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Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
Is anyone working with Yellow Rats or see them often in the wild?
I am working with a morph of yellow rat and though they did demonstrate some semi-arboreal tendencies they spend most of their time under bark hides in a normal terrestrial set up with bare climbing branches.
I moved one into my old Anole breeding enclosure which of course is tall with heavy arboreal cover as well as hiding places on the substrate. Since it has been in that enclosure I have not seen the snake on the ground. It chooses to spend ALL of its time in the arboreal cover.
I am beginning to wonder if it should be advised that Yellow Rats are primarily arboreal and that their enclosure should accommodate this behavior.
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Re: Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
funny you should ask.........
i keep mine a 2x3x2 semi-arboreal enclosure, AND SHE LOVES IT.
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Re: Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
Does she spend the majority of her time off the ground? Would you describe her as primarily Arboreal? |
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Re: Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
day time shes under her driftwood 100% of the time, at night id say that 75% of the time id find her in the tree!
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Re: Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
I wonder if Mr. Smith has any exposure to them in the wild?
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Re: Yellow Rat Habitat/Behavior
I've seen that when common rat snakes (yellow,black,tx, etc) are given the opportunity to climb, they usually do.
cage or wild
in the Schultz book, there is a picture of a yellow rat in a tree cavity pretty far off the ground.
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