>>You "argue" like a Creationist feebly attempting to shoot down the theory of evolution.



Tsk. Ad hominem attacks are a sign of weakness.....





>>You illogically nitpick at peripheral irrelevancies, while at the same time providing little to nothing to support your claims



LOL!!



I'm the only one here (in this particular thread) who actually HAS offered data to back up claims.



>>and you BLATANTLY avoid answering pointed questions about your claims



I blatantly avoid answering questions about claims I haven't made. It's odd, but I feel no responsibility for defending someone else's claim.





>>I'll put that in capital letters now so you don't miss it:

>>"THEY SHOULD BE MUCH EASIER TO CONTROL THAN EITHER HOGS OR CATS."

>>"...FIGHT THE PROBLEM..."

>>

>>Now address my questions/requests or retract you statements. Here are the questions/requests once more:

>>

>>1) Regarding "controlling" the burms, please explain how any of the proposed legislation will have any effect on the burms

>>in the Everglades?



Sigh. I don't know if the proposed legislation WILL have any effect on the burms in the Everglades. As I keep trying to explain to you, I haven't claimed that it WILL. Try to actually READ what I write this time, okay? Don't just copy it in large type -- try to actually understand the words.



Let's see if I can break this down into smaller bits for ya:



1. large pythons are reproducing in the Everglades

2. these large pythons are not nearly as numerous as feral cats or feral hogs

3. these large pythons don't reproduce nearly as quickly as feral cats or feral hogs

4. incidentally, the large pythons also don't move nearly as quickly as feral cats or feral hogs

5. also, from a different part of this thread, the legal impediments to population control (legal definitions of hogs and cats, existing laws, etc.) are much less onerous for pythons than for feral cats or feral hogs

6. therefore, it should be much easier to control the feral python population than the feral cat or feral hog populations.



Notice that NOWHERE in that statement did I make any claim about the proposed ban being the ideal method of control.



Sorry to disappoint you, but I refuse to be forced into defending a claim that I haven't made.



>>2) Please explain HOW they will be "controlled" with or without any laws.



General methods of population control for various invasive species often include hunting, trapping, poisoning, legal prohibitions against release, spaying/neutering or other methods of sterilization, habitat modification, and so on. I don't know what will prove to be the best method in this specific case.



>>3)Please explain why you even believe we humans can "control" the burm population. We don't exactly have a good track record of controlling, much less eradicating,

>>any species.



I don't know if we can. Again, please actually READ what I write. I said that it should be *easier* to control pythons than cats or hogs. That doesn't mean that we will be 100% successful with ANY of those species.
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)

2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)

0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)

2.6 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)

1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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