Article with cool pic

[marisa]

If this was already posted, delete this message...I must have missed it.

Good article and neat pic of alligator and burmese.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10/22/predators.in.paradise/index.html

Marisa

[Nicky]

intresting read, and not bad pic either.

[Shad0w]

heheh nice!

I guess burms make good eats for ally's in the wild :)

[JonD]

Great article Marisa! Folirda has quite a few "pets" that have established wild breeding populations. I wouldn't be suprised if there are alot of other types on non native snakes there too.

[paul vader]

Ummm...that's just the same as almost everywhere in the world now...it's too bad when naive species are over-run by non -natives...I wonder how many animals in Ontario are now non-native and on the loose...:(

[RFB]

Another great example of why there should be restictions on the import of exotics with certain species being excluded from the pet trade entirely.

[CamHanna]

Originally posted by Paul Vader
I wonder how many animals in Ontario are now non-native and on the loose

I think Ontario's pretty good for exotic escapees.

According to the NHIC we have:

Amphibians: None Exotic
Reptiles: Pond Slider
Mammals: Nutria, Fox Squirrel, Norway Rat, Black Rat, House Mouse, European Hare and American Bison
Birds: Ring-Necked Pheasent, European Starling, Mute Swan, House Sparrow, Gray Partridge, House Finch, Rock Dove, Eurasian Collard Dove, Monk Parakeet and Eurasian Tree Sparrow

We've got about a million introduced fish and inverts.

I was surprised that we have introduced bison; here's the story
Escaped individuals from a 1939 release near the Burwash Prison Farm, south of Sudbury (Sudbury Dist.), persisted for a number of years; there have been no recent reports of Bison persisting at this locality.