The Lives of Snakes (eBook)

A Natural History of the World's Snakes

Chris Mattison (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25061-8 (ISBN)

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A richly illustrated introduction to the marvelous world of snakesDescended from prehistoric lizards, snakes have been slithering across the earth for more than a hundred million years. There are some 4,100 species known to exist, and many are venomous, but many more are not. Snakes experience the world in unique ways, smelling the air with their tongues and relying on signs of movement for orientation. They are ectothermic, needing external heat for energy, and must shed their skin to grow. This guide offers a unique look at the lives of snakes, exploring their life cycles, diets, defenses, locomotive strategies, and more. Written by an internationally recognized herpetologist and informed by the latest science, The Lives of Snakes blends captivating photos with engaging, fact-filled profiles of selected species to provide an invaluable introduction to these splendid reptiles.Combines beautiful illustrations, clear graphics, and lively text to inform and entertainFeatures dozens of representative species profilesCovers topics ranging from evolution and diversity to habitats and reproductionExamines how snakes coexist with humansDiscusses threats to the world's snake populations and their conservationA must for snake lovers everywhere

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Lives of the Natural World
• Zusatzinfo: 150 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Adaptations • adder • Alamy stock • animals • aquatic • arboreal • Biology • Birds • Birth • bites • bitis • Boa • Bodies • bright • Central • Clutch • Color • Coloration • conservation • coral • Crotalus • desert • Distribution • eat • Ecology • eggs • environmental impacts • Evolution • Families • Family • Fangs • Females • fish • Food • Forward • frogs • Genus • Habitat • Habitats • Habits • Heat • highly • human interactions • humans • Islands • lifestyle • Limbs • lizards • Locomotion • Males • mammals • Markings • Mouth • nocturnal • Numbers • Pits • pit viper • Populations • Position • predators • Prey • Python • rattlesnakes • rear • Regions • Reptiles • Sand • scales • Sea • Skin • Snakes • snout • species • Strike • subspecies • Surface • Teeth • Temperature • threats • toads • Tree • Venom • venomous • venomous. • Vertebrates • vipers • Water • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25061-8 / 0691250618
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25061-8 / 9780691250618