Africanised bees have had a few horrors made about them. Are they as scary in real life as their silver screen representation or is it just one of those things blown up for movies like sharks/Jaws?
Alternate invasive/introduced species
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Africanised bees have had a few horrors made about them. Are they as scary in real life as their silver screen representation or is it just one of those things blown up for movies like sharks/Jaws?
In a lot of areas in the US coyotes and foxes have learned to walk with their tails up like dogs.
I am Australian. The invasive species brought over here are why I'm interested in this subject.
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Might be a tad cold, the areas where they live around Cape Town are normally 30C through summer, and don't drop below 6C on winter nights. The water temperatures would be pretty similar though. They're very cute to see around Boulders Beach, one of my in-laws got pecked when she tried to pet one.
there is a B movie titled 'Komodo', where a bunch of the critters are accidently set loose on an Atlantic island just off the southern coast of the USA... and of course, all of them quickly grow to the maximum 12' they reach in the wild and become a menace to life and limb of a poor bunch of humans who end up on the island. There's a government conspiracy of some sort just for fun, and a kid who was traumatized by an encounter with them years earlier who becomes the hero....
Richard Osborne
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Chimpanzees in Florida. American Bison in Central Asia. Gorrillas in the Andean lowlands. Ostriches on the Great plains. Someone earlier said Siberian Tigers in Alaska but I can imagine a project similar to Pleistocene Park in Russia taking place in Yellowstone with Siberian Tigers. Elephants in South America. Penguins in the Artic to give Polar Bears an alternative food source. Kangaroos in Africa. Cheetahs in Australia.
There's a few Ostrich farms in Northern Ireland. Get a few escapees and that's a different area for an invasive species.
I've also seen Llamas and Capybara at the Drakensberg Sun hotel in South Africa, which is quite high and temperate.
I know that this is a bit ASB, but there always Alligators in the New York City Sewers.
Turn the Urban Legend of Alligators brought up from Florida and then flush down the toilets into true events.
Turn the Urban Legend of Alligators brought up from Florida and then flush down the toilets into true events.
They kinda sorta very distantly did like this when they introduced the muskox in Labrador (perfectly suited but never lived there because geography).
Coyotes would take over the dominant predator spot in the UK and cull the foxes in 0.0. The main reason foxes and badgers are as commonly seen there is because humans exterminated other predators (notably the wolf). You don't see them as much in Eurasia and North America despite also living there or similar species being there. Also would hybridize with dogs and grow larger overtime due to the superpopulation of deer.
Unrelated to the above: every land vertebrate in Australia could probably become invasive in New Zealand. And that includes quite a few species that are critically endangered or were driven to extinction by humans.
I also thought about African fruit bats in South America. Specially if they carry ebola. And monitor lizards.
MatthewB
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When I was a young boy in the early 1980s visiting my Grandparents on the Isle of Wight they convinced me that there were jungle cats on the island, released from some zoo. I never wandered far at night.
https://bigcatrescue.org/isle-of-wight-man-claims-he-caught-a-cougar-on-camera/?amp
https://bigcatrescue.org/isle-of-wight-man-claims-he-caught-a-cougar-on-camera/?amp
Canadian lynx to Siberia, European Russia, and Scandinavia.
Leopard seals to Canada would be devastating to the economy and ecology of Nunavut.
Iberian lynx to California and perhaps some regions of Chile and Argentina.
Leopard seals to Canada would be devastating to the economy and ecology of Nunavut.
Iberian lynx to California and perhaps some regions of Chile and Argentina.
There's also a bunch of rheas wandering around in parts of Germany after having escaped from local farms. I could see similar events happening elsewhere in Europe or in the US/Canada. Which makes me wonder why with all the llama/alpaca farms in the US there hasn't been a feral population established.
They could be reintroduced to a lot of places in the circumpolar areas since muskox were driven to extinction by human activities in all but the most remote places of the Canadian Arctic.