Eli5: how do invasive species work?

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When you see lion fish or anacondas as invasive.. how does that work? If they live there how did they get there and what does it do to have invasive species that people are just killing animals to prevent it?

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They’re invasive.

By definition they don’t normally live where they are invasive. For invasive marine life, things often end up in new places by hitching a ride on a ship that’s going between different oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.

Invasive species generally don’t have any natural predators where they’re invasive and they can destroy existing ecological systems because they’re unchecked

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