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Quick note, the Paleocene is the peoriod in time that followed on from the Cretaceous. The period you want is the Pleistocene.

Anyway, there is acutally a real life Pleistocene Park being made in Russia as a nature reserve. The goal is to re-establish the subarctic steppe grassland that was found there during the ice age. They're doing this through land management and introducing animals that used to live there whilst conserving the animals that are there.

Animals alive today that either are found in the park or were placed in the park are Yakutian Horses, Moose, Musk Ox, Reindeer, European Bison, Snow Hares, Tundra Wolf, Arctic Fox, Red Fox, Eurasian Brown Bear and Eurasian Lynx. Meanwhile animals considered for being moved to the park are Roe Deer, Saiga Antelope, Snow Sheep, Yak, Bactrian Camels and Siberian Tigers.

While making a park like this for modern animals may not seem hugely exciting considering that nature reserves are found all over the world, the plan for Pleistocene Park is to accurately re-create a lost habitat by introducing animals that either one lived there or at the very least fill the same ecological role.

Then, once the park is stable there are plans to attempt to clone the Woolly Mammoth. Should this prove successful, the Mammoths may be released into Pleistocene Park to live in as natural an environment as possible. At the moment the Woolly Mammoth is the only planned extinct animal for the park but if it proves successful then chances are the Woolly Rhinoceros could follow, as could the European Lion, the Cave Bear, the Megaloceros, the Cave Hyena, Aurochs and Homotherium.