Scientists Suggest Relocating Africa's Poster Species to North America

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB69FQ3ICE.html

Scientists Suggest Relocating Africa's Poster Species to North American Ranchland

DENVER (AP) - Lions stalking deer in the stubble of a Nebraska corn field. Elephants trumpeting across Colorado's high plains. Cheetah slouching through the West Texas scrub.

Prominent ecologists are floating an audacious plan that sounds like a Jumanji sequel - transplant African wildlife to the Great Plains of North America.

Their radical proposal is being greeted with gasps and groans from other scientists and conservationists who recall previous efforts to relocate foreign species halfway around the world, often with disastrous results.

The authors contend it could help save Africa's poster species from extinction, where protection is spotty and habitat is vanishing.

[phantom power]

1. You mean stuff like Ebola?

[Tempest]

2. You can't even get the wolves reintroduced

Without ranchers raising holy hell.

And he wants to introduce a bigger predator like lions?

[reBel_gyrl]

3. Why don't we try to save Africa's habitats......

in Africa? Instead of sending their critters here?

[htuttle]

4. How about we start with the Buffalo, Wolf and Grizzly Bear

Then we can talk about lions. Actually, lets do mountain lions first. And Lynx. And Badgers.

Hell, there's ten dozen native species that deserve North America back.

on edit:

I forgot coyotes. Can't forget coyotes!

[NNadir]

10. I was kinda of hoping for wolves in Antartica.

They like temperate climates.

Do wolves eat penguins?

Do penguins live in temperate climates?

[Ready4Change]

5. Elephants in a Colorado blizzard?

What, are we going to knit sweaters for them?

[bahrbearian]

6. We'll have dead Cheetah's on the side of the Roads

not quite fast enough, were ya?

[Nihil]

12. You really should have put a warning on that one ...

:spray:

Lovely!

[xchrom]

7. i want an elephant!

doesn't have to be the biggest -- just one that'll stroll by every so often and get an apple or something.

[Alex146]

8. This idea is stupid...

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Sounds like a last-ditch effort

It would be better to save them in Africa -- but the political situation is so unstable there that it might be impossible.

It's possible that we are still in the megafauna die-off, and these remaining megafauna are not long for this Earth.

--p!

[moggie]

11. How about chimps in Crawford?

Would that work?