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by mrmincent 1075 days ago
I’d like to think this is the exact same conversation that gave Australia it’s 2nd favourite purse material, the cane toad.
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And New Zealand it's near-extinct endemic birds, thank to mustelids.
The brought-in-for-some-purpose, escape-to-bush, become-feral, become-pest worked also for cats, dogs, horses ... up-to camels. I am not aware of Australian Feral Elephants but it may exist.
It gave Hawaii no less than thirty-four species of insects introduced as attempted biocontrol of an introduced shrub Lantana. Which still grows freely