What a beauty! Perhaps they're a gray rat snake? The coloration of the species is quite variable.
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I think Heather got it right.
Looks like a grey rat snake to me.
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Heather wrote: The coloration of the species is quite variable.
Dang! You're right. It's almost like the folk who named the snakes got really tired.
"What shall we call this one Joe?"
Yawns... "Lets make it a short name." Looks wearily around at the remaining specimens. "Hell... let's call them all rat snakes."
Continuing color on the slim head and the side band.
Strangler body and not poisonous..
As non American I add myself to the other shots above.
It's the gray rat snake.
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I appreciated snakes but most Thai snakes were too venomous and pretty easy to turn their mood...
Rat snakes came to my interests as I started with Aquaponics.
Rats love my crayfish but rat snakes do love them too...
I learned in my 20 years as expat catching Cobras safe and move them away from our land before my dogs getting bitten.
Therefore I was teaching my dogs to catch the rats but, it ain't nothing for free..
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