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Life Below the Ankles

机译:脚踝下的生活

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Right below our ankles lies a whole-and wholly different-world. Here, with a shift in perspective and scale, grass grows as tall as trees and rocks are as large as boulders. The landscape is so dense that animals can virtually swim in it, wiggling through oceans of grass and debris. Roughly 150 million years ago, a group of four-legged reptiles began to adapt to this rich lower world, evolving increasingly long and slender body plans until they were entirely limbless. From that point, there was no going back. In the switch to life without legs, these creatures also acquired a complete anatomical redesign, inside and out. The result was the animals we know as snakes. Harvey B. Lillywhite's How Snakes Work explores the ways these animals thrive in the dark, disordered landscape of the forest floor. That emphasis on how sets the book apart, as Lil-lywhite, a field biologist specializing in snake physiology, focuses on the fantastic tricks and tactics essential to life at ankle level. The result tickles the imagination. Using photographs, detailed explanations, personal stories, and scholarly references, the author convincingly transports the reader into this lower world, introducing a whole cast of strange creatures and their even stranger behaviors.
机译:在我们脚踝下方是一个完全不同的世界。在这里,随着视角和规模的变化,草长得和树木一样大,而岩石也和巨石一样大。风景如此密集,以至于动物几乎可以在其中游动,穿过草丛和杂物的海洋中摇摆。大约在1.5亿年前,一群四足爬行动物开始适应这个富裕的下层世界,不断发展的身体计划变得越来越长和苗条,直到他们完全没有肢体。从那时起,没有回头路可走了。在转向无腿生活时,这些生物也从内到外进行了完整的解剖学重新设计。结果就是我们称为蛇的动物。哈维·莉莉·怀特(Harvey B.Lillywhite)的《蛇的运作方式》探讨了这些动物如何在黑暗无序的森林地面景观中繁衍生息。专注于如何使本书与众不同的是,专门研究蛇生理学的野外生物学家Lil-lywhite着重研究了脚踝生活中必不可少的奇妙技巧和战术。结果激发了想像力。通过使用照片,详细的解释,个人故事和学术参考,作者令人信服地将读者带入了这个较低的世界,介绍了一大堆奇怪的生物以及他们甚至更奇怪的行为。

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  • 来源
    《American Scientist》 |2014年第6期|469-470|共2页
  • 作者

    David L. Hu;

  • 作者单位

    Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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