More addenda!
Truth be told, of course, I'm less embarassed and upset with myself for getting angry (which is, y'know, just one of those things that I do from time to time) than I am with arguing in such a crappy manner. I mean, really, my position was an eminently defensible one, and to have defended it so poorly is far less excusable than my subsequent anger
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1. How do you know?
Thanks to the all-encompassing power of Science, of course! Certain models we had developed explaining the behavior of Alligator tiniensis hinted at their possession of secret, occult knowledge which larger beasties can not comprehend. Also, we knew little about their reproductive habits, and so we intuited that perhaps these two were correlated. So, in order to determine whether or not our theory was correct, and to further ascertain precisely what their hidden knowledge and mating habits consisted of, we developed a "Fantastic Voyage"-style Shrinking Ray, which we then used to shrink a volunteer (me) down to the size of the Very Small alligators. Once there, I gained their trust through a long and arduous process (to be detailed in my upcoming book, Alligators in the Mist) and finally got them to reveal unto me their hidden secrets: They nested, and the fact that they nested was hitherto only known by little things! After finishing my studies, saying "Good-bye!" to the 'gators, and returning to normal size, I decided that I would follow the dictum that "Information yearns to be free", and make the fact known to non-little beings.
2. Are you a very small alligator?
No.
3. Or an inchworm?
No.
4. ...Are these alligators related to the dangerous invisible ones that were gonna eat me?
Well, assuming that the dangerous invisible alligators that were gonna eat you were ordinary Flordia 'gators (Alligator Mississipiensis) that had used one of their vast interstellar spaceships to shoot down a Klingon Bird of Prey and steal its cloaking technology for the own nefarious you-eating purposes, then yes, the two kinds of alligators are both of the same genus, though they be different species.
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