I know the pic is bad but can an "expert" help me ID this little guy that came into my school? I am usually pretty good with a reference but cant find him.
Cheryl
baby snake ID
He looks like a juvenile corn snake to me. The ones I have seen in NM lean toward the lighter color, and his markings are spot on, if you pardon my pun.
Joy
I now think its a TX rat snake baby but you could be right.
Was it agressive? The baby rat snakes Ive found were extremely agressive.
It just seemed a little too light to be a rat snake.
I encounter them all the time and they tend to be a lot darker.
We have several that live in our barn and on the farm. All are dark, although the color pattern is the same. Corn snakes are also known as Red Rat Snakes. They are a common pet and reproduce easily. They are known for being very gentle unlike their cousin.
The baby rat snakes in my barn have been light in color when young.
The rat snakes that Ive seen are much darker too and VERY aggressive, especially the young ones. That one does look like the ones in the link but I didnt even know those were around here.
Whatever it is, it's a beauty!
Carla
I couldn't get the above link to work, no clue if this is the snake suggested. Sorry, if this was mentioned before.
It looks like a Great Plains Rat Snake, Pantherophis emoryi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantherophis_emoryi
What happen to him, is he now a class project ?
Thats exactly what we IDed him to be and he was let go.
We seem to have a lot of those very same snakes around our place this year. A very ironic latin name/classification as we are about 15 miles from Emory TX!
Pure coincidence, Terri :0) This species has an enormous range throughout North America.
Snaked is name for Brigadier General William Hemsley Emory.
Town is for Emory Rains, another interesting, historic, dead dude.
Regards,
Your devoted research assistant,
Lynea
Ps, did you get your rose wrangled?
LOL! Thanks for the info!
And yet they just keep showing up in my yard and not the Brig General's yard! Or his descendant's yards! The other day, a huge Pantherophis emoryi was slithering across FM 17 near Sabine bridge as we drove home from work. DH and I nearly got rear ended as we slowed wayyyy down to allow our passing acquaintance time to get off the road. Should put a bumper sticker on the truck: We're Yankee transplants--we brake for snakes!
A few pieces wrangled. Will probably get more this weekend.
We brake for snakes and move turtles, too :0)
I think it's neat you see so many of the P. emoryi. In twelve years, I've had only two. They were young, so you'd think there is an adult somewhere.lol
95% of the snakes I find in the yard are P. obsoletus (Black Ratsnakes, and more latin fun). Do get many of these?
Wow he is pretty! We get a lot of the black ratsnakes, well we live on a farm and there is stuff for them to eat so they do quite well. We also have several hognose snakes that are quite tame as well as water snakes that occasionally appear in my little koi pond in the front yard.
Evan messing with a hognose and with one of the young rat snakes he rescued from a neighbor who wanted to kill it.
Joy
OMG! So glad to see there are people as nutty as me! I have to post how I rescued a rat snake from the middle of a country road only to have it go up in the truck engine, but I has to be earlier in the day. Lol
EEEEwwwww! As a surviving mother of two demented sons (now adults) I am laughing, but ewwwwwww. As I've said before, snakes are fine as long as they keep about fifty feet away from me at all times. Then they can stay. Otherwise, they get relocated to the Sabine.
Any kid that has it in his heart to rescue snakes is a GOOD kid in my book!
Lynea, that is the longest snake I've ever seen!!!
Carla