Call to restock North America’s large mammals (Lions, Tigers,Bears Alert)

NewScientist.com ^ | 18:00 17 August 2005 | Kurt Kleiner

[dd5339]

Personally I think this is a great idea!

You wouldn't have to spend all that money to go on safari to Africa to hunt the big stuff! Now if they would just talk of bringing in some Cape Buffalo I'd be all set!

And if they think that stone age man with his "sophisticated stone tools" caused a problem, think what we could do with modern firearms and archery equipment! Hmmm what draw weight would you want for sticking a mastodon?

Semper Fi

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In related news, Cougar snatches pet cat near Forest Park

[Uncle Miltie]

"This hunting probably helped to drive many animals to extinction, including North American mammoths and mastodons, lions, cheetahs, camelops (a relative of the modern camel), horses and asses."

This is not possible because we are taught that Native Americans were in perfect harmony with the environment.

[loreldan]

Sorry folks. The Great Plains has already been reserved for the return of the buffalo. Anybody heard of Buffalo Commons?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons

[mict42]

Yeah, and let's reintroduce cavemen back into the southwest: Oh, I sorry, we've already let that happen.

[yobid]

Put them on the border and watch illegal immigration cease instantly!!

[don-o]

1000 posts a possibility here.

LOL funny stuff.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

[Outland]

I don't see how introducing non-native species to this hemisphere would serve to any benefit. Elephants? Camels? On the western plains???

I didn't think camels or elephants like cold winters.

[oldleft]

This is the stupidest idea ever.

[SolidRedState]

These people are smokin dope. This is one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard.

I think we should take them all (these nuts) and make them live with the Kodiaks in Alaska and see how it takes them to get eaten alive.

Remember--- the only good bear (or maountain lion) is a dead bear.

[sharktrager]

Cool!

[11th_VA]

1000 posts a possibility here.

i HAVEN'T HAD ONE OF THOSE IN YEARS !!!

[truth_seeker]

"Those animals died for a reason. The climate no longer supported them. North America saw a huge climate change as the ice sheets retreated."

Yeah, but the humanoids caused this global warming, with their campfires, didn't they?

[don-o]

ping;

[One Proud Dad]

Since most of the land is private they would need to expand the Eminent Domain practices.

This is a really stupid idea.

[George Smiley]

The release of large carnivores sounds like something for the leadership of PETA to handle personally:

Panthers Eating Terrorist A**holes

[Red Badger]

Where are they gonna get Giant Sloths, Saber Toothed Tigers, Mastodons and/or Wooly Mammoths?................

[don-o]

Easy. Didn't you see Jurassic Park?

[Red Badger]

There were ancestral camels and horses here............Till someone ate them........