Sorry, but you really seem to be speaking gibberish. According to your logic, invasions of lionfish wiping out coral reef fish are "balanced" because the lionfish weren't there before...





What Upscale is saying is nothing like you have twisted it into,



If in fact the lion fish are wiping out the entire reef that they have been introduced to that would be a completely different scenario then a species assimilating into a new eco system, finding a nitch, reaching a balance as it appears that pythons will do. Existing at normal levels along with the other species in that system. In the case of the pythons they seem to be fitting into the everglades in the same manor as they fit into their previous range. When I confronted the researchers to present me with "new" information, something that they had uncovered that would indicate that pythons are doing something abnormal, something that I couldn't have predicted ............all they came back with was, well they are not eating as many cats as some people think. I don't know what some people think but I would have been shocked if they were in fact chowing down a lot of cats. So the answer was the researchers have found NOTHING to indicate that the pythons are doing anything but filling a natural role as a large predatory snake, and doing so in a typical fashion.



The fact is the pythons are not feeding more ravenously, they are not reproducing at a higher rate and by all indications not populating to densities that are higher then what is normal for the species. The pythons are not showing themselves to be any more or less dominate in the glades then a they are anywhere else in their range.



ERNIE EISON

WESTWOOD ACRES REPTILE FARM INC.

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