Can African lions and elephants survive an American mid-west winter?

[asterion]

@levdrakon

That Terror Bird looks like good eatin’.

And imagine the turducken you could make out of that thing. Madden might keel over.

[Colibri]

@asterion

And imagine the turducken you could make out of that thing. Madden might keel over.

Yeah, but you would need to stuff it with an Ostrich, an Emu, and a Rhea before you got down to the turkey.

[Askia]

Colibri, let’s not go there again.

[FlyingRamenMonster]

Yuh-huh. You said it much better than I did. North America has changed since 10 000 years ago and this “Well, similar things lived here ten thousand years ago so they can’t possibly do any harm!” sort of thinking is even worse to my mind than the “Let’s swallow this bird to catch the fly” thinking that led to the Australian cane toads and other regrettable decisions.

[FlyingRamenMonster]

Oh… nuts. I was responding to Chronos. I don’t know what happened to the quoted text.

[guizot]

@The article

Better than rats
One justification for “rewilding,” as the scientists call it, is that one way or another, we humans have a dramatic effect on the animal kingdom and ecology in general, so a proactive approach is better than letting the world go to the dogs. Or, in this case, to the rats.

In the absence of elephants and large predators, which together stomp the ground and keep other animals on the run, landscapes will come to be dominated by dandelions, rats and other undesirables, the scientists write.

Other undesirables indeed.