BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cane Toad, Asian Carp, Flightless Bird
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Introduced in imperial phase british taking plants with them when colonizing. Locals began using potted plant as hedging plants: one of the most invasive species in india, as tourism stepped up, it became popular for tourists to ride elephants to go see tigers. Plant has chemical in it that soaks into tigers fur and causes them not to mate. Elephants made corridors through woods that the plant colonized in. Lantana camara invasions in india threaten tiger habitat. Cane toad (bufo marinus) native to neotropics and introduced to puerto rico & hawaii where it successfully controlled cane beetles devastating sugar cane. Crops later introduced to australia but not successful in reducing beetles and multiplied prolifically reducing biodiversity, especially reptiles. Toads are now big threat to local species because toad attacks them. Introduction of nile perch to african lakes resulted in extinction of endemic cichlid fish species: humans move species around and cause more problems.
