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I was surveying on an airfield on Fort Sill, Oklahoma today when I came across this little guy. It was a pretty cold day with strong winds. We were in a very large grassy area that is kept mowed, but not as short as a lawn. I found him just sitting on top the grass.

Being an Albino, I figurd he must be an escapee. However the nearest military housing units are about 3/4 a mile away (where reptiles are not allowed, but possibly kept). he has a few battle scars on him too.

What do you think of the possibility of him being a a naturally ocurring albino? Any help in ID would be appreciated. He doesn't have the "look" of a Corn. I was thnking Great plains rat but the anal plate is not split. Prarie King?

Thanks for looking, Dave

Its looks to be a albino prairie king .I would say it got loose from someones house .John

It's likely an albino Prairie king. One reason is that you're smack in the middle of prairie king country. The only reason I question it slightly is that the head markings remind me of a hybrid. I'm not convinced someone lost that snake. Having caught three albino snakes in the wild, there's an excellent chance that you were in the right place at the snake's right age. A few more weeks/months and it likely would have been an albino lunch for some predator.

Great find. Do a scale count. You may find that it's not exactly a prairie king, even though the marking everywhere but the head are dead-on for a calligaster.

Big kudos.

Don
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naturally occuring albino hybrid, you have better chances of winning the lottery than finding that.
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

A friend in Kansas caught a hybrid there on a road one night. It's an adult and appears to be a hybrid between a prairie king and a glossy snake. We're still not positive, but he's trying to breed it to a prairie king.
South Mountain Reptiles