Snake in the Rhapis; This critter slowly went from the ground, climbed up the Rhapis excelsa, into a Livistona chinensis and finely 30 feet up a Live Oak. Texas Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri) A snake with a variety of habitats, ranging from bayou and swampy country of western Louisiana and adjacent Texas, through woods and stream valleys, rocky canyons in western part of range. Range: W. Louisiana and E. half of Texas. They are good climbers and are constrictors, eating mice, rats and small birds. They vibrate their tails rapidly when alarmed.
Above information supplied by Mike Burnett


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