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Are baby eastern black rats striped in black and white? np
NomadOfTheHills
Jul 31, 2004 12:29 AM
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michaelb
Jul 31, 2004 03:17 AM
Nope. They're generally strongly patterned with black or brownish dark blotches on a lighter background of tan or gray, with alternating rows of smaller spots/blotches on each side.
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MichaelB
draybar
Jul 31, 2004 10:16 AM
sounds more like a king snake
are they very prominant white stripes or more faint and broken.
Very wide and almost solid white would probably be an eastern king, or what some are now calling and eastern chain king while the fainter almost speckled while lines would probably be a black king.
I would assume that by asking about the "eastern" that you would be in an area that could probably have both.
Jimmy
plasmalightning
Jul 31, 2004 06:24 PM
or a baby black racer...
michaelb
Aug 01, 2004 05:39 AM
"Striped" typically refers to longitudinal stripes - ones that run the length of the body, as in most garter and ribbon snakes. Adult Yellow/Everglades Rat snakes are striped. If you're referring to pattern features that run across the body from one side to the other, they're usually called bands or crossbands (or maybe rings, if they continue all the way around the belly) .
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