Black Rat Snake
(Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta)
DESCRIPTION: 42-101" (106.7-256.5 cm). Long, powerful constrictor with 3 different adult color patterns predominating: plain, striped, and blotched.
Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta)
The Black Rat Snake is one of the largest snakes found in Connecticut. It is sometimes confused with the Black Racer, which
has smoother scales than the somewhat keeled rat snake.
Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta) at Bird Feeder
Black Rat Snakes are notoriously ingenious at climbing trees to raid bird's nests. This series of photos shows one snake's efforts to turn bird feeders into snake feeders! ...
Black Rat
BLACK RAT
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Black Rat Snakes are among the largest of Minnesota's snakes. Adults range from 40 to 74
inches in length. The record is 101 inches (Conant and Collins, 1991). It is non venomous and, ...
Black Ratsnakes are often confused with Northern Black Racers (Coluber c. constrictor), Black Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis g. nigra), Cornsnakes (Elaphe g. guttata), Eastern Milksnakes (Lampropeltis t. triangulum), ...
Black rat snakes are found in a variety of settings including farm areas, upland wooded areas, swampy areas, and near human habitation. The well patterned young are often mistaken for other snakes, including pygmy rattlesnakes.
Black ratsnake
Elaphe obsoleta (obsoleta)
Rat snakes are passive and prefer to avoid confrontation. If confronted by danger they will most likely freeze rather than strike.
The Black Rat Snake is a proficient climber. Often it goes rather high up into trees, where it uses cavities or hollows formerly occupied by other animals such as birds or mammals.
Black rat, ship rat, roof rat, house rat
Rattus rattus
As their alternative name suggests, they were commonly found on ships, resulting in their distribution throughout the world.
Life span
Up to 18 months.
Black rat snakes are one of the longest snakes in North America, occasionally reaching lengths of 8 feet.
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When threatened, rat snakes will "rattle" their tail, fooling other animals into believing they are venomous.
The black rat snake is the largest Canadian snake, growing up to 2.5 m in length. They are excellent climbers and are probably one of the few arboreal (tree-dwelling) snakes.
Albino Black Rat Snake
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta
A 6 foot plus, heavy bodied ratsnake. I really like them because they have an attitude. It almost appears as if they look at you to say, "Where is my rat?
When looking for snakes, you might not think to look up. But, if you want to see the black rat snake, you just might have to. This long and muscular snake is Wisconsin's only arboreal (that means tree-dwelling) snake.
Black Rat Rattus rattus alexandrinus (Desmarest)
Description: The introduced black rat can be distinguished from other members of its family by: 1) dark reddish-brown upperparts with a darker mid-dorsal line, 2) white underparts tinged with ...
Black Rat Snake
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Pantherophis alleghaniensis (42-72", up to 101") ...
Mace
"The black rat looks like a vampire rat...either than that they all are cool!"
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black ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta)
bog (= Muhlenberg) turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii)
broadhead skink (Eumeces laticeps)
brown water snake (Nerodia taxispilota)
canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) ...
Black Rat (Mus rattus). The body is stout and thickly built; the legs are short and strong, and armed, especially the anterior pair, with long curved claws; the tail is short; and the ears are reduced to rudiments.
Black rat snake Gray Yellow Integrades
Description: Adult rat snakes are typically 3-5 ft (91-152 cm), but large individuals may be more than 6 ft (183 cm) long. The appearance of rat snakes varies greatly throughout the geographic range.
Black Rat Snake
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta (scientific) . Eastern Rat Snake (alternative)
The Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta) - also called pilot black snake or simply black snake - is a non-venomous colubrid species found in North America.
Black Rat Rattus rattus
Brown Rat R. norvegicus
Family: Gliridae (dormice)
Hazel Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius
Edible Dormouse Glis glis - Introduced ...
Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta)
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Eastern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) ...
Black rat (Rattus rattus)
Enteromorpha (Enteromorpha spp.)
Marsh earwort (Jamesoniella undulifolia)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Common eider (Somateria mollissima)
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) ...
Black rats exhibit many destructive behaviors. These animals strip bark off of trees, contaminate human food sources, and are overall pests.
The black rat emigrated must likely to Europe in the 12th century. Traveling on ships it infested cargo food and was later carried to America by 1700, ...
The black rat is commonly dark gray. It reaches a maximum length of 8 in. (20 cm) and has a longer tail and larger ears than the brown rat.
The black rat, a brown rat relative, is thought to have been responsible for transmitting bubonic plague in fourteenth-century Europe.
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(Other Names: Black Rat, Bornean Musk Rat)
Suncus ater
Status: Critically Endangered ...
Predators on fledglings include black racer (Coluber constictor), black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta), and blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata).
Black Rat
Black Rat
Black Reef Leatherjacket at Jervis Bay
Black Reef Leatherjacket, Eubalichthys bucephalus
Black Reef Leatherjacket, Eubalichthys bucephalus (Whitley, 1931)
Black Reef Leatherjackets at Shark Point ...
Predation of eggs and chicks by foxes, dogs, cats, black rats, silver gulls, ravens and raptors.
This species was long considered the same species as the Black Rat Snake, Texas Rat Snake, Yellow Rat Snake, and Everglades Rat Snake.
Miscellaneous: Although they are often confused with the black rat snake, the black racer can be easily distinguished by their smooth scales.
They brought more dogs and other mammalian predators, including domestic cats, black rats and stoats. Europeans knew little of the Kakapo until George Gray of the British Museum described it from a skin in 1845.
Kennicott used Ophibolus, Lampropelitis getulus and Bascanion constrictor for Coluber constrictor (Racer) and Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta (Black Rat Snake).
House sparrows, European starlings, American kestrelsblack rat snakes, black racers, fire ants, domestic cats, black bears, and raccoons are predators of adults and chicks.
The best-known rat species are the Black Rat Rattus rattus and the Brown Rat R. norvegicus. The group is generally known as the Old World rats or true rats, and originated in Asia.
3%; They also capture cottontails, Red Squirrels, Harvest Mice, House Mice, woodrats, Norway Rats, Black Rats, shrews and Least Weasels.
orientalis is yellow and black rather than red and black. This can be corrected permanently by a adding little betacarotene to their food over a period of a few weeks.
Furthermore, the populations in southwestern Ontario that used to be known as black ratsnakes are now assigned to the gray ratsnake-also called midland ratsnake-(Pantherophis spiloides), ...
The species is sometimes confused with the Black rat (Ship rat) Rattus rattus (pictured to the right) which is slightly smaller and less aggressive. In the boreal regions, the range of the Norway rat extends into colder northern latitudes.
The size of our Least Sandpiper (15-16 cm), it has black rather than yellowish gray legs, but in certain plumages it is very difficult to distinguish from another Old World species, the Rufous-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis).
This snake is social and may overwinter in a communal den with other snakes of its own kind or with other species of snakes including timber rattlesnakes and black rat snakes.
Differs from the fin whale in the mottled blue-gray body coloration, symmetrical lower lip coloration, broader U-shaped rather than V-shaped snout, baleen that is black rather than gray to white, ...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Cory's Shearwater experienced significant declines, when its remote breeding islands were raided by humans and infested with introduced predators, especially the black rat.
Some other harmless snakes that you may find in your yard are black rat snakes, fox snakes, hognose snakes and banded water snakes.
They look rather similar to guillemots but their dark feathers are black rather than chocolate brown, they are plumper and have thicker, heavier-looking bills.
Roger Repp found this resting rattler in an area that Jeff Smith had chosen via Google Earh as a likely spot for Arizona Black Rattlesnakes.
Osage Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster) The black snake in the background is a Black Rat Snake.
Photograph by Tad Arensmeier. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
OSAGE COPPERHEAD FACTS ...
Some available subspecies include the Black Rat Snake E. o. obsoleta, the Florida Rat Snake E. o. rossalleni, and the Grey Rat Snake E. o. spiloides, as well as many intergrades and color variations.
Recorded from Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, and Worcester counties. Local subspecies called "Black Rat Snake". Listed as Endangered.
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
Heterodon platirhinos ...
The subspecies of obsolete include the black rat snake (E. o. obsolete), the gray rat snake (E. o. spiloides), the yellow rat snake (E. o. quadrivittata), the Everglades rat snake (E. o. rossalleni) and the Texas rat snake (E. o. lindheimerii).
It is very similar to the Spot-backed Antbird but key identification features are its two-tone (browny-grey and whitish) as opposed to grey face, its grey rather than pinkish legs, its black rather than brown tail and the smaller spots on the back ...
Disease Carriers: Brown Rats are supposed to carry some diseases, including Weil's disease, cryptosporidiosis, Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), Q fever and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Unlike the Black Rat, ...
It is also found in the Baraboo Hills in Sauk County. Few data are available on its status in the state. Recent studies have re-assigned Wisconsin populations from the Black Ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta) to the Gray Ratsnake (Elaphe spiloides).
Another island reserve, kept almost as pristine as a muttonbird island, was its last outpost. Black rats went ashore from fishing boats and finished them off in the 1960s. Only the rock wren and rifleman survive." ...
 See also: Snake, Reptile, Lizard, Rat, Rattlesnake
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