Any argument on my part is to support the fact that stories of established cobras or anything else is a bunch of oversensationalized hooey. I guess you could let one go and then catch it and say you caught one. The local news won’t cover the fact that you just let it go to manufacture the story. I guess it isn’t enough to find a coral snake in your yard anymore. As you know, the habitat destruction is basically total and permanent. My opinion on the curly tails displacing the skinks and anoles is that they are far more tolerant of man and if it weren’t for them, we would have nothing. This is prime reptile weather down here. If it gets loose, it is going to live here. The natives are still here, but compared to the old days, they are practically gone. My problem with the burm thing is basically, why burms? Why not balls or boas, they were imported just as heavily. If some dealer got wiped out in Andrew, wouldn’t they have just as likely had something else besides Burms?

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