ApocaDocs: Groups Battle Exotic Species in Texas

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Posted Sun Dec 7 2008: from New York Times:


	Groups Battle Exotic Species in Texas http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1228671284 AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)-- There was a time when horned frogs were not confined to Texas Christian University. The real-life version of the university's mascot, actually a kind of lizard, roamed Texas by the thousands until imported red fire ants marauded through the state, displacing the ants that served as the lizard's food. Today, university researchers blame the fire ant invasion and pesticides for devastating the horned toad population. The fate of the lizard is part of a larger story about invasive species -- a rogues' gallery of weeds, grasses, insects, fish and animals that are reshaping and in many cases destroying the natural order in Texas, and in many parts of the country.

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