Environment be damned or don’t be damned. Because you like them or because you don’t like your neighbors … what animals would you like to see locally that are not there ?
capybara
Somehow we can get the red panda to replace the raccoon. This is my wish.
Platypus would be cool, or African land snails
Honestly foxes. They are so fun to photograph and there are none on Vancouver Island.
Some stupid bastard did that on Tasmania (also an island, somewhat bigger) and they have been a whole world of trouble.
I have a mating pair of foxes that live right next to my house in a small unmaintained area. I spot them pretty regularly in the early morning and it’s kind of a fun treat. They nab a lot of bunnies from my yard.
Some predator that hunts people that you could escape from easily if you’re moderately intelligent. We need to bring back natural selection with a vengeance. Maybe wolves.
Or how about it would be really annoying to annoying people. Like if zombies were pretty rare but also didn’t bite you or kill you but followed you around in a constant light slap fight and stole from you like a sock from each pair or put holes in your donut holes or threw rocks at your house in the middle of the night but was totally invisible to police.
I would not want it murdering the slightly less intelligent than me without knowing that sliding frame of reference of what “less intelligent” could mean would eventually subsume me as a matter of fact.
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Nah, I don’t want them annoyed. I want them gone. It wouldn’t be a sliding frame of reference either. It would just be “animal that is smarter than people who are so stupid they become a problem for everyone else around them”
What a weird thread to bring eugenics into.
Is it still eugenics if wolves are the ones doing it?
You’re the one introducing it.
This. Or a predator that cant smell vegans lol
Kangaroo. I’m sure they’d thrive and be a pain in the ass but they look cool.
Hedgehogs or stoats. They’re delightful little critters in their own ways I love them both
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IIRC, USSR experimented with acclimating raccoons in Belarus.
What was the results of the experiment?
Raccoons now have a stable population in Pripyat Marshes, don’t know much more.
Wait they introduced the most mischievous animal in existence to the place where they’re trying to contain the worst nuclear accident in history?
They were introduced in 1960s, IIRC.
The USSR had 100s of nuclear reactors, yet the only meltdown was in the only nuclear plant that raccoons had access to.
There was also a very similar meltdown at Leningrad NPP in 1975, except there the situation was recognised earlier and the reactor was shut down before everything went to shit completely.
Without taking into account the environmental impact and viability: Sicilian dwarf elephants. Come on, 1m short elephants, hairier (i.e. fluffier) than their African and Asian counterparts? I want it!
Bonus points: capybaras are native where I live, and a common occurrence in parks. Now imagine those small elephants, plus some capybaras: chilling under the grey sky, taking a bath in the lake in warmer days, gathering together in colder days… come on, it’s cuteness overload!
I don’t understand why everything and everyone in the Mediterranean area (read: south Italy) is so hairy lol
In the case of those dwarf elephants it’s because they were smaller, so they got a bigger surface area per weight, and lost heat faster. Perhaps also because, while Sicily is hot in comparison with continental Europe, it’s still colder than Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.
[I know that you’re joking, sorry for the serious answer.]
red pandas.
also pandas.
samoyeds too.
cockatiels, elephant seals, blue whales and giant squids aren’t bad either.
In Minnesota… bison. Because it was their native habitat before we killed them all, and because watching jackasses in cars trying to negotiate with 1500lb bison everywhere would be hilarious.
Agreed, also I don’t think there’s enough here to fuck around and find out with. The scariest animal I’ve had to deal with up here is my neighbors always angry papillon getting loose. There’s a thrill about seeing an enormous reptile staring lazily at you from an apartment retention pond, I bet bison would be fun too.
Dodo bird.
Raccoons! I can’t believe we don’t already have them here!!
They aren’t nearly as cool as you are imagining. They break into your trashcan and shit everywhere. Also their shit carries a bunch of diseases. They also attack your pets.
Pretending that they’d have a good life here: koalas and elephants.
Gimme da Red Panda
