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Call to restock North America’s large mammals (Lions, Tigers,Bears Alert)
NewScientist.com ^
| 18:00 17 August 2005
| Kurt Kleiner
Posted on 08/17/2005 10:56:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
No. the largest NA mammals -- giant sloths and other megafauna -- were all hunted to extinction by that paragon of living with nature in harmony, the American Indian.
To: edcoil
Although, if fire ants ever get this far north, I would entertain importing giant anteaters...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:12:50 AM PDT
by
LRS
To: 11th_VA
Interesting. Ordinarily, the people living in the western hemisphere for the past 10k years are referred to with hyphenated names like 'Native-American'. Here we're talking about people killing everything in sight, so we call them 'humans'.
To: 11th_VA
How about we move these nutters who dream up this nonsense to another part of the world? That would greatly improve our ecosystem.
Hunters with sophisticated stone tools, yeah right...
An ice age had absolutely nothing to do with it. I wonder where they are going to get dinosausers from?
To: don-o
There is a movement underway to really try and re-establish the Mammoth/Mastodon using frozen carcasess from Siberia and using cell nuclei to fertilize an elephant egg. That WOULD be AWESOME!.......
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:13:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: Pondman88
What you said, Pondman!
ROFL!
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:13:41 AM PDT
by
andie74
("No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." -- John Jay)
To: pabianice
Just like when the got guns and helped to wipe out the buffalo herds.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:14:28 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: 11th_VA
Jurassic Park!
The people who support this plan should be placed in the enclosures to make sure the animals don't go hungry. And they should have to pay every penny of the project's cost, too.
To: John O
I guess it would give me more target practice!
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:15:34 AM PDT
by
andie74
("No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." -- John Jay)
To: George Smiley
Hmmmm, a hundred mile wide large predator park from San Diego to Corpus Christi...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:16:27 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
To: 11th_VA
I think tigers in Central Park would be cool.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:16:38 AM PDT
by
meowmeow
(Meow! Meow!)
To: 11th_VA
{Seinfeld voice} Oh yeah, I like this idea.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:16:53 AM PDT
by
retrokitten
(www.retrosrants.blogspot.com- updated!!!)
To: null and void
Hmmmm, a hundred mile wide large predator park from San Diego to Corpus Christi...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:19:40 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
(http://vdare.com/guzzardi/0508013_mortgages.htm)
To: truth_seeker
Yeah, but the humanoids caused this global warming, with their campfires, didn't they? And, their SUVs...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:20:43 AM PDT
by
LRS
To: dd5339
"Now if they would just talk of bringing in some Cape Buffalo I'd be all set!" There are already enough buffalo around where I live. In fact there is a buffalo ranch just 2 miles from here. Plenty of deer, moose, and elk too. I'd say 80-90 lbs would do the trick. That takes down a moose.
To: scory
yay! now i won't have to travel to africa!
that was the only place outside the US i ever wanted to go, and only for the hunting.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:21:44 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: 11th_VA
I'm all for it. It'll give gun owners/hunters more reason to carry everywhere and it'll allow the animals to practice being predators on unarmed liberals.
The problem with humans being an Apex Predator is that we could get fat, lazy, and even more stupid. Mixing in dangerous animals into our enviroment isn't as stupid an idea as it sounds at first. From a certain Nietzschian perspective...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:22:50 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
To: dd5339
what's the draw weight of a horsebow? i think that would be about what the native americans would have used on them. that or a hand thrown spear.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:23:42 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: 11th_VA
The next smart aleck who wants to introduce cougars to the Midwest ... Oh wait they already have.
Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:24:35 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: 11th_VA
Why not take this a bit further... For example, why don't we recreate the Precambrian era, before the pristine geographical features were sullied by the existence of life of any sort... Oh - I see why this wouldn't 'fly' - these self-hating people certainly despise human civilization in all of its forms, but they're perfectly happy with (in fact, 'worship' would not be too strong a word to use) any other form of life...
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:25:43 AM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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