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Rat Snake Identification

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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? :shrug01:

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Looks like a normal baby black ratsnake. They darken as they get older. They've always been my fave of the ratsnakes family.
 
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?
 
runyon_0509 said:
The gray goes away?
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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
 
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