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 ?
Tyrannosaurus rex
Somehow we can get the red panda to replace the raccoon. This is my wish.
Brontosaurus
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.]
polar bears. it’s the only animal that likes to eat people. daily life is just too safe and dull.
Can confirm … and once they know what a human is, that it is tasty, that it is weak, that it is vulnerable without weapons … it will chase after people like a dog chasing squirrels.
Or you know, babies
It wouldn’t really have to chase the babies.
If they could cut down on the deer population, too, that would be nice.
Kangaroo. I’m sure they’d thrive and be a pain in the ass but they look cool.
but it’s the EPACapybaras! They are so chill
Guinea Bigs
I just moved from a place with raccoons to somewhere without them and I miss them. So raccoons. They’re funny as fuck.
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I believe so. I think there was a big thing about European settlers introducing beavers to Peru or northern Chile and causing ecological havoc
Beavers are absolutely insane. Nature’s engineers.
capybara
Needless to say, raccoons (in Southern Europe).
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.
Leopards. There’s some faces that need eating here.
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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.
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You’re the one introducing it.
This. Or a predator that cant smell vegans lol
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.
