Snakes

Title
Snakes

Personal Author EPSB
Rachel. Firth

Summary
This book introduces snakes, such as boas and pythons, cobras, vipers and adders, and rattlers, and describes how they move, hunt, eat, and mate. Details of Web sites for further study of snakes are included.

Other Title
Usborne discovery Internet-linked snakes
 
Internet-linked snakes

Year Published
2001-2002

Series
Usborne discovery

Physical Description
63 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Note
Includes index.

Contents
What is a snake? -- Snake shapes and skeletons -- Skin and scales -- Slithering snakes -- Snake senses -- Teeth, fangs and jaws -- Hunting for food -- Deadly biters -- Suffocating snakes -- Camouflage and warnings -- Staying alive -- Getting together -- Baby snakes -- Giant snakes -- Boas and pythons -- Countless colubrids -- Cobras -- Sea snakes -- Mambas -- More elapids -- Vipers and adders -- Pit vipers -- Rattlers -- Underground snakes -- Snakebite -- Snakes at stake -- Rituals and legends -- Snake facts -- Glossary -- Using the Internet -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Subject
Snakes.

Added Author
Sheikh-Miller, Jonathan.
 
Adami, Cristina.
 
Butler, Nickey.
 
Francis, Neil.
 
Woodcock, John (Jonathan), 1953-

Summary
This book introduces snakes, such as boas and pythons, cobras, vipers and adders, and rattlers, and describes how they move, hunt, eat, and mate. Details of Web sites for further study of snakes are included.

ISBN
9780439403139
 
9780439773171
 
9780439283281

Publisher
New York : Scholastic ; Tulsa, OK : Usborne, 2002, ©2001.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
George P. Nicholson597.96 FIRBook31004000127774Non-Fiction