Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and nearly fifty distribution maps, Snakes of the Southeast is stuffed with both entertaining and detailed, in-depth information. Includes and explores size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation.

Discusses natural history, ecology as a field of study, environmental issues that face our society, and human relationships with the natural world

A collection of essays focusing on the notion that all ecosystems composed of different plant and animal species are like bricks in a building, where the position and stability depend on the food and defense relationships

Identifies poisonous wildlife in the region, describes the types of toxins involved, and lists suggested treatments

Discusses the characteristics of the major groups of amphibians and reptiles and examines the methods used to capture and study these animals