RE: [VFB] OT: Nile Monitor lizards run amok

[Ed Engelman/Sue Atkinson]

Over the past few years I have seen shiners and bluegills "appear" in 
private ponds without public access where they had never been seen 
before.  I have read and heard that eggs will hitch-hike on feathers and 
legs of birds.  Great blue heron have been mentioned as the transport vehicle.
Count me as a recent convert to the "air transport theory of fish invasion".

Ed

At 09:51 AM 7/21/03, you wrote:
I read a clip one time that claimed that all of the carp in this country
came from a single breeding pair that was imported  from Germany in
1918. The author claimed that the idea was: fish farming would work to
produce an abundant food source.
He claimed that the pair either escaped or were released, and that the
resulting eggs were transported to other locations on ducks feet. Sticky
eggs that adhered to the feet of ducks that visited the pond and then
flew off to another location, and dropped off as the ducks swam around
there.
Fiction, or just stranger than truth? We may never know......



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Oldies but never-the-less

Norway Rat

Gypsy Moth

Elm Bark Beetle

Lamprey

Starling

English Sparrow

Brown Trout

Ed



At 06:56 PM 7/20/03, you wrote:
>Yup,
>
>Add it to the list of "things which don't belong here". It can join the
>ranks of:
>
>Pythons & Boa Constrictors in the Everglades (established populations)
>Iguanas
>Cuban Anoles
>Probably tons of other reptiles
>Oscars
>Mayan Cichlids
>Tilapia
>Butterfly Peacock Bass (exception, introduced by the state and I'm
happy
>they did!)
>Snakeheads
>Asian eels
>Countless other aquarium fish
>Melaluca (known to the rest of the world as the tea tree.)
>And a ton of other plants
>Probably a bunch of insects
>I hear reports of Monkeys
>Probably birds too.
>
>Ginger, Jerry, Chuck, Scott - what else did I miss? That was the stuff
>just off of my head.
>
>;->
>
>Ken
>
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>On Behalf Of Wes Wada
>Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 10:47 PM
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>
>Hello Florida!
>
>photo:
><img
>src="http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/Africa2000/
>Nile%20Monitor%20Lizard%2bweb.jpg">
>
>article:
><http://www.msnbc.com/news/941171.asp?0cv=CB20>
>
>comment:
><http://members.tripod.com/~clarasroad/monitor.html>