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 8
Sivu 21
... Predators Venomous animals such as sea snakes might be expected to have few enemies . Indeed , some species are avoided by potential predators and can go about their daily lives relatively immune from attack . The yellow - bellied sea ...
... Predators Venomous animals such as sea snakes might be expected to have few enemies . Indeed , some species are avoided by potential predators and can go about their daily lives relatively immune from attack . The yellow - bellied sea ...
Sivu 22
... predators that the object of their attention has noxious qualities and would be better left alone . A search through the stomachs of many predatory fish from areas where Pelamis are abundant has not revealed any predation upon them ...
... predators that the object of their attention has noxious qualities and would be better left alone . A search through the stomachs of many predatory fish from areas where Pelamis are abundant has not revealed any predation upon them ...
Sivu 37
... predators by diving into water . Metabolic rate is dependent in part on the size of the animal , smaller ones using proportionately more oxygen for their weight than larger ones . Consequently , comparisons of sea snakes and land snakes ...
... predators by diving into water . Metabolic rate is dependent in part on the size of the animal , smaller ones using proportionately more oxygen for their weight than larger ones . Consequently , comparisons of sea snakes and land snakes ...
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