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MikeinOKC
at Mon Oct 20 07:23:50 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by MikeinOKC ]
Yes that looks very like the two black rats I have found in my yard in OKC. As I understand it, the further south and west you go in the black rat range, the more variation you see, ranging from virtually all black in the east to a more patterned look with tans, browns, pinks and even yellows in adult snakes down into Oklahoma and Texas, where the snake tends to be called the Texas rat snake. All in all, it's a varigated species that is surprisingly abundant and adaptible, at least here in Oklahoma. From what I have seen, the closer to full black and the least patterning, the more north and east you are.
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RE: Black Ratsnake variations in the wild - MikeinOKC, Mon Oct 20 07:23:50 2008