Plants and animals have really become a problem being released into places they don't belong. In the bayou in Louisiana, a nutria that comes from South America is taking over the muskrat domain. In California now there are flocks of wild parrots. And I did read a story about an alligator that was released into the reservoir at Kensico some years ago. It was found alive.
Plants take over that are brought in for ornamental purposes, and they're choking our ponds.
If you walk around Worthington Road here in Greenburgh, you'll see bamboo growing wild. People bring it into their gardens because they think it looks good, but the seeds fly and it's all over. That truly is a problem. We have been guilty of it ourselves in my house. And one day that thing got out of its terrarium and made it from my daughter's room downstairs to our kitchen, and we found it hopping all around.