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Bites and Stings: The World of Venomous Animals
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Bites and Stings: The World of Venomous Animals
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Hardcover
by John Nichol
Sales Rank: 3394850
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$62.24
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on 11-19-2011.
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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Facts on File September 1989
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081602233X
ISBN-13: 978-0816022335
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
From Library Journal
As the first one-volume source on venomous and poisonous animals written especially for the layperson, this book makes some important contributions, but does not provide a broad enough coverage of its subject. It does have interesting and informative readings about nine major groups of toxic animals and attempts to put some commonly held fears about them into proper perspective. General information is given on the effects and proper treatment of bites and stings, and a list of antivenom suppliers around the world is included. But with its emphasis on snakes, insects, especially the medically important Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps), are glossed over, and the discussion of them contains errors and exaggerations. Venomous caterpillars, common in the tropics, are dismissed as insignificant, and the distinction between "bite" and "sting" is left unexplained. - Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., PanamaCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Bites and Stings: The World of Venomous Animals
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Price: $62.24
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