Snakes
Title:
Snakes
Personal Author EPSB:
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:
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:
ISBN:
9780439403139
9780439773171
9780439283281
Publisher:
New York : Scholastic ; Tulsa, OK : Usborne, 2002, ©2001.
