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If snakeheads become established in a specific body of water, they can disrupt the ecosystem’s predator-prey balance. This can be catastrophic for native species.
Additionally, when a new species is introduced to an already established body of water, there is always the potential of the species bringing new diseases and parasites along with it. And, it does not appear that only large populations of snakeheads create environmental problems for American waterways. Even just one snakehead poses a threat because of its voracious feeding behavior.
Photo Credit: NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory On November 7, 2006, Steve Pothoven and his fellow fisheries biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spotted the latest invader of the North American Great Lakes. The invader is Hemimysis anomala, a half-inch long, bright orange shrimp native to the Black and Caspian Seas.
Introduced to the Great Lakes via the Welland Canal in 1921, these primitive invertebrates, sometimes called “eel-suckers,” have become endemic in the Great Lakes, including Indiana’s portion of Lake Michigan. Although often confused with eels because of their long, slender bodies, sea lampreys are not eels. Eels are Audrey Hepburn compared to lampreys. Instead of [...]
When the story about torture in Abu Ghraib broke, most of the world was appalled. Members of the American military were not only torturing Iraq prisoners, but they were photographing each other committing the torture.
If you’re going to plant kudzu, drop it and run.
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