. Beginners' Zoology . getable food. Would you judge thatcarnivorous chelonians catch very active The fierce snapping turtle, found in ponds and streams,sometimes has a body three feet long. Its head and tailare very large and cannot be withdrawn into the is carnivorous and has great strength of jaw. It hasbeen known to snap a large stick in two. The box tortoiseis yellowish brown with blotches of yellow, and like itsclose kinsman, the pond turtle of Europe (Fig. 266), with-draws itself and closes its shell completely. Both lids of theplastron are movable, a peculiarity belongi
. Beginners' Zoology . getable food. Would you judge thatcarnivorous chelonians catch very active The fierce snapping turtle, found in ponds and streams,sometimes has a body three feet long. Its head and tailare very large and cannot be withdrawn into the is carnivorous and has great strength of jaw. It hasbeen known to snap a large stick in two. The box tortoiseis yellowish brown with blotches of yellow, and like itsclose kinsman, the pond turtle of Europe (Fig. 266), with-draws itself and closes its shell completely. Both lids of theplastron are movable, a peculiarity belonging to these twospecies. The giant tortoise of the Galapagos Islands, ac- REP TILI A 145 cording to Lyddeker, can trot cheerfully along with threefull-grown men on its back. Tortoise shell used forcombs and other articles is obtained from the overlappingscales of the hawkbill turtle, common in the West diamond-back teirapin, found along the Atlantic Coastfrom Massachusetts to Texas, is prized for making Fig, 272.—a Rattlesnake. Venomous snakes named inorder of virulence: 1. Coral snakes,Elaps, about seventeen red bandsbordered with yellow and black(coloured figure 6) (fatal). (very deadly). (may kill a smallanimal of the size of a dog). 4. Water moccasin (never fatal). 5. Ground rattler.— Effects: Pulsefast, breathing slow, blood tubesdilated, blood becomes stored in ab-dominal blood tubes, stupefaction
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