Eli5: why are invasive species so good at living in foreign places?

Question

I feel like invasive species would have a harder time living in a new area because they don’t know how to hunt/fight in the new area. I always hear how sensitive animals can be to changes in their environment too, so wouldn’t moving animals to a whole new environment mess them up? Why is this not the case?

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Answer 1

“Oh good, so relieved! I thought this was a discussion about non-assimilating immigrants in Europe running rampant on the local populace.”

What say we talk about zebra mollusks and kudzu!