Tasmanian emu (SciiFii)

The Tasmanian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis) is a subspecies of the emu that is found in Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene, and was once extinct since the mid-1860s, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced back to Tasmania to help boost biodiversity. As opposed to the other insular emu taxa, the King Island emu and the Kangaroo Island emu, the population on Tasmania is sizable, meaning that there were no marked effects of small population size as in the other two isolates. The Tasmanian emu has not progressed to the point where it could be considered a distinct species and even its status as a distinct subspecies is not universally accepted, as it is very similar to the mainland birds in measurements and the external characters are used to distinguish it—a whitish instead of a black foreneck and throat and an unfeathered neck— are also present, albeit rare, in some mainland birds. The Tasmanian emus are similar in size to the mainland emu subspecies, which also exists on Tasmania after being introduced their to initially replace the formerly extinct Tasmanian emus. The conservation status of the Tasmanian emu is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts.
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