#black ratsnake

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

pov: old man sniffs you

[id: Tippex, the white sided black ratsnake, sniffing with his tongue around on his cork round in his enclosure]

#Tippex #the noodles #reptiblr #snake #reptiles #petblr #ratsnake #black ratsnake #white sided black ratsnake #gif #okay for stimboards with credit

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Hi there! Are white-sided black ratsnakes ethical morphs, and what are they like as pet snakes? They’re so beautiful to me but I don’t know much about them 🥹

The morph is absolutely fine! No issues associated with it at all.

Black ratsnakes are pretty dang awesome. They're engaging, active pets who are always so much fun to watch, and they're usually very hardy and very good eaters! There are only two significant notes with them.

They're not small snakes, and their size can be unpredictable. 3-5 feet is average, but they can easily exceed 6 feet long. You will want to plan on a large enclosure with lots of vertical space, these snakes love to climb and need room to do so. I'd recommend no smaller than a 6x4x4 enclosure for them, and bigger is better.

They can also be quite defensive as babies, and you can expect a lot of defensive striking and tail-rattling. It's possible to find babies who are a bit calmer, and they will calm down very well with age, but be aware they might be shy and defensive for a while.

#not a rating #ratsnakes #black ratsnakes

[vandaliatraveler]

So my meeting with this scaly resident of the Mon River Trail got off to a rocky start. But I can assure you we parted quite amicably. Judging by the highly visible banding, this eastern ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) has not yet reached maturity. It was already three feet long. If it’s fortunate enough to reach adulthood, this snake could grow to a length of six feet. 

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #mon river trail #snake #reptile #pantherophis alleghaniensis #eastern ratsnake #allegheny black snake #what is it with me and snakes

[sock-puppet-dinosaur]

Sometimes I think about what my pets would be like as humans. My leopard gecko, for example, would be an incredibly angry elderly Pakistani woman who can, for reasons unknown, beat anyone in a fight. The flip side is that it makes it much funnier to think about which herp we're getting next summer. Do we want a Thai woman, a Vietnamese person, or some guy from Nebraska?

#bamboo ratsnake #black breasted leaf turtle #and tiger salamander #respectively

[laylanatorseventeen]

Had to go do some stuff, came home and pulled down into the driveway and we spotted a snake like three feet up on the side of a tree next to the driveway!!!! If I hadn't noticed it in time my brother probably would have stepped out right into it lol. It dropped off when we pulled close to it and hid in the trees shade but it was interesting. I didn't know snakes could climb trees like that!!

#it was probably a black ratsnake #thats like the generic snake species in this area #and according to the internet that kind of snake actually spends a lot of their time in trees and are known for being great climbers! #the more you know #glad i was with my brother and not my dad tho #my dad has like an unnatural grudge against snakes. like thinks they're actually like .....evil #me and my brother are like you know its just an animal and it isn't bothering us so we left it alone #my dad probably would have killed it :/

[herpsandbirds]

Everglades Rat Snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis), family Colubridae, found in southern FL, USA

This snake was once considered a subspecies of the Black Ratsnake, Elaphe (Pantherophis) obseleta rossalleni, but is now not considered to be a full subspecies, but just a population of Eastern Rat Snake (P. alleghaniensis).

Some herpetologists consider the Everglades Rat to be a population of Yellow Rat Snake, which is seen as only another population of Eastern Rat Snake (itself, also not a full subspecies), and as a subspecies by others. :S

They are larger and more orange than the typical Yellow Rat Snake.

North American Rat Snake (Pantherophis spp.) taxonomy is a bit messy, with a lot of disagreement. There are visibly different populations that have been traditionally seen as distinct subspecies or species, that are now lumped together, due to genetic evidence. Also, there has always been doubts about how to place or consider the Everglades Rat, regardless.

photograph by Ole Dost

#rat snake #pantherophis #snake #reptile #herpetology #colubridae #animals #nature #north america

[limbus-limousine]

Ik you're mostly a Sinclair poster (a very good one at that) but do you have any animal associations for Dante? Or any of the other sinners for that matter

YES YES ACTUALLY!!! SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS ASK...

I have a list of animal associations for project moon characters in general... I'm still working on it but I eventually want to get to background characters too like the optional ruina receptions etc. But currently these are my thoughts for limbus...

Dante: Merulanella blister/tricolor isopod (a perfect match if you ask me... very expensive collectionist morph too). This might change once we know more about them though!

For Verg and Charon I still have to think some up... But Charon is giving mustelid I must say

Yi Sang: Hooded crow + cicada

Dongbaek: Caramel crow!! (This would be a regular American crow, caramel is a mutation that's still being researched which gives them a creamy brown coloration)

Samjo: Great auk (extinct diver bird/penguin) + Royal tern + otter

Dongrang: African forest buffalo + blue roan shorthorn + Oxpecker + cattle egret

Faust: Rock ptarmigan + wooly aphid (still want to look for more...)

Don Quixote: Quagga + Bearded vulture + Monitor lizard

Ryoshu: Horned owl + Dragontail butterfly + Moth (still need to look into species) + ratsnake/black mamba (reference to Hell Screen)

Meursault: Honestly very hard choice... Mostly for personality reasons, I've been thinking of a Nurse shark + MAYBE badger (noctural + def. want an omnivore in there) + Clam or something

Hong Lu: Mantis shrimp + lemur + Sinosauropteryx (chinese compsognathid with conserved pigments of a ringed tail!)

Heathcliff: Aardwolf + Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (want to look for more too...)

Ishmael: Orca (only predator of whales) + kutchicetus (cetacean transitional fossil) + lobster

Ahab: Sperm whale + Narwhal + polar bear

Queequeg: Leopard seal

Rodya: Manul + Cozumel raccoon

Sonya: Leucistic amur leopard + Mediterranean fruit fly

Sinclair (more details...): Eurasian sparrowhawk + indeterminate canine traits. I imagine him as a bilateral gynandromorph (half male/female mutation), inspired by the real recorded specimens of lazuli buntings and canaries.

Demian: Malayan blue coral snake + Boelen's python + Luzon bleeding-heart dove. Pondering on lamb motif + maybe some traces of corvid

Kromer: Mountain lion + Hercules beetle grub + red headed centipede + some mantid perhaps (looking into it)

Outis: Przewalski's horse, or maybe a Mustang (debating, I'm not as informed about equines !) + Harris Hawk + Black headed python

Gregor: Painted trilobite cockroach (infestation) + Ensign wasp (main/original body) + House centipede

#answered #limbus company #project moon #oops #forgot to tag

[omg-snakes]

Hi! Is the albino patternless everglades ratsnake the same thing as the bubblegum ratsnake? When I bought my little one I googled looking for adults and the first one i found was your Kevin, so I named mine Kevin too. You can see him in my pic whispering in my ear to eat the apple. Love your page and your snakes except I live in a state where i can't own cornsnakes and looking at your beauties makes me want one.

Hello to you and also to your Kevin!

Okay so my understanding on this is limited to what I was told by a guy who knew Gino Sassani, the dude who is often credited as having developed the bubblegum ratsnake. According to what I was told, albino patternless Everglades ratsnakes are the same as bubblegum rat snakes, and the name change came about because somebody wanted to obfuscate the fact that they were selling hybrids.

In truth, it was Kathy Love who made the first bubblegum ratsnakes and she did so by hybridizing a wild-caught Everglades ratsnake with the Stripe gene with an albino eastern black ratsnake, and then continuing to breed the offspring back to albino black ratsnakes. When the project was handed to Gino, he is thought to have added more Everglades ratsnake to the mix and popularized the line, and other breeders down the line have bred black ratsnake and/or Everglades ratsnakes back in so they're pretty variable from one line to the other.

I got two of my four snakes (Kevin and Taffeta) from Frank Patinella, having purchased a pair (Mouse and Peachpit) the year before from a seller at a Herpetological Society meeting as just albino blotchless Everglades ratsnakes, and it was Frank who tipped me off that they're almost assuredly all hybrids.

I think Kev and Taffy are higher black rat percentage and Mouse and PP are probably higher Everglades content since their breeder also had wild-type Everglades rats he was working with.

In my mind there's nothing really wrong with making closely-related hybrids within the same genus, as long as you're not releasing them into the wild or misrepresenting them, and you're being certain that people who are taking them understand fully what they're getting. I think with genus Pantherophis in particular there might not be as clearly delineated species groupings as we humans would prefer. I don't know that I would have originally purchased Mouse and Peachpit had I known they were hybrids, but ultimately I'm glad I did.

TL;DR: yeah I'm pretty sure albino patternless Everglades ratsnakes are the same thing as bubblegum ratsnakes.

I'm really sorry that corn snakes are illegal where you are, but we know that it's to protect the genetic integrity of your native population. Just think: you can go out and see corn snakes doing their thing in the wild! That's really really awesome!

I honestly think rat snakes are cooler than corns, though, and they're definitely an underappreciated and very rewarding snake to keep. You may occasionally think of your Kevin as a consolation prize for not being able to keep corns, but I think he's a gold medal through and through.

#answers to questions #text post #long post #oh did you want an answer here have a novel #snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #rat snake #rat snakes #hybrid snake #hybrid snake discourse

[thetragicallynerdy]

saw the longest snek today!!

[ID: a one minute video watching a snake crawl along the ground and then slither into a hole. End ID.]

Like. He was BIG. Easily 2.5-3 feet. I don't know snakes very well, but some research tells me he was maybe either an eastern milksnake or grey ratsnake! (He was seen in southwestern Ontario.)

[ID: two photos of the snake - the first shows most of his body lying on a rocky bare stream bed, showing that he is very long. The second shows his head close up. He has a grey body with patches of brown lined with black. End ID.]

It was so cool! Biggest snake I've ever seen in the wild for sure.

#snake #wildlife #ontario #animals #danger noodle

[ahedderick]

Argh!

   Whooo.

This morning started off peacefully. It is very cool here overnight. I got up early and took care of dogs and cats, took the chicks outside to their pen, did more ‘infinite’ kitchen cleanup, and then settled in quietly on the sofa with a little iced tea. Once my daughter got up we put the step ladder in the car and set off to town to investigate the Bing cherry tree that a friend emailed me about yesterday. It’s in a small parklet in an awkward space between a two roads and a railroad viaduct.

   We found the tree with no problem - as cherry trees go, it’s massive. 95% of the cherries are way out of reach of a step ladder, but the ones that were on our level were magnificent! She scrambled up into the lower branches; I set up the small step ladder. We picked about 5 pounds/2-ish kg in a short time, and that’s all we really need right now. There was a hardware store right across the road, and we ducked in there to pick up a lighbulb.

   Our next chore was cleaning up the other house after having guests for the weekend. That was substantially less fun than picking cherries, but we did it, and working together is so much nicer than working alone. By the time we got home, I was hot, tired, and ready to take a few minutes rest.

   The Chickens are Out!

K shooed them from behind and I enticed them (handful of cherries!) to follow me back in their run. Once there I checked the coop nestbox for eggs. I found a large black ratsnake instead.

   Sigh.

He was warm, frisky, and difficult for me to get hold of without getting bitten. Their ribs are delicate, so you can’t just grab them. It has to be a gentle scoop - but without getting bitten. Once I had him, K got car keys so we could take him down to Home Farm to release. I I put him anywhere near my house, he’d just be right back at the chicken coop tomorrow. I got carefully in the car, trying to gently maneuver the snake.

Unfortunately

He got his tail down under the seat. They can move backwards very forcefully. He got a grip on something and started trying to ‘rewind’ himself under the seat. There was literally no way to stop him without breaking his ribs.

At this point, I am very out of temper. The car is sitting with the doors open, so he will hopefully LEAVE. I have quite a few other things I must do today, and my patience is GONE.

Mondays, right?

Me: Ok, guys, these cherries are really ripe and we’re going to have to eat as many as possible in the next couple days.

My kids:

#monday #shenanigans #fruit tree #cherries #eat local #snake #farmblr #mom life

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

local man looking grimy af

[id: Tippex, the white and black ratsnake, leaning on his water bowl and sniffing. His eyes as cloudy and his skin looks covered in dirt, meaning he’s due to shed very soon]

#nasty!!! #Tippex #the noodles #reptiblr #snake #petblr #black ratsnake #white sided black ratsnake #ratsnake

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Favourite snake from each continent?

Oooh, fun question!

Asia - I'm an absolute sucker for beauty ratsnakes.

Africa - I've said it before and I'll say it again, black mambas are the coolest snakes in the world!!

Europe - the common European viper. I love those zig-zags.

North America - that's a really hard pick! I'm going to have to go with blacktail rattlesnakes. I mean, look at them.

South America - this was probably the hardest pick, but I can't not choose Brazilian rainbow boas!

Oceania - Red! Bellied! Black! Snakes!

#not a rating

[three--rings]

So I have a problem.

My youngest cat is traumatized.

One night last week about midnight I was carrying some dirty cups to the kitchen when I found....a fucking snake stretched out across my kitchen floor.

A small snake, about 12 inches long, very skinny. But a snake. It wasn't moving, so I thought maybe it was dead. Maybe one of my four cats had already dispatched it.

But I'm not GREAT with snakes, so I woke my snoring husband up. He was not thrilled, being fast asleep and also still fucking high.

"I don't know what to do?" he complained. "I'm asleep and high!"

"Yeah well I don't know what to do either, that's why I woke you up."

We determined that it wasn't dead. Meanwhile we'd attracted cat attention and my giant black cat who spent his kittenhood outside and has actually killed a mouse before, was batting at it, while Rita, the aforementioned youngest, crouched and watched. The snake started hissing and striking at the cats so we got them out of the way.

Eventually we got a yardstick and a cat litter bucket and got the snake to go in the bucket so we could carry it outside and dump it. I did some research and I'm pretty sure it was a baby ratsnake, which is the only kind of snake I've seen on our property before. Not dangerous at all.

No idea how it got in, but it was really small so, who knows.

Anyway, the problem now is that...Rita is clearly still FREAKED OUT.

Every since then she's been sniffing around in every corner and staring under furniture. At first she kept freaking me out, thinking there were more snakes in the laundry pile or whatever. But no, she's really just suddenly super scared of everything.

She walks slowly, crouched down, peering carefully everywhere. It's been almost a week and she's not getting any more confident. It's like she was just never aware that something like THAT was possible in the house and now her world is shattered.

I'm pretty confident she wasn't hurt by the snake. She didn't act injured and it was striking at Shadow, the opposite direction from her. But something about it really has her spooked.

I've always thought she was really confident, considering how she acts towards other cats, i.e. that she should rule them. She is quick to hiss and swat, but gets over it quickly and doesn't hold a grudge. She wants to be friends with everyone.

She's about a year and a half old, and we got her when she was probably 6 weeks old, after her mother was unfortunately violently killed by a dog in front of her. So maybe this is bringing back kittenhood trauma? (She lived with her mom in someone's backyard and their neighbor's dog got out and killed her mom. Then she was given to us to take care of because we had kitten raising experience)

Anyway, I'm a little concerned actually. I figured it would pass in a couple days, but it's only getting worse if anything. She also seems easily startled.

She's our smartest cat so I guess she might remember this for a long time, unlike our goldfish brain orange boy. Hopefully when snakes continue to not appear (fingers fucking crossed) she chills out.

#my cats #threerings' stories #tw: animal death mention

[monstertsunami]

i love you ringneck snakes i love you bullsnakes i love you sand boas i love you boa constrictors i love you carpet pythons i love you bush vipers i love you cornsnakes i love you hognose snakes i love you black mambas i love you kingsnakes i love you milksnakes i love you ball pythons i love you reticulated pythons i love you garter snakes i love you ratsnakes . ♡

#schizobabble #these were all off the top of my headdd #reptileblr #snakes #i have so much love in my heart for every stupid snake ever #goodnightt<3

[herpsandbirds]

Everglades Rat Snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis), family Colubridae, found in southern FL, USA

This snake was once considered a subspecies of the Black Ratsnake, Elaphe (Pantherophis) obseleta rossalleni, but is now not considered to be a full subspecies, but just a population of Eastern Rat Snake (P. alleghaniensis).

Some herpetologists consider the Everglades Rat to be a population of Yellow Rat Snake, which is seen as only another population of Eastern Rat Snake by some (not a full subspecies), and as a subspecies by others.

They are larger and more orange than the typical Yellow Rat Snake.

North American Rat Snake (Pantherophis spp.) taxonomy is a bit messy, with a lot of disagreement. There are visibly different populations that have been traditionally seen as distinct subspecies or species, that are now lumped together, due to genetic evidence. Also, there has always been doubts about how to place or consider the Everglades Rat, regardless.

photograph by Nathan Jordan Photography

#rat snake #pantherophis #snake #colubridae #reptile #herpetology #animals #nature #north america

[whisperingexecutioner]

Gray Ratsnake Pair (2/3)

Darker black one to the right is the male, the lighter larger one on the left is the female.

#animals #photography #animal photography #my photography #reptiles #snakes #ratsnake #pets #wildlife #nature #nature photography #summer