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10 points! Give an example of a time when introducing an animal into an ecosystem changed it dramatically for the worse

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The nile perch.
It was introduced to Lake Victoria in the 1950s and is native to African lake and rivers.
The population of nile perch exploded in the 1980s, and caused quite a few native species in Lake Victoria to go extinct.
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