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

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

[pabianice]

No. the largest NA mammals -- giant sloths and other megafauna -- were all hunted to extinction by that paragon of living with nature in harmony, the American Indian.

[LRS]

Although, if fire ants ever get this far north, I would entertain importing giant anteaters...

[expat_panama]

Interesting.  Ordinarily, the people living in the western hemisphere for the past 10k years are referred to with hyphenated names like 'Native-American'.   Here we're talking about people killing everything in sight, so we call them 'humans'.

[Nathan Zachary]

How about we move these nutters who dream up this nonsense to another part of the world? That would greatly improve our ecosystem.
Hunters with sophisticated stone tools, yeah right...
An ice age had absolutely nothing to do with it. I wonder where they are going to get dinosausers from?

[Red Badger]

There is a movement underway to really try and re-establish the Mammoth/Mastodon using frozen carcasess from Siberia and using cell nuclei to fertilize an elephant egg. That WOULD be AWESOME!.......

[andie74]

What you said, Pondman!

ROFL!

[cripplecreek]

Just like when the got guns and helped to wipe out the buffalo herds.

[American Quilter]

Jurassic Park!

The people who support this plan should be placed in the enclosures to make sure the animals don't go hungry. And they should have to pay every penny of the project's cost, too.

[andie74]

I guess it would give me more target practice!

[null and void]

Hmmmm, a hundred mile wide large predator park from San Diego to Corpus Christi...

[meowmeow]

I think tigers in Central Park would be cool.

[retrokitten]

{Seinfeld voice} Oh yeah, I like this idea.

[11th_VA]

Hmmmm, a hundred mile wide large predator park from San Diego to Corpus Christi...

[LRS]

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

And, their SUVs...

[Nathan Zachary]

"Now if they would just talk of bringing in some Cape Buffalo I'd be all set!"

There are already enough buffalo around where I live. In fact there is a buffalo ranch just 2 miles from here. Plenty of deer, moose, and elk too. I'd say 80-90 lbs would do the trick. That takes down a moose.

[absolootezer0]

yay! now i won't have to travel to africa!
that was the only place outside the US i ever wanted to go, and only for the hunting.

[Dead Corpse]

I'm all for it. It'll give gun owners/hunters more reason to carry everywhere and it'll allow the animals to practice being predators on unarmed liberals.

The problem with humans being an Apex Predator is that we could get fat, lazy, and even more stupid. Mixing in dangerous animals into our enviroment isn't as stupid an idea as it sounds at first. From a certain Nietzschian perspective...

[absolootezer0]

what's the draw weight of a horsebow? i think that would be about what the native americans would have used on them. that or a hand thrown spear.

[redgolum]

The next smart aleck who wants to introduce cougars to the Midwest ... Oh wait they already have.

Shoot, shovel, and shut up.

[The Electrician]

Why not take this a bit further... For example, why don't we recreate the Precambrian era, before the pristine geographical features were sullied by the existence of life of any sort... Oh - I see why this wouldn't 'fly' - these self-hating people certainly despise human civilization in all of its forms, but they're perfectly happy with (in fact, 'worship' would not be too strong a word to use) any other form of life...