"Brown" Rat Snakes in Southern Illinois

Posted by Donovan Winterberg on April 13, 2002 at 19:56:30:

I occasionally find ratsnakes here in southern Illinois that are brown with darker brown blothes. I've both assumed, and been told, that they were natural intergrade black x gray rats. Since neither of these subspecies themselves are brown, where is the odd coloration comming from? Is it possible (although I doubt it) they could be prairie king hybrids?

I also find many large black rats (most with red speckling)if I go farther west towards the Mississippi River.

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• Re: "Brown" Rat Snakes in Southern Illinois Alan Garry 04/14/02 (0)
• No, extremely unlikely to be intergrades..... Terry Cox 04/14/02 (2)
  • You may be on to something... Donovan 04/17/02 (0)
  • Whoops! I misspoke......> TC 04/14/02 (0)
• Re: "Brown" Rat Snakes in Southern Illinois JY 04/13/02 (0)

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: I occasionally find ratsnakes here in southern Illinois that are brown with darker brown blothes. I've both assumed, and been told, that they were natural intergrade black x gray rats. Since neither of these subspecies themselves are brown, where is the odd coloration comming from? Is it possible (although I doubt it) they could be prairie king hybrids? : I also find many large black rats (most with red speckling)if I go farther west towards the Mississippi River.

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