# What if we introduced Siberian tigers into the Canadian wilderness?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-introduced-siberian-tigers-into-the-canadian-wilderness/393310 "2007-02-23T01:40:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-introduced-siberian-tigers-into-the-canadian-wilderness/393310/101 "2014-02-19T18:27:42Z")

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> [@Menocchio](#):
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> Intentionally introducing wild foreign animals to an environment is never a good idea. Assuming they simply wouldn’t drop dead, they’d be devastating to local predators and prey.
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> But a Tiger/Polar Bear fight would be _awesome_, so I say we do it.

You want to see an **awesome** fight? Have somebody go to a community meeting in the area where the tigers would be introduced, and post what happens to that person on YouTube.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-introduced-siberian-tigers-into-the-canadian-wilderness/393310/102 "2014-02-19T18:40:04Z")

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> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#):
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> You want to see an **awesome** fight? Have somebody go to a community meeting in the area where the tigers would be introduced, and post what happens to that person on YouTube.

Sorry, missed editing window. I meant what happens to the person after he or she makes the suggestion won’t be pretty.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-introduced-siberian-tigers-into-the-canadian-wilderness/393310/103 "2014-02-19T20:10:21Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> The northern boreal and sub-boreal forests are vast beyond imagining and largely unpopulated.

It’s that “largely unpopulated” that doesn’t sit well with me, for that’s where I live.

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