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.
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
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
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.
@@erikm8372 All True but there are regular reports of animals on game cams on the Texas Louisiana border that appear to be pure or close to pure Red Wolves
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
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.
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 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 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?
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
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
Males can be distinguished by the dewlap background color. Brown Anole - orange dewlap Green Anole - pink dewlap For females, see FireoftheGreeks reply above.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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).
I'm surprised you didn't mention one of the most damaging invasive critters in Texas. They've started migrating from places like California and New York. They mostly infest large metropolitan areas like Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, etc. and make them mostly uninhabitable.
We've got an overpopulation of those "critters" here in the North East. There have been attempts at controlling the breeding, so far little results. ;-)
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.
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.
🔴 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. 🔴
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.
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
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.
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
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?"
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
Sika are dark in color and smaller than axis and whitetail. I'm not sure who gathered the photos for this video, but i believe some of it is incorrect. Fallow and axis look similar, but their antlers are different.
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.
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.
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?
The most endangered invasive species is possibly a European eel, and if its critically endangered, it should possibly get a vaccine for the disease and parasites they are carrying. And this invasive introduction could help this species bounce back from extinction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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).
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,
