Your file was not found It may have been moved or deleted. ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND cover next page > title: Their Blood Runs Cold : Adventures With Reptiles and Amphibians author: Gibbons, Whit. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 081730133X print isbn13: 9780817301330 ebook isbn13: 9780585288413 language: English subject Reptiles, Amphibians. publication date: 1983 lcc: QL641.G5 1983eb ddc: 597.6 subject: Reptiles, Amphibians. cover next page > < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Their Blood Runs Cold Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians Whit Gibbons < previous page page_iii next page > < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Copyright © 1983 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America SIXTH PRINTING 1996 The drawing of the canebrake rattlesnake is by Jean Baldwin Coleman. Copyright © 1977 by Jean Baldwin Coleman. Reproduced by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gibbons, Whit, 1939 Their blood runs cold. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Reptiles. 2. Amphibians I. Title. QL641.G5 1983 597.6 82-17395 ISBN 0-8173-0133-X (pbk.) < previous page page_iv next page > < previous page page_v next page > Page v For my mother, Janie M. Gibbons < previous page page_v next page > < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Reptiles and Amphibians: 5 The Field of Herpetology Chapter 2: The Snakes: 19 Once Upon a Bushmaster Chapter 3: The Turtles: 38 Turtles May Be Slow but They're 200 Million Years Ahead of Us Chapter 4: The Crocodilians: 55 How to Catch an Alligator in One Uneasy Lesson Chapter 5: The Lizards: 73 When Blowguns and Nooses Have Unusual Uses Chapter 6: The Salamanders: 84 Ohio State 7, Alabama 3, Salamanders 0 Chapter 7: The Frogs and Toads: 96 Who's Watching the Frogs? < previous page page_vii next page >