"The larger point is that that Rodda's paper merely indicates that the Big Nine *COULD* colonize those areas, not that they have or that they will."

I couldn't agree more. Personally, I don't think that they could. But, let's give them that. Is *COULD* reason enough to change the law?

American alligators and large constrictors are very different. And, American alligators are unique, even amongst other crocodilians, in the fact that they are endemic to temperate areas. In fact, they have lived in NA when temperatures were far colder. This is simply not the case with large constrictors. I have spent time in Great Dismal Swamp, Alligator River NWR, Croatan, Green Swamp, Edisto, and many alligator habitats in between. Those habitats are not even sub-tropical.

Like I mentioned, I have problems with some of the keepers of large constrictors. I am only commenting on one specific thing...what this is all supposed to be about...large constrictors as injurious species, based upon the specific definition given in the law.

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