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WP2 Part 2: Comments 1) Reply to commenter: I completely agree with how animals being plucked from their natural environment can be detrimental to their species’ survival. However, my main concern over this issue is how certain smuggled animals can pose a larger threat to the area they are introduced to rather than where they were exported from. The United States is no stranger to invasive species destroying ecosystems by this time, with Burmese pythons and Argentinian tegus in Florida competing with the native apex predators, goldfish competing for natural resources statewide, and cane toads that not only threaten almost every species of predator but also endanger human and house pet livelihoods. Even animals that are not able to compete with the local wildlife, they can carry foreign fungi, viruses and pathogens and introduce them to areas where the susceptible animals carry no genetic resistances. There is also the chance where an alien species is a close enough relative ...

Good Comments 1.        Woe is me. This article is an embarrassment of excuses. I am 67 years old and grew up living in a trailer in upstate New York. Grew up at a time when there was no internet. I received very little advice from anyone (my parents were immigrants, spoke weak English and never went to college). My idea of preparing for the SAT was buying a copy of Barron's SAT preparation book, "how to prepare for the SAT" for about $8. In addition to practice SAT questions, it gave general guidance about colleges. Anyone who claims to be clueless about college admissions in a world that not only has libraries but also the Internet has been playing too many video games on their smart phone. I ended up with a 784 in math and 800 in physics. Graduated, and have paid millions of dollars in income taxes in my life time. Please, in this day and age, information is cheap and virtually infinite. Pity is finite and doled out only when deserved. Oh, and by the way, my...