Snakes
Subtitle: the evolution of mystery in nature
By: Harry W. Greene. With photogr. by Michael ... Fogden
Publisher: Univ. of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780520200142
Subjects: Schlangen
Description: "This is a book about some of nature's most alluring and forbidding creatures, written by a man with an abiding passion for snakes, as well as for science, conservation, and the beauty and complexity of nature. Snakes inhabit all major ecosystems outside of the polar regions and are among the most common predators on other vertebrates. More than 2,700 species of snakes are currently recognized, place in about 420 genera and 18 families ..."