>>The most basic scientific method depends on solid proof-not supposition.

Ummm...no. Huh, huh. The scientific method depends on experiment and observation. In most situations, with the exception of medicine and other safety factors, the experimenter's word is accepted unless there is some good reason to question it.

>>Breeding burms in captivity is comonly done here. That your lab boys managed to do what dozens of breeders do here for a living again means nothing.

I can only assume that you didn't read what I wrote. They layed eggs, we set them aside, they hatched...in a mostly uncontrolled environment, virtually identical to the everglades except for the lack of predators.

>> Eggs here are exposed to predatory species

In case you've forgotten, burms are one of the few species that guard and incubate there eggs in the wild. Very little in the everglades is going to drive a 10-12 foot burmese off it's eggs. Insects might get some clutches, but if 1 in 10 make it, that's probably enough...


>>With native species dying out from man screwing with their enviroment, I find it even harder to beleave that an alien snake that is big-really big, would suceed when others species that are better designed to adapt have failed.

So then you agree that there is no way alligators could reproduce in Florida? Think about how similar their life cycle is... Obviously, burm eggs won't make it through the winter here, but they don't lay during the winter and almost certainly lay at the time of year that is most similar to laying time in their home range.

>>Like what was said above...Boas have been released here too and have failed-and of course they are livebearing which should have given them the edge.
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>>I ask why?

I have no doubt that if their numbers reached a certain level they could do the same. I don't see that fact that it hasn't happened yet as being that meaningful...

>>If it is happening, then someone should be able to find a nest and photograph it. Show me proof and I will beleave. Otherwise, we are all getting sore fingers typing over theorys.

Have you seen a picture of an alligtor nest in the wild? I don't think I have. And just for reference, if you've seen one on Animal Planet, it's fairly lakely it was filmed at our refuge or at the alligator farm a few miles from us. (Boy, I hope you don't take this too seriously...)

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