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"Bret Cahill" wrote in message news:
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https://phys.org/news/2022-09-brazil-populations-american-bullfrogs-exotic.html
Well, it's about time AMERICAN "exotics" got introduced abroad, like:
-- Raccoons in Germany, thanks to Hermann Goering's escaped menagerie:
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-europe-raccoon-problem-2016-6
-- Largemouth Bass, a U.S. fisherman's delight, but a real headache
elsewhere:
https://www.espn.com/outdoors/general/columns/story?columnist=schultz_ken&page=g_col_Schultz_the-invasive-bass
-- Red-earned turtles, once native to the American South, have all but made themselves at home on every continent but Antarctica:
https://scroll.in/article/999003/these-cute-turtles-may-not-look-dangerous-but-they-are-among-the-worlds-worst-invasive-species
-- American Minks, fugitives from fur farms, often released into the wild by animal-rights wackos:
https://tinyurl.com/yfr36ftw
-- American bullfrogs aren't considered endangered, though their populations
in the U.S. have been declining in the American South due to habitat loss,
but elsewhere (40 countries) they've become as big a pest as cane toads in Australia:
https://tinyurl.com/4xy6sy7f
-- Grey Squirrels, two of which were imported to Britain during the
Victorian era, with the predictable result that now all of Europe is
swarming with them:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605093151.htm
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