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Turtles and Snakes GREEN TREE PYTHON SLOW BUT STEADY 64-65 DEADLY EMBRACE 72-73
This tree-dwelling green python
usually coils around a branch and LONG-LIVED GIANTS 66-67 A SPECIALIZED MOUTH 74-75
waits with its head hanging down, TURTLES IN THE WATER 68-69 COBRAS 76-77
ready to attack. It eats small
mammals and birds. INTERNAL STRUCTURE 70-71 EGG EATERS 78-79

n this chapter, you will discover well as why some eat only eggs and facts about turtles' skeletons and are peaceful creatures, many are
the amazing world of turtles and others, such as constrictors (the most shells (for example, turtles that swim actually carnivorous hunters that eat
snakes. You will learn what they primitive snakes), have to suffocate have streamlined shells that enable small invertebrates, fish, and even
are like inside, where they live, their prey by coiling around it. This them to glide easily through the water). some larger animals.
I and how they hunt their prey, as chapter will also reveal interesting Although people may think that turtles