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rat snake

Ptyas mucosus

Photo by Bhagya Herath
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

common snake in our home garden
usually rat snakes are fast moving snakes that always try to avoid people
but this one with strange looking eyes remained calm even i went so close to it
i think it was injured
but it moved away in a while

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About to shed a skin going from those eyes. ?
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PublishedJuly 17, 2013

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