>>Wolfgang
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>>While I agree that an accident with a thought to be harmless snake would be very bad for the hobby there was a failure to distinguish which colubrids had dangerous potential and which ones did not. Instead they appear to all be lumped together. At least that's all the snake grabbing law makers will make of it as they rarely bother trying to add common sense into the mix. For that reason I feel the paper runs the risk of causing great harm albeit unintentional. With as much effort as was directed at showing all to have venemous traits it would seem that an egual amount of effort would be warranted to show which ones were not a threat simply to protect the hobby.

I have no problems with that. We are planning a series of further papers in both the scientific and non-scientific literature in which the implications of these findings for herpetoculurer will be discussed in more detail.

Cheers,

Wolfgang
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