Mike you are correct BUT THE RELEASES ARE ALWAYS TOUTED AS INTENTIONAL AND THIS FILM SHOWED A FAMILY IN A CAR RELEASING A BIG BURM ON PURPOSE. The mater of INTENT is a BIG one in any court of law both civil and criminal. You know that and once more you just sidestep the facts and issues which I suppose your job demands you do. You won't answer this truthfully I don't believe BUT do you think after this freeze these snakes could live anywhere else? How many of your snakes died here? I already have a LOT more info than you think I do. Answer these questions withour bias if you will or are allowed to?

Unfortunately, we have no idea what the final product of a show is going to look like when we film for them. The online preview I saw for it showed the hurricane as a possibility but I haven't seen the actual show and it sounds like it didn't make it into it. I don't have to sidestep any facts for my job. I can fully agree that it MIGHT have been 100% accidental escapes from the hurricane. Ask Nigel Marven who I know we both worked with on the Nature film that airs in a couple weeks... we were riding in the car and he asked me whether I thought it was hurricanes or releases and I said "I don't know, I don't really take a side in that argument because there's no way to ever know." And I still stand by that. But, as we've discussed recently, it's really somewhat irrelevant.

I know the rumors have been spreading about dead pythons. There certainly was a good deal of mortality but I'm not allowed to be specific until it's published in a peer-reviewed journal and we have been slaving over the manuscript to get it in ASAP. My part is done for now but there are 7 or 8 authors so it's getting bounced around quite a bit for review/edits/comments amongst our own group of authors first. But I can promise that there will be details on nearly every python found after the cold front until about a week ago (we had to cut off at some point in order to get this thing finished). This will include the fate of each of our telemetered animals and also any other animals reported to us during that time span.

I've never personally taken a side on the battle of the range maps either and I still don't. All I've really said is that they will probably spread farther than the Pyron map but not as far as the Rodda map. And I think that could still happen.

Mike

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