Africa in America???

by **YESIAMAGIRL** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:56 pm

DENVER -- 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.

Full article...http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-wild-america,0,3976332.story

These people are supposed to be scientists??? This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard in the 18 years of my existence!! I can't wait till I wake up one morning and see an elephant in my backyard...time to get a new fence.

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by **SLUDoubleDeuce** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:11 pm

I hit a deer once with my car, and it messed us both up pretty good...I can only imagine hitting a stray elephant crossing the road. Try explaining that to your insurance agent.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:28 pm

That is really the most incredulous proposals I have ever heard of from those proposing other species being relocated to America. :roll:

by **KnoxVegas** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:19 pm

All I have to say to this is: Rabbits/camels/cane toads/mice & rats/cats/younamethenon-nativespecies in Australia.

by **SLUDoubleDeuce** on Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:57 am

If this type of thing happens in a sanctuary, imagine what would happen if they were roaming free through the midwest.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166156,00.html
"Teen Killed By Tiger at Kansas Sanctuary"