Snakes

Título
Snakes

Rachel. Firth

Resumen
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.

Usborne discovery Internet-linked snakes
 
Internet-linked snakes

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2001-2002

Usborne discovery

Descripción física
63 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Nota general
Includes index.

Contenido
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.

Término de la materia
Snakes.

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

Síntesis
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

Información de publicación
New York : Scholastic ; Tulsa, OK : Usborne, 2002, ©2001.


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George P. Nicholson597.96 FIRBook31004000127774Non-Fiction