In today's edition of the journal Nature a group of well-known, well-respected, and totally fucking baked ecologists have suggested that endangered African animals such as the lions and elephants should be introduced into the wilds of North America, specifically the Great Plains. Their point is that there is little enforcement of laws against killing these animals in Africa, and introducing them into the wild here would preserve the species. They go on to say that these types of animals are not unprecedented in the North American ecosystem, as mastodons and sabre-tooth tigers once lived here.

So we're all left to question whether we'd support wild elephants roaming around Kansas. I can say without hesitation that I would. Lions and elephants are the one reason to go to Africa, which we all know is a fucking hellhole otherwise. Having them here would save us all a lot of jetlag and diarrhea.


Elephants, above, might finally be able to determine which side is crispier.

Analogcabin @ 2:59 PM
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