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Old 02-02-2011, 08:22 PM   #1
runyon_0509
Rat Snake Identification

I caught this snake while mowing the lawn and it is the only snake that I own that is not a ball python, so I know next to nothing about it. I have been told that it is a rat snake but have been told nothing else. I was wondering if it was just a normal?

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Old 02-02-2011, 09:11 PM   #2
TheFragginDragon
Looks like a normal baby black ratsnake. They darken as they get older. They've always been my fave of the ratsnakes family.
 
Old 02-02-2011, 11:09 PM   #3
DAND
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Looks like a normal baby black ratsnake. They darken as they get older.
 
Old 02-03-2011, 09:38 AM   #4
BobOblak
Definitely a black rat. Gets six feet long and mamba quick and great climbers, not slugs like bp's. A real he-mans snake if you ask me. Alert personalities and volatile attitudes. What good are snakes if they dont bite people?
 
Old 02-03-2011, 10:30 AM   #5
runyon_0509
You definitely nailed his personality. Although, he was really dark when i picked him up and his color has lightened. Thanks guys.
 
Old 02-16-2011, 07:34 PM   #6
tspuckler
Like the others said, that's a young Black Rat Snake. When they get older they look like this (from central Ohio):

 
Old 02-16-2011, 07:38 PM   #7
runyon_0509
The gray goes away?
 
Old 03-02-2011, 12:59 AM   #8
D. Mong
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The gray goes away?
The grey background and even the darker blotches become much more heavily obscured with dark pigment (melanin) as they mature, so the saddle blotching can be very difficult to make out, and sometimes virtually impossible on certain adult specimens.


~Doug
 
Old 03-08-2011, 07:09 AM   #9
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