Re: Re: chicken snake

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> We have snakes around here that look like that and they call them rat
> snakes! Are they the same?

More than likely, they are. Rat snake would be a common name applied
the same as chicken snake. If scientific species names weren't so hard
to remember, spell and pronounce, it would end a lot of confusion by
using them. We learn things otherwise, though. Monikers applied to
both animals and especially plants tend to vary between different
locales. I learned about 'ditch lilies' via Iris Talk. I'd seen them
before, but never heard them called that in Texas. Orange hemerocallis
that grows with abandon. I think it is called other names in other
places.

Donald