You may be on to something...

Posted by Donovan on April 17, 2002 at 09:59:45:

In Reply to: No, extremely unlikely to be intergrades..... posted by Terry Cox on April 14, 2002 at 08:11:15:

The place where I have seen the brown ones is more open than the places where I find the black ones.

: Black rats are very variable in color and pattern/lack of pattern. They are responsive to changes in environment. As a whole, black rats are a woodland species. I suspect your brown specimens are adapting to more of a grassy environment with less tree cover.

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