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LDennis24:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-rebuild-the-u-s-jaguar-population-mdash-yes-jaguars/

I say do it! I recall my great grandmother telling a story of when she was a little girl and her and her friends were followed home by a huge black puma near Ocala Florida. Obviously a Jaguar, but she said that they made it back ok and a few days later a farm hand was in the field and saw it burst out of the trees after a deer and run back into the thick brush after it saw him in the field. I think she said they ended up hunting it down for safety of the children.

ducks4days:
Why do people have such a *censored* for reintroducing species which have been extirpated from places? How would this population survive without a continuously connected genetic group on the landscape? How would they fare competing with native predators such as wolves, cougars, and bears? Do they have the genetic memory to target wild prey and not focus on livestock?

Jaguars thrive in Central and South America, reintroducing them in the continental US would do a disservice both to the jaguars and to the continental US.

Taco280AI:
I'm all for introducing wolves, grizz, cougars, and other predators... in liberal cities. Golden Gate Park could use some. So could Central Park.

Hilltop123:
I see this just causing conflict. Maybe that's the goal.

idaho guy:

--- Quote from: Taco280AI on June 15, 2021, 02:48:10 PM ---I'm all for introducing wolves, grizz, cougars, and other predators... in liberal cities. Golden Gate Park could use some. So could Central Park.

--- End quote ---

 :yeah: Truth! Our only hope is an abundance of predators in the liberal cities. They need to live with them. Jaguars would be cool but they(extremists living in liberal cities) have an obsession with creating an abundance of predators. Its always preached in the name of the "balance of nature." we created an imbalance in nature called the north american wildlife model. Where we always had an imbalance(surplus) of animals to hunt every year, creating revenue from tags to fund managment for future surplus animals for future generations. The extremists pushing this know how great it works and putting in too many apex predators breaks the model, just their way of getting rid of hunting. They just need to live with predators in the backyard for a while or they will never stop pushing them on rural west.   

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