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California is more dense than NK. South Korea is denser than Cali, but only about as dense as New York State Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely fores

California is more dense than NK. South Korea is denser than Cali, but only about as dense as New York State Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely forested, with about 0 human population density. Maybe its got some leopards, maybe maybe a tiger.

yongjik 9y ago
Eh? Population density according to Wikipedia (person/km2): South Korea 507 North Korea 201 New Jersey 470 (densest amont US states) New York 162 California 97 US average 33 The Korean DMZ is "about 250km long, 4km wide" strip of land sitting between two hostile countries, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers on either side, with barbed wire fences and watch posts running along its length. Thousands of eyes are watching every corner of it right now as I write this. (For comparison, the Yosemite national park is 1,169 square miles, larger than DMZ. Somehow people are sure that it harbors no grizzly bears.) A tiger isn't a bigfoot. It is an apex predator that roams around huge areas and is scared at nothing. I stand by my assertion: if there's a tiger in DMZ, we'd know.
- Taniwha 9y ago
  for heavens sake someone put a tiger in there, sort of a cat amongst the pigeons
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  related: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/09/tiger.tracking.dmz/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/09/tiger.trackin...
- gregshap 9y ago
  Thanks, my bad with the greater/less than reference, I mixed up mi2 and km2 even though I thought I was watching out for that. Call it the same order of magnitude as California. Nothing like Hong Kong densities (6000+/km2). Yosemite national park has loads of grizzly bears. Also a few million visitors per year to spot the grizzlies and sometimes get killed by them. [http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/ http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/] I wouldn't bet money on a tiger living there either, but there really aren't many humans walking around most of the DMZ.
  - conickal 9y ago
    Yosemite is not Yellowstone. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm There hasn't been a grizzly bear in Yosemite since the 1920s.

yongjik 9y ago

Eh? Population density according to Wikipedia (person/km2): South Korea 507 North Korea 201 New Jersey 470 (densest amont US states) New York 162 California 97 US average 33 The Korean DMZ is "about 250km long, 4km wide" strip of land sitting between two hostile countries, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers on either side, with barbed wire fences and watch posts running along its length. Thousands of eyes are watching every corner of it right now as I write this. (For comparison, the Yosemite national park is 1,169 square miles, larger than DMZ. Somehow people are sure that it harbors no grizzly bears.) A tiger isn't a bigfoot. It is an apex predator that roams around huge areas and is scared at nothing. I stand by my assertion: if there's a tiger in DMZ, we'd know.

Taniwha 9y ago
for heavens sake someone put a tiger in there, sort of a cat amongst the pigeons
ajdlinux 9y ago
related: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/09/tiger.tracking.dmz/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/09/tiger.trackin...
gregshap 9y ago
Thanks, my bad with the greater/less than reference, I mixed up mi2 and km2 even though I thought I was watching out for that. Call it the same order of magnitude as California. Nothing like Hong Kong densities (6000+/km2). Yosemite national park has loads of grizzly bears. Also a few million visitors per year to spot the grizzlies and sometimes get killed by them. [http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/ http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/] I wouldn't bet money on a tiger living there either, but there really aren't many humans walking around most of the DMZ.
- conickal 9y ago
  Yosemite is not Yellowstone. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm There hasn't been a grizzly bear in Yosemite since the 1920s.