Secrets of the Snake Charmer by John C. Murphy

By John C. Murphy

"Humans and snakes have an intimate and old courting that regularly revolves round both love or hate. Snakes might be noticeable as gods, non secular messengers, symbols of fertility, and guardians of assets in nearly all cultures. yet to people who worry them, snakes are visible as venomous creatures that can not be depended on.

In secrets and techniques of the Snake Charmer, John Murphy, a study affiliate of the department of Amphibians and Reptiles within the box Museum of ordinary background in Chicago, presents an in-depth, twenty-first century examine snakes using the printed learn of alternative herpetologists in addition to his personal own stories and speculations. Murphy covers a variety of themes resembling the adaptability of snakes, the ways that evolution has tinkered with snakes over the past one hundred sixty million years, and the effect snakes have at the ecological groups they dwell in.

While sharing rules in regards to the starting place of snakes, rattlesnake rattles, and spitting in cobras, Murphy provides an cutting edge portrayal of snakes that proves they co-evolve with their prey, predators, and parasites that allows you to satisfy an important and novel function within the net of life."

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