Diet Overlap

Crotalus horridus (Timber rattlesnake (atricaudatus))
Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)

Common Diet

Geomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)
Microtus ochrogaster (prairie vole)
Mus musculus (house mouse)
Peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse)
Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse)
Sigmodon hispidus (hispid cotton rat)

Common Habitat

Central forest-grasslands transition
Central U.S. hardwood forests
Flint Hills tall grasslands
Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae), MATTHEW B. CONNIOR, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(879):104–117 (2011)
♦ 2Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 3Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 4Diet of the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, Rulon W. Clark, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 494-499, 2002