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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Animal feelings,,,,,,,,,,,Animals thinking

Time Magazine recently did a cover story on whether animals feel, think, problem solve and use tools to accomplish tasks. Mammals weigh in strongly with all of these categories and Crows, Ravens and some birds have also been found to use tools to their advantage in obtaining food.  I go back to the "family values" theme that runs through so many of our Politicians and Clergy's call to arms.......................
 
If in fact human life is sacred, is not as Thomas Jefferson so ably put it in our Declaration of Independence.................that "ALL MEN(ALL ANIMALS) HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"?????????????????????
 
All you have to do is look at your own cat and dog to know that all creatures seek and deserve to have those INALIENABLE RIGHTS...............Speaks to the heart of rewilding The Americas with all of the creatures we found present here upon our forefathers setting foot on this great Continent.
 
 

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