Just bring in tigers to get rid of the cougars. Simple as that.
Cougar In Des Moines
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Utilize cloning to bring back saber-tooth cats, entelodonts, and dire wolves. Then when they get out of control strategically place some tar pits. You're welcome.
I remember an episode of The Rifleman when a cougar was sneaking up on Mark and Lucas fired one from the hip, as he always did, and MISSED.
He spent the rest of the episode looking for someone to kill just so he could prove to himself that he still had it. In the end he had the guy is his sights, gonna shoot him just to do it when the cougar came back and Lucas spun, fired one off from the hip and killed the cougar. After that everything was back to normal and Lucas let the guy live because his blood lust was sated for the time being.
He spent the rest of the episode looking for someone to kill just so he could prove to himself that he still had it. In the end he had the guy is his sights, gonna shoot him just to do it when the cougar came back and Lucas spun, fired one off from the hip and killed the cougar. After that everything was back to normal and Lucas let the guy live because his blood lust was sated for the time being.
They should just leave it alone so it can rid the city of Des Moines of all the dangerous pit-bulls around.
There are serious proposals to use the American prairies as refuges for the megafauna of the African savannahs. You can read a summary of them here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
The main arguments come down to...
1.) African megafauna (the lions, elephants, etc.) are going to go extinct at some point because of human economic activity, hunting, and poaching activities
2.) Humans killed their American equivalents (most of these large mammal types from the African plains had something very like it in North America) last time around
3.) American prairies are already depopulating quickly, and they are likely to completely depopulate in the future due to aquifer depletion in the next centuries
4.) We owe it to the lost American megafauna and to the preservation of the remaining African ones to find a home for them... this is as close as we can come to restoring balance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
The main arguments come down to...
1.) African megafauna (the lions, elephants, etc.) are going to go extinct at some point because of human economic activity, hunting, and poaching activities
2.) Humans killed their American equivalents (most of these large mammal types from the African plains had something very like it in North America) last time around
3.) American prairies are already depopulating quickly, and they are likely to completely depopulate in the future due to aquifer depletion in the next centuries
4.) We owe it to the lost American megafauna and to the preservation of the remaining African ones to find a home for them... this is as close as we can come to restoring balance
That'd be pretty cool. So, yes.
Yeah, serious as in someone spent way too much time thinking about something that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of happening.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0798/41ad9364f405ac372d7f502ce36b428b4e55.pdf
306 citations for a scientific paper from 2006
Great. That doesnt make it a highly influential paper and doesn't change my opinion on it one bit.
You don't want a giraffe in your yard?
I fed one at Blank Park Zoo once. Their tongues are ******* gross!
Yeah I'm far more concerned with interaction with humans than animals when out and about.
Animals are just kind of doing their thing, humans are purposeful.
Bring them all back. Black bears and such were once prominent in NE Iowa including through the Maquoketa River area. One can dream.
It is not like there is a lot of population in the area under question.
There is probably going to be even less in the future, too, outside of some big urban enclaves, as water supplies decline and agriculture is automated.
Once you are west of I-35 and before you hit the Rockies... there is just not much there. There are a few good-sized Front Range cities like Denver, Calgary, and Edmonton that are probably viable in a long-term of hyper-urbanization, but after them, it is more dicey.
I would add J-Lo in there turning 50 this yr hard to believe that.
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