Author: Adam G. Klein
Publisher: Checkerboard Books
Keywords: snakes, sea, bellied, yellow
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-09
List price: $24.21
ISBN-10: 1596792817
ISBN-13: 9781596792814
Author: Ludwig Trutnau
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Keywords: snakes, vol, terrarium, venomous
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2004-08
List price: $93.25
ISBN-10: 1575241382
ISBN-13: 9781575241388
Finally available in English, this completely revised and expanded edition contains full descriptions of 171 different species and utilizes 129 color pictures. The behavior and care in captivity of venomous snakes from the families Elapidae (cobras, kraits, and coral snakes), Viperidae (adders and vipers), and Crotalidae (pitvipers), are comprehensively discussed. Subspecies and color variations are carefully detailed. It is an essential reference for all veterinary clinics; zookeepers; and herptoculturists.
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: snakes
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0823421228
ISBN-13: 9780823421220
There are about 3,000 kinds of snakes. Here is information about the different functions of these cold-blooded animals’ physical characteristics. One also learns how they live, how they give birth (most lay eggs, some give birth to live babies), and how they eat (they swallow their prey whole, sometimes while it is still alive). Knowing about snakes, from the most ordinary garden variety to the most exotic constrictors and poisonous snakes, is to admire and respect these extraordinary reptiles.
Author: Harry Crew
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: novel, snakes, feast
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-01-07
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0684842483
ISBN-13: 9780684842486
Welcome to Mystic, Georgia. This going-nowhere town hosts the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, which attracts thousands of visitors for a rough ’n’ rowdy weekend of your basic primate behavior--hard drinking, ogling bikini-clad contestants in the Miss Mystic Rattle beauty contest, betting on dog fights, snake catching, and snake eating. Meet Joe Lon Mackey. He lives in a trailer in Mystic with his lumpy, devoted wife and two hollerin’ young’uns. His days of glory as the Boss Snake of the Mystic Rattlers football team are over, and he didn’t have the grades to go to col
Author: Patricia Whitehouse
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Keywords: snakes
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2004-01
List price: $6.49
ISBN-10: 1403443297
ISBN-13: 9781403443298
Do snakes live here? What are snakes? What do snakes look like? Where do snakes live? What do snake homes look like? How do snakes find their way underground? How do snakes make their homes? What is special about snake homes? When do snakes come out from u
Author: Chris Mattison
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: snakes, encyclopedia, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-08-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 069113295X
ISBN-13: 9780691132952
Comprehensive, up-to-date, and richly illustrated with some 200 color photographs, The New Encyclopedia of Snakes is the best single-volume reference on snakes. A thorough revision of the highly successful Encyclopedia of Snakes, Chris Mattison’s new book is the only one of its kind to deal in detail with snakes from around the world. Addressing the natural history of snakes and their relationship with each other and with other groups of animals, the book incorporates new information on snake biology and classification and includes a complete list of every family and genus, with notes on
Author: Adele Richardson
Publisher: Capstone High-Interest Books
Keywords: snakes, mambas
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-08
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 0736821376
ISBN-13: 9780736821377
