Coral Snake / Serpiente coral

Coral Snake / Serpiente coral
Author: Jamie Honders
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433956365

Introduces the coral snake, a venomous serpent with red bands amidst stripes of other colors, and describes its habitat, appearance, and habits.

Coral Snake

Coral Snake
Author: Jamie Honders
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433956330

There’s an old saying about the colorful coral snake: “Red on yellow, kill a fellow.” This is a handy phrase to remember because it helps people distinguish between dangerous coral snakes and the nonvenomous snakes that resemble them. Readers learn that the real coral snake packs a powerful dose of deadly venom in each bite. Numerous colorful photos of coral snakes in the wild are combined with informative text to give readers a close-up view of these dangerous slithering reptiles.

Coral Snakes

Coral Snakes
Author: Imogen Kingsley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

Learn how coral snakes live and hunt in the wild.

Coral Snakes

Coral Snakes
Author: Linda George
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781560656920

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of coral snakes.

Coral Snakes

Coral Snakes
Author: Heather Feldman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2003-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823967193

Coral snakes are small, brightly colored venomous elapids with black noses. Their markings of black, red, and yellow or white rings serve as a warning that coral snakes can cause harm. Readers will learn about the different behaviors of coral snakes, including that they will flatten their bodies to look larger or raise their tails to confuse predators.

Coral Snakes

Coral Snakes
Author: Nancy White
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1597169234

A coral snake may be small, but don’t be fooled. This colorful little reptile carries a lethal weapon—one of the deadliest snake venoms in the world! The coral snake’s magnificent colors serve as a warning to other animals to stay away or risk being attacked by a poisonous killer. Certain folk rhymes, in fact, were invented to help people learn to identify these snakes. For example, "Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, venom lack." Packed with fascinating facts and large, colorful photos, Coral Snakes: Beware the Colors! introduces young readers to the natural habitat, physical characteristics, diet, and behavior of these colorful creatures.

Coral Snakes

Coral Snakes
Author: Adam G. Klein
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2005-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1617849898

Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Coral snake.

Coral Snakes of the Americas

Coral Snakes of the Americas
Author: Janis A. Roze
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780894648472

This monographic treatment offers all the basic knowledge about New World venomous coral snakes. It gives full description and keys for identification of all the species and subspecies, with maps of distribution and variation, including morphology, anatomy and colour patterns, as well as folklore. Natural history includes ecology, food and feeding, reproduction, enemies and defense, biogeography and evolution, with special reference to mimicry and cannibalism. Chapters on venoms and snakebite survey characteristics and effects of venom, snakebite accidents, first aid and remedies.

Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas

Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas
Author: Carl-Wilhelm Vogel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789401774369

This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas. Chapters will be written by experts currently working in the subspecialty, many of whom have first-hand experience in the relevant research fields. In virtually all the topics, appropriate illustrations are provided to simplify comprehension including tables, figures and pictures. Clinical toxinologic conditions are becoming increasingly frequent, more so than is generally recognized. The conditions comprise of clinical aspects such as the diagnosis, management, and prevention of snakebite envenoming, scorpion sting, mushroom toxins, plant toxins, and other natural toxins. Clinical toxinology also deals with the ecology, epidemiology, regional differences, and varieties of fauna accounting for different envenoming manifestations. This reference work, part of the Toxinology handbook series, is designed to keep readers abreast with new knowledge and experience in toxinology regionally and globally. Toxinologists, researchers, scientists, and experts in this field from various working areas considered it necessary to collect all the aspects of clinical toxinology in a single, handy handbook. This can be used by medical students, postgraduate students, general practitioners, specialists in internal medicine, critical care physicians, emergency physicians, and anesthetists worldwide.

Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles

Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles
Author: Stephen P. Mackessy
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1420008668

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers "one-stop shopping" to all biologists, biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed laypersons interested in the biology of venomous reptiles, the biochemistry and molecular biology of venoms, and the effects and treatment of human envenomation. This book