How shortly after death do they turn blue? This one had JUST been smashed.... Within a 5 minute period. I was driving down the dirt road, watching for snakeys, then went and turned around at the end of the road, truck passed me, and when I got back to the other side the snake was there, fresh squashed from that truck. The road takes about 5 minutes to travel down to the end at the speed I was going. If they turn that fast that is interesting...but more interesting if that was his natural color and its not supposed to be? Mind you I'm up by the Oklahoma border... I dont know if that makes any difference.. The only gater I have ever seen that looked like this one was a Florida species my friend bought. .. I will have to search that area when it stops raining and see if I can find any live specimens... His stripes down the middle of his back were blue. The rest of the body, black. What species would that have been??? Even if it did turn after death? If memory serves me right it had a stripe on each side of the backbone.

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