3 Invasive Species That Have Turned Into Murderers

It's estimated that invasive species cost humans around $423 billion dollars each year but sometimes invasive species cost people their lives. Some invasive species can be very dangerous and they can even kill and claim the lives of people outside of their native range. In this video i will be going through just a few of these problem invasive species as i will be going through 3 invasive species that have turned into murderers.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Asian Hornets
3:18 Hippos
5:39 Giant African Land Snails

Attributions

Asian hornet images:
Gilles San Martin
CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED
Yasunori Koide
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
CC BY 2.5 DEED
Whitesachem
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Claire Villemant​, Dario Zuccon, Quentin Rome, Franck Muller, George O. Poinar Jr, Jean-Lou Justine
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
Greg Peterson
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Muséum de Toulouse
Didier Descouens
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Filippo Turetta
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Neotropical otter image:
Victor
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Spectacled Caiman image:
Berrucomons
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Colombian turtle images:
Luis Rojas
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Daniel Hincapie
CC BY 4.0 DEED

Giant African Land Snail images:
Alexander R. Jenner
CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED
Dr. Alexey Yakovlev
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DataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
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Charles J. Sharp
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Diego Tirira
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Sonel.SA
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Rat lungworm images:
Punlop Anusonpornperm
CC BY 4.0 DEED

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.

Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)

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[whmysrl]

I know this is a little bit off topic, but the idea of a Fox having an aussie accent is just so amusing to me

[Kyle_]

The Asian Giant Hornet has actually been eradicated in the U.S as far as we know. Haven’t had a reported sighting since 2022.

[fnfethusiast]

Now I know about hornets and hippos, but never giant African land snails

[anniehill]

Those hornets are horrific! What astonishes me about the Colombian hippos, is that in spite from descending from just FOUR animals, there are so many of them and they all seem perfectly healthy. I would have thought such a degree of inbreeding amongst such big and slow-reproducing animals would have produced severe genetic mutations, but apparently not!

[AstralAkshay]

Hey bro big fan of the channel. I’ve been curious, is that you narrating over the video? If so you have a really nice voice and I like to play these videos at night before I sleep

[bonesawmcgraw]

I’m surprised that there weren’t any crocodilians on this list. Great video!

[AnimalsVehiclesAndMore]

Do you think you can do a video about 5 cute pet animals with dark secrets? One such example is Hamsters. They're strictly solitary, and will fight and kill each other if housed together.

[RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

Escargot just got that much more unappealing.

[rubric-eoyj]

please continue your videos on aquarium biotope and freshwater fishes

[Nirmal-qogw]

Very interesting video Tsuki !!😲🙂👍. Great information on invasive species. 😊.

[laurachapple]

I gotta say at 1:10 there, that is the most beautiful hornet's nest I have ever seen.

If you want a video suggestion, how about 'times we tried to deal with an invasive species by introducing an even more invasive species', which is a thing that seems to happen a lot.

[onenation]

The American Grey Squirrel has wiped out the European Red Squirrel in the UK. I can't remember the last time I saw a red squirrel, but it was many years ago.

Also, I have seen in recent years a green type of bird that isn't native to the UK and they keep multiplying by the year.

[arthurturp]

Live in London and a few months ago had a Asian hornet on my knee, luckily I knew what it was and stayed calm but was a lil gagged can't lie

[alexismartinez]

Hey 👋🏻 Tsuki,

Can you do a video 📹 about Top 5 Exotic Pets Could Have Potential to Become Invasive Species?

I have few examples like maybe ferrets, gerbils, bearded dragons, leopard geckos, tarantulas, kangaroos, capybaras, fennec foxes, sugar gliders, Madagascar Hissing cockroaches etc.

[__Skorm__]

The fact hippos are found in Colombia now makes me question my sanity for no reason. Just does 😭

[nmm]

The snail can also be found in trinidad and is causing a huge problem for us. One man decided to bring the snail to trinidad and not house the snails properly. Needless to say the snails got away and are now roaming freely.

[dylangeltzeiler]

3:22 I have heard about this problem in Northern South America. The only Native Large Mammal is the Tapir. 4:02-4:06 They’re not the only ones that have to be worried about, there’s also the Endangered Orinoco Crocodiles that live in both Venezuela & Columbia. Something has to be done about this Invasive Species that is native from Africa.

[BlackTyrannosaurus]

Humanity: You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers

[arnaldorentes]

Heĺlo. I live in Guarujá, on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. Climate here is humid subtropical.
The African giant snail Achatina fulica was introduced into Brazil just a few kilometers from here and has already caused a lot of concern, almost hysteria. There were some collection campaigns, which seemed useless.
I remember that at the time, about eighteen years ago, when it rained a lot our backyard walls were full of them. Since then, they have been decreasing and I haven't seen any for years, neither at summer. They encountered local predators, from hawks to stray dogs. But his disappearance was so pronounced that I believe more in some bacterial or viral disease, to which he was defenseless. Whether it still constitutes a real threat somewhere, I don't know. Here, if it ever was, it is no longer. Thanks for the video!

[Rafael-tceu]

I was with my school in a park and saw an Asian hornet nest!
They’re not only in France but also in Belgium!