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Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Invasive species can mean a lot of things, from fungus to feral pigs and European starlings to kudzu vines. Basically, it's anything brought to a place, either by humans or nature, that didn't originate there. They aren't always a problem, but many times they can wreak havoc on the local ecosystem. Learn all about these invaders in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hi everyone.
0:32.0	We semi-recently recorded an episode about cats being an invasive species.
0:36.5	Ooh boy, and we're going to hear it for that one.
0:38.7	But I thought we'd go back to the OG episode on invasive species from January 11, 2018.
0:45.2	What is an invasive species?
0:48.2	Listen now.
0:50.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:57.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:04.7	I'm Josh Clark.
1:05.8	There's Childs of You, Chuck Bryant.
1:07.3	There's Jerry.
1:08.3	This is Stuff You Should Know.
1:11.9	Action edition.
1:12.9	I got to laugh out of Jerry at least.
1:17.5	I got a derisive snort.
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