[girlangler]

Uh, HELLO.

There used to be a lot more animals and a lot less people, housing developments, concrete parking lots, etc.

What do you propose -- exterminating people so the animals can roam the earth in their former glory again?

[paul544]

Uh Hello to you...
No, just making a comment on such a massive drop in numbers, most of which is attributed to "hunting" in the 1800s, not to loss of habitat or such.
If you can't see the shame in such a mass extermination of one of America's wild icons, so be it.