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Groups Call for Reintroduction of Jaguars in US Southwest
azfamily ^ | MAY 16, 2021 | SUSAN MONTOYA

Posted on 05/17/2021 10:13:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Environmental groups and scientists with two universities want U.S. wildlife managers to consider reintroducing jaguars to the American Southwest.

In a recently published paper, they say habitat destruction, highways and existing segments of the border wall mean that natural reestablishment of the large cats north of the U.S.-Mexico boundary would be unlikely over the next century without human intervention.

Jaguars are currently found in 19 countries, but biologists have said the animals have lost more than half of their historic range from South and Central America into the southwestern United States largely due to hunting and habitat loss.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: jaguars
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To: nickcarraway

Well, the article posted before this here at FR was about an old Porsche so why not bring back the old 1960’s Jaguars, cars with real class, sleek lines, and hot women?


21 posted on 05/18/2021 12:10:36 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: gundog

They walk around in yards here.

No one can touch them and they know it.

The mangy one I mentioned killed two miniature horses just up the road and the DNR trapped it, “scared it” and released it near where I live.

The DNY literally said the bear was not hungry, the horse were just :in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

They were in their paddock beside their owner’s house.

Where *should* they have been?

WalMart?

Liberals took over the DNR here.

It’s a madhouse.

Look at this fecking huge thing.

https://www.facebook.com/sean.pugh.37/posts/10223581935237024


22 posted on 05/18/2021 12:17:46 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: nickcarraway
Groups Call for Reintroduction of Jaguars in US Southwest

When I first read this headline, I assumed it was some sort of anti-illegal alien security measure. Hungry jaguars patrolling the wall. Sounds good to me. And we need to introduce sharks back into the Rio Grande. Sharks with fricken laser beams on their heads.
23 posted on 05/18/2021 12:19:09 AM PDT by fr_freak
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My area needs more cougars of the 2 legged variety.


24 posted on 05/18/2021 12:55:55 AM PDT by RightWingNutJob69
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To: nickcarraway

Turns out that Jaguars like the same migration routes as Cartel drug mules.

What an unexpected coincidence.

Can’t have effective border control infrastructure in those places.


25 posted on 05/18/2021 1:49:15 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: RightWingNutJob69

Can you order that via Amazon?


26 posted on 05/18/2021 1:50:04 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: TBP

“There are no Jag dealers there?”

Plenty in Los Angeles, but the problem is car jackers and thieves.


27 posted on 05/18/2021 4:04:39 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Salamander

Just a matter of time before someone is attacked.

When bears lose fear of people, it become statistically inevitable.


28 posted on 05/18/2021 4:13:17 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Bonemaker

Before the term “Wilding” became prominent with the MSM, Central Park had been known for its “Wolf Packs”


29 posted on 05/18/2021 5:11:28 AM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: Salamander

“Loony neighbors feed it.”

There’s a ‘nature lover’ down the street from me who feeds the Crows. Now they’re everywhere.


30 posted on 05/18/2021 5:41:08 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: Salamander
That’s a big one. Looks like it might be favoring a hind leg. Around here, that one would have turned perpendicular you the road and vanished. Unless someone was feeding it. I wonder if it was patrolling the road for roadkills.

There was a smallish one spotted on a clear-cut(a new one) behind my mom’s place. I don’t think the people at the end of the road have miniatures any more, but there may be sheep.

The undergrowth around here is heavy. No idea how many bears I might have bumped by being noisy. I know I’ve gotten very close before some bolted...silently. The only thing I ever knew to give my pit pause was a 500 pound bear that he could smell, but not see. I saw it...and it wanted nothing to do with us. Pretty sure it’s the monster that was hit by a truck about a mile from where I saw it.

31 posted on 05/18/2021 5:50:53 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway

Not sure of the value of this. You now have lions in almost all of the lower 48 states. You’re just setting up a food competition.


32 posted on 05/18/2021 6:24:41 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: nickcarraway

I remember fifty years ago when the animal rights groups and Hollywood glitterati called for the re-introduction of wolves to so many areas of the US. They have now become a problem in those areas.


33 posted on 05/18/2021 6:57:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Well, the article posted before this here at FR was about an old Porsche so why not bring back the old 1960’s Jaguars, cars with real class, sleek lines, and hot women?

Jaguar = 45 year old horny woman

34 posted on 05/18/2021 7:39:05 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: HYPOCRACY

? Not familiar with that acronym.


35 posted on 05/18/2021 9:08:56 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: rfp1234

Deforestation and human interference has nothing to do with nature.


36 posted on 05/18/2021 9:31:12 AM PDT by ready2brd
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah, too darn many of those Mercedes around; need more Jags!


37 posted on 05/18/2021 10:38:40 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: gundog

It just goes where it pleases and destroys things.

My mom can’t watch her birds out the kitchen window anymore because it not only eats the food, it destroys the feeders and bent the iron pole flat.

I wouldn’t put up with that crap but she’s not me.


38 posted on 05/18/2021 11:51:25 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander

Seems like you could rig a rope similar to the ones they recommend hanging food on when camping in bear country and put the feeder up high. If it’s that predictable, a small balloon full of toxic hot sauce stuck inside a piece of fruit might be in order.


39 posted on 05/18/2021 12:44:27 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Salamander

The jaguars are fast. But they’ll never catch a Road Runner.


40 posted on 05/18/2021 12:47:58 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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