Egotistical? I'M THE ONLY PERSON ON THAT FORUM WHO IS ON THE PYTHON PROJECT. Actually, I take that back. I think Gordon or Bob (or maybe both) eventually joined that thread and post over there from time to time. Also, flherp (who is also posting here) has an insider's perspective and contributed positively to the conversation. Anyway, I'm not egotistical. I would be the first to recognize many of those individuals as being much more intelligent than I am but I just happen to be the one in the middle of the action when it comes to pythons. As I type this I am surrounded by gut content samples that I've been identifying. Before typing this I was in ENP herping. Tomorrow I'll be back in ENP tracking the snakes. This weekend I'll be scouting areas to look for P. sebae. Maybe you don't understand that I am 100% immersed in what is going on with pythons in FL. And you've already said that you think I'm honest so why are you still debating with me? I'm not trying to destroy the pet trade. I'm just trying to educate people on ideas that are not very controversial. There ARE a lot of pythons out there and it IS a problem. There is no controversy there. Keep in mind... a couple years ago people were accusing us of fabricating the python problem... entirely. People said... "well, it seems that only government types are finding them" or something like that. Now people are saying... "oh, these numbers are bogus... there are probably only 1,000 pythons out there." There are honest people working on this project and I consider myself to be one of them. You can continue to insult me and call me an idiot or you can start listening to me. Your choice.



By the way, I think this quote from that thread sums up what happened over there pretty nicely:



"Ernie coming from someone who likes the Barkers and thinks the initial Rhodda paper was complete crap, please STFU!!! You are taking up the side of defending the Barkers and the herp community and you are failing and sounding like an ignorant uninformed idiot. If you think any of your post have helped anybody come to your side you are mistaken."



I haven't heard anyone on either forum insult me yet... except for you.



Mike

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