Re: Opinions wanted on my mysterious "yellow rat"...(kinda long)

Posted by Alan Garry on January 20, 2002 at 19:53:04:

In Reply to: Opinions wanted on my mysterious "yellow rat"...(kinda long) posted by Jessica Curtis on January 20, 2002 at 14:16:56:

Yellow rats can be quite variable. I was in South Florida about 14 years ago at the house of a guy who paid people to field collect for him. He had many yellow rats, most of which were collected south of Lake Okeechobee. They varied about as much as human hair. They were bright yellow, dull yellow, several shades of brown, some pretty dark, greenish like blackrat intergrades except with orange eyes, pale to medium orange, and he said he got 3 or 4 orange red ones a year. They had pale to dark stripes, with varying amounts of juvinile pattern. You could find any one of these variations in any part of South Florida I was told. I had a 5 foot male yellow rat from Naples Florida that had as strong of a pattern as an average white oak grey rat with dark stripes. You might also check out Kathy Loves Cornutopia and read the desrciption of the everglades rat under the everglades ratsnakes pictures. Hope this helps.
Alan,

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: Yellow rats can be quite variable. I was in South Florida about 14 years ago at the house of a guy who paid people to field collect for him. He had many yellow rats, most of which were collected south of Lake Okeechobee. They varied about as much as human hair. They were bright yellow, dull yellow, several shades of brown, some pretty dark, greenish like blackrat intergrades except with orange eyes, pale to medium orange, and he said he got 3 or 4 orange red ones a year. They had pale to dark stripes, with varying amounts of juvinile pattern. You could find any one of these variations in any part of South Florida I was told. I had a 5 foot male yellow rat from Naples Florida that had as strong of a pattern as an average white oak grey rat with dark stripes. You might also check out Kathy Loves Cornutopia and read the desrciption of the everglades rat under the everglades ratsnakes pictures. Hope this helps. : Alan, :

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