BRITISH FAMILY REACTS! 8 of Florida's Most Invasive Species!

[@barrydraper]

As a Floridian, I'm a bit surprised they didn't mention the largest invasive snake, the Anaconda.

[@realfloridaredneck1988]

The absolute worst invasive species in our home state has to be Yankees. Specifically the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania breeds.

[@BigCheifJJ]

I’ve lived in Florida my whole life from Miami to Tampa and have never come across these animals. Now I do know where to go find them. But have yet to come across them in everyday life. I find iguanas more annoying than anything else in Florida. 😂😂

[@adambrown3918]

Are the Florida humans dangerous?

[@beanscollections2020]

@@adambrown3918 I live in FL for half the year. Being from up north it was for sure the little geckos and giant cockroaches that bothered me the most. Geckos are cute, until you find one running around in your kitchen.....then it makes you wonder what they are getting into in your kitchen lol.

[@greg_cooks]

@@adambrown3918oh hell ya

[@joshuacoldwater]

@@adambrown3918 yes, yes they are 😂

[@onionhead5780]

I’ve lived in Fort Lauderdale my entire life and seen many Cane Toads when I was younger in the 70’s and 80’s. Not any recently though. I see Lion fish every time I’m scuba diving. They’re everywhere. Also seen a couple pythons while gigging frogs in the Everglades in an air boat with friends. Not seen anything else on that list. The invasive iguana should be on that list. They’re everywhere. I’ve dispatched about 2 dozen in my backyard in the past 2 years.

[@christophermckinney3924]

Every year in the everglades there are massive snake hunts for pythons where people can kill as many as they want to kill. They hvae a pefect breeding ground. No predators, plenty of wild pigs as a food source, and a perfect reptile climate of heat and humidity. Once while traveling late at night across "Alligator Alley" from Naples to Miami, I saw three laying across the road gathering heat from the still hot pavement. When I say they were "across" the road I mean they extended from one side of the road to another.

[@gr8t1bobo]

I live in central Florida in the city but we still see a few animals here. My next door neighbor had a coral snake(one of most venomous) and a bobcat weeks before that. Alligators are everywhere, I have been chased by 1😂. And at night we have to watch the dog outside because of the toxic frogs that can kill them

[@kwalsh1968]

I lived in Boynton Beach and now Lake Worth and I've seen the cane toad in both places. There are currently hundreds of babies around and the toads can kill small pets and make humans sick.

[@scotthill1600]

Genuinely agree, I’m from NC & would never move to FL, simply bc you can’t get into the water (in my opinion) maybe you local FL ppl feel differently but I’d only feel safe in pools. I love the beaches here in NC & yeah I could get eaten by a shark but if that happens then it happens, but in FL I’d have to keep a close eye on my dog, not let it in the water & not go in myself either. From what I’ve seen online & in person when visiting family there, crocs / gators are everywhere. I like being able to go into the ocean or woods without fear of getting eaten by a gator or croc

[@jeffmorse645]

These are mostly an issue in South Florida. I'm moving to NE Florida this year and it doesn't have any of those large reptiles. While the climate is mild in the winter, it can have regular cold snaps that keep those animals in the south part of the state. The city I'm moving to had about three nights in a row this past winter around 20-30F during a particularly cold week.

[@iranbarnes2]

The lion fish problem had episodes of Sea Hunt in the 50s and Flipper in the 60s. Both said they were releases from pet industry.

[@TaMara_x]

Gaynors stories are the best! 😂❤

[@Riptionator]

I spent half the video watching Sophie's face 😂

[@tdsportscards]

I live near Cape Coral, the monitors are well known on the barrier islands...they talked about hybrid pythons but also in the everglades are the boas, they can grow to be 20ft and some have been found with alligators in them... there's a cane frog that hangs around the back door near my work, seen it tonight, about 6-7 inches...the lion fish is a bad one, they kill anything small and easily take over territory...another one is the American croc, in the everglades they have found 5 crossbreeds of the alligator and croc, very dangerous and fast...keep an eye on your small pets in Florida, they come up missing all the time...cougars, foxes, and wolves are kinda common in wooded areas...almost forgot another bad one, brown lucrus spiders, they'll make 1 inch puss pockets on you that reacure once you've been bitten by one

[@jackyray6088]

There's a frog in the senora desert that has a gland that release a liquid that's dried up and smoked. It's suppose to be equivalent to DMT.

[@Batanuhtanah]

Toad*

[@stocks1000]

When I was growing up in San Diego, California we had a reptile pet store about a half hour from my house. They had a Nile Monitor that was at least 6 to 7 feet long that they had in a huge wooden cage at the back of the store. If you got there at the right time you could watch them feed it whole chickens. I couldn't believe that it could eat as much as it did. It was like watching an alligator eat.

[@prettybullet7728]

A friend of mine moved out of her apt after spotting a rat as big as a cat. Not sure how big of a cat she meant but it was big enough that it scared her into moving immediately.

[@GeeButtersnaps]

Hey OB family! Big ups from Miami FLA Invasive species has been a huge problem here for decades. Around here, there's Iguanas, Agamas (a black lizard w red and yellow head native to Africa), Taeko geckos (from SE Asia and are really colorful cool) Big snakes and snails are frequently caught. It's a jungle down here!

[@04m6gto]

And house cats. Lets not forget the worst of all invasive species.

[@stormcrow7838]

When it gets cold enough down in Florida during the winter, I always see the news stories about the lizards down there "freezing" and falling out of the trees like ripe fruit. That must be a sight seeing stiff lizards lying on the ground.😃

[@babygirl6054]

I live in Tallahassee Florida and I’ve never come across any of these. I’ve seen plenty of gators and crocs but not the kind they were talking about.

[@lynnfish3653]

My brother lived in Tampa, and would run with a baseball bat during alligator mating season. He was a marathoner and would run early in the day due to heat. He often spoke about the Python hunts that the state conducted. I'll stay in the north thank you. Winter kills all these things

[@zacbowen4770]

Over here in Oklahoma when I was little and my grandpa was in the garage working we would have a Fox that would come in the garage and I remember sharing sandwiches with the fox it was cool

[@vincekemper7753]

Crows are so smart. They figured out if they flip the Cane Toads over on their back they can spear the underbelly of the toad and kill it. This way they get a nice meal avoiding the poison on the back of the road.

[@marine5480]

One of the only places where if it gets cold a falling iguana warning is issued.

[@reggiebrown9508]

Rats have killed 2 car's of mine 20 years ago, during the winter they go under the hood of cars to keep warm and you turn the car on if there by the fan belt the rats gets cut in half and fan belt go's off track. It happened twice, pop open the hood and it would be chicken bones from food they would eat under the hood.

[@mintjulius275]

I've kept pet rats. They're actually awesome little critters

[@shirlguidry5518]

I about died on the spot when I saw a Pack Rat. 😂

[@davidcosta2244]

After the second gulf war, troops that returned to the Miami area brought camel spiders, which can grow up to three feet across. Florida has hunting seasons for the pythons to control the population.

[@jacquelinedawson7219]

Three feet…. 😂😂😂 I lived in Middle East for a year. We had them but not quite.

[@lanemimnaugh7486]

Cool story... Google says; camel spiders are two to three inches in size plus with legs that are several inches long. 😁

[@eroccha]

@@lanemimnaugh7486 They are max 6 " and the biggest species Goliath Birdeater are up to 12".

[@eroccha]

There is no hunting season for pythons in Florida. You can hunt them 365 days a year. They want them eradicated not controlled.

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

My area has copperhead snakes coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes a little further west rattlesnakes. Also brown recluse and black widow spiders. We also have bears, bob cats and coyotes.

[@Batanuhtanah]

Should look up what Invasive Species means.

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

@@Batanuhtanah I'm not stupid I was just relating the dangerous NATIVE animals in my area

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

@@Batanuhtanah gfy

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

@@Batanuhtanah do you feel better you pointed this out? Did it make you feel superior? Wow just wow

[@mpdw3j]

I’m a native Floridian born in north Florida and now living in south Florida and I’ve never seen any of these animals here.

[@cosmicthespider7974]

I’ve got a family of foxes that have denned in my backyard. They’re so cute with their babies. But they make a terrifying yell sound at night as an alert call.

[@HappyValleyDreamin]

There's a video of a man who got out of the car, trying to scare an alligator that was blocking the road. The alligator started chasing the man and his wife panicked and locked the door, so the man had to hop up on the hood of the car. I think it was AFV. Anyway, its hilarious.

[@Song_about_a_girl]

The only animal I’ve encountered in FL are rattlesnakes and alligators. The gators are chill if you stay away. Same is true of rattlesnake. Basically just watch your step and you’ll be more than fine

[@BrandonPerry-pj7ln]

@Office Bloke Daz gaynor you were taking about a colorado river toad and another frog that produces 5meo-DMT. *would be a cool video for yall to react to, just a thought* natives irritate the toad, rub a spear on the secretion, then stab themselves in the arm with it. The hamilton morris vice episode would be good to react to. 👍

[@cuteandfluffypikachu3405]

I’m supposed to be going to New York February next year so I’m watching this for research 😂🤣😂🤣

[@AppalachiaRRlover]

i live in florida and have yet to come across these invasive species well other than a tegu most those species stay well inland away from humans. Gators are still more prevalent and I see them on occasion here on the C24 canal in the Treasure Coast

[@bobwillis9190]

Hello neighbor, PSL

[@vincentcorrigan5209]

You must have been an awesome Gerbil monitor... lol 😆

[@limeygaynor]

😂 the best

[@twenty3enigma]

Bufotenin (5-HO-DMT, bufotenine) is a tryptamine derivative, more specifically, a DMT analog, related to the neurotransmitter serotonin. It is an alkaloid found in some species of mushrooms, plants and the skin of many toads. So, yeah. Licking a toad can get you high. But you probably are running the risk of getting warts along with the buzz.

[@gregcable3250]

Or dying from chosing the wrong kind of toad--a poisonous one.

[@brl0522]

Rats are very sweet and form relationships with their owners.

[@gregorydicenzo6643]

Life long Floridian and haven't had a problem with any of them but the frog. You will rarely see the dangerous ones and they are not as dangerous as you think.

[@Out-Of-Service]

I've lived in Cape Coral for the past 2 years. I have never seen anything on this list. It said Nile Monitor lizards were here but I've never seen one, nor have I met anyone here who has seen one. The only invasive species we see are the iguanas. They are everywhere but they usually run away before you can get close to them. You can come to Florida, most likely you won't see any of these unless you go looking for them. I've only seen 2 alligators in 2 years and they were both on golf courses. The tiny no-see-um bugs that bite the piss out of you scare me more than anything on this list.

[@debbylou5729]

Yeah, I lived in Montana in an area that saw several large housing developments go up during the fall/early winter. Rattlesnake nests were found in many of the lots. I didn’t really believe it…I hadn’t seen any. Yeah, right. I wasn’t looking for the tiny brown very poisonous variety, I was looking for diamond backs. They’re probably all around you

[@eroccha]

If you were going to see them in Cape Coral, it would be more around the canals and areas where the houses are sparser. Gators you can see all the time in Ft. Myers. All the canals in Ft' Myers have gators.

[@TKDragon75]

To be clear, Florida only has "LOTS" of American Alligators. The American Crocodile population is much smaller and more restricted. As for saltwater and nile crocodiles, those are invasive usually from being released from captivity in the animal trade.

[@aryaready4492]

I've lived in New Mexico my whole. Never knew there was a Gulf of New Mexico 😂. (he says lion fish have been found in northern gulf of new mexico)

[@MulberryBuccaneer]

What a hilarious moment, the "awkward pause"! :D I laughed when everyone got quiet and looked at Gaynor. But even funnier was when ya'll looked at Sophie, as if she was the one with the answer or experience in hallucinations! Waaaaahahahahaha!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3ndZHuNhdaLqtE

[@firefighterchick]

A lot of these invasive species got to Florida from the airports. People trying to transporting them for the illegal animal trade. The American alligator and American crocodile are quite docile compared to Nile and Saltwater Crocodiles.

[@michelleturner6865]

There is a native viper in the UK.

[@gk5891]

My girlfriend said she wasn't scared of rats either until she came face to face with a 10 kg Nutria.

[@donfishing]

#1 - New Yorkers

[@cherylflam3250]

😂😂

[@TaMara_x]

I'm from NY and that's funny asf! 😂

[@mariandenk8613]

If you corner a rat, it will attack you. Some rats grow to the size of a small dog. No kidding. I grew up near a river and every once in a long while at night one would venture out to our neighborhood. One night when I got home after a night of drinking, I saw what I thought was a cat sitting on our front porch. Only we learned when my dad came out to investigate, it was a river rat! Sophie, mice are cute, rats are not!

[@ankr3w1]

There are a lot of people that keep wildlife like this because its one of the only places in America they can live outdoors year round. Minus a frost here and there.and then properties get destroyed by hurricanes and escapes happen. Probably the biggest reason this is an issue.

[@zacbowen4770]

Licking a toad was a thing back in the 70s

[@christianoliver3572]

A three f!!!!!g long rat?? Not just NO HELL NO!! So I guess I'm putting off that Florida vacation yet again.

[@RobertSmith-xp4wi]

There is a bounty on the snakes 😊

[@protonneutron9046]

Overblown. I live in South Florida and have never seen any of these. Like California, you will probably never see a Cougar even though they live in parks in L.A.

[@Simbu.]

Sophie is right. It's tail on the mice that freaks me out. They have the same body as squirrels or hamsters but they are cute.

[@nuavecmoi]

The video is on Florida and the gang is talking about being scared of rats. 😂 I live in NYC, and I could never live in Florida. Waking up in the morning and sitting on the bowl only to find a snake inside. 😂

[@warrendavis9262]

Living in Florida and *not* leaving!!!

[@traceyvavrecan6714]

The cane toad's toxin can be a hallucinogenic to humans.

[@danbobway5656]

The lass on the left is right, mice and rats are cute and are affectionate. Especially pet rats, which are much cleaner than a common street or sewer rat.

[@a00141799]

What a funny over reaction to some of these invasive species from the guys. I think that everyone who hears something dangerous about America, like hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, gun violence and now invasive species assume that they are certain to experience those things on a regular basis. I'm 62 and have never experienced any of the things I mentioned except a couple of mild earthquakes. Well, I do live on the west coast. ♣

[@solace6700]

Brttish speech pattern is crazy 😆😆

[@saaamember97]

09:22 Uh, there is no such body of water named "The Northern Gulf of New Mexico."

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

Sadly, licking toads is indeed a thing...people do weird shit to get high...🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ i was a trauma nurse and emergency nurse before i survived a traumatic brain injury in a wreck and lost part of my leg...i can't assist in surgery anymore...anyway, we got weird stuff in trauma and ED...yes including weird patients who smoked the secretions from toads...and other animals...they didn't lick them directly...at least not that i knew of...

[@abiahtv2540]

How aren’t hogs on this list?

[@chuckie102883]

Floridian here for 15 years, those exotic animals are in the rural areas of the state not where the population is high. I’ve never come across any of those creepy things lol.

[@BTinSF]

You'd be surprised. In Orlando, it was not unheard of for people to find gators in their swimming pools. The state had a gator patrol to pull them out. At the University of FL (mascot: gators). they have a small lake with quite a few of them on the campus and pretty much all the many lakes around Gainesville have them. There was even a small pond at my apartment complex when I was at the University and there were 2 in there. And several sailors at the Naval Training Center in Orlando (now closed) disappeared while swimming in the lakes on the grounds of the base--presumably gator food.

[@spinalobifida]

Florida is the only place where crocodiles and alligators coexist. Im assuming alligators and the US crocodiles. And now we have Niles. Great! Another invasive species is the Brown Anole (lizard) from the Caribbean. They have run off the natural green anole. I rarely see a green one.

[@frankrotondo3771]

Lived in Florida many years and alligators and iguanas are normal but only in the warmer parts yes and lots of theses other pests have been released by owners who got tired of them yes we do have hunting season for pythons 🐍 really kill on site by the way lion fish are very tasty also never seen the rats or the toads 🐸

[@kimmycook2698]

As the south becomes more tropical, invasive species are finding it easier to survive and with little predators for them...they thrive. Also, people keeping exotic pets and them getting out has helped the problem.

[@Whiterabbit0004]

Mom is absolutely right about licking toad and getting high from it. They're rear kind of toads somewhere in Columbia

[@tearalewis7532]

We can get what we call wolf rats here in NC, and they can get to be a foot to foot and a half long NOT COUNTING tail. I can not imagine one double that size. Yikes!!!

[@Tbone1492]

If you lick a toad in Florida it turns into a Prince🤴

[@adamestepii8339]

People in Florida are crazy I live in the U.S by the way, just saying the odds of seeing all these creatures are no where near high at all

[@victorramsey5575]

I knew a girl who had a Burmese python. It was more calm and tame than she was. But seriously, pythons are not aggressive and like to wrap around you for warmth. Not to mention they are great protection. I promise if you walk up to the hardest criminal with a snake wrapped around your arm and shoulder, the criminal will run and scream like a girl.

[@raveousone]

Bufo Alvarius At 7 inches (18 cm) or more this is one of the largest toads native to North America. that's your Psychedelic toad

[@katherinetepper-marsden38]

This video is hilarious as a native floridian. Gators, pythons, and occasionally a cougar are the only thing to worry about.

[@BTinSF]

Pythons are limited to South Florida so far and the cougars are, sadly, very rare (we have lots of them in CA where I now live). I'd be more worried about poisonous spiders and cotton mouths (water moccasins) in FL. When I lived near Orlando I had black widows in my wood pile.

[@katherinetepper-marsden38]

My family is from Miami and later lived in Weston near the Everglades. We def had gators and pythons around.

[@BTinSF]

Getting high from "toad licking" is real but limited to the Sonoran Desert Toad species which has glands that produce a hallucinogenic substance. The toads in FL don't do this I don't believe (although someone above said they do--in any case, you can't lick just any toad and get high, only certain species).

[@tictacmoe6227]

People have said they seen nile crocodiles in Florida but I been several times never seen any. Nile crocs will definitely hunt humans where as alligators and American crocodiles try to avoid us. I spent a few years as a kid in flordia and they had us walking thru the Everglades on our 6 grade field trip lol

[@johnzubil2875]

lmao. I can't even imagine that today.

[@lilyz2156]

@@johnzubil2875 Same, went camping in Everglades as a kid.

[@jacktheripper2771]

You should reacting top 10 British gangster's

[@kevinbrown3075]

Floridians do love their exotic “pets”- until they don’t and turn them loose into the wild. The rest of the states look at Florida as that, “here…hold my beer!” crazy cousin that no one wants to show up uninvited to their BBQ but always does.😅

[@jeremyjdl713]

Gulf of Mexico*. New Mexico is nowhere near the water.

[@neurotiknerd]

Florida should have many many alligators but shouldn't have hardly any crocodiles. There's actually big differences

[@jlpack62]

There is no such place as the Gulf of New Mexico.

[@jlpack62]

Before it even starts, let me guess 2 of them: Burmese Pythons & Iguanas. FWIW, I live in Florida.

[@PaolaBarrientos]

1:20 I'm with Sophie on that one 🐁 they are cute❣️ I love animals.

[@lilyz2156]

Rats have fleas that carry disease, yuck...

[@bobzyurunkel]

Britain actually does have 1 species of venomous snake. It’s called the adder.

[@ESUSAMEX]

People go hunting for these large snakes in the Everglades because the State of Florida pays $500 for each snake over certain size. The American alligator is everywhere in the the South, especially in Florida. We see them on golf courses and in every river and lake in the state. The American crocodile is only found near Miami is protected reserves. Florida is the only place on Earth where alligators and crocodiles together live in the wild.

[@lilyz2156]

Everglades mainly.

[@kwalsh1968]

A crocodile just swam out of the Atlantic near Boynton Beach. A year or two ago another crocodile swam out of the Atlantic near Boca Raton. Yikes

[@curtism-w6b]

Gambian Pouched Rats are super cool as pets, friendly etc. They're also used to find landmines in Africa and the Middle East.

[@zex7689]

Gulf of New Mexico?

[@SkewtLilbttm]

Northern Gulf of New Mexico? I assume they mean northern Gulf of Mexico

[@TheDeadStretch]

Licking toads to get you high is a myth. lmao

[@-solo-.-CH]

Sonoran desert toad

[@-solo-.-CH]

Very toxic though just like the poison dart frog. Those tribes use it in small amounts but I think it might need to go into your blood stream. I can't remember

[@beanscollections2020]

@@-solo-.-CH I must have just formed dyslexia....I read your sentence as "poison dog fart" the first time and said to myself "WTF?.....oooh, poison dart frog"

[@mneugent7658]

This is what happens when goofy weirdos get exotic pets only to set them free when they figure out that even fewer chicks will hook up with them now that they have monsters in their house.

[@mikenorton2847]

Gulf of New Mexico? 😂😂😂😂

[@goatitisful]

Those rats are 3 feet long

[@garyi.1360]

Maybe they can send the pythons to eat the big rats.

[@warrendavis9262]

...aaaaand that's why God gave His children ratshot...

[@steelers6titles]

Lovely Britain doesn't have anything like THAT lol.

[@andresjuan5173]

All these people in the comic section saying their Floridians and never seen these animals I myself came across all these animals besides the lionfish and tell you what a gambian pouched rat is not easy to kill I put two bullets in it's head and still trying to Claw at us and my true Floridians would know what swamp cabbages and crawdads and bulldozer really tasty😎🦝

[@cp368productions2]

I can't imagine being so scared of a little mouse to not walk past a dead one. But I can't imagine how anyone could be afraid of mice at all. Last year we had a Monitor Lizzard scare, a pet got loose in a local village here in NY.

[@johnzubil2875]

And yet thousands of people flock to Florida to live. It's all in what you're used to. Just don't walk your dog near a waters edge. Many of poor dogs have met their faith. One thing they didn't mention and it surprises me is the Iguana population. The state of Florida has hired hit men to hunt them down and kill them. It's all fun and games until you move to Florida.

[@MoeDavinci]

I saw a video of a dog getting bit and dragged into the water by a crocodile (or alligator, not sure) in Florida. The pet was gone. Freaked me out about the state.

[@johnzubil2875]

@@MoeDavinci you'll be ok. lol

[@myibook141]

Florida has nothing on Louisiana as far as dangerous animals.

[@minuette1752]

This is why ecology should be taught in high school.

[@451_F]

It is.

[@lilyz2156]

@@451_F They need to teach Geography as a requirement first, and back to handwriting because Gen Z can't sign their name.

[@sanic1085]

I lick toads all the time

[@jessedaniel6330]

the more i learn about Britain and its lack of poisonous animals, bugs or any thing that can eat you , you guys don't get winds strong enough to kill you and despite being an island for some reason you have all most no deadly shark attacks i am starting to believe Britain was the promise land and i don't know why our ancestors ever left.