Jesus A. Rivas (Associate Professor Associate Professor of Biology

Anaconda

The Secret Life of the World's Largest Snake

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the natural history of the green anaconda, one of the most elusive of snakes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780199732876
• ISBN-10: 0199732876
• Artikelnr.: 59961651

Autorenporträt

Jesús A. Rivas is a herpetologist and tropical ecologist and Professor of Biology at New Mexico Highlands University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Foreword by Gordon Burghardt
* Chapter 1: Science, love, and anaconda research
* Chapter 2: The anaconda challenge: learning how to learn
* Chapter 3: What is a good real state for an anaconda?
* Chapter 4: Anaconda's tales: Sickness and health, birth and death in
the life of a giant snake
* Chapter 5: How much is supper?: Predator diet and prey retaliation
* Chapter 6: The largest of motherhood: Fecundity and female
reproductive strategy
* Chapter 7: How big can a giant be?
* Chapter 8: Hey, it's me, it's me!: Courtship and confusion in the
male reproductive strategy
* Chapter 9: The origin of the mystery: Adapting to life in a big dam
* Chapter 10: Conservation of anacondas and beyond: the interface of
biology, politics and economics
* Chapter 11: Epilogue: A different approach
* Literature Cited
* Index