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Jaguar eh!
The US Government decided to exterminate the Jaguars in the USA during the 40s. They used to be as plentiful as mountain lions, but the interior department put a hefty bounty on them and lots of GIs back from WW2 wiped them all out. Now we have several crack pot conservationists who want to re-introduce them.
Most of them were in New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas, but they would occasionally be seen as far north and east as Pennsylvania and Western New York. Glad their gone. They were considered to be the strongest and most powerful big cat, even more so than tigers.

[Jaguar eh!

The US Government decided to exterminate the Jaguars in the USA during the 40s. They used to be as plentiful as mountain lions, but the interior department put a hefty bounty on them and lots of GIs back from WW2 wiped them all out. Now we have several crack pot conservationists who want to re-introduce them.

Most of them were in New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas, but they would occasionally be seen as far north and east as Pennsylvania and Western New York. Glad their gone. They were considered to be the strongest and most powerful big cat, even more so than tigers.]

I like how some people get het up when Africans kill some near-extinction large herbivore or predator in Africa. I don’t think people whose primary experience with these animals is from behind a moat or whatever safe-for-the-public enclosure understand how life-threatening they are for people living in the rural areas where these animals roam. People get picked off all the time while bathing or doing their laundry in the river, or merely gathering brush for cooking or heating.

Most civilized societies have - quite sensibly - wiped out the large and dangerous animals in their midst. I expect the average African would be more than glad to export all their (dangerous) elephants, rhinos, lions, Cape buffaloes and so on to the West to replace the ones that were wiped out thousands of years ago there. But I doubt we’d be too thrilled to have to deal with these vermin on a day-to-day basis. How’d you like to have a lion pounce on your car while you’re barreling down the freeway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lion