>The bigger issue is that they're acting like these snakes are a threat to most of the American south...these snakes are TROPICAL! A reticulated python would be dead in nearly all of the country come fall or winter.



>>>First, prove it.





You are a vet? What states would you tell someone it's fine to keep a retic year round without supplemental heat? I don't think you would ever say that in any state.



Of course that's not final proof and, like the USGS study, there are many other considerations. One would probably not reccommend even keeping a native kingsnake year round without supplemental heat because a captive environment is so different from a natural one. Still one should ask, how much tax dollars should be directed to which studies. At some point you have to say it would be wasteful, such as spending money to study whether a retic could survive year round in the Colorado Rockies. Such a study would be redundant because there are already plenty of natural history studies the indicate what habitats are suitable for retics and we already know much of the US is not.

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