How snakes work : structure, function and behavior of the world's snakes / Harvey B. Lillywhite.

By:

Lillywhite, Harvey B, 1943- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, '2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199701575
9781306197427

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

QL666 .H697 2014

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Contents:

Feeding, digestion, and water balance -- Locomotion : how snakes move -- Temperature and ectothermy -- Structure and function of skin -- Internal transport : circulation and respiration -- Perceiving the snake's world: structure and function of sense organs -- Sound production -- Courtship and reproduction.

Subject: Anyone can look at a snake and see a creature unique unto itself, a reptile with a set of zoological and biological traits that are entirely its own. Just looking at this distinct animal raises many scientific questions. With regard to evolution, how did such an animal come to be? How does a snake move, and how do its sense organs differ from that of other reptiles? How does it eat, and how does it reproduce? Essentially, how does a snake ""work""? In How Snakes Work: The Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes, leading zoologist Harvey B. Lillywhite has written the definitive s.

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Evolutionary history and classification of the world's snakes -- Feeding, digestion, and water balance -- Locomotion : how snakes move -- Temperature and ectothermy -- Structure and function of skin -- Internal transport : circulation and respiration -- Perceiving the snake's world: structure and function of sense organs -- Sound production -- Courtship and reproduction.

Anyone can look at a snake and see a creature unique unto itself, a reptile with a set of zoological and biological traits that are entirely its own. Just looking at this distinct animal raises many scientific questions. With regard to evolution, how did such an animal come to be? How does a snake move, and how do its sense organs differ from that of other reptiles? How does it eat, and how does it reproduce? Essentially, how does a snake ""work""? In How Snakes Work: The Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes, leading zoologist Harvey B. Lillywhite has written the definitive s.

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