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.

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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
CC BY 4.0 DEED
NC Wetlands
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Sheila Sund
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Alligator snapping turtle images:
FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

Coati images:
zoofanatic
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Brian Henderson
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Hans De Bisschop
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Risca canal image:
M J Roscoe
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Alligator gar images:
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED

Skunk images:
Hans De Bisschop
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

American bird images:
Bettina Arrigoni
CC BY 2.0 DEED
Tom Murray
CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED
Aaron Maizlish
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mctheriot
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I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.

Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)

Sources:

[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 :)

[therealmothman]

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.

[laurachapple]

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

[CAdams-hg]

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

[freakcircus]

"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.

[therealmothman]

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.

[bonesawmcgraw]

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.

[baryonx]

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

[rhiannonm]

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

[AquazWild]

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

[maevblog]

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

[mikesaunders]

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.

[toyotatacoma]

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.

[mdf]

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

[dylanglenn]

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

[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.

[MatthewMiranda-lt]

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

[sophieadams]

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.

[polemius]

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?

[CrimeVid]

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