Things to Find Out
Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Reptiles — and out of doors.
- What animals form the reptile group?
- What is the largest living turtle?
- What are its habits?
- What turtle furnishes "tortoise shell"?
- When and where does the snapping turtle lay her eggs?
- What species is the genuine terrapin of the epicure?
- What are the habits of the box turtle?
- What distinguishes a tortoise from a turtle?
- How do alligator's eggs look?
- How can you tell an alligator from a crocodile?
- What is the life history of an alligator?
- What is the disposition of a crocodile in captivity?
- How does the American chameleon change colours?
- What reptiles cast off their tails when frightened, and later grow others?
- What lizards bear their young alive?
- How do the horned toads get ready for the night?
- What erroneous idea prevails regarding the actions of the glass snake?
- What lizard sits on her eggs?
- What is the most slender of American snakes?
- What peculiarities of gait has the single-striped garter snake?
- Which genera of American snakes are harmless?
- What does the presence of hollow fangs mean?
- What snakes are useful to agriculture?
- What are the harmless "water moccasins"?
- The poisonous moccasins?
- Note two unique methods of capturing water snakes?
- What snake gives birth to forty or fifty living young in one brood?
- What colour transformations mark the life history of the banded chicken snake?
- What are the habits of chicken snakes?
- What is the truth about snakes "charming" birds?
- What is the attitude of an indigo snake at bay?
- What are the black snake's habits?
- What snakes are the farmer's friends?
- What snake has striking protective coloration?
- What false notion gives the milk snake its name?
- How distinguish harmless and poisonous coral snakes?
- What snake "plays possum" when frightened?
- What snake killed Cleopatra?
- What is the cobra's "hood?"
- What two species are the most deadly of all snakes?
- What harmless snakes profit by "mimicking" deadly ones?
- Why is the extraction of the fangs ineffectual?
- How are moccasins taken alive for zoological collections?
- How do young copperheads make use of their yellow, wriggling tails?
- What relation does the age of a rattlesnake bear to the number of rings in the rattle?
- What are the habits of the diamond-back rattlesnake?