[Centaur]

That's what I read too at the PA game commission site when I was trying to identify the two canines down in the foal pasture. Apparently they are omniverous and opportunists; would rather much on something small and easy rather than take down anything of size.

Funny aside, rumor here in SE PA is that the insurance companies and the game commission imported them to reduce the deer population to lower the deer-related traffic accidents and expense. Now you've heard it all, right?

[ZULU]

They needed have bothered.

In a few years, the cougar will be making a reappearance in the east. They are already well established in Michigan.

The increase in deer herds since farming has died out in a lot of the east is presenting a good food source for them.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Funny aside, rumor here in SE PA is that the insurance companies and the game commission imported them to reduce the deer population to lower the deer-related traffic accidents and expense. Now you've heard it all, right?

There is a similar rumor in Oklahoma about cougars too.

I was on a fishing forum last year (?). Someone posted that sharks were being incubated and released.

I wasn't able to get anything more out of that poster nor could I chase down information from his nic or profile to find out anything else about him.

Makes you wonder how true those re-wilding stories are.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts?page=7#7

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts?page=9#9