it does have a chocolate hue to it w/ slight pattern still showing. there is so much variation in black rats. In Indiana they come in all sorts of forms from black to slightly patterned to obsoleta X spiloides grays in southwestern IN. thx for posting
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp