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The dangerous snakes of Africa / Stephen Spawls and Bill Branch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spawls, Stephen, 1953- author.
- Branch, Bill (William R.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snakebites--Treatment.
- Snakebites.
- Poisonous snakes.
- Africa.
- Poisonous snakes--Africa.
- Poisonous snakes--Africa--Identification.
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous and dangerous snakes."www.bookdepository.com.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Africa's Snakes: which ones are dangerous?
- Where are the dangerous snakes in Africa?
- Using the maps in this book
- A note on conservation
- Identifying a snake
- Dangerous front-fanged snakes
- Vipers
- Elapids (cobras, mambas and relatives)
- African snakes (house snakes and allies: burrowing asps and harlequin snakes]
- Dangerous rear-fanged and fangless snakes
- Pythons
- Colubrid snakes
- African snakes
- Look-alikes and common species
- Snakebite in Africa: the big picture
- What needs to be done?
- African snake venoms
- Avoiding snakebite
- Who is at risk, when and where?
- What happens when a snake bites, and how bad will it be?
- Snakebite first aid: dos and don'ts
- Spitting snakes: first aid for venom in the eyes
- Treatment of snakebite at a medical centre: initial procedures
- Syndromes of envenoming
- When will antivenom be used?
- Giving antivenom
- Use of antivenom by a lay person.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0691207925
- 9780691207926
- OCLC:
- 1142880821
- Publisher Number:
- 99985690460
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