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throatoyster
at Sat May 15 23:03:28 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by throatoyster ]
It doesn't have the Y or V shaped head marking that milk's usually have. I have caught a lot of milks in this area, and it's definatly not a milk. However, it doesn't have an arrow shape on the head that corns generally have either. the head is mostly all grey except the sort of band that goes across the eyes, and if it had ears, you could imagine a dark blotch on the neck that sort of branches out to that area of the head from the neck, but doesn't reconnect to make a Y or arrow shaped pattern. I have a motley corn and the scale pattern on the head is the same, but if i'm not mistaken, a black rat would have the same thing. The blotches on it's back are not band like, but rather more square. some have a bit of roundness to them, but for the most part are square. the black belly blotches are mostly 2-3 scales long on each side of the belly. There are about 4 or 5 blotches after the vent before they turn into two lines that go down the edges of the tail. There's a ton of black rats in my area, and I've seen about 2 corns before too, so i know they're both here. It's gotta be one of those two, but do juvenile black rats have an orange/peach belly with blotches? I know the adults here have white bellys, but i don't know if that's a change from when they're younger. If it's a corn, it's def not a normal coloration though, cause like i said before, it's all black/grey and white except for the belly, but it's got basically all of the signs of a corn. Is there a possiblity that it could be a black rat x corn? (and by the way, that would be a elaphe obsoleta x pantherophis guttatus, it's not elaphe guttata anymore!) I reeeeeeeeeally wish i had a camera! hope this helped!
thanks!
-Will
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RE: young snake found in maryland Consider...Eastern Milk - throatoyster, Sat May 15 23:03:28 2004