Giant Constrictors: Biological and Management Profiles and an Establishment Risk Assessment for Nine Large Species of Pythons, Anacondas, and the Boa Constrictor

Below we list a series of quotes taken from the manuscript, each annotated with our comments in brackets. This seemed to us the best way to illustrate the extraordinary number of presumptions and speculations that liberally riddle this manuscript. We do recognize the unfairness of isolating citations out of context; therefore we list the exact location in the manuscript of each of our excerpts so that a reader can go to the page to better understand the context. We start with this citation from the beginning paragraph of the manuscript: