Snakes
By: Rachel Firth and Jonathan Sheikh-Miller ; illustrated by John Woodcock.
Contributors: Sheihk-Miller, Jonathan.; Woodcock, John 1953-
Publisher: Scholastic; Usborne
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York; Tulsa, OK
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780439403139; 9780439773171
Subjects: Snakes -- Juvenile literature; Snakes -- Computer network resources
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Internet-linked snakes; Usborne discovery Internet-linked
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: What is a snake?; title: Snake shapes and skeletons; title: Skin and scales; title: Slithering snakes; title: Snake senses; title: Teeth, fangs and jaws; title: Hunting for food; title: Deadly biters; title: Suffocating snakes; title: Camouflage and warnings; title: Staying alive; title: Getting together; title: Baby snakes; title: Giant snakes; title: Boas and pythons; title: Countless colubrids; title: Cobras; title: Sea snakes; title: Mambo; title: Pit vipers; title: Rattlers; title: Underground snakes; title: Snakebite; title: Snakes at stake; title: Rituals and legends; title: Snake facts; title: Glossary; title: Using the internet; title: Index; title: Acknowledgments.