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(Wikipedia)   Hear me out. Instead of just "reintroducing" species, what if we "introduce" new species? Like Siberian tigers in the Colorado rockies. That's something everyone could enjoy   (en.m.wikipedia.org) divider line
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949 clicks; posted to Discussion » and STEM » on 29 Jan 2023 at 2:25 AM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 9:43:01 PM  
They want to reintroduce the marten
here in Pennsylvania.
I haven't seen them myself since 1980, when I left to go live in new england.
Reintroductions are awkward. Shoot. I bet I forget all their names.
Last time I saw them, I looked young. They had that late 70s, early 80s hair.
I can do without reintroductions.
If I see one in Sheetz and they recognize me, cool. But you remember MY name first, you silky furred bastard.
It's been 40 years.  You never visited.
Just nod, say, hey. Move on.
 
Noctusxx [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 10:38:43 PM  
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ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 12:49:24 AM  
You'd have to station snipers at posts all over the damn place... cattle ranches, sheep ranches, elementary schools...
 
Concrete Donkey
2023-01-29 2:33:25 AM  
Stop robotripping subby
 
Hoopy Frood
2023-01-29 2:51:23 AM  
Seems to have worked out OK.

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Oh, SIBERIAN tigers...
 
centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-01-29 3:22:47 AM  
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munkkiniemi
2023-01-29 3:24:46 AM  
it worked so well with rabbits in Australia and red king krabs from Kamtchatka in the Barent sea!
 
FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 3:50:15 AM  
Sure, but on the condition they eat Lauren Boebert and her entire family.
 
bikkurikun
2023-01-29 4:14:25 AM  
Why the Rockies? Let them loose in New York.
 
Cinedelic
2023-01-29 4:40:53 AM  

FatherChaos: Sure, but on the condition they eat Lauren Boebert and her entire family.


My domestic cats refuse to eat rancid food.  I'm sure Siberian Tigers are just the same.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 4:45:42 AM  

munkkiniemi: it worked so well with rabbits in Australia and red king krabs from Kamtchatka in the Barent sea!


Yeah, but they aren't super-cool predators! I wanna see "dragged down by tigers" enter the risk assessment for poachers & backcountry boarders.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 4:47:13 AM  
There is NOTHING that's going to give me more vicarious satisfaction than watching a screaming snowboarder plastered with NO FEAR gear being chased down a mountain by a goddamned tiger.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:09:42 AM  
I say we introduce Tap Dancing Carnivorous Cockroaches to Subby's Apartment.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 5:29:08 AM  

optikeye: I say we introduce Tap Dancing Carnivorous Cockroaches to Subby's Apartment.


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tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:14:42 AM  

FatherChaos: Sure, but on the condition they eat Lauren Boebert and her entire family.


Do you want tigers with digestive issues?  because that's how you get tigers with digestive issues!
 
Smoking GNU
2023-01-29 6:20:36 AM  
This sounds like another excellent example if introducing a species to some place that 20 years down the line becomes a ridiculously successful invasive species that's working out everything else in the area.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 7:13:27 AM  
I vote for introducing the California Cougar to my bedroom

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kozlo [OhFark]
2023-01-29 8:08:54 AM  
It would never work here subby: never underestimate the power of dumbasses with guns.
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8tReAsUrEz
2023-01-29 8:18:27 AM  
For rhinos, it's an idea worth trying. Tigers... you're late, subby: There are more tigers in the USA than in their natural habitats. However, letting a big cat into the North American ecosystem when farmers are whining about wolves every day wouldn't be a good idea.
 
claytonemery [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 8:44:56 AM  
Reminds me of a Fun Fact: There are more horses now in North America than have ever been.

So the tigers would have plenty to eat, anyway.
 
fsufan
2023-01-29 8:54:37 AM  
The python release has worked well in Florida, so why not?

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neongoats [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 9:45:04 AM  
Polar bears to Antarctica/the tip of South America.
 
khitsicker [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 9:49:02 AM  
FormlessOne: There is NOTHING that's going to give me more vicarious satisfaction than watching a screaming snowboarder plastered with NO FEAR gear being chased down a mountain by a goddamned tiger.

Bit early for post of the year but you have my vote.
 
Larva Lump
2023-01-29 10:16:08 AM  
HAY, GUISE!


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WATS GOIN' ON IN THIS THREAD?
 
tdyak [OhFark]
2023-01-29 10:28:28 AM  
This is a really bad idea. I can only think that someone "accidentally" on purpose released some tigers from the wild animal sanctuary in Weld County into the mountains and are now like "I wonder if they will succeed in the wild?".

The answer is: we will find out in a fark.com news story in 6 months if a tiger has broken into someone's mountain cabin.   Colorado is very populated, you would be better off releasing them in Wyoming.
 
snowballinhell
2023-01-29 10:53:52 AM  
New Mexico has an introduced Oryx population. Giant, 250 kg beasts out of Africa. It snows regularly in their US range, the now-10,000 strong herd is undaunted. Only wild predator is cheetah, which I would be fine with being conspicuously introduced.
 
germ78
2023-01-29 10:56:37 AM  
fark Siberian Tigers, bring back sabretooth tigers.

/humans need some thinning out
 
Kar98
2023-01-29 11:15:44 AM  

8tReAsUrEz: For rhinos, it's an idea worth trying. Tigers... you're late, subby: There are more tigers in the USA than in their natural habitats. However, letting a big cat into the North American ecosystem when farmers are whining about wolves every day wouldn't be a good idea.


There isn't all that much farming going in in the Colorado Rockies...
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 11:22:36 AM  
I kinda like the idea.

"Worlds farked, fark it, let's go for maximum chaos" we could put platypus in Florida, lions in Texas, grizzly bears in Pennsylvania, California would look so much better with a few brown hawks from Australia. Really help em clear their brush problems.
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 11:23:44 AM  

Axeofjudgement: I kinda like the idea.

"Worlds farked, fark it, let's go for maximum chaos" we could put platypus in Florida, lions in Texas, grizzly bears in Pennsylvania, California would look so much better with a few brown hawks from Australia. Really help em clear their brush problems.


I mean peebles Ohio already had a kangaroo problem once
 
cefm
2023-01-29 11:25:54 AM  
There are already bears and wolves. In most years there isn't enough good for the bears and they're coming down into settled areas and eating livestock because they're starving. Adding more to the top of the food chain when the bottom and middle are gutted is just foolish.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 11:44:20 AM  
Introducing species to non-native environments is one of the ways humans have farked the planet.
 
mofa [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 11:46:40 AM  
This is the stupidest idea I've read all day, but I haven't visited the Politics tab yet.
 
dionysusaur [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 11:47:01 AM  

Kar98: 8tReAsUrEz: For rhinos, it's an idea worth trying. Tigers... you're late, subby: There are more tigers in the USA than in their natural habitats. However, letting a big cat into the North American ecosystem when farmers are whining about wolves every day wouldn't be a good idea.

There isn't all that much farming going in in the Colorado Rockies...


Not sure if you've noticed, but tigers can walk.
 
anuran
2023-01-29 11:54:58 AM  
I know! Let's replace everything with invasive species everywhere. That will work out great!
Cane toads a comin'....
 
anuran
2023-01-29 11:55:47 AM  
Subby, "Spiffy" and "Dumbass" are not the same
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 12:08:31 PM  
Here we are. Dude really did try with his last act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape
 
Jeff5
2023-01-29 1:09:03 PM  
Much better would be to remove introduced species, like cows, sheep and lumberjacks, from all our public lands to let the native deer, elk, bison, pronghorns, bears and lions repopulate them.
 
pastramithemosterotic
2023-01-29 1:13:03 PM  
There's a nice running trail on the outskirts of my town, but it's built right next to this Big Cat sanctuary.

There's no running motivation quite like hearing a lion's full roar from a few hundred feet away
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 1:22:08 PM  
Kudzu is fine for a fast growing feed for cattle.
 
karl2025
2023-01-29 1:33:15 PM  
Tigers could fill the ecological niche left empty when we exterminated the North American lions.* The problem is we also exterminated most of the megafauna they ate* so there's not a lot of point in having a predator capable of keeping megafauna populations in check. So unless you're looking to also introduce other lost niches** for them to feed on, you're better off protecting the cougars we have now.

*Inconclusive if we killed them, but the timing is suspicious.
**Elephants can basically replace Mastadons, right?
 
Professor Science [BareFark]
2023-01-29 1:44:20 PM  

karl2025: The problem is we also exterminated most of the megafauna


Yeah, but it's been legalized in plenty of states now and shouldn't be long at the federal level.

wait, what?
 
Otera [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 1:50:36 PM  

Larva Lump: HAY, GUISE!
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WATS GOIN' ON IN THIS THREAD?


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SOMETHIN BOUT THE ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETIES, I BERSWQUAWK!
 
Ketchuponsteak
2023-01-29 1:56:56 PM  
I do my part by always bringing some cane toads with me on vacation.
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 2:14:54 PM  

Ketchuponsteak: I do my part by always bringing some cane toads with me on vacation.


Think bigger!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/childrens-book-behind-japans-raccoon-problem-180954577/

Reach for true greatness!
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 2:15:09 PM  

Ketchuponsteak: I do my part by always bringing some cane toads with me on vacation.


Why think so small?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/childrens-book-behind-japans-raccoon-problem-180954577/
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 2:21:34 PM  
...stupid post delay
 
Larva Lump
2023-01-29 3:17:02 PM  
Hullooo, zeeba neighbas!

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What a croc.
 
Larva Lump
2023-01-29 3:22:28 PM  

optikeye: Kudzu is fine for a fast growing feed for cattle.


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And look where we are today.
 
Swampmaster
2023-01-29 9:46:18 PM  

germ78: fark Siberian Tigers, bring back sabretooth tigers.

/humans need some thinning out


Wooly Mamoths from the Dna of those Siberian frozen corpses!
 
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