Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 2 of 8: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture The boas are generally found in dense for ests, where they suspend themselves from tree branches and seize animals passing beneath. With their strong teeth, pointing backward to wards the throat, they easily hold a small animal, round which they wrap a fold Of the body and quickly crush it to death. Before the animal is swallowed it is covered with a thick coating of saliva. After a meal a long sleep is taken, lasting sometimes a week, until ...
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Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 2 of 8: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture The boas are generally found in dense for ests, where they suspend themselves from tree branches and seize animals passing beneath. With their strong teeth, pointing backward to wards the throat, they easily hold a small animal, round which they wrap a fold Of the body and quickly crush it to death. Before the animal is swallowed it is covered with a thick coating of saliva. After a meal a long sleep is taken, lasting sometimes a week, until the food is thoroughly digested; bones, horns and other indigestible substances are disgorged and the serpent is ready for another meal. However, it can live in comfort several weeks without eating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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