Feral pigs were brought to the Americas by European colonists as cattle. These pigs descend from their ancestors who were either released or managed to make a bid for freedom from farm life. Their omnivorous lifestyle allowed them to eat many plants and animals across the areas they lived on, suffering little hunger. They found food everywhere, whether it was eating peanuts on a farm, or seedlings underground.

Feral pigs are now no more as humans responded to how they affected ecosystems and farms. Governments have taken away all restrictions for the hunting and trapping of these animals added to increased restrictions on hunting native species. The hunting of the feral pigs greatly intensified and led to their decline and death. Furthermore, humans released predators of the feral pig to the areas where most of them lived.

Due to feral pigs mostly eating plants, the main cause of the ecosystem damage they caused was mostly to plant life rather than animal life. The predators along with hunting led to little damage to other native species since the lesser recreational hunting compensated for the increase of native predators. Funeral services for the feral pigs will be held soon by lake Okeechobee in Florida. All donations are accepted, please send them to Animal Funeral Services.

It was an invasive species in the United States, being imported as a food source for the aquarium trade before 1900. Yet its release into the wild due to aquarium dumping and various escapes (ex: in flooding events) caused it to become an invasive species in the states of Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii. Their nocturnal life cycle has made them difficult to catch. It is a generalist predator, and thus possesses quite a large potential for harming the environment as it hunts fish, amphibians, and other organisms that it can find.

The species has now been fully eradicated in the United States, as a federal law was passed which allowed its active hunting. It can be considered a delicacy by people of Asian descent, and thus it is highly sought after by Asian immigrants. Now, fishermen only needed a permit to place various traps and fences to fish as many of these eels as possible. Fishing regulations also stated that any specimens found had to be instantly killed to prevent any possibility of escape. Aquarium regulations also forbid them from releasing any into the wild, implementing a very large fine and even the possibility of being shut down by the state if any were found to be released. 

Funeral services to honor the presence of this species in U.S territory will be held at Honolulu Harbor, the place where the Asian swamp eel first came into U.S soil.

Mussels are an invasive species that are characteristic of being very small, however, they have a facility to spread through the ocean, rivers and lakes to harm other species. Mussels probably arrived in The Great Lakes in the 1980s due to a large ship from Europe. They are now found in many states such as Nevada, California, Utah, Colorado and Texas. I would like to point out that Clark was different. He loved spending time at the beach and taking the sun from the sandy beach shores. He spends most of his time with his other mussel friends and enjoying his free time. He was fed by different types of algae, bacteria, and some organic particles.  Clark was very much appreciated by everyone in his community because everyone in the ocean community knew him. Mussels, like Clark, can live about 60 to 70 years in a good habitat, so he spent a lot of time on this planet! Also, Clark and his species are the only freshwater bivalve that is known to have a ‘free swimming veliger larva’. Everyone in the ocean loved Clark’s striped patterns. Moreover, Clark was very famous as well. He was known to be the only mollusk that could grow while being attached to a surface like rocks! He was also best known because of his amazing ability to survive up to two weeks out of water! Clark used to live with a whole of his family members. He loved to hang out with a crowd of other mussels. 

His beloved family members organized his funeral. It will be held on April 18 at 3:00 PM. We would appreciate you RSVP since the funeral service will take place at the intersection of river Brazos and the North Atlantic Ocean.