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Carl and Evelyn Ernst have completely revised their landmark reference Venomous Reptiles of North America to present the most comprehensive review of these animals in years.
Volume One of this definitive work presents dramatically improved species accounts of the venomous lizards and elapid and viperid snakes found north of Mexico's twenty-fifth parallel. Volume Two will cover the twenty-one rattlesnakes found in the United States, Canada, and, for the first time, species found only in northern Mexico.
Ernst and Ernst have painstakingly researched and verified the highly valuable and detailed information in this volume, including every detail of the lives of these fascinating and sometimes deadly animals. Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico provides facts on each animal's diet, reproductive behavior, physiology, ecology, and conservation status. The book also covers details on snakebite, how venom is delivered, venom composition, antivenom production, and medical treatments of envenomation. Each species account includes vivid photographs that aid with identification and detailed maps that show the species range.
Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico represents the latest research on these animals and includes the most extensive bibliography of literature on the subject. Anyone with an interest in venom, snakes, or herpetology in general will find a wealth of information within the pages of these impressive volumes.
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Randy Mordes
reviewed Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico on July 05, 2012 Venomous Reptiles of the United States
FAAAASCINATING. Honestly, I kept pestering Kent, "Listen to this..." and then reading a paragraph or two. It's about the science of how the brain and body connect. We have "body maps" in our brain, that tell us exactly where our body parts are, and how they are doing. (This is why we can touch our nose with our eyes closed.) It doesn't sound interesting, until you read what this means, in practical applications. And the stuff about how our homonulcus (body maps) go awry is just astonishing.
Body mapping accounts for why we can ride a horse, why we duck a little when we drive our cars into a garage with low clearance, why we feel afraid in scary movies, and also things like autism (mirror neuron defects).
Here's an example: if you took a perfectly healthy kitten, and then carried it around with you wherever you went, exposing it to many sights and sounds, but not allowing it to interact with it's environment, that kitten would be blind. It would still "see" colors and shapes and everything, but it's brain would have no context for interpreting that input, so the cat would be just as blind as a cat with no eyes. Bizarre, huh? Here's another: the women in Mali think it's important for their children to have straight legs so several times a day, from birth onwards, they massage and pull on their infants' legs, pulling them straight. Guess the average age of walking? EIGHT MONTHS. Because those kids' body maps of their legs got so much stimulation from the environment as they were developing. Contrast that with kids in orphanages in the Eastern Block countries who are left alone in their cribs for days on end. Those kids are unable to stand on one foot without toppling over. Why? Because their leg body maps are so woefully undeveloped because there was no opportunity for interaction with their environment.
Anyhow, it's really an interesting read, runs a gamut of really diverse topics, all having to do with our body maps, and it's not very long (about 200 pages.) I really recommend it.
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