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August 17, 2005

Lions and Elephants Roaming the U.S.?

Posted by Eric at 10:09 pm. Filed under: General

Someday, maybe.

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.

But…

Lions would be a harder sell, even if they would thin elk herds.

“Lions eat people,” said co-author Josh Donlan of Cornell. “There has to be a pretty serious attitude shift on how you view predators.”


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