Re:Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
by gota on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:21PM
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Oh, wow! For anyone that can't see the picture - the historical range shows grizzly bears past Texas and well into Mexico
Re:Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
by billfruit on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:40AM
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And Jaguars were one time to be found with in territory that is presently USA.
Re:Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
by sethammons on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:03AM
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I hear they are starting to come back in southern Texas.
Here is an interesting map of the historic and current grizzly bear ranges.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/historical-and-current-gri...
It is truly amazing how nearly completely we wiped the continent of wildlife. Many of our teams are named after the animals we wiped out. Florida Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, California Golden Bears, Michigan Wolverines, etc.
> Whales as far as the eye could see all day long.
The near extermination of whales along our shores changed geopolitics. One of the reasons why commodore perry "visited" japan was to open japanese ports to our whalers.