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Thread: Mass Snake ID
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06-04-2019, 06:48 PM #1
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06-04-2019, 06:53 PM #2
Eastern Black Racer or Rat snake
https://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nature-wildlife/reptiles-amphibians/snakes/snake-species-in-massachusetts
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06-04-2019, 06:53 PM #3Funky But Chic
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I'd guess Black Racer but not an expert.
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06-04-2019, 06:55 PM #4
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06-04-2019, 06:58 PM #5
https://sciencing.com/difference-bet...r-8427641.html
https://steemit.com/animals/@papa-pe...lack-rat-snake
There's a forum for everything - ask the snake geeks.. https://www.ssnakess.com/forums/
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06-04-2019, 07:03 PM #6
looks like keeled scales, so black rat snake? Just going by the web site, I've never seen one.
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06-04-2019, 07:17 PM #7
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06-04-2019, 07:29 PM #8
Mass Snake ID
Black Rat Snake....common here in PA.....we get a guy every year to do a PA reptile and amphibian show for the elementary kids.....he always shows a Black Rat snake....pretty docile....where as the Black Racer is much more aggressive, active.
Black Rat is good to have around the property....will control the mice/rodent pests around the house.
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06-04-2019, 07:49 PM #9
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06-04-2019, 08:01 PM #10
I saw one the same sized last week. Black snake. 7 footer. Hate snakes.
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06-04-2019, 08:39 PM #11Funky But Chic
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Yeah they just call them Black Snakes around here. Pretty common. But they're usually pretty much black from what I've seen, and this guy looks kinda brownish-black with a faint pattern. But hell I don't know.
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06-04-2019, 08:43 PM #12
Huh.... when I saw this thread title I thought "Snake River Idaho" and that you found a mass of snakes.
Goes to show, where you stand depends on where you sit and I sit close to the Idaho border along the Snake river.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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06-04-2019, 08:50 PM #13
this one seems to be a rat...
i always thought they were the aggressive ones and the racers were docile. a couple of years ago i was waiting for the metro north in beacon and there was one pretending to 'rattle' its tail at all of the commuters in a threatening way. i guess if it bit you it would pinch but not do much more than leave a mark.
Ah, the rat snake is also an amazing climber, sometimes they just chill on the side of trees. Cool to see.j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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06-04-2019, 08:54 PM #14Funky But Chic
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An old girlfriend of mine was from Missouri and when she was a kid she fell through the surface of a riverbank into a den of copperheads. It was winter and cold out and they were pretty much immobile and she was fine.
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06-04-2019, 09:02 PM #15“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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06-04-2019, 09:13 PM #16“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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06-05-2019, 09:56 AM #17
I was taking a bath once as a teenager (no shower in our house) and I heard a strange noise. It was an old farmhouse in disrepair with exposed beams. The noise was a five foot long milk snake slithering out of one knot hole, along the beams and into another knot hole on a different beam. WTFF?!?!?! "There's snakes in the fucking walls!!!"
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