Snakes

by Jules Howard

ISBN: 9781472971692

Published: 2020-07-28

The go-to guide to discovering the secrets of the UK's snakes. Packed with information, Spotlight Snakes is the go-to guide to discovering the secrets of the UK's snakes, including how to identify and spot them in the wild and the latest scientific discoveries about their life-history and ecology. Intelligent, active, erudite, combative, sensual and even capable of caring--these are not words usually used to describe snakes, but our ancient perception of snakes as lowly objects inspiring fear and persecution is changing. Few creatures have had more of a turnaround in public interest than the UK's three species of snake, two of which occur widely throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Snakes are an evolutionary masterpiece, with a legless body plan capable of squeezing into the tightest spots in search of prey, a sensory system based on heat, taste and smell that is almost unrivaled in nature, and an ecology far more complicated than scientists had ever imagined. RSPB Spotlight...