And yet another animal on the loose

[SeaCat]

So now we are getting reports of another non native animal on the loose down here in southern Florida. This one is called the Tegu and is a lizard that fills the same ecological niche as the Monitor Lizard.

Cat

 

[3113]

What Kind?

What kind of Tegu? The red tegu are the biggest of the species and really, really ugly:

http://www.hilozoo.com/images/reptiles/r_tegu3.jpg

Or are you talking about a bunch of smaller tegus breeding and taking over an ecological niche?

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/irschick/Tegu_final.jpg

 

[SeaCat]

What kind of Tegu? The red tegu are the biggest of the species and really, really ugly:

http://www.hilozoo.com/images/reptiles/r_tegu3.jpg

Or are you talking about a bunch of smaller tegus breeding and taking over an ecological niche?

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/irschick/Tegu_final.jpg

All,

It seems people are letting them loose when they get too big to care for easily. (Much like they have been doing with the Iguana's and Pythons.)

Cat

 

[3113]

All, It seems people are letting them loose when they get too big to care for easily. (Much like they have been doing with the Iguana's and Pythons.)

Hm. I wonder what Florida's ecosystem will be like in fifty years....

 

[SeaCat]

Hm. I wonder what Florida's ecosystem will be like in fifty years....

Good question and one I don't have an answer to.

There are Pythons in the Everglades.
There have been reports of Pirhana's in the local ponds.
We are being over run with Iguana's.
The number of American Crocodiles is increasing.
Alligators are becoming even bolder.
The State of Florida is making it even more difficult to hunt any of these animals.

Cat

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Good question and one I don't have an answer to.

There are Pythons in the Everglades.
There have been reports of Pirhana's in the local ponds.
We are being over run with Iguana's.
The number of American Crocodiles is increasing.
Alligators are becoming even bolder.
Snakehead Fish increasing.
The State of Florida is making it even more difficult to hunt any of these animals.

Cat

I was just watching a program on the Animal Channel about the Snakehead Fish population exploding in Florida. Seems someone just let a bunch go in the everglades hoping they would breed. They are supposedly decimating the local fish.

I added it to your list for ya.
S

 

[TE999]

There are no less than eight species of parrots,macaws, mynahs and budgies that have bred successfully down here...mostly in south Florida. They were escapees when Hurricane Andrew destroyed the MetroZoo aviary and others were releases and runaways.

The Cuban Brown Lizard is overtaking the native Anole lizard population, 'imported ' toads are overtaking the native toads and any number of insects, blights and parasites that harm plants and flowers have found their way here.

Florida's fast becoming an ecological disaster zone.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

We have a batch of parrots gone feral in SoCal, too, but they have turned out to be no problem, at all. The others, on the other hand, would be a real problem if they survived here. Fortunately, they don't.

 

[JackLuis]

Florida's fast becoming an ecological disaster zone.

The only hope for America is to Nuke Florida now!

Where's Johnson live, anyway?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The only hope for America is to Nuke Florida now!

Where's Johnson live, anyway?

No, just cut a deep, wide canal through the state and let the Gulf mix with the Atlantic...make it an island state.

Oh, wait that might cause the gulf stream to change it's course and just fuck up everything. Yeah, better to nuke Florida.

 

[TE999]

The only hope for America is to Nuke Florida now!

Where's Johnson live, anyway?

He's on the west coast, nuke that...SeaCat and I live on the east coast.

 

[3113]

The State of Florida is making it even more difficult to hunt any of these animals.

You can't hunt iguanas?

 

[TE999]

You can't hunt iguanas?

Sure...but have you ever tried skinning one? They do taste like chicken.

 

[MzDeviancy]

Not taking a shot at you SeaCat. This thread just reminded me of this, which makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

 

[sereneone4u]

I was just watching a program on the Animal Channel about the Snake Fish population exploding in Florida. Seems someone just let a bunch go in the everglades hoping they would breed. They are supposedly decimating the local fish.

I added it to your list for ya.
S

I was just going to post that!

 

[Handley_Page]

Not taking a shot at you SeaCat. This thread just reminded me of this, which makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

Bullshit expensive Technology; bloody brilliant.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I was just going to post that!

Brilliant minds think alike. And us pretty people must stick together too!

 

[trysail]

So now we are getting reports of another non native animal on the loose down here in southern Florida...

Cat

The temptation to insert a very politically incorrect comment was nearly overwhelming but— unlike certain parties around this joint— I have exerted a modicum of self-control.

As ever, nature abhors a vacuum. The irresponsibility of people knows no bounds.

"The only thing that can screw up a nice day is people."
-Ernest Hemingway​

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Just think of those other invasive populations in Florida...

The Spanish made a pretty good start at fucking up the ecosystem, and then the British. Not to forget a few waves of their descendents...you know, drain the Everglades and clear cut the Okefenokee...maybe a land boom would be a good idea...at least we stil lhave some Art Deco down there...

 

[SeaCat]

Not taking a shot at you SeaCat. This thread just reminded me of this, which makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

That was good, thanks for the link.

Cat