[TXBSAFH]

It ought to make hunting season fun.

[NoClones]

hey, if I had a million or so acres, they could dump a whole bunch of those critters there...

and then I'd charge suckers an arm-and-a-leg to view the critters from a air-conditioned, gas-guzzling SUVs!!!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Blue-state plan to depopulate the red states.

[FreedomSurge]

I hope they re stock mastedons and saber tooth tigers.

[Calamari]

But man's arrival on the continent - about 13,000 ago, according to one prevalent theory - pushed many of these impressive creatures to extinction.

Why did they survive in Africa living next to man?

Is the Prof. saying that native americans who held all of nature in reverance, were at one with the environment, stewards of the land, minimized their impact on the country side, killed only what they needed,etc. with stone age weapons hunted these species to extinction? On foot? In hunting parties of 2 to 20?

Did they really do this!?

He probably did not run this by the Native American Studies department at Cornell.

Winter is long and hard in Ithaca high above Cayuga's waters This sounds like a professorial attempt to be at lower lattitudes from October through mid-May.

[Gritty]

Yeah. Right. This is exactly what we need inhabiting our plains and mountains...

[WideGlide]

Won't all those elephant farts deplete the ozone layer, exacerbate the Global Warming problem?

[Teacher317]

Yes, the importation of foreign species always works out well! /S>

[polymuser]

Well, PETA people could then go live naked and ethically in the wild with their animal friends. I'm imagining them in a post #38 situation, and wondering how the ethics discussion would go...

[LexBaird]

"...people think we're nuts," said Harry Greene, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, US.

And they are right. I suggest we start by introducing tigers, lions, and every other top predator we can think of, on to the Cornell campus. With, of course, heavy fines on anyone interfering with their natural hunting patterns.

[.cnI redruM]

A lot of humanity's worst diseases started out in large animals. Let's introduce a few more which we have immunity to. Then Americans can suffer from "Yellow Jack" and "Dengue Fever".

[JOAT]

But man's arrival on the continent - about 13,000 ago, according to one prevalent theory - pushed many of these impressive creatures to extinction.

Oops, make that 40,000 years ago!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465958/posts

[Starter]

While I'm kind of sympathetic to the idea, I can already hear farmers griping about herds of elephants tramping through their cornfields...

[B Knotts]

"There are going to have to be some major attitude shifts."

It apparently never occurred to these lunatics that they shift their idiotic attitudes to be in line with normal society.

[Wacka]

How about wolves in Manhattan? They were killed off about 1700.