As far as the "research" on seeing if they could drink salt water and survive it's laughable that would even would be needed to do. A guy named Tamer Ellis did that experiment with C. acutus back in the 70's and even baby native crocs die in pure salt water. Mazzotti is well aware of that as I suspect you are. This entire study "reeks" of studies done to support a hidden agenda rather than real science. Did Skip lose his giant python skin? No one in this movie wrapped up in it as the usual news story portrays. Shoot Mike I haven't seen you wrap up in it yet. You're missing some great publicity...Perhaps the pythons traveling down US 1 are taking a taxi as the traffic is to great to crawl. That part has to be the DUMBEST THING I've ever heard. An ectotherm crawling down the overseas hiway to colonize the lower Keys is tantamount to a Saturday Night Live spoof and was portrayed as real. AMAZING...ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOUR KEEN SCIENTIFIC MIND: DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT PYTHONS OR ANY ANIMAL COULD CRAWL OR WALK DOWN US 1 TO THE KEYS?
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