The slider turtles which have been described as having "taken possession of the entire Lanyang Plain," are but one example. Such animals as carnivorous American alligators and poisonous snakes from Southeast Asia are being kept by people in Taiwan too, and when they grow too large to cope with their owners often "set them free."
寵物消費者也是外來生物子孫綿衍的幫凶，被形容「已佔據蘭陽平原」的巴西龜只是一例，肉食性的鱷魚、毒蛇都有人飼養，養得不勝其擾後再予以「放生」。