>>MANY papers have been published by the Univ. of Florida about how the cats are solely responsible for the demise of the Key Largo Wood Rat you hear so much about these days.

Actually, I did look up a paper, a sort of informational paper put out by the FWS....and here's what it said: "The decline in the woodrat’s range and apparent extirpation of this species from Key Largo south of the U.S. 1-C.R. 905 intersection has been generally attributed to land clearing followed by residential and commercial development (Brown 1978a, b; Hersh 1981). The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization."

http://www.fws.gov/verobeach/images/pdflibrary/klwr.pdf
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
2.6 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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