Introduced Species in N. America

S.M. Stirling The change novels lot of animals were either let loose, escaped from zoos and animal parks and so animals like tigers and lions and others are filling out the niches open to them.
 
Mountain Lions used to live all over the country. They definitely live in Florida where they are called panthers and as far as I know there aren't many mountains there.

I guess I was speaking specifically to Southern California, where the prior post was referencing and where I live.
 
Which TL was that?

Pecari Rex Equus Regina.

Speaking of birds Wietze, there are colonies of Argentine parrots living in New York city. I think having budgerigars or other tropical parrots establish themselves in the south is possible. I remember seeing the lorikeet aviary at the San Antonio zoo, it was open to the elements and the birds seemed to be doing quite well.
 
Mountain Lions used to live all over the country. They definitely live in Florida where they are called panthers and as far as I know there aren't many mountains there.

I believe "Mountain Lion" refers to the western subspecies, but I can't confirm this.
 
In my TL where the Japanese colonize the Pacific Northwest, Japanese macaques are an invasive species around Puget Sound. What is Hansville, WA OTL is actually called Saru Point ("Monkey Point") by the Japanese.
 
Speaking of birds Wietze, there are colonies of Argentine parrots living in New York city. I think having budgerigars or other tropical parrots establish themselves in the south is possible. I remember seeing the lorikeet aviary at the San Antonio zoo, it was open to the elements and the birds seemed to be doing quite well.
Two or three introduced parakeet species do have established populations in California, and I think in Florida as well.
 
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