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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 01:12 PM
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Oh, give me a home where the lions and elephants roam?
Oh, give me a home where the lions and elephants roam?

By Joseph B. Verrengia
ASSOCIATED PRESS

August 18, 2005

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.

Their radical proposal is being greeted with gasps and groans from other scientists and conservationists who recall previous efforts to relocate foreign species halfway around the world, often with disastrous results.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050818/news_1n18plains.html


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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 01:18 PM
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1. they have already a chimp loose in Texas...
but he stays mainly indoors
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 01:21 PM
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2. All the elephants are lion already ;)
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