5 American Animals That Have Randomly Appeared In The UK

The ecosystems of north and south america are very diverse and they're are home to many animals that can't be found naturally anywhere else in the world. Some american animals are very important members of their ecosystem and some american animals are only just hanging on to existence. Even though most american animals are very well suited to life in america, they sometimes pop up in other parts of the world. Of course there are many american animals that are invasive in other parts of the world but i will not be focusing on these animals today. Instead i will be focusing on stories where individual or small groups of american animals have popped up in the UK as i will be going through 5 american animals that have randomly appeared in the UK.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Alligator Snapping Turtle
2:30 Alligator Gar
4:19 Striped Skunk
5:27 American Songbirds
6:18 South American Coati
Attributions
Invasive turtle images:
João Manuel Lemos Lima
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Sheila Sund
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Alligator snapping turtle images:
FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
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Coati images:
zoofanatic
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Hans De Bisschop
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Risca canal image:
M J Roscoe
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Alligator gar images:
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Skunk images:
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American bird images:
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Aaron Maizlish
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[@TsukiCove]

I accidentally labeled the red-eared slider as the yellow-bellied slider and vice versa. PLEASE IGNORE the mistake, my bad but they are technically the same species so it isn't too important :)

[@arkprice79]

@TsukiCove, I love your videos

[@GatorMike79]

Hey at least you corrected yourself 👍🏻

[@DatDatflo26]

No worries happens to me to. And yes the are lol anyways always love your videos and have a good one

[@ashcan6]

Oh, we forgive you....THIS time 😉 One of my top 3 favorite channels, hands down.

[@robbieq7814]

Can you make a video about de-extinction? Thank you!

[@laurachapple6795]

Apparently walking your dog in the UK is a great way to discover a cryptid.

[@TsukiCove]

hahaha i was thinking the same thing when making this video

[@dongentle6896]

Or a body.

[@brendandarkside1207]

Yeah what would we do without dog walkers. Would be bodies everywhere

[@joelsaid83]

White Dog Privilege 😂😂

[@skysthelimitvideos]

It’s a great way to discover a cryptid anywhere

[@therealmothman665]

Also American bullfrogs sometimes turn up in the UK, spotted a few giant tadpoles in a warwickshire pond connected to a canal which I photographed and posted online to a citizen science platform where they were confirmed as American bullfrog tadpoles.

[@JustinCase807]

Interesting

[@theotheseaeagle]

American bullfrogs are invasive they eat our native frog species

[@conwaytwitty8018]

That's not good. As someone who grew up in the states outside of the American Bullfrog's native range, I can tell you from experience that those suckers are horribly invasive. Good eating, though. If you don't mind frog legs.

[@Clippidyclappidy]

@@conwaytwitty8018​​⁠​​⁠Yeah, they can be pretty destructive. They’re invasive in the West Coast US aswell and have been responsible for multiple native species being devastated. They’re just too big and eat everything, with no natural predators here. They’re literally called “The Great White of the wetlands” Apparently, they were brought over as food during the California gold rush.

[@Clippidyclappidy]

@@conwaytwitty8018​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Yeah, they can be pretty destructive. They’re invasive in the West Coast US aswell and have been responsible for multiple native species being devastated. They’re just too big and eat everything, with no natural predators here. They’re literally called “The Great White Shark of the wetlands” Apparently, they were brought over as food during the California gold rush.

[@user-lh1ch5yy7q]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but they caught a puma in the Highlands back in the 80s. They called it felicity and sent it to a wildlife park near Inverness

[@Accentor100]

It doesn't surprise me that Coatis are able to survive in the UK. They range into Southern Arizona and New Mexico and in winter it can get quite cold there, especially in New Mexico where it will sometimes snow.

[@therespectedlex9794]

They're cute, I had one crawl all over me at Chester Zoo once.

[@freakcircus6109]

"We believe it's a bear." How no one on the staff recognized a coati despite the cameraperson getting so close to it is beyond me.

[@user-zy3em2df6x]

Mind blowing isn't it. I sitting here in Africa and instantly recognized it as a coati. Probably thought it was a red panda, RSPCA rip!!!

[@zoroearc2582]

I can understand not recognising a coati,they're not a well known animal, but thinking it's a bear?

[@SamBrickell]

I bet that Coati has that he was "mistaken for a bear" listed on his Tinder profile.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@zoroearc2582 indeed... I must admit that i initially thought that it may have been a red panda - until it turned and showed it's profile, when it was clear that it wasn't a red panda and wasn't in fact a bear of any flavour! I really don't know how they could have made such an errant identification - perhaps only the bird specialist was on duty when that call came in!

[@brettbuck7362]

I am reasonably well-informed, and have only vaguely aware that something named a "coati" exists. How would someone presented with on in a completely unexpected context be expected to recognize it.

[@rhiannonm8132]

one of the most shocking things i’ve learned on this channel is that y’all don’t have turtles over there???

[@TsukiCove]

Yeah it's a shame, i would very much like some turtles here. We only have like 6 reptile species

[@therealmothman665]

Not very big but sometimes you get large silkmoths from the USA like luna and polyphemus moths that turn up in the UK from either captive releases or accidental imports.

[@aricstradtmann9972]

Or idk maybe it being an animal that can fly it flew over

[@therealmothman665]

@@aricstradtmann9972 Silkmoths in general don't have the ability to cross oceans very well due to their short lifespans and relatively weak flight. A lot of smaller moths do migrate from far away continents but these ones don't have the capability

[@bonesawmcgraw9728]

It would really stink if the skunk became established in the UK. I am guessing most people in the UK have the pleasure of not knowing what skunks smell like.

[@JustinCase807]

Yes, it would really -stink- if skunks became established there... Har har

[@martykitson3442]

Can not disagree with this statement, ask how i know🤢🛻

[@user-wh8my6sr8l]

Well, if you've played Animal Crossing , you'd know they're great at shining shoes

[@Angel-od1bt]

It’s not going to happen, they’re really rare pets here, and unlike the US where the scent glands can be removed, it’s illegal here. They used to be a little bit more common before descenting them was banned. There’s really only a handful of people keeping them

[@kirstyf]

I spent the summer in the US once, at a summer camp as a councillor, and there was a resident albino skunk that hung around. I don't need to smell that smell anymore than I did in that summer.

[@baryonx9463]

In Ukraine we have once found a rattle snake . Fortunately it was alive and ended up in hands of one pretty respectful and skilled owner

[@doughoward6401]

I used to look for rattlesnakes in Texas. For lunch !

[@brettbuck7362]

@@doughoward6401 And you don't have to look that hard.

[@Bullsquid592]

i remember once near sheffield walking past a thick bunch of grass that was rattling, i would definitely have pushed my luck to catch a glimpse if my friend wasnt trying to keep me safe lol

[@userequaltoNull]

Honestly Rattlesnakes would probably do well in Ukraine.

[@sophieadams4155]

When I was a teenager I saw a Lynx on my garden wall. It was HUGE and had giant paws. Its ears were very iconic too. There is no way I'd have misidentified a domestic cat. My parents also saw it and chased it off and we never saw it on the property since. This was in Staffordshire. Our home was very close to a woodland so I assume our home overlapped with that things territory. I suspected it was living off cats because people in my area kept mentioning their pets never returning and folks believed it was a person behind it but I straight up saw a Lynx roaming free and NOBODY believed me. When my parents reported it they took us very seriously and said people see big cats all the time but nobody else other than the people working there believed us.

[@maevblog9955]

There are also Skunks in the netherlands in the wild. Gaiazoo confirmed that

[@ModelsExInferis]

The RSPCA have long been known to be completely feckin' useless, I'm amazed anyone even bothers phoning them anymore. You're far better off contacting your local wildlife rescue. That's where your money is better spent too.

[@mdf3530]

The only animals that hunt skunks are birds of prey that have poor olfactory receptors. Land predators have learned to avoid them.

[@LondonLabs]

Those green parrots 🦜

[@Joemama55122]

Ah yeah they're Indian not American Indian Ringneck Parakeets theres some blue ones too

[@AquazWild]

Bro, how do you get all these good ideas? These videos are crazy!!

[@TsukiCove]

Thanks man, i'm glad the videos are appreciated :)

[@mikeycraig8970]

In Walton on Thames, in the 90s (don't know if they are still around) there used to be a flock of parakeets, bright green, that used to fly free. When i say a flock, it was upwards of 50 birds. I remember seeing them a few years on the trot so they were definitely established.

[@user-wh8my6sr8l]

A Skunk in London isn't too strange if you've played Animal Crossing ( Kicks)

[@CrimeVid]

A mate of mine found a four foot alligator in the back alley behind his home in in Feltham.

[@polemius01]

The first animal was a real surprise! Funny that the RSPCA thought the coati was a bear! Speaking of exotic animals, Tsuki, do you still keep dwarf channas?

[@waynemay7327]

What's a chana?

[@polemius01]

@@waynemay7327 Snakehead genus. I was being fancy by using "chana." It ought to be "channa." My mistake.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Who buys a alligator snapping turtle as a pet? Good Lord! A "bear" lol, man the people at the RSPCA need to watch some nature shows.

[@brettbuck7362]

That seemed like a bad decision, those things known for biting off fingers. Naming it "Fluffy" seems like a strange choice, also.

[@toyotatacoma1616]

I truly cannot imagine the experience of fishing up an alligator snapper in a shopping basket. That feels like a scenario from a really bizarre dream or nightmare.

[@dosser88]

My uncle swears he saw a racoon in his garden eating from his dog bowl.

[@feiryfella]

He probably did. Escapes do happen and they're very well adapted to our environment. In Germany where they were introduced, they're not considered invasive as they fit so seamlessly into the environment, they don't threaten other species.

[@michaelfrancis7072]

I believe Racoons eat birds eggs, and therefore could pose a danger to any native bird species.@@feiryfella

[@fairydogmother2752]

Could've also been a racoon dog there's been a couple found, I saw one in Wales in the country lanes but it was gone when I'd drove back.

[@dylanglenn5005]

I’ve been looking for a channel with nature videos like this for so long. Amazing work, look forward to whatever you make next!!!

[@Bbeff.Baby.]

Wait a minute I’m still hung up on the fact that the UK has no native turtle species ? I wish there was a video of all native UK animals

[@therealmothman665]

tbf european pond turtles used to be native many many years ago before they got wiped out by weather conditions

[@Daft_Vader]

There are no freshwater turtles, but 6 of the 7 sea turtles are found in the seas around the UK

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

The UK is quite poor in wildlife compared to mainland Europe. Partly because many European species were unable to migrate here after the last ice age before the English Channel flooded, and partly because hunting managed to wipe out many species. I'd love to see lots of formerly native species return - thankfully, beavers and wild boar are reestablishing themselves. Here's hoping wolves and lynx will be next!

[@SamBrickell]

I bet that Coati has that he was "mistaken for a bear" listed on his Tinder profile.

[@sorreldislikespotatoes9882]

Nice video, very interesting. I hadn't heard about any of these

[@mikesaunders4775]

Interesting film. I have heard about Racoons in Kent, but the Coati was a surprise. There are also Aescalapian Snakes (not American) in London and South Wales. The European Pond Tortoise was formerly native to England and could easily re-establish itself here.

[@amm019]

I remember seeing somewhere once that there were skunk farms in the uk for the fur trade, Connection?

[@Angel-od1bt]

Nah, it’ll be an escaped pet, they used to be a little bit more common but the removal of scent glands was banned here, so the people that keep them now have to keep them “fully loaded” lol

[@DezCP3]

That's how Mink got here, fur farms.

[@restionSerpentine]

Have you already done a video on U.K's Alien big cats?

[@Chrisklown]

Labour has prohibited to own big cats. There are now big cats in the wild

[@anniehill9909]

Thanks!

[@TsukiCove]

thank you for your support as always :)

[@jakewilson4679]

Great channel and video, thank you for not using a.i. ❤️

[@garymcguire8529]

The European Pond Turtle was native here during the Pleistocene Epoch, 250 thousand years ago.

[@brucealanwilson4121]

In my mind's ear I can hear this for concertina & bassoon.

[@anniehill9909]

it's really quite alarming how many potentially invasive species escape. As a New Zealander, I am only too aware of what damage they can do. The British government seems criminally casual and irresponsible around the exotice pet trade. As well, most of these animals shouldn't be kept as pets anyway - it's no sort of life for them.

[@cedhome7945]

Biggest invasive species comes in a rubber boat from France

[@jasonallen6081]

Our island has long since been corrupted with all kinds of invasive animals, plants, trees, and shrubs. We have wild wallabies in some places and Asian hornets eating our bees in others. Asian hornets are a worry, and the authorities are removing nest as soon as they are spotted, but there have been numerous cases over the past 5 years. We have colonies of scorpions and snakes, and some people think there are a few wolverines living in the southwest . The wolverines were originally native so they might fit right in and feel at home. There are no native red squirrels in mainland England anymore, but the invasive American grey squirrel is everywhere. We have messed things up pretty badly .

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

Absolutely no problem with skunks surviving the British climate. In Canada they live in places where winters get down to -40C (or F, your choice). They're very eclectic about food and no predator will try to attack one twice. They do well in cities, too.

[@MastodonMann]

No way Pokémon predicted alligator snapping turtles in the UK

[@dubbingsync]

Makes having a Dreadnaw on the team not that Farfetch’d now haha

[@Angel-od1bt]

I used to have a boss with two pet skunks, hers were bought before they (rightly) banned the scent gland removal in the uk, which they still usually do to American pet skunks. They were very sweet actually, kind of like really fat, cuddly, and less bitey ferrets. She just kept them like house cats, they were litter trained and had the run of her house, and they were way friendlier than you’d think. The fact that people still keep them with their glands is insane to me. Not that I think performing unnecessary surgery so they can’t defend themselves if they ever escape is ideal either.

[@martykitson3442]

I mean they ain't supposed to be here but I've seen raccoons in Alaska so nothing is "too" surprising

[@starofdabloc]

Well I mean raccoons are Native to North America so why wouldn’t they show up there?

[@yancostamoreira2264]

im suprised that quatis was somehow found in UK

[@phubblewubbphubblewubb]

Why people buy exotic pets and dump them when they realise they can't manage them is beyond me.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

How does the UK not have any turtles in their ecosystems? They would fit right in with all the ponds and creeks. I'm surprised their isn't more diversity there even if certain things aren't native but introduced a while ago in the past

[@andypandy407]

The uk could potentially reintroduce European pond turtles soon

[@mkgaming5823]

Because the UK eco-system has been fucked for a long time Fun fact the UK was a Temperate rainforest for a long time (Some places still are but are very small areas) Shit looking at maps where I live was a simple clearing in a massive forest that only disappeared sometime after the Normans at the earliest. So a lot of the UKs species were simply built for a different environment The ones that survived were already highly adaptable or already more suited for what the land was changing in too, and then the population of people increased and due to well us being a Island a lot were hunted to extinction like bears and wolves

[@benmcreynolds8581]

@@mkgaming5823 it actually pisses me off when I think about how much the habitats have been screwed up in the UK and Ireland. They used to have dense temperate rainforests. I'm born & raised in NW Oregon & we still have old growth patches around here. I wish we could still see habitats like that around the UK or Ireland.. I hope they start rewilding SOON. I hope they do it here in Oregon too. We need a lot more beavers to bring back our wetland habitats and all the biodiversity that comes with that. I don't know why it's taking so long to get rewilding projects going? They just need to start doing it. The more our surroundings flourish the more we flourish

[@verycool6022]

They did have a turtle species but because it’s been gone for a long time and didn’t ‘naturally’ come back it’s now considered invasive. Which is weird but now some people are considering to bring them back.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Beavers have been reintroduced in Devon and parts of Scotland. They are doing good work helping the environment. Wild boar have been back in the Forest of Dean for quite a long time.

[@edi9892]

That turtle has also been spotted in multiple German lakes and even caused some injuries in a lake used for bathing!

[@1998topornik]

Animal randomizer at its finest.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

When you install a randomizer and Iudex is replaced by Sister Friede

[@CameronDettmanMusic]

There are a few groups of peacocks living in Las Vegas, Nevada currently. There’s a group that lives near my parents house.

[@samuelhonywill4499]

I grew up in a small town near Bath which has a very large population of peacocks thanks to the owner of the nearby stately home 100 years ago or so who brought them back from India.

[@BillyCrabtree-ob6py]

I saw a box tree moth a few months ago.

[@anymii6045]

Everything appear randomly in uk like rosetta stone ,birds die in gallilee ,sophilos vase ,bust of ramesses the great .its like anywhere door

[@JackNap1er14]

I remember back in the 2010s when I mentioned to my 2 bosses that it wouldn't surprise me if I see a bunch of Wallabies hopping across the road whilst being chased by a panther or large cat (beast of Bodmin anyone?)

[@DamicoP0161]

Please make a video of the opposite, uk animals found in America

[@mrmakovec6198]

Nicknaming the turtle "Fluffy" is like naming some other brutal animal something cute :D *looks at pitbulls*

[@murder13love]

An iguana was spotted in the grass in Plymouth afew days ago, with the extremely cold snap we have had, im not sure if it will survive

[@AwesomeFish12]

I think I read something about a breeding population of wallabies in France, there was some debate about whether to try to eradicate them.

[@Fearbaldrick0161]

What about the big cats spotted in Doncaster?

[@dubbingsync]

Or anywhere else where nature is still a bit more expansive?

[@melo7591]

Coatimundi what did you call it?? 😅😅

[@thecrazymodder7382]

Aaahhh i see my teleporter works without causing a reasonce casscade let me tell Barney Calhoun, hes still traumatized from the "cat" incident.

[@snipost]

The beautiful atlas moth has turned up in the UK in gardens before

[@starofdabloc]

It’s crazy that the UK doesn’t get lightning bugs 😳

[@stephenbesley3177]

Tip of the iceberg. Wallabys; rodents of various types; parrots; terrapins and who knows what else.The rewilding project is doing good work with beavers; elk; bison etc but some folk have no sense of responsibility

[@cedhome7945]

Rainbow trout, wallabies, stone loach in Scotland,coypu in Norfolk false widow spider , scorpion around docks in Kent

[@andrewhutchinson8025]

Green ring necked parakeets in Hartlepool north east England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. I see them flying over our house every morning and mid afternoon up to a hundred in a flock but more years ago

[@andrewhutchinson8025]

And also turtle's in the local park pond. You see them basking in the sun frequently

[@johntodd3910]

Animals in places they shouldn’t be in is getting weird

[@user-vt2zx5nh3c]

😂😂i live in risca 😂i remember this 5 minutes from my house when we had a huge rain storm😂l8er found out that someone had it as a pet in their indoor aquarium!! Also the canal from crosskeys to risca pontymister is loaded woth terrapin turtles

[@TsukiCove]

I have a friend that lives in Risca so I've been there a few times and I feel sorry for you haha, At least the surrounding hills are pretty and there are a few nice walks

[@user-vt2zx5nh3c]

@TsukiCove i couldnt agree more 🤣🤣🤣i live my countryside but cant stand the oxygen thieves around me .its like a holding pen for the Jeremy kyle show

[@user-vt2zx5nh3c]

Ty sign for life 🤣🤣

[@user-vt2zx5nh3c]

If you want to go on a poverty safari..come to risca we even have our own hollywood at the top of the ancient hill aka hollyroad ,here housed some of the more unfortunate offspring .you will see their animal instincts kick in when they go back to their roots and use the councils scaffolding as a climbing frame .almost like a neanderthal climbing a tree

[@sebazufitness487]

Bruuh, the RSPCA be high af 😂

[@GamerBruh13]

I’m surprised he didn’t mention the walrus that was found in London

[@timokarff6162]

With this "reptile- and fish-like creature" I first thought of something prehistoric like Tiktaalik...

[@froggggggieee]

i thought it was a snakehead😭

[@billwheeler1213]

I thought skunks were native to France ? No,? (Did Lunny Toones lie to me all these years 😢)

[@CheatsythePimp2]

Poor coati missing its tail...

[@InkDropFalls]

Not on list could be .... 1- London's parakeets 2-Big Cats Sightings 3- Great White shark 3- Whale in the Thames

[@Coo85372]

Dolphins in the river Mersey

[@jakubbuzuk2912]

that turtle looked deep fried

[@rahjah6958]

“What the fuck is that huge object in the water there, I shall scoop it up!” Most British shit ever

[@ungenbunyon5548]

My brother found a gecko in bristol we took it to a pet shop and the shop owner suspected it had accidently been imported on plants as it wasnt a gecko typicaly kept as a pet

[@attackman4458]

I hope people know about the wallabies in the UK! They’re insane.

[@daliborjovanovic510]

6:35 Shit, what happened to its tail? Was it bitten off by dogs?

[@Guineaest_ofHOODels]

Coooool

[@OnkyoGrady]

Honestly guys, these turtles aren't a big deal. We have common snappers everywhere in Ny. Yes they are huge and can in theory remove your dangle-y bits, but it never happens. Picking them up is harder than it looks, their heads can shoot out really far and snap closer to the back of the shell than you'd think. On the whole though their fine, people eat them, even rooting around for them in the mud, and they never depopulate ponds etc...

[@ashtonmyers218]

Me after hearing the name of the turtle:ofc it's name is fucking fluffy bro

[@austinhornbeck5060]

Imagine thinking a coati is a bear XD

[@terrybush2032]

Used to have fresh water turtles about 8000 years ago

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

Skunks in london how fitting

[@Halfdanr_H]

We had a couple of Raccoons running around in Sunderland the other week. I love them, but I can understand why they would be unsuitable for our native wildlife to live with.

[@primesspct2]

Skunks would be bad news.!

[@fabulously695]

Skunks aren’t illegal? One of my friends who has skunks was told if she didn’t have them sterilised, they’d be confiscated and it’s now illegal to breed them. So while technically it’s not illegal to keep them, it is impossible to buy or import them

[@markdawson4292]

South American armoured suckermouth Catfish...coulda just called it a Pleco mate or Plecostomus

[@ivywalker7989]

I live in risca and remember this

[@Specogecko]

How would u mistake a coati as a bear. RSPCA needs a look over lol

[@fairydogmother2752]

You missed out racoon dogs.

[@imzadiwhite4778]

The skunk looks more like a honey badger to me. Still non native!

[@Joemama55122]

Poor fish sounds like a very sad life rip

[@keegandecker4080]

If the coati are raccoon relatives, they’ll outlive the island. Trash pandas rule the waves.

[@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

UK be like “omg a deadly American snapping turtle 🇺🇸 “. I live in the south, we have nature trails in alligator habitats. Yes those alligators, you can just walk the trails at your own risk, the gators are spotted frequently and have ponds you can walk around. All of this is in copperhead/rattlesnake/water moccasin habitat and hell I’m sure I could find some snapping turtles there too. The uk government would close that shit down for good

[@mikesaunders4775]

The British media always hypes up out of place animal reports as it does with weather stories. The general public here would not react too differently from Americans with regard to these creatures.

[@Elephant-Puppet]

Isn’t there water buffalo’s in the uk

[@michaelfrancis7072]

Yes, but they are not in the wild.

[@Soundofwindonsand]

Every city in the US, and anywhere grain grows, are all packed full of Starlings and " English" sparrows You heard me say "English" right ?

[@stevebarlow3154]

Whereas here in England and the UK in general sparrows have become rare or at least uncommon.

[@shaunpowell7513]

Wow I would love a racoon

[@jennylee9278]

It's just a little pay back for the starlings in the U.S. and don't get me started about Australia.

[@SDPSacramento]

How did this happen? Did they swim?

[@TsukiCove]

nope but some flew

[@Vikface1978]

Mostly released pets I think.

[@David-bw7is]

Turtles a rare sight??....The lake literally a stones throw from my house has dozens of them. About the turn of the Millennium so a few years ago, the Council decided to turn the area into a nature reserve (Good for me as my house price shot up as my garden backs onto the reserve :-D ) while doing this they found a few Turtles/Terrapins, thinking they must have been dumped when they got too big and after the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles craze ended, the council decided to try and cull them because of the danger to the native birds/fish etc but then they were told most would die off during the Winter months in the UK......Jump forward 25 years and there's a healthy population of Turtles. Every Spring and Summer you'll see them sat on the bank or on fallen tree trunks, they're so common now that they even made the Information boards around the reserve so people know what they are looking at and they literally had no effect on the natural wildlife, everything naturally settled down. In fact most ponds and lakes around here have a turtle population and with Winters not being as bitterly cold as they were which would've naturally killed a lot off these populations will grow.

[@wika1117]

Alligator Snapping Turtle named Fluffy 🤣

[@slugworthy1]

The UK is playing with fire, considering the fact that the UK is rabies free

[@ericg5791]

Ah yes. The Royal Society of People Confusing Animals. They are sponsoring Crufts this year,but the poor buggers can't get around why so many pigs have been entered for the competition this year.!

[@jeffreywickens3379]

Skunks are harmless.

[@michaelfrancis7072]

Skunks eat birds eggs, so they are not harmless.

[@Anonymous-vr9hp]

Birds that are blown over by weather shouldn't be counted as invasive because it's a natural occurrence.