Sea SnakesNew South Wales University Press, 1987 - 85 sivua Sixty percent of the world's sea snakes are in Australian territorial waters - here's where they are, what they eat and who eats them, how they dive, breathe, reproduce, and function in their varying habitats. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 16
Sivu 19
... fish equally well in the dark or in the light , and some species forage nocturnally . No sea snakes are known to actively pursue swimming prey . Often fish are ignored even if they pass only a few centimetres from the snake's head ...
... fish equally well in the dark or in the light , and some species forage nocturnally . No sea snakes are known to actively pursue swimming prey . Often fish are ignored even if they pass only a few centimetres from the snake's head ...
Sivu 20
... fish taken from sea snake stomachs often have the head end well digested but the tail relatively intact . Usually one fish is found in a snake . Exceptions are Pelamis and Acrochordus granulatus in which a meal may consist of many small ...
... fish taken from sea snake stomachs often have the head end well digested but the tail relatively intact . Usually one fish is found in a snake . Exceptions are Pelamis and Acrochordus granulatus in which a meal may consist of many small ...
Sivu 22
... fish from areas where Pelamis are abundant has not revealed any predation upon them . Frigate birds have been seen to pick up Pelamis from the surface of the sea but drop them again . Experiments in marine tanks have shown that a ...
... fish from areas where Pelamis are abundant has not revealed any predation upon them . Frigate birds have been seen to pick up Pelamis from the surface of the sea but drop them again . Experiments in marine tanks have shown that a ...
Sisältö
THE KINDS OF SEA SNAKES | 1 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF SEA SNAKES | 12 |
ADAPTATIONS OF SEA SNAKES | 31 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
1 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Acrochordidae Acrochordus granulatus active Aipysurus eydouxii amount anaerobic respiration animals antivenom Astrotia stokesii Australian Biology body Bohr shift breathing captured carbon dioxide cent colubrids delivered diving syndrome eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes estuaries fang fish foraging freshwater function generalist granulated file snake habitat Haemotoxins heart rate Heatwole Heuvelmans homalopsines home ranges humans Hydrophis kidney land snakes Lapemis hardwickii Laticauda colubrina limbs mammals mangrove marine snakes membrane metabolic rate mice muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins niche nitrogen occur olive sea snake oxygen debt Pelamis platurus predators prey reefs release reproductive reptiles respiratory saccular lung salt glands sea kraits sea serpents sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom sea water skin snake Aipysurus laevis snake venoms specialists species of snake submergence surface swallowing swimming symptoms teeth terrestrial tissue toxicity toxins true sea snakes venom apparatus venom gland venomous sea snakes vertebrates