Black Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta Flat Creek Barry County Missouri United States 6 May Adult Colubridae
Black Rat Snake is a constrictor, meaning it suffocates its prey, coiling around small animals and tightening its grip until they can't breathe, before swallowing them whole. Mostly eating mice and rats, but will also eat other snakes, chipmunks, squirrels, birds, and bird eggs.
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Keywords: -poisonous, -venomous, animal, beneficial, climbiing, climbs, constrictor, crawl, eater, fangs, ground, herp, predator, prey, rat, reatile, rodent, serpent, serpentes, snake, squamata, suffocates
