Snakes

Titre
Snakes

Rachel. Firth

Sommaire
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

Date de publication comme intervalle
2001-2002

Usborne discovery

Description matérielle
63 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Note générale
Includes index.

Table des matières
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.

Terme de vedette-matière
Snakes.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Sheikh-Miller, Jonathan.
 
Adami, Cristina.
 
Butler, Nickey.
 
Francis, Neil.
 
Woodcock, John (Jonathan), 1953-

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780439403139
 
9780439773171
 
9780439283281

Informations de publication
New York : Scholastic ; Tulsa, OK : Usborne, 2002, ©2001.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
George P. Nicholson597.96 FIRBook31004000127774Non-Fiction