text: Bud:  Lions, Tigers, Elephants and monkeys have been born here for successive generations, but we all know that none of them are "native" to North America.  Settlers fall into this same category....although I'm sure that -if lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys could talk- they would all say that they were now native.....and we'd still look at them with a raised eyebrow and say "yeah...rrrrrrrrrright".....