I think I've responded to this elsewhere in the thread but I'll say it again just in case and after having read one of the responses to your post. I was in the lab with Skip yesterday and asked him what he thought about the "no natural predators" thing making it into the press all the time. He said he thinks the press takes a statement similar to this...

"young pythons certainly have many predators but adults would have very few, like gators and crocs"

...and turns it into what we hear on the shows and in the newspaper.

But who knows, I'm not around when all of these people are interviewed. Kenney Krysko did his interview in Gainesville, I don't know where Bob Reed was when he did his, and I don't even know who else was in the show.

And the head of the DOI is probably just as bad as the media. He's not a python expert... he's a talking head.

I do feel bad that this kind of thing is happening (and that it is happening all the time, apparently). It makes us look bad.

Mike

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