>>I'd say that they're yellow rat X Everglades rats. "Pure" Everglades supposedly have all-red tongues. Yellow rats have black tongues. As Doug said, the snake with its toungue out has one that's mostly black. I've seen some 50/50 red/black tongues from Everglades/yellow rat crosses.
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>>Tim



I read that on the forums but I was reading something the other day, I think maybe by Connant (maybe not) that stated everglades can and do have black on their tongues and that they don't recall ever seeing one with a completely red tongue.
I will see if I can find the article. May be tough, I usually delete my history once a week but I'll look...it was interesting.
seems like I read it in another article by a another "respected" taxonomist/herpetologist
I know I've yet to see one with a "completely" red tongue.
that's like the everglades pictured below....To me he's about as everglades as everglades can get but he had some black on his tongue
and before anyone starts jumping up and down.. I'm just stating what I've read.






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