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Originally Posted by Mr T
too dark for a rat snake, agree with #1, diamond backed water snake. Tail rattling is classic defensive behavior for water snakes and yes they bite aggressively.
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its a rat snake, we have the Texas and black ratsnake, they will integrade also. The Texas ratsnake shows the blotches very well and the juvenile black rats show it like this one. Pretty much all non-venomous snakes will do some kind of imitation of venomous snakes such as tail rattling. Watersnakes will do the tail rattling and will also flare their heads out in a diamond shape to look like a cottonmouth. Even seen cottonmouths rattling their tails
I caught a very large Texas ratsnake this weekend near the nieighborhood pond. It did the tail rattling and tried to bite. After a while it
calmed down and my kid and the nieghbors kids played with it in the front yard and we then let it go back at the pond.