Hi Frank,

I'm not saying no one has ever stupidly released a python, but I've seen zero evidence to support the idea that intentional release caused the breeding populations. Yes, they are prolific, but in the wild there are plenty of predators that could wipe out entire clutches of eggs and/or eat young pythons.

On a related note, one interesting fact that our beloved government scientists forget to mention is that feral cats (a VERY destructive "invasive" species) were found in the stomachs of many of the captured pythons. Instead they just HAND PICKED 5 or 6 (out of how many hundreds?) that had a particular species or two in their stomachs, and then declared "PYTHONS ARE WIPING OUT THE LOCAL WILDLIFE IN THE EVERGLADES!!! PANIC! PANIC!"

I wish I could say whatever I wanted, no matter how stupid, to maintain job security.

Thanks,
Ed



>>Mike,
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>>Burmese Pythons are quite prolific and in he proper habitat could prosper quite easily, due to their environmental needs the dispersal rate would not be high and could colonies in a short period of time, it would not take too many pythons to create a sustainable population, it most likely is a mixture of both purposely released pythons and "acts of god "
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>>Thanks,
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>>Frank Roberts
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