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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

D. Bruce Means
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Description:The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake is a wildlife icon of North America equal to the lion of Africa or tiger of India. It is the largest rattlesnake and most dangerous venomous snake in the United States and Canada. In 1594 it was the first New World snake to be illustrated in any book. A sit-and-wait predator, its venom is designed primarily to immobilize its exclusively warm-blooded prey. Because individuals are loath to rattle unless disturbed, you pass by many more than you realize in the field as they rely on their highly camouflaged color pattern and behavioral crypticity to go unnoticed. Diamonds in the Rough presents the results of Dr. Means's 40 years of research including an 8-year radiotelemetry study of free-ranging populations, laboratory research, and the scientific literature through 2015. Conducted on Tall Timbers Research Station in northern Leon County, Florida, and elsewhere in the southeastern US Coastal Plain, Means’s field research reveals the amazing biology of this fascinating animal. It returns to the same overwintering sites each November. It tracks its envenomated prey with pinpoint accuracy. Males vie for females during a graceful combat dance. During the breeding season, females may lure males by air-borne pheromones. And study of the thermal biology of the eastern diamondback revealed that this rattlesnake is much more sensitive to heat rather than cold temperatures. Habitat loss and fragmentation, automobile mortality, and even rattlesnake roundups have reduced eastern diamondback numbers and shrunk population sizes to levels that Dr. Means believes justifies its listing as a federally threatened species.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. To get started finding DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
416
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Tall Timbers Press
Release
2017
ISBN
0970388659

DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

D. Bruce Means
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake is a wildlife icon of North America equal to the lion of Africa or tiger of India. It is the largest rattlesnake and most dangerous venomous snake in the United States and Canada. In 1594 it was the first New World snake to be illustrated in any book. A sit-and-wait predator, its venom is designed primarily to immobilize its exclusively warm-blooded prey. Because individuals are loath to rattle unless disturbed, you pass by many more than you realize in the field as they rely on their highly camouflaged color pattern and behavioral crypticity to go unnoticed. Diamonds in the Rough presents the results of Dr. Means's 40 years of research including an 8-year radiotelemetry study of free-ranging populations, laboratory research, and the scientific literature through 2015. Conducted on Tall Timbers Research Station in northern Leon County, Florida, and elsewhere in the southeastern US Coastal Plain, Means’s field research reveals the amazing biology of this fascinating animal. It returns to the same overwintering sites each November. It tracks its envenomated prey with pinpoint accuracy. Males vie for females during a graceful combat dance. During the breeding season, females may lure males by air-borne pheromones. And study of the thermal biology of the eastern diamondback revealed that this rattlesnake is much more sensitive to heat rather than cold temperatures. Habitat loss and fragmentation, automobile mortality, and even rattlesnake roundups have reduced eastern diamondback numbers and shrunk population sizes to levels that Dr. Means believes justifies its listing as a federally threatened species.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. To get started finding DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH, Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
416
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Tall Timbers Press
Release
2017
ISBN
0970388659

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