life through a microscope.

As I have been led to understand microbes insects and other lower forms of life come and go like the wind. Birds might have been in there too. It is the way of things. Adapt or die. This is as it should be ...yes? My personal critter I would love to see in the wild...sabre tooth cats. Pleistocene CA is a LONG ways off though.

Well the American burying beetle has been extirpated from most of it's range, thanks in part to the loss of passenger pigeons. One of those cases where there are unexpected, unpredicted effects on another species from the loss of a completely unrelated species

[OutdoorLover]

Having saber toothed tigers or mastodons back would certainly be something, but practically speaking, I'd like to see a lot of species that still exist but in greatly attenuated numbers restored - like wolves, mountain lions, Atlantic Salmon, Atlantic Cod...