Timeline for Can capybaras spread to Louisiana from Venezuela and populate it in less than 1000 years?
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 17:40 | vote | accept | kingledion | ||
| Jun 13, 2018 at 11:41 | comment | added | kingledion | @John I totally forgot about that! Now I'm adding hippos to my story! I wish I could mark this comment as the correct answer! | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 23:01 | comment | added | John | A beachhead population like this is definitely your best bet, this has happened plenty of times ,even escaped zoo animals have taken root in abandoned areas before. Just look at what is happening to hippos in Colombia. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 22:48 | comment | added | BlackThorn | I went on a swamp tour in New Orleans back in 1999, and we definitely saw capybaras. I can't recall exactly what the guide said about them, but I'm fairly certain he said they were growing more and more common and breeding in the wild. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | Willk | You probably would wind up with an evolutionary bottleneck. But that can be good for a story in explaining why the N.Am capys are not exactly like their S.AM ancestors. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 15:27 | comment | added | kingledion | Are there enough to breed? | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 15:01 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |