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Untangling convergent evolution.

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[@ground_news]

Thank you for sharing our mission Animalogic team! If anyone's interested in getting the full picture of issues like the one in this video, check out the link in the description and let us know if you have any questions.

[@XavierAway]

please title the video appropriately, this was not focused on "the Toad that took over Australia" at all.

[@bryphi77]

Your sponsor is pure evil... I think I will just trust my own grasp of reality.

[@darcieclements4880]

Hey I've got some news on zebra mussels. Zebra muscles in the Great lakes are on a massive decline. They ate themselves to death however another problem that they're facing is a second invasive species, the quagga muscle! I have watched the rise and the Fall of the zebra muscle and interestingly enough there's a lot of natural predators of them now in the Great lakes that's we're not originally able to utilize them. When it comes to invasive species the key is slowing them down long enough for the local ecosystem to evolve and naturalize them so that they no longer cause catastrophic harm. That said some argue that quaga muscles are actually worse for humans for a variety of reasons so yeah that's the thing. Zebra muscles aren't the only invasive species I've seen rise and fall, it seems to be a continuous process and it really does just come down to trying to minimize the damage and tell the ecosystem rebalances each and every time.

[@chaosjona6012]

I really enjoy your videos. One little thing, in this video the background musik was a little too loud and a bit distracting for me

[@RippieFarmer]

Minor correction, per Florida Wildlife Management, Florida's coldest winter weather does not cause the iguanas to freeze to death. Instead they go into a type of hibernation.

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- Yes, but sometimes they do actually die, die. Not often, OBVIOUSLY.. their population is unreal, even with all of the things they try to do to get rid of them. Too little, too late it seems. They forgot to mention lionfish too.

[@edward9643]

​@@blessedbeauty2293Ahh lionfish- one of our latest blunders- likely the result of ballast water discharge

[@MM-we4no]

@@edward9643I remember watching a while back that lion fish invasion is due to people getting rid of them onto the ocean from their aquarium

[@erikjohnson9223]

More likely idiot aquarium owners releasing their pets. Why would lionfish get in ballast?​@@edward9643

[@DoinItforNewCommTech]

On the cane toad front, it's worth noting that Australian crows, ibises, and magpies are slowly adapting to eat cane toads. Crows and magpies flip the toads over to avoid the poison glands by eating the toads' bellies, and ibises pick them up, dunk them in water, and stress them until they release their poison, rendering the toad edible The tadpoles are unable to control their poison glands and toxify the water by default, so as of yet they don't have any predators there. The best way we've figured to control toad populations is by preventing them from breeding, as a result--fences around bodies of water, and scooping out eggs that make it through

[@elmono6299]

Here's a few dishonorable mentions 🐗Wildboars, which were originally native to Europe and Asia, were introduced to Australia and New Zealand for recreational hunts. However, the pigs grew in size, quickly taken over their new territories, and damaged the environment due to the lack of predators to control their populations. 🦊 Foxes were also introduced to Australia for hunting purposes. Thanks to the lack of natural predators such as wolves, lynxes, hawks, owls, and bears from Europe. The foxes quickly taken over down under, harming a lot of native species such as birds, reptiles, and marsupials. 🐰Rabbits were sent to Australia for recreational hunts, meat, and fur. Once again, thanks to the lack of their natural predators and high birth rate, the rabbits quickly overpopulated the continent and out compete native species. 🐱 Cats are easily the most popular pet (alongside dogs), which explains why the little felines came along with their owners wherever they went. Unfortunately, many of these cats either ran away from home or were left behind for themselves, which, as a result, became feral and wondered off on their own. Needless to say, cats became a problem for a lot of countries & islands where they don't belong, such as Australia, Hawaii, and New Zealand, in which cats slaughtered many native birds becoming extinct.

[@harikiran4339]

And lets not forget the invasive deers, camels and plants that are also making it hell for natuve animals.

[@user-xi5ej4ox5s]

If native species are too weak to resist invasive species this is only their problem lmao, stop caring

[@byhsu6140]

Any owls in Australia? Maybe they need to introduce the owl to take care of the foxes. 😅

[@Bzhydack]

Racoons in Europe. They are massive problem, as they are omnivores and super versitile, and also smart.

[@ashdog236]

@@byhsu6140we have native owls, an owl cannot kill a fox, maybe an eagle can

[@DanGamingFan2846]

I did a report on the rate Cane Toads spread through territory and oh boy, it's fast. Australia has a lot of invasive species but these guys are a real nuisance.

[@seanstump8665]

I saw the thumbnail and thought they took down the video. This thumbnail is more clickable.

[@yamaha6981]

Caucus brought them

[@deatherutts]

I checked out a documentary about how some snake's in Australia are evolving smaller head's to eat younger toad's less poison those are the one's surviving more to next generation nature crazy

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

How about pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings? These birds are now among the most populous in North America. Many native species have been negatively impacted, some driven out of their native ranges almost altogether.

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

In Brazil, pigeons and sparrows have only adapted in urban and rural areas, and in recent years with better garbage collection in cities they are losing space to canaries, bem-ti-vi, maritacas and other native birds

[@peternicholls8401]

They stated at the beginning of the episode that this episode is covering wild invasive species and not feral invasive species. Feral being creatures that were brought in for the purpose of domestication and wound up escaping and such. Pigeons fall into the latter group who also had an episode about them I believe.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@peternicholls8401 pigeons, maybe. But not house sparrows or starlings. I believe they were introduced in the late 1800s by British expats in New York. They wanted to introduce all the species mentioned by Shakespeare. (Wankers.) Sparrows and starlings were never domesticated and are thus wild invasive species.

[@peternicholls8401]

@@JohnDrummondPhoto I see, that's interesting and I wouldn't mind a deeper look into this even on an Animal Logic World of Birds *nudge* *nudge*

[@missheadbanger]

Australia also has a million feral camels in the northern part of the country.

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Really? Forgive my ignorance, but I wasn't even aware that there were camels in Australia? Were they introduced into Australia from foreign countries?

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Oh. Guess I should have watched the video before commenting...

[@Level_1_Frog]

Apparently certain birds have figured out how to kill cane toads and remove their poison glands so they can be safely eaten, which is really cool. And yes I'm pretty sure it was a corvid of some kind that figured this out lol

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

There's also that Japanese tree fungus that wiped out the vast majority of North America's great chestnut trees. Cats are also an invasive species in Australia and have been wiping out native bird populations for quite a while.

[@haileydee9954]

I thought the fungus wiped out Elm and Chestnut trees?

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

@@haileydee9954 Ah yeah, you're right.

[@YujiUedaFan]

Then they started to wipe out cats, only to get a mouse infestation...

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

the rise of domestic cats, both pets that may wander outside and strays, makes for a notable decline in singing bird population all over europe aswell. Too many are not neutered and their numbers exploded over the last few decades.

[@Hello_Fuckers0]

I remember having zebra mussels in the Hudson River in the late 80's. They were clogging the intakes of water treatment plants and they were getting through and coming out of our faucets.

[@gamegod6859]

were you traumatized

[@Hello_Fuckers0]

@gamegod6859 no lol they just looked like grains of black sand when they came out of the faucet

[@alwaleedalthani9624]

You forgot the brown snakes introduced as stowaways to Guam and all the birds of Guam are now gone !

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

I was stationed in Guam in 1978 and heard many birds as I left the airport. When I got orders back to Guam in 1989, I walked out of the airport and didn't hear one single bird call. It was heartbreaking.

[@johnp9988]

Facts!

[@YujiUedaFan]

Why don't they go and hunt the snakes? Also you can export birds of similar species.

[@BeckyNosferatu]

@@YujiUedaFanExporting an animal of a similar species is exactly what got these above, out of control. Did you not watch the video at all??

[@wildmangrove3096]

This video lacked the destroyer of river fishes (introduced by humans), The Tilapia.

[@kalmage136]

Florida is basically a mini Australia, got it.

[@fabianp.9930]

I heard someone is searching a 20 foot python in the Florida Everglades.

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

YOINK!🐍

[@tungsten2009]

e-yoink

[@joetilman7227]

I'd like to see more about nutria. I knew they were a problem here in Oregon, but the issue I was once told about had to do with how they mud-pack beaver dams (nutria don't build their own dams), which apparently impacts creeks, rivers, and ecosystems much more than expected.

[@jazzy4830]

From the title alone I though this would be about Rupert Murdoch.

[@Glaaki13]

😆 👍

[@markwallace1727]

🎯We thought we were getting rid of him shipping him off to the US, but alas it was just the invasive infection spreading around the world becoming stronger. Oops.

[@Glaaki13]

@@markwallace1727👍

[@AlbertaGeek]

The U.S. had its own poisonous fat toad for 4 years. I mean the thumbnail even looks like him!

[@bandanaman]

Snap.

[@erictaylor5462]

11:00 he's thinking, "There must be some way out of here. There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.

[@danilodesouza6461]

In Brazil, we know cane toads as "Sapo-Cururu". Cururu comes from tupi languages, meaning something like "big toad". They are also present in nursery rhymes

[@spoopyd.8910]

For a moment there. I thought this video was about their Prime Minister.

[@sirdoddingtonformont3487]

Fuckin oath mate

[@SorenAlba54]

Thank you for this informative video, Aranya. As a Caribbean kid that has nearly lived his whole life in South Florida, I’m very familiar with the concepts of invasive species and the creatures here, although I wasn’t sure about the Nile crocodile part since we have the American crocodile that also dwells in these waters. As much as I despise seeing animals being killed, this is indeed a very serious ecological problem we have created and as such, we must be the ones to reverse it or else, all will be lost.

[@peterway7867]

You could do a whole series on the problems caused by non native species in Australia. There are many.

[@skunkman9815]

You know what i think is the most invasive species? Mosquitoes 🦟 their everywhere (except the arctic circle) Heck their even spreading to the comment section 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟 See?

[@jazzy4830]

*they're

[@zainmudassir2964]

Scary 😱

[@skunkman9815]

@@jazzy4830 yeah that’s what I mean

[@Exquailibur]

Damn bullfrogs, they crossed the rockies and eat all my red legged frogs

[@torsteinraaby]

The Hypnotoad!

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Bwahaha ha hah hahaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzz

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Bwahaha ha hah hahaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzz

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- Lionfish is yet another super invasive species from Florida to The Carolinas as well.

[@FlyingDwarfman]

Is it? I knew it had become invasive in the Mediterranean, but hadn't heard of it out your way. Given how it's affected there, that's very unfortunate.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

A lot of seemingly innocuous creatures turn out to be the most destructive of invaders when put in an environment where the local wildlife just aren't adapted to deal with the former's own adaptations.

[@jossgreen9318]

Kudzu's generally only a problem when it's not being used as fodder or material for all the crafts it's been cultivated for in Asia for millennia. It was propagated and distributed as erosion control in the early 20th century (around the time of the Dust Bowl if I not misremembering). I think it'd be cool to see a video about how lawns perpetuate the invasion of non-native grass species around the world, and how that decreases the habitat of native animals (but increases the habitat of others)

[@MakaveliToussaint]

She's smart and fine as a mofigglio

[@nicholasf.377]

She's one hot one. That smile.... Mesmerizing.

[@evilferris]

1 mongoose 2 _mongeese_ You can't convince me otherwise.

[@drrocketman7794]

1 moose 2 meese

[@AlbertaGeek]

Mongii.

[@drrocketman7794]

@@AlbertaGeek lol

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

they are so gross man, I went hiking with a buddy of mine when it was still wet and there was so many toads that i could barely see the actual ground, why couldn't they bring chameleons or something instead of these living tumors. smh

[@RorikH]

Maybe they did bring chameleons and they're all just camouflaged.

[@user-cu4ru1om5t]

Vulkan: I would like to pet this creature

[@gravebird398]

Don't do that. (c)

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

😂😢😮

[@NinjaRunningWild]

*Cane Toads : The Conquest* is both hilarious & informative.

[@ThatGuy38757]

And we can all thank Bart for this

[@KristenRowenPliske]

I had never seen a nutria before until I saw them swimming in the lake behind our apartment building. My husband knew what they were; I guess they’re in Ohio, too. Didn’t know a thing about them except that they could get pretty big.

[@ethancox5476]

Zebra muscles overran bull shoals lake here in Arkansas. They stayed within a certain depth and when the lake lowered really fast most of them died on the banks. We also have lampreys here in the white river in Arkansas

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Horrific !!!

[@Werevampiwolf]

I don't understand why people would bring Nile Crocs over to Florida as pets when you can find crocs or gators for free by just going into your backyard if you really want one as a pet. Hell, sometimes they'll come into your house in their own if you leave the door open. (You really shouldn't just take wild ones out of your yard to be pets, but you could if you wanted to)

[@WelfareChrist]

I live in Hawaii, where the story about the mongooses is pretty famous. I’d also credit the mongoose and the rats with crashing our native endemic bird populations, birds found nowhere else on earth, gorgeous honeycreepers which were basically gone by the time I was in 5th grade (which was maybe 25-28 years ago).

[@Kargoneth]

Wow. Those iguanas are fast.

[@erictaylor5462]

3:10 Is that Jeremiah?! He couldn't talk so well, but he had some mighty fine wine.

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

giggles

[@Squirrelmind66]

A minor correction: I think zebra mussels came over not attached to the hulls of ships, but in the ballast water they carried over from the Caspian Sea.

[@razzar508]

I freaking hate rats. I've had chickens for 23 years and had never seen one untill my town recently decided that they needed to build condos on every little patch of green they could buy. It's infuriating.

[@markiangooley]

Lampreys have been considered a delicacy - at least some species. Nutria taste pretty good but aren’t really popular as food. Here, 100 miles north of Miami, we don’t see green iguanas but instead lots of African agama lizards. Numbers just keep going up.

[@Kargoneth]

The Great Lakes are so polluted. What a waste of freshwater.

[@rangler90]

Good job guy and girls another amazing video!! Keep it up ❤ GB

[@giovannimai8828]

I wonder if Florida peeps know that iguanas can be eaten? They're called bamboo chicken where I'm from.

[@cptnmus8996]

NGL I thought this was going to be about Clive Palmer

[@anasevi9456]

LMAO those florida hillbillies have the funniest accent. Great video as always, from ground zero for Cane toads in Straya.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Rednecks. Not many hills in FL. Floridians consider New Englanders and Bronxites to speak non-English dialects also, not funny accents, just annoying and incomprehensible.

[@dondrap513]

You guys should put something up to signify when your ad copy is being read so we know when to stop fast forwarding.

[@ShawnsterVideos]

Excellent work. thank you.

[@suegreene1]

Lampreys are eaten and are an exquisite dish, In Ireland in the Shannon river and in Galicia the Miño river

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

EWWWW!

[@cathyheston3029]

First time hearing about the Nile crocs in our Everglades. Along with the pythons, it's a no win situation.......

[@obligatedobservation5878]

They didn't "eat the beetles" effectively. The beetles spend the majority of their lives on the cane, higher than the cane toad would normally access beetle treats.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

Of course they are op. According to tier zoo they have perfectly balanced stats, big enough to not have to rely solely on their poison, poison is strong enough to become a serious threat but not too poisonous to make it difficult to evolve and live with.

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

.....Wha...huh?

[@erictaylor5462]

I hate when people say something like, "It's impossible to get rid of the carp." Just because you are not cleaver enough to come up with a solution, it doesn't mean others can't. In the 1790's Pierre-Simon Laplace asserted that humans could never determine what stars are made of. At the time this assertion was made, spectroscopy had already been discovered, but it's use in identifying what stars were made of was still being worked out. But in less than 25 years it was being used to discover what the sun was made of.

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

I totally agree! The lack of CLEAVERity these days, is shocking! 😅

[@juanmaduro1713]

Green iguanas may freeze in Florida winter but in Puerto Rico they have become a real problem.

[@highlander723]

You know some of these species have been here so long they are now part of the over all eco system that removing them now would have detrimental effects on the environment. So at what point do we just consider them part of the ecosystem.

[@MrWackozacko]

Someone introduced the Green and Golden Bell Frog to NZ from Aus as well.

[@michaelobrien5891]

6:50 They made an issue everybody's personal responsibility and then things changed. Interesting.

[@mecahhannah]

❤Awesome as always thanks guys

[@zainmudassir2964]

Iguanas rain is magical

[@Danflave]

Watching with subtitles -- Interesting to see the differences in the script between what Aranya says and what is written...

[@ky1ebetts]

Don't lick this toad. Unless you want the best trip of your life.

[@tnoi]

I hope you can feature the endemic species in Palawan such as the Palawan porcupine, Palawan pangolin, and Calamian deer.

[@Venom3254]

Title should have just been invasive animals and how they were introduced. Y'all only spent a small snippet on the Toad.

[@seansingh4421]

They should really check Ms Iyer’s neck for springs, bobblehead

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

...snicker.... couldn't help it.

[@johnransom1146]

So many invasive species, so few recipes lol. Barbecued iguana?

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

"I'm on the Mexican radio...."

[@johnransom1146]

Song was playing in my head @@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

"I wish I was in Tijuana "

[@johnransom1146]

I love you guys that got the joke.@@stephaniegonsalves2263

[@yayrayday]

Surprised that the Chinese water deer and muntjac deer weren't mentioned on the list, as they're both invasive to England. But I guess the video is only so long.

[@drjekelmrhyde]

Miranda looking like a young Mrs. Parker

[@aussieace9740]

Oh, my pet Moodle deliberately did Cane Toad when they were in his water bowl

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

Without harming himself? Maybe he should offer an online class?

[@tonydeluna8095]

One of the videos I was looking forward to. Love nature , love the insects and animals of planet earth

[@melodyparra2960]

If only if only we could travel back in time to prevent this from happening

[@manyman7827]

Nutria is also a Problem in North of Italy

[@ninjawithnobalance]

Its the same in uk with the grey squirrels they are everywhere i see them more than rats and they are threatening the red squirrels 😢 . We also have invasive parrots 😂 in uk

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

😮Seriously? Invasive parrots? What species? And HOW????

[@silviavalentine3812]

14:28 LOL ofc

[@gamegod6859]

i've never seen or stepped on zebra mussels in texas before

[@idraote]

Among the latest news is that of fire ants recently found in Southern Italy...

[@eduardoprieto7721]

"Well them to" Jaja

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

What the heck is Grabby? Can't even tell if it's an animal or a machine!

[@girardedward]

How about the Botfly?!? Hijacking a host to plant larvae in the skin is a nightmare. Hide your pets, hide your kids, they’re coming for everyone…

[@cybersentient4758]

why does this vid look like it was made in early 2000s

[@BlackReshiram]

I do know that there are some introduce species that are actually a net benefit BUT thats the exception, not the norm, sadly.

[@kimbratton9620]

Wow!

[@XavierAway]

man ground news is really popular at the moment... at least amongst yt channels I am subbed to 😅

[@nowlwane9623]

They lost a war to flightless birds!

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

huh?

[@nowlwane9623]

@@stephaniegonsalves2263 Australia lost to emus!

[@BillyJupiter]

I didn't know my ex migrated

[@migue24]

Humans should be at the top of this list.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

What is the most invasive organism?

[@vincentx2850]

Please do an episode on the aardwolf!

[@TommyOnTheRun]

Wtf!? Nile crocodiles in Florida??

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Please do a video on Ringtail Cats

[@ltlbuddha]

Very nice job by Grabby. And by Animalogic...

[@OmegaTryce]

But especially Grabby! 🤣

[@ltlbuddha]

@@OmegaTryce 😱

[@whoyou.period2193]

Please talk about the Philippine Eagle next!!

[@stephaniegonsalves2263]

An eagle? Is it frome the Phillipines or in the Philippines?

[@happyavacado1495]

I live in Daytona Florida and I have not seen one wild iguana or alligator I am glad i haven't seen any running wild but i call BS on this

[@l.t.c3847]

Are you leaving out the vital detail that you’re blind? If you haven’t seen an iguana in Florida I just have to assume you have terrible eyesight, they’re everywhere and a very well documented issue.

[@thomasseidler6137]

Are House Sparrows on this list? I have way too many of them and they outcompete the other birds at my bird feeders. 😢😢😢

[@adamroodog1718]

gina rineheart?

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Regarding the rats in Alberta. As far as I know all the facts reported are true except one. There _are_ rats in Alberta.

[@AlbertaGeek]

And they vote conservative.

[@janpaulgarde8639]

They'd make a good fertilizers

[@amirgurung6148]

Omg is Nick okay? 😅😂

[@KGTiberius]

📍 Honey bees, earth worms, lion fish, sooo many ants…