# What North American plants and animals are invasive species elsewhere? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 8, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-north-american-plants-and-animals-are-invasive-species-elsewhere/812007 "2018-04-08T00:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-north-american-plants-and-animals-are-invasive-species-elsewhere/812007/41 "2018-05-12T18:27:05Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > That is kind of weird. The story makes the good suggestion of eating the crayfish. They are tasty, send the Germans instructions for Cajun crayfish boil and problem solved, or is it? I was reminded of an article that I read a while back [An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/dining/30come.html). I know that this has been recommended in other, similar, situations. Except that sometimes it is difficult to get over cultural bias. In America, the escargot snail was introduced and of course is a invasive pest. But few Americans will eat escargot. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-north-american-plants-and-animals-are-invasive-species-elsewhere/812007/42 "2018-05-12T18:58:22Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > In the UK, red eared terrapins: [Terrapins | Canal & River Trust](https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-wildlife/the-rogues-gallery/terrapins) > > And tangentially, the turkey. OK, so they’re not running wild over the countryside, but they are a worryingly pervasive alternative to food that tastes of something. > > j Find someone who knows how to cook turkey without drying out the white meat. And wild turkey is very different than domesticated. Same animal but wild is darker. Similar to catfish - the larger ones need a lot of “muddy” meat cut out. I just learned the word coypu. Everyone calls them nutria. Sent from my VS988 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-north-american-plants-and-animals-are-invasive-species-elsewhere/812007/43 "2018-05-12T19:18:13Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I just learned the word coypu. Everyone calls them nutria. Well I call 'em “ragondins”, but you know :D. Wikipedia fucked me again ! > [@yabob](#): > > And I beg to differ - catfish is good - at least the much smaller Channel catfish found in the US. I’ll fight you IRL :p. I mean it. We ate carp once because we sorta kinda had to - I was like 18, it was the first fish I’d ever caught in my life and it was fricking huge. Everybody pretended it was OK. It was emphatically not. Carp tastes like a gooey chewy chunk of mud. Here’s the thing : catfish is WORSE. Their main mean of fighting off predators is “we taste too much like shit to bother”. That’s how they take over. They were introduced in French streams on account of nothing whatsoever eats them, they’re so nasty ; and they live a long time so over the years they grow into these huge 3-5m long monstrosities. They’re popular among amateur fishermen for the same reason red Harley’s are : they pretend like it’s their genitals on the photograph. Here’s the thing : they taste _exactly the same_. Fuck catfish. Forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-north-american-plants-and-animals-are-invasive-species-elsewhere/812007.md?page=2)