They have managed to invade my heart.
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Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 months agoSquirrels are an invasive species, they’re not native to North America. They chew wires and mess with stuff.
Birds are pretty, sound nice, and eat bugs. They also poop on everyone’s stuff, but somehow it’s good luck if you get shit on.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Humans are an invasive species, especially if you are a descendant of an English settler and not a native american indian
toasteecup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Truthfully they were also invasive. We’re only native to Africa
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
But when they arrived in the lands of North America, those lands were not inhabited by other human tribes
toasteecup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ve not talking about colonizing though, we’re discussing insaive species.
Given humanity (Homo Sapiens) is currently thought to have evolved in Africa, that is the natural human habitat. All other habitats we’ve created we can be thought of as an invasive species.
Please don’t virtue signal when it’s off topic like this, it’s really annoying.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just how many tens of millions of years do a species need to exist in a place before you consider it native to that land?
“The earliest known North American squirrel fossil dates back to the late Eocene epoch, about 34 million years ago.” source
Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Only about 300 years, from your own link you kindly provided:
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you need to read that carefully again. Squirrels have been in North America for millions of years before Europeans arrived. The part you quoted was where Europeans took a specific species of squirrel found in North America, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), back with them to England.
The rest of that quoted piece talks about that specific species of North American squirrel’s spread around other parts of North American.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah you’re right, I totally read it backwards. 🤦
technocat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t forget the obviously non-invasive european starling and european house sparrow common at feeders.