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Do Female Texas Rats get larger than males...

hefte Aug 26, 2005 12:32 AM

I just assumed that Rat snake females were larger than males as with pythons and many other colubrids but I over heard a conversation recently where someone said that males get larger so I just thought I'd ask. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I bought a female baby texas rat recently and was hoping she'd get huge, in terms of Rat snakes, so I'll be disappointed if the males get larger. Anyway, thanks in advance, Eric-

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Elaphefan Aug 26, 2005 03:38 PM

I think the answer is no. There was a study of Black Rats (Texas Rats and Black Rats are the same species) and it reported that males grow faster and are therefore larger than females at any given age.

Comparative demography of black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta) in Ontario and Maryland

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