Lions, tigers & elephants on the Great Plains? As in North and South Dakota? With winters as bad as 20 below zero? Yeah, right!!! This sounded like the most out of sync April Fool’s joke I ever heard. All of these animals are roamers. As soon as they hit the ground, they are going to look around at the desolation and opt out for the Sun Belt in a hurry where they will no doubt meet up with something that these great ecological brains behind this scheme hadn’t considered: unfamiliar bacteria. Asian tigers, African lions, Asian and African elephants have battled and come to an adjustment with the bacteria in their current locations. Consider what the wapati out west are battling with now - a strange, wasting disease. Lions and tigers eat wapati. Lions and tigers get sick and die. That leaves the fate of the elephants. Normally they eat vegetation growing higher than their heads. Scratch all national forests from the Canadian border to the Rio Grande as they migrate to temps they like a lot better. Also scratch things like small towns, suburbs, air force bases, other military installations. The only ones who just might regret the loss of the elephant herds in general in their own loctions are the guys with all the overpowered hunting rifles. My guess is they would never figure out how to strap an elephant carcass to the front of their vehicle anyway.