Close Call with a King Cobra

[bronxzoofrank]

Regulating dangerous activities is a normal function of government - seat belts, drug use, firearms, food processing, (and in NYC, the size of soft drinks!..obviously that one has some up in arms), tobacco use, and so on....

Drawing distinctions...how long a snake can live etc. - tends to strengthen the case of those seeking to regulate.

Providing opinions is of course our right. All opinions are not, where factual information is involved, however, of the same value. I'm interested in southeast Asian soft-shelled turtles, for example, and have some experience, but my opinions as to how the conservation of some of the rarer species should be handled, or what their evolutionary relationships are to one another, are not as worthwhile as those of Peter Pritchard.