This is about the hottest topic the herp community is faced with since legislation to remove all non-native species from the United States, and while we all feel as though this will endager our rights to keep exotic animals as pets there is one ecological question that has yet to be discussed.

Without human intervention which species will own the everglades in 10 years? And by how great a margin?

I'm suspecting that if the number of Burmese in the evergades is true (100,000 animals) then in 10 years Burmese will outnumber Alligators 3:2. However, because I know that both the Burmese Python and the American Alligator are threatend species to varying degrees (BP = Near Threatened; AA = Least Concern) I will suspect that without human interference the Alligators will outnumber Burmese in the Evergales by a close 1:1.