By Ted Levin
ISBN-10: 022604064X
ISBN-13: 9780226040646
Yet such a lot people have by no means visible a bushes rattler. even though they’re present in thirty-one states, and close to many significant towns, in modern the United States bushes rattlesnakes are creatures ordinarily of mind's eye and innate fear.
Ted Levin goals to alter that with America’s Snake, a portrait of the trees rattlesnake, its position in America’s pantheon of creatures and in our personal frontier history—and of the heroic efforts to guard it opposed to habitat loss, weather switch, and the human tendency to kill what we worry. Taking us from labs the place the secrets and techniques of the snake’s evolutionary heritage are being unlocked to far-flung habitats whose destinations are fiercely secure through biologists and committed beginner herpetologists alike, Levin paints an image of a desirable creature: peaceful, social, long-lived, and, regardless of our phobias, no longer vulnerable to chew. The bushes rattler emerges right here as emblematic of the United States and in addition, regrettably, of the complex, painful struggles considering preserving and keeping the typical world.
A brilliant mixture of average background, commute writing, and exemplary journalism, America’s Snake is loaded with outstanding characters—none extra so than the snake at its center: scary, maybe; endangered, definitely; and definitely unforgettable.
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