5 Problem Invasive Species In Texas
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Күн бұрынIn this video i will be focusing on the beautiful; state of Texas. Texas is one of the largest states in the USA and as it's almost 3 times the size of the UK it has plenty of space foe wildlife. Texas is home to many predators such as wolves, cougars, and even ocelots and is also home to the largest bat colony in the US. Just like many other states across the US, Texas is also home to some problem invasive species. I will be going through just a few of these invasive species today as i will be going through 5 problem invasive species in Texas.
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European eel images:
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Brown anole images:
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Green iguana images:
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Brown anole footage:
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Cattle egret footage:
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Xoria Irria
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Pascal Vagner
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Alain Fossé
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MPBirds
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European eel footage:
Jan Kepič
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Sika deer footage:
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Ocelot image:
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Texas bat footage:
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Invasive animals north america images:
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Green anole image:
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Fallow deer image:
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Red deer images:
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White tailed deer image:
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American eel images:
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Our first problem invasive species in Texas is the brown anole.
Our second problem invasive species in Texas is the Sika deer.
Our third invasive species in Texas is the cattle egret.
Our fourth problem invasive species in Texas is the European eel.
Our final invasive species in Texas is the green iguana.
Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)
@JesusMartinez-rr2ry 2 жыл бұрын
You should have pointed out that feral hogs are more populous and problematic in Texas
@bradypfeiffer1107 2 жыл бұрын
Pay attention. He said he's focusing on the less known invasive species
@jimgrif5998 2 жыл бұрын
They aren't invasive as such.
@jrhdz534 2 жыл бұрын
@@bradypfeiffer1107 pay attention his video title only says 5 invasive species
@rolfsmithe6790 2 жыл бұрын
@@jimgrif5998 how not?
@GG-eb4xz 2 жыл бұрын
They are a invasive species. This isn't a dam citizen ship. I
@iDunked 2 жыл бұрын
Loved that you MENTIONED the iguana problem in Puerto Rico. I remember when I was young, they’d pay you to kill them for like a summer if I’m not mistaken.
@thomasthumim7630 2 жыл бұрын
Any soup?
@mr.badboy8695 2 жыл бұрын
I think it would be cool if there was a series on reintroduced species
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 2 жыл бұрын
I vote for the Velociraptor to be reintroduced into California.
@charlestonbrown148 2 жыл бұрын
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 why Cali?
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 2 жыл бұрын
@@charlestonbrown148 Three guesses.
@gups4963 2 жыл бұрын
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Who needs the darwin awards when you can just release a raptor lol. I love ,it
@Engifarting456 2 жыл бұрын
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 velociraptors never lived in USA, they came from todays mongolia
@beastmaster0934 2 жыл бұрын
There’s also Nilgai, a large antelope from India that were brought to Texas for the same reason as the Sika Deer. It’s interesting to see such a large animal in a place like Texas
@fishfossils8858 2 жыл бұрын
Bro what are you talking about? Texas has a ton of large animals. Including Grizzly bears, elk, and cougars. You’re probably one of those that thinks Texas is all desert, well allow me to inform you that it also has a mountainous area, a deep forest area, a dry jungle area, and even a wet marshland home to crocodiles and alligators.
@chadandastro 24 күн бұрын
@@fishfossils8858 thats what i thought. because texas has huge animals
@antiiks2485 2 жыл бұрын
I remember in 5th Grade we were coming back from our outdoor PE period and on the steps someone just left a whole iguana, so we told our teachers about it and then they THREW IT AWAY Despite it being alive. So our secretary caught wind of it and she fished it out the trash and held on to it for the day and now it’s her pet. This was in Maryland btw so not invasive considering it wouldn’t last but still it’s crazy that some people just let their pets go so irresponsibly
@Bacopa68 2 жыл бұрын
How are the zebras doing? Did anyone catch the Maryland zebras? Can't think of a more destructive invasive species.
@jonahmontgomery3717 2 жыл бұрын
Just a correction to your intro, wolves have been extinct in Texas for almost a century and the wildlife department has decided to keep it that way to protect the people and livestock as well as the wolves
@supremeundercoverspasm2104 2 жыл бұрын
thats sad they bring over these invasive speices who arent even suppose to be here and kill grey wolves which didnt even do anything
@ACMxxxx2 Жыл бұрын
He was likely referring to the red wolf off some of the coastal islands. Not sure if they are even still around
@Beauuaeb Жыл бұрын
This dude is some amateur that has no idea about wildlife. He said Sika deer and whitetails can interbreed... two in complete different genus...so no, all of this is just late night crap.
@HowiTheOneAndOnly Жыл бұрын
So they're not extinct, they're just extirpated?
@erikm8372 Жыл бұрын
Yes, red wolves are only extirpated from the State of Texas, as are grey (timber) wolves & Mexican grey wolves (all of which used to, historically, inhabit distinct regions of the state). But none of them are completely extinct, at least not yet… red wolves only survive, really, in South Carolina I think, and even that land is highly protected and monitored. Researchers have actually found red wolf DNA all across Texas though, albeit in feral & stray dog populations. Lol. And in coywolves/wolyotes. That’s another concern with the surviving red wolves-coyote and feral dogs coming and interbreeding, messing with the gene pool. Likely too late on that one, but they’re doing what they can. 🫤
@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 2 жыл бұрын
My area has a ton of the native green anole. Problem is since they change color between brown and green it’s pretty hard to tell the two apart. The cowbird is also super common and likes to hang around our donkies
@jahhger 2 жыл бұрын
Green anoles usually appear more clean-skinned than brown anoles (if that makes sense) in my experience. Brown anoles always seem to have almost bumpy looking skin compared to green anoles when they turn brown it’s like a single shade usually
@FireoftheGreeks 2 жыл бұрын
Brown Anoles have patterning or stripes and markings, Green Anoles (when brown) are smooth and patternless, having no pattern at all.
@Notacladist 2 жыл бұрын
Males can be distinguished by the dewlap background color. Brown Anole - orange dewlap Green Anole - pink dewlap For females, see FireoftheGreeks reply above.
@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 2 жыл бұрын
@@FireoftheGreeks thanks
@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 2 жыл бұрын
@@Notacladist I have never actually gotten the chance to see them flap out despite how much I see them
@mistygomez8570 2 жыл бұрын
One that is a huge problem are zebra mussels. If you're coming from Lake Texoma and you have a boat you HAVE to drain the water and inspect for the mussels before you put the boat back in local lakes, they clog drains, wear down boat paint and are SOB to get rid of once they infest a water
@valbirkner8131 2 ай бұрын
Agreed. They've infested every lake now.
@thelephant 2 жыл бұрын
I think it would be cool to see a invasive species list in Wyoming, it's a small population state, but it has a lot of land in room for invasive species to take over, so I think it would be cool to see what invasive species are in that state
@chazdoomy1512 2 жыл бұрын
We don’t have any wolves in Texas.
@joshthepatriot1869 2 жыл бұрын
@@chazdoomy1512 we got coyotes lol
@OG_BiggusDickus 2 жыл бұрын
@@chazdoomy1512 wolves are a reintroduced species not invasive, they were all killed because people are scared of everything, or couldn't couldn't bothered to actually protect their cattle, easier to kill everything that could eat them and leave them unattended.
@chazdoomy1512 2 жыл бұрын
@@OG_BiggusDickus how did you get any of that from a simple fact I stated?
@OG_BiggusDickus 2 жыл бұрын
@@chazdoomy1512 you replied to a comment about invasive species about wolves how could I infer anything else? Why else would you be talking about something you would have us believe is completely off topic did you reply to the wrong comment?
@Tex_Mex_A_Lex 2 жыл бұрын
I've seen a lot of Brown Anoles in Houston largely around West U, but recently found 2 this past summer in my home (south Houston, close to Pearland)
@redwinghawk5049 2 жыл бұрын
There's brown anoles in Florida too, took me years to discover they're not native to the State
@DanielGarcia-pw9oz 2 жыл бұрын
I live in south Houston too lmao
@masonsmonsters 2 жыл бұрын
There are so many brown anoles here, it's rare for me to see greens anymore. I'm in north Houston by Bush airport.
@DENNIS-384 2 жыл бұрын
First time I saw one was when I lived in La Marque
@Tex_Mex_A_Lex 2 жыл бұрын
@@tobyhorn9641 ???
@stephenking4170 2 жыл бұрын
The heron that arrived by natural migration is, by definition a native species. In NEw Zealand dozens of species of birds and plants , or their forbears originally came from Australia and are considered native if they naturally arrive and naturally establish. This process has been happening for thousands of years before the arrival of man and continues today, with new bird and orchid species having arrived in the last couple of decades.
@StaraptorEagle 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Little Egret is doing the same thing too.
@soko4710 2 жыл бұрын
funnily enough the cattle egret colonised Australia but is only a migrant to New Zealand and just will NOT breed here. I don't think anyone knows why.
@SuperVlerik Жыл бұрын
Same for Green Iguanas in Texas. If this video is accurate, they expanded their territory northwards from Mexico on their own. And of course just as mentioned at the start, borders and boundaries are for the most part just lines on a map.
@Bacopa68 Жыл бұрын
From comments on these videos I have learned that the Laughing Gull just sometimes flies to England or Africa and hangs out. This is the main seagull here in the Gulf/Caribbean region, it's rare anywhere else in the US.
@vanillaweaselurbex 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, do a Washington invasive species one please!
@michaelweeks9317 2 жыл бұрын
Nice work. I enjoyed watching it and learned a lot!
@abiezerEscude Жыл бұрын
7:36 Thank you for giving Puerto Rico a mention with the green iguanas. They’ve been a problem since before I was born. When I visit my family there, there never fails to be a wandering iguana to welcome us haha. My uncle and grandpa hunted them when they ate their flowers or the eggs from their chickens. I actually saw my uncle skin one my grandpa had shot once. It was a once in a lifetime experience to see how he expertly cut the choicest parts of the animal. He even gave me the hind feet and some of the hide once he’d tanned it (I know it might sound creepy, but the back feet work great as back scratchers when you tape them to a stick). This was a little long but what I wanted to say was I appreciate it.
@EliteStricker 2 жыл бұрын
Best time for axis deer is may-august also considered exotic so no closed season, you can also hunt year round, hunting license required. Also better to shoot one lease or someone's property you know that has then. Shooting from the roadway in Texas is illegal
@kaminari1028 2 жыл бұрын
I love in the Texas hill country. Luckily I don’t have any hogs on my property, but they’re all over the place. We also have a lot of axis deer around here that are from Asia and Europe I think. Edit: we also have a ton of Mediterranean house geckos. I’m not sure if the geckos or axis deer are really a problem, though?
@Bacopa68 Жыл бұрын
The house geckos have been a thing in the coastal cities for decades. I think they like houses and buildings, but don't really like woods and prairie. State law allows hunting with no limits year round on those axis and sika deer. If you can't do it yourself and you have some land, I'm sure you can find someone who will. They will give you a few prime cuts of venison and some deer sausage as payment.
@latedecember2805 2 жыл бұрын
I would like to mention next time about the invasive fish. The snakehead, gold fish, Parana, That displace native species. We also have a invasive species of plant called the great kudzu that can take over large area in the south. It can grow in water as well as on land. Yeah just some future Ideas for you.
@jasonours6957 2 жыл бұрын
He did the snakehead, a few months ago, when he talked about florida
@Hello-mx2yc 2 жыл бұрын
Please do a video about 5 invasive species in Puerto Rico
@edbowen3788 2 жыл бұрын
Please cover Michigan invasive species! I love your channel and am from Michigan and it would be awesome to see it covered.
@dylanlacy9768 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@poadstudios6000 2 жыл бұрын
The brown anoles are virtually impossible to get rid off there in every crack a Crees in Florida
@owenbarnes5284 2 жыл бұрын
Watching this on my 24th birthday 🎂 🥳 another great video btw Tsuki
@TsukiCove 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks man i appreciate it and i happy birthday i hope you have a great day :)
@jeremybiedny2813 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but I think they are called "Chicken of the Trees" because green iguana meat is eaten as an excellent source of protein.
@sarbansengupta6894 2 жыл бұрын
Hello I am a regular follower of your channel and would love it if you cover some of the invasive species of my home country India
@TsukiCove 2 жыл бұрын
I have been thinking about covering India for a long time but so far it's been quite hard to research the invasive species there and a lot of the invasive species in India have also been covered in other videos but i'm sure i will get around to it at some point
@apss5736 2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Can you do videos on Malawi cichlids and top 5 largest tarantulas
@justincraig398 Жыл бұрын
Omg green iguanas are everywhere !! I’m in south Florida , and some of them are HUGE and actually really pretty. Some of them are like a deep orange color … pretty badass.
@finnalexander17 2 жыл бұрын
I’d like to see more videos about canada maybe invasive species from some of the different provinces like you could do british columbia as we have lots of invasive species and since canada is so big you could probably do 3-4 different provinces without it being to difficult because of overlap
@Shimo2130 2 жыл бұрын
I love your intro
@rebel3084 2 жыл бұрын
Nice
@javiergonzalez3047 2 жыл бұрын
I live in Pharr,TX and have a group of about 25 of them behind my apartment of brown Anoles.
@rhondaspeelman1014 2 жыл бұрын
We have brown anoles and cattle egrets as invasive species in Hawaii and they're everywhere, especially in urban environments.
@j.vinton4039 2 жыл бұрын
He should do one for Hawai’i. I’m curious to what other invasive species we have out here. I always assumed the Egrets were native here, the more I know.
@spencerfoster9192 2 жыл бұрын
Red and sika deer are NOT closely related to whitetail and cannot interbreed. They belong to a subfamily more closely aligned with wapiti aka North American elk. Whitetail are in a completely unique subfamily of New World deer including black tailed and mule deer.
@thecrazymodder7382 2 ай бұрын
Humans : you can't leave Africa Cattle egert : bet
@walkflx 2 жыл бұрын
good job tsuki
@rcs3030 2 жыл бұрын
Just what we need. Another fast talking "Brit" telling me about my home state.
@wannabeslav 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do Pennsylvania? We have quite a few that I can think of off the top of my head, like the Praying Mantis and Spotted Lantern Fly.
@austinmajor3288 2 жыл бұрын
Love your videos, is it possible for you to do invasive species in Madagascar?
@thatsmeatman7023 2 жыл бұрын
Howdy from Texas 🤠
@eddwiggins4383 2 жыл бұрын
Gotcha beat here in south Florida It's like living and fishing in a very large pet shop
@ZombieChicken1310 Жыл бұрын
6:48 actually they are called like that because people tend to hunt iguanas and eat them; it's a pretty common thing here in Panama for example, and apparently they do taste just like chicken (but i don't have the stomach for it)
@R34LI7Y 2 жыл бұрын
An invasive plant species that causes huge problems here is middle eastern juniper trees (known as Texas cedar) it spreads like crazy and pollinates at an insane rate. Everyone gets sick for months at a time due to the amount of pollen in the air during the colder times of year, they also mess with the watershed and dry up creeks and ponds. There are companies that eradicate them, but they are so wide spread that we might never get rid of them.
@rothed16 2 жыл бұрын
Are NW Houston, Texas we had a huge problem with the Brown anoles then we had a good freeze in Texas for over a week in Feb 2022 and now I've seen 99% Less brown anoles and more green angles. You should have included Apple snails
@santanarodriguez881 2 жыл бұрын
I live in South Texas (on the border) for most of my life and have never seen any iguanas from Mexico. Plenty of brown anoles around here for sure.
@dragon6irl 2 жыл бұрын
I watched the brown anole takeover in my own backyard. 15 years ago all we had were the green ones, then every year since, it's more and more brown anoles and less greens.
@armchairwarrior963 2 жыл бұрын
Eel is very popular world wide for sushi :P. I think people are eating them all!
@maladude808 2 жыл бұрын
Brown anoles are everywhere in maui and out competed the green ones which sucks but now we also got gold dust day geckos(geico gecko)everywhere also egrets
@timcroshaw 2 жыл бұрын
sika deer r so common in texas , i remember it was everyone’s dream hunt in high school
@williamshotwell5743 2 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about invasive plant species?
@Dr.Ricebowl76 2 жыл бұрын
Ah my home. I've seen a few of these animals.
@rochellek5327 6 ай бұрын
Interesting 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤩🤩🤩
@drvgxn4719 2 жыл бұрын
The brown anoles are interesting, I have many around my house. You can find tones in Hous9
@vladpoofin1759 2 жыл бұрын
That's interesting, I've seen them where I live in Dallas but not many at all. I think it has something to do with our winters being a little colder than down in Houston.
@drvgxn4719 2 жыл бұрын
@@vladpoofin1759 That's true
@Tex_Mex_A_Lex 2 жыл бұрын
Cattle Egrets are common in my neighborhood
@newfee1967 2 жыл бұрын
They say it started in the sixties in Victoria B.C Canada 🇨🇦 when a broader lost his collection of anoles.
@bethanysmith5856 2 жыл бұрын
Oh I think I've seen the 1st one at the Alamo We have a lot of grackles that will hunt them.
@heathenwolf4997 2 жыл бұрын
I seen anoles in MS. They are everywhere in Summer.
@raulmt4 2 жыл бұрын
As you said, Cattle egrets got to Texas by themselves, so that would not count as an invasive species. It is just a natural phenomenon, so its effects are the ones nature wants
@martinstiastny7679 2 жыл бұрын
Sika deer are in Maryland and Suffolk County on Long Island New York
@vladpoofin1759 2 жыл бұрын
The brown anole is an interesting invasive lizard in Texas. I've personally seen one in a garden center in Dallas but never anywhere else. From what I know about them they're not overrunning the state and there populations are mainly centered around urban areas. I know that in most of the state, our winters keep them from becoming too established. However, they do indeed outcompete native green anoles if given the chance. I read that in the Florida Keys they've done exactly that and have just about entirely replaced the green anoles there. But in Texas I don't really see them becoming a big problem, especially in natural environments where native green anoles live.
@Annie_Annie__ 2 жыл бұрын
I live in south Texas and brown anoles are a huge problem down here. It doesn’t get cold enough in the winter to kill many (if any) of them most years and there aren’t many tall trees for green anoles to hide in the tops of. So brown anoles out compete them and eat juvenile green anoles and now green anoles are almost impossible to find, while brown anoles are everywhere. When I was a kid in the 90s green anoles were the norm. We used to catch them all the time. Now my kid can only see them in pet stores or zoos here locally.
@ZathrasParadox 2 жыл бұрын
I've lived in eastern Texas nearly my whole life. We were taught how to live off the land and about different species of animals. Not once in my life have I ever seen a brown anole or a sika deer. We grow 2 large gardens every year and have an abundance of green anoles and green tree frogs. Not far from me I have a friend with a cattle ranch. All we have ever seen on his property are hogs and white tailed deer, but those egrets keep his cattle free of ticks and flies. We've never seen them in either of his ponds, they tend to stay out of the water.
@Annie_Annie__ 2 жыл бұрын
AmericanCryptid Even though the graphic showed brown anoles coming from Florida around the Gulf states to Texas, that’s not how it’s happening. They’re coming in to the port cities first. So, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville are where there are a *lot* of brown anoles. And they’re spreading to the other major cities from there. Brown anoles don’t climb very high up trees, so the only way green anoles are surviving in these areas is to go in to tree tops. But in parts of south Texas, there are no tall trees. Only shrubby mesquites, retamas, and the like. The brown anoles are going to spread beyond the port cities if we don’t do something about them. But Texas doesn’t have a good track record of doing anything about invasive species. Especially small ones.
@Bacopa68 Жыл бұрын
@@Annie_Annie__ Correct, Brown anoles are a port species in Texas, and are dominant in the east side of Houston and a few parts of the west side.
@caseypittman9950 2 жыл бұрын
This hits close to home. I remember in Corpus Christi, the brown anoles are more numerous than the native green. In response, when I caught one, I tried to be humane by breaking the neck with a karate chop and would feed the dead lizards to the birds, which they surprisingly accepted.
@zzernathezebra 2 жыл бұрын
I actively keep an eye on reptiles I see my area. Thankfully, my house has a good native lizard, anole, and skink population. Whenever I see Mediterranean House geckos, I catch them and set up a small living are for them. I get excited when I managed to catch mature females. Thankfully I haven't seen any brown anoles in my area.
@robertward553 2 жыл бұрын
I guess my problem with invasive species is that most of them were brought hear by some idiot who thought it was a good idea, hunting seems to be the main reason. Texas has huge hunting ranches with all sorts of game to hunt. Problem happens when these places go out of business and animals are loose to roam free. Take a look at camels, rabbits and others in Australia.
@jahhger 2 жыл бұрын
There’s a lot of deer-like animals imported from Africa into the ranches in the country side of Texas. They usually aren’t an issue for the native wildlife sine they are in a ranch but some escape the ranches and compete with the native white tailed deer.
@vladpoofin1759 2 жыл бұрын
I was driving out in West Texas and saw a ranch with zebra and blackbucks. I've even seen reports in Texas of people finding warthogs and African porcupines that escaped from game ranches. I hope none of those things get out because we'll have even more problems with our ecosystems.
@robertward553 2 жыл бұрын
@@vladpoofin1759 Exactly, we have people who brought Boars from eastern Europe now all over the south, Pythons in Florida. Hell, Norway rats came on ships in the 1600s, that didn't age well. Asian carp are in some of our rivers, just for a few.
@CelticStar87 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertward553 most of the pythons in FL were the result of a breeding facility being destroyed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. That’s not to say all of them are the result of that, but a good majority are. A lot of invasive species are due to the pet trade and poor education. Goldfish being released into the wild after someone getting tired of it leads to massive amounts of goldfish in the wild. Lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico, also the result of the pet trade. You also have species that find their way due to imports and exports. I believe fire ants came via importing produce from South America. What makes most invasive species worse is that there is no natural predator to keep their populations in check. Burms have been known to eat small alligators (even larger ones depending on the size of the Burm) in addition to a lot of the native mammal and bird populations. Won’t even get into domestic house cats (I keep mine inside).
@johnvaness8445 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, come visit us in Texas.
@calicrixthemodprofessorpol2625 2 жыл бұрын
We have four species of lizard in our yard here in Rancho Maroge California. The brown anole is the most prevalent. I just had assumed that they were native like the rest. They are not skittish like the other breeds. It will just sit there and puff their dew flap a me.
@MagikFingers420 2 жыл бұрын
The first ones were everywhere growing up in the 80s n 90s
@billbertbuzzums8166 2 жыл бұрын
You could make a 2 hour documentary on this subject
@shadygodd 2 жыл бұрын
in a recent video you the hippo was the largest invasive species. maybe do a video on the size??
@matthewzito6130 2 жыл бұрын
There are Sika Deer in Delaware/Maryland also.
@calebrichard3273 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do New Brunswick Canada Next Please
@freedem41 2 жыл бұрын
I have watched the brown anole over many years and seen how they move in short quick jumps that make them more obvious than the greens that move so smoothly they almost seem like a wave moving through a tube temporairly in the shape of a lizard. For this reason any place out and open will sport the Cuban variety but in thick vegetation they cannot hunt or display comfortably, while the greens do very well there and are much harder to see. While where there are no Cuban species the greens take advantage of the more open areas, they manage to divide the ecosystem much better than would seem at first glance. So between the different movements where the Cuban species is very quickly noticed and the greens hard to spot when looking at them, as well as the much thicker preferred habitat of the greens it would take quite a study to get a true picture of their relative abundance.
@OchoVerde 2 жыл бұрын
🔴 Amazing that Brown Anoles are causing problems in Texas. They are reported to be here in South Carolina as well, but I have not seen them....yet. We do have the non-native Horned Lizards, Tegus, and Mediterranean Geckos. 🔴
@erikm8372 Жыл бұрын
FYI: I wish it weren’t so, but the only wolves left in Texas these days (besides captive programs) are, apparently, found in feral & stray dogs’ DNA, in populations living along the coast near Galveston. Historically, the eastern & southeastern areas were the domain of red wolves, which were always found in the southeast USA… the grey/timber wolves were more north & north-central Texas, and the rest of the state was largely left to the Mexican grey wolves, which used to range as far west as southeastern California, through Arizona & New Mexico. Now the state’s carnivores include coyotes, bobcats, cougars, few black bears, and probably 50 (?) or-so ocelots, restricted largely to the protected coastal regions near the Mexican border (near Corpus Christi and south).
@mystiquemushroommoth 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do Wyoming pretty please with a invasive species on top?
@austingross8191 Ай бұрын
We call the cattle egret “tick birds” in East Texas
@Twisted_Logic 2 жыл бұрын
I live out in the country and see cow birds all the time. Had no idea they were invasive!
@sneeringimperialist6667 2 жыл бұрын
We used to have large numbers of starlings and house sparrows in northern Illinois, but I haven't seen any of either in years. Probably due to advances in harvesting technology. Farm equipment spills and wastes less grain. We don't raise oats anymore, either. The native deer and rabbits are out of control without a good predator base. They eat off every tree I plant, and even stripped the bark off of adult 50 year old apple trees.
@CoreyB777 2 жыл бұрын
You can find them lizards every in Texas. They are pretty cool, also PetSmart/Petco tries to sell them for almost 30 bucks. An employee tried to sell me one of them lizards, I asked, " why would I spend 30 bucks on a lizards that I can get for free in my own yard?"
@tomlinfarms4628 3 ай бұрын
The river walk in San Antonio you can look in and see common Plecos stuck to the wall
@nickmeier4098 2 жыл бұрын
You should do a video about the coolest snail & slug species.
@j0505galvez 2 жыл бұрын
Snails and Slugs... SERIOUSLY?
@shinplayzproductions8107 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do North Carolina next?
@tbthedozer 2 жыл бұрын
I have been seeing a large increase in the hawk population here in Minnesota. Maybe it’s a good sign that the old DDT egg shell problem is on the mend. I hope that it’s true for other states as well and maybe they’ll increase in numbers to help control the lizard population?
@MrFkoller 2 жыл бұрын
how much info you think is available about Costa Rica having invasive species?
@LaurenceDay-d2p Ай бұрын
Sika are beautiful animals, and are an asset to Texas, not a problem. They make good eating.
@noahfox99 Жыл бұрын
+Tsuki please do Oklahoma next
@TheLinkszal75 2 жыл бұрын
Growing up I knew the brown anole was invasive but I never once saw one, I did see a lot of Mediterranean house geckos tho
@katrinakeith8066 2 жыл бұрын
Your voice reminds me of Professor Brian Cox! If he spoke a bit faster :)
@tibrokillen111 2 жыл бұрын
Will you do a video about Invasive Species in sweden?
@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ 2 жыл бұрын
When discussing invasive, please point out any for which there are bounties (I don’t know if Texas offers bounties but I know that certain invasive do have bounties in certain states).
@kvd1 2 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video of endangered animals with invasive food sources,
@thekingedofjay1142 2 жыл бұрын
Kentucky next please
@f.w.1318 2 жыл бұрын
Cattle fever ticks form Mexico have been a severe problem in south Texas cattle ranches, the tick is brought over from the migrating Nilgai antelope that was brought to Texas from India, they swim the Rio Grand hand out in Mexico and bring back the tick,
@nensig8243 2 жыл бұрын
You should do 5 invasive species in California, surprised you’ve done less populous states and not one with tons of biodiversity in many different regions
@SuperVlerik Жыл бұрын
Could even do 5 invasive species in Los Angeles!
@aaronjones4287 2 жыл бұрын
I grew up seeing brown anoles all over Miami fl
@scottc346 Жыл бұрын
I'm in South Carolina and I think I saw one of those lizards the other day
@brandonhouston3683 2 жыл бұрын
Them cow birds are all over Oklahoma too I've seen them eat snakes, rats,crawfish, and any insect they see
@chesterjohnson3301 2 жыл бұрын
Broooo we need that Louisiana invasive species 🤞🏾
@Nmethyltransferase 2 жыл бұрын
Sipping chai tea, while watching sika deer, and fearing sharia law coming to my town.
@zachzitzow8306 2 жыл бұрын
Texas had a butload of exotic game ranches, speices of animals from outside north America you can shoot inside the fence
@RicardoHernandezGTX 2 жыл бұрын
When i was a kid there were plenty of green anoles now all i see is the brown anoles every where
@NotMyRealName6 2 жыл бұрын
I still miss my quaker parrot.
@Kenmarshallintereststx 23 күн бұрын
I'm watching this after getting bite or sting from something unknown shortly after jumping off feed trailer and ignored until half hour ago came in to ice but video said don't ice. Now I'm considering going to hospital. Had lots of rain for tx so snake not out of possibility. Don't forget scorpions and what I have night .ares about terrifying giant texas centipede
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