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Found this very large and healthy female annulata in Dimmit County, Texas last night. Lots of other DOR's and one more AOR checkered garter.

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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas

I'll bet it was like finding this thing...

A friend actually picked it up but I was driving and ended up with the animal. I got it started on mouse thighs... it was that small.
btw... it's a coastal Rosy. At least that's what the range maps tell me.

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Ed
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Thats a nice find. Im hoping to pull a new albino one day, maybe an albino rattlesnake, and introduce the strain to captivity.

I don't think that's an albino but it is different.
If you put in enough time, I'm sure you'll find that 'neat' animal.
I know people that seem to spent every waking moment hunting. I'm lucky to get out once or twice a month.
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I didnt mean that yours was albino, but something original that would parallel finding an albino. I dont get out all the time, two or three times a week. I know someone who has hunted locally for 26 years, he hasnt found anything special yet, except for a hybrid. I dont think that locally is the area to find mutants. I need a new area, remote from other hunters, where I can hopefully find something special. I dont think that that area exists though. Just have to rely on luck.

>>I didnt mean that yours was albino, but something original that would parallel finding an albino. I dont get out all the time, two or three times a week. I know someone who has hunted locally for 26 years, he hasnt found anything special yet, except for a hybrid. I dont think that locally is the area to find mutants. I need a new area, remote from other hunters, where I can hopefully find something special. I dont think that that area exists though. Just have to rely on luck.

I think if you see enough snakes you'll see something different, maybe even a mutation. I saw a totally orange Butler's garter snake when I was a young lad. Didn't know what it was then and just let it go like dozens of others. I've seen an albino red-belly snake and a melanistic one too. The black one was on a farm. Some populations of snakes have lots of melanistics. I think albino is harder to find because they don't live as long. You might want to concentrate on times when the babies are hatching out and places having lots of babies. You might also want to concentrate on a snake species you would want to keep as a pet, such as the AZ mtn. kingsnake. I saw one that was almost melanistic last year. I wouldn't mind finding one that was all red with no pattern, probably never happen, but ya never know...haha.

TC

wow!! yet another nice annulata, keep up the good work jason, love those big milk snakes!!/jon

Gracias Jon...
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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas