The essential snake. Introduction ; Evolution ; Environment ; Size and shape ; Scales ; Anatomy and movement ; Skull and teeth ; Sense organs ; Hunting and feeding ; Venomous snakes ; Passive defense ; Active defense ; Reproduction ; Conservation ; Classification of snakes -- Snake gallery. Introduction ; Mexican burrowing snake ; Sunbeam snake ; Emerald tree boa ; Common boa ; Rainbow boa ; Green anaconda ; Rosy boa ; Dumeril's ground boa ; Calabar ground boa ; Carpet python ; Burmese python ; Reticulated python ; Blood python ; Children's python ; Spotted python ; Green tree python ; Royal python ; Haitian wood snake ; Cuban wood snake ; Grass snake ; Common egg-eater ; Corn snake ; Baird's rat snake ; Trans-Pecos rat snake ; Mandarin rat snake ; Rough green snake ; Common kingsnake ; Gray-banded kingsnake ; Mexican kingsnake ; Sonoran mountain kingsnake ; Milk snake ; Banded water snake ; Pine snake ; Western hognose snake ; Leopard snake ; Indigo snake ; Checkered garter snake ; San Francisco garter snake ; Brown house snake ; Red-tailed rat snake ; Mangrove snake ; Green cat-eyed snake ; Boomslang ; Red spitting cobra ; Chinese cobra ; Monocled cobra ; Collett's snake ; Northern death adder ; West African green mamba ; Puff adder ; Long-nosed viper ; Adder ; Gaboon viper ; Desert horned viper ; White-lipped tree viper ; Saw-scaled viper ; Jararaca ; Copperhead ; Western diamondback rattlesnake ; Tropical rattlesnake ; Sidewinder -- Snake directory. Introduction ; Snake directory

A guide to more than 3,000 snakes from a round the world. Physical and behavioral characteristics of these creatures are presented, with the most up-to-date information available about snakes' habitats, reproductive behavior, feeding practices, defense mechanisms, and much more. A complete, detailed directory lists all species of the 18 snake families; the special "Fact Files" section gives at-a-glance information about every featured snake

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