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    A-B-C book

    A Field Guide to Texas Snakes:ByAlan Tennant

    David Schwartz

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    A-Antivenin

    Antivenin is a reverse toxic to snake bites

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    B-Black hood Snake

    N o n v e n o m o u s

    A b u n d a n c e: t r e a t e n e d

    R e p r o d u c t i o n: e g g l a y e r

    P r e y: C e n t i p e d e s , A r t h r o p o d s ,

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    Checkered garter snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance: Common

    Repoduction:Live Bearing Prey:worms,tadpoles,mice,and frogs

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    Desert King snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:uncommon

    Repoduction:Egg-laying

    Prey:Lizards,Small mammals

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    Eastern Coachwip

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Reproduction:egg-laying

    Prey:mammals,birds,frogs,and baby turtles

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    Florida water snake

    n o n v e n o m o u s

    A b u n d a n c e : c o m m o n

    R e p r o d u c t i o n : U n d e r

    P r e y : c r a y f i s h ,s a l a m a n d e r s , f r o g s

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    Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Repoduction:live bearingPrey:insects,and small vertebrates

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    Hook nose snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance: common

    Reproduction: egg laying

    Prey:spiders,centipedes,and invertebrates

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    Indigo snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:threatened

    Reproduction:egg-laying Prey:vertebrates

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    Jones,J.P

    J.P. Jones Was a former reptile director at FortWorth Zoo

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    Kansas Glossy Snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:????not said in book

    Reproduction:not in book Prey:mice

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    Lined snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Reproduction: live bearing Prey:earthworms

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    Mexican Milk snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:uncommon

    Repoduction:egg laying

    Prey:lizards and small mammals

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    Night snake

    Mildly venomous

    Abundance:Variable

    Reproduction:egg laying Prey:lizards,worms,and insects

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    Ortenberger, Arthur I.

    Dr . A. I. Ortenburger , until his retirement in1958, had been a member of the faculty in theDepartment of Zoology at the University ofOklahoma since 1924

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    Pit vipers

    pit vipers are cottonmouths,copperheads,andrattle snakes

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    Quetzacuotal

    No culture placed more emphasis on serpants'ability to kill than the Toltec-Aztec-Mayacivilization of middle of America, where theearly rattlesnake god, which ultimately evolvedinto Quetzacuotal, became the deity whosepotency sanctified the priesthood's control overevery aspect of the peoples' daily life

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    Regal Ring Snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Reproduction:egg-laying Prey:reptiles

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    Speckled King snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:fairly common

    Reproduction:egg laying Prey:other snakes

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    Texas Coral snake

    Venomous

    Abundance:common

    Repoduction:egg laying Prey:lizards and other snakes

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    Uraeus

    The priesthood,maintaining that the lethalvirulence of mortal cobras derived from Uraeushimself, sometimes cut open the limbs of bitten

    individuals to release the supernatural vaporsthought to have been implanted by the reptilesfangs.

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    Venom

    Venom is like poison but has different effects toa human

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    Western Mud snake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Reproduction:egg laying Prey:slamanders,frogs,and fish

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    Xenodontinae

    a Uneven-toothed subfamily

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    Yellow Belly Watersnake

    Nonvenomous

    Abundance:common

    Reproduction:live bearing Prey:small fish,tadpoles,aquatic insects, and

    other amphibans

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    scrutiniZe the

    snakes you

    see!!!

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