TY - BOOK AU - Levin,Ted TI - America's snake: the rise and fall of the timber rattlesnake SN - 9780226040646 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QL666.O69 L495 2016 U1 - 597.96/38 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Timber rattlesnake KW - Snakes KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-464) and index; My life with timber rattlesnakes -- How cool is this: an introduction to timber rattlesnakes -- Egress: the dangers of leaving home -- A quirky subculture -- Quasimodo in the Blue Hills -- Live free or die -- Zero at the bone -- A long, muscular tube -- Interlude: high summer -- The dangers of being male -- The dangers of being female -- A commodity of rattlesnakes -- Ingress: the dangers of coming home -- Chaos of rocks -- Among rattlesnakes -- Into the abyss -- The last rattlesnake -- Epilogue: the ambiguous world of the timber rattlesnake ER -