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	SDNHM - Sidewinder
		The Sidewinder range extends through the sandy desert habitats of southern Nevada, to northeastern Baja California and northern Sonora, Mexico, east into central Arizona, and west to the base of the desert side of California's mountains.
		When sidewinding, the snake applies vertical pressure to the ground which minimizes slippage, and leaves a distinctive parallel series of "J" shaped tracks.
		Therefore, snakes are particularly susceptible to being overlooked by conservation-minded biologists.
	www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/herps/crot-cer.html (392 words)

	Crotalus cerastes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes) is a rattlesnake that inhabits lowland deserts of the southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah) and northern Mexico.
		The sidewinder is named for its unusual form of locomotion, which is thought to give it traction on windblown desert sand, but this peculiar locomotor specialization is used on any substrate that the sidewinder can move over rapidly.
		This snake (like all rattlesnakes) is a pit viper, using its sensory pits to detect the infrared (heat) radiation of warm blooded potential prey and predators.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidewinder_(snake) (445 words)

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	8de55.sitesled.com /rattle/sidewinder-snake.html (4385 words)

	Snake
		Snake eggs are not incubated like bird eggs; the warmth of the substrate and rays of the sun control the incubation process.
		Snakes can warm themselves by basking in the sun, lying under rocks or boards that are in the sun, or by lying on rocks and pavement that hold the heat after dark.
		Snakes and their eggs are in turn eaten by fish, amphibians, other snakes, birds and predatory mammals such as skunks, raccoons and opossums.
	www.geocities.com /spiders_snakes/snake/snake.html (4660 words)

	Rattlesnakes
		The Sidewinder is a common resident of sand dunes and other loose, sandy areas where vegetation is sparse and composed primarily of creosote bush; rarely seen in rocky areas.
		Western diamondback: This snake is active at night during the warm months and during the day in spring and fall; it returns to rocky cliffs for a winter hibernation period, but may exit to bask in the sun on warm days.
		To the observer, the sidewinding snake appears to be going sideways with respect to the direction in which the body points.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/rattlesnakes3.html (1141 words)

	Crotalus cerastes laterorepens - Colorado Desert Sidewinder
		Though the amount of venom a sidewinder injects is relatively small and rarely deadly, bites on humans are potentially dangerous.
		The movement rubs the rattle segments together producing a buzzing sound which serves as a warning.Juveniles are born with only a silent button at the end of the tail.
		Moves with a sidewinding locomotion, throwing raised loops of the body to the side to push itself forward in an s-sheped curve.
	www.californiaherps.com /snakes/pages/c.c.laterorepens.html (732 words)

	Sidewinder - Crotalus cerastes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Essentially "walking" on its chin and a loop of its body, the snake is able to keep much of its body elevated off the ground while moving, thus reducing body contact with the warm or hot surface upon which it is crawling.
		The functional "horns" and the sidewinding locomotion are also seen in some species of true vipers living in the Sahara and Namib Deserts of Africa and are examples of convergent evolution, that process whereby two species of different phylogenetic lineage develop similar adaptations to similar environmental stimuli.
		The sidewinder is most often found in open brushy or sandy desert, and reaches its eastern limits in the vicinity of Tucson.
	www.biopark.org /Ccerastes.html (299 words)

	Sidewinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A desert inhabitant, this snake moves with a sideways motion, known as sidewinding, thought to be the most efficient mode of movement for a snake on sand.
		All the snake's weight, therefore, is pushing against the ground at these points, and this provides the leverage to move it sideways.
		Sidewinders mate in April or May, and the female gives birth to 5 to 18 live young about 3 months later.
	www.mbgnet.net /sets/desert/animals/side.htm (195 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Snakes Work"
		Snakes do not have a diaphragm like people do, so they circulate air in and out of the lungs by narrowing the rib cage to push air out and then widening it again to create a vacuum to suck air in.
		Once a snake is ready to eat, it opens its mouth wide and begins to "walk" its lower jaw over the prey as its backward-curving teeth grip the animal -- one side of the jaw pulls in while the other side moves forward for the next bite.
		Some snakes give birth to live young (from one to 150 at a time), while others lay eggs (from one to 100 at a time); some even combine these methods by holding eggs internally until they hatch, and the babies are born live.
	www.howstuffworks.com /snake.htm/printable (2883 words)

	Welcome to the L.A. Zoo
		This rattlesnake is a Colorado Desert subspecies of sidewinders.
		For its short length, the Colorado sidewinder rattlesnake has a more bulky or stout body than any other species of rattlesnake, and it is the only rattlesnake in which the female is larger than the male.
		It is impossible to tell the age of a snake by the number of segments on its rattle as a new segment is produced every time the skin is shed, and the snake may shed its skin more than once a year.
	www.lazoo.org /animalfact_arch.asp?id=16 (460 words)

	Southern California Camping - Field Guide to Reptiles
		This snake is active from mid-spring to early fall, but activity may be restricted during the hottest part of the summer (Cowles 1945, Klauber 1944, 1972, Lowe and Norris 1950, Stebbins 1954).
		This snake is primarily nocturnal, but in the early spring it is active at dusk and even occasionally during the day.
		This snake is eaten by kingsnakes and roadrunners, and probably by most avian and mammalian desert predators.
	www.socalcamping.com /fieldguide/reptile/sidewinder.html (384 words)

	KiteCD - Animals - reptiles snake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a reptile the snake has a backbone, it breathes air with lungs, it is cold blooded, and it usually hatches from an egg.
		Although snakes do not live in Antarctica or at the North Pole, many types of snakes live in areas where it is cold and snowy in the winter.
		Snakes do not chew their food, but swallow it whole dislocating their jaws and taking advantage of an elastic muscle located in their lower jaw to fit their mouth around the prey.
	members.aol.com /KiteCD2/an_RSnake.htm (1437 words)

	AnimalWeb
		Many snakes are known for their bright colors such as the California king.
		Big snakes, such as boas and pythons proceed by a type of caterpillar crawl, thrusting back with the exposed edges of their overlapping stomach scales.
		These are the venomous snakes, some of which carry venom in their hollow fangs.
	www.animalweb.com /animalworld/pages/snake.asp (344 words)

	sidewinders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sidewinders inhabit arid regions of the Desert Southwest, from southern Nevada and Utah to northern Mexico.
		However, sidewinders are largely nocturnal and are rarely on the surface when the sun is high enough to cast a shadow on the eyes.
		However, when sidewinders turn their heads around in a tight space, such as a transparent plastic tube, full functional closure can be observed.
	people.vanderbilt.edu /~r.s.reiserer/sidewinders.html (683 words)

	Stuffo "How Snakes Work" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As the snake grows, the number and the pattern of its scales stay the same, although a snake's scales are shed many times over the course of its life.
		When the outer layer is ready to shed, the snake scrapes the edges of its mouth against a hard surface, such as a rock, until the outer layer begins to fold back around its head.
		Like people, snakes grow quickly until they reach maturity, which can take one to nine years; however, their growth, though much slowed after maturity, never stops.
	www.stuffo.com /snake2.htm (290 words)

	Every Snake Home
		Venomous snakes will first bite their victim so that it is dead before it is consumed.
		Snakes such as boas will choke their prey while some will consume a small animal whole and alive.
		All snakes employ internal fertilization, accomplished by means of paired, forked hemipenes, which are stored inverted in the male's tail.
	everysnake.com (285 words)

	Sidewinder care
		Crotalus cerastes is a snake that lives in the hottest areas in Arizona and Mexico.
		The heating mat is turn on constantly, while a timer to be on during the day for 12 to 14 hours regulates the light bulb.
		Because the acrylic shield is transparent you can see the snake at all times, which makes working inside the enclosure a lot safer.
	sidewinder78.tripod.com /thesidewinderranchenglish/id9.html (377 words)

	here was never supposed to be a Side-winder missile
		When the first Sidewinder was fired it went straight up the exhaust pipe of the drone, blowing it apart even though the missile didn't carry a warhead.
		The Sidewinder had meant a switch from radar to infrared, but it was still a guided missile and fitted into the scheme of things; its buyers were simply choosing one missile over another.
		Sidewinder and other projects like it could have been a warning that the military development and procurement system was becoming too rigid and bureaucratic.
	polaris.umuc.edu /~fbetz/references/Westrum.html (4776 words)

	The Sidewinder (DesertUSA)
		The venomous Sidewinder is also called the "Horned Rattlesnake." It is unique because of its sideways form of locomotion with its body moving in an S-shaped curve.
		This Sidewinder is light in color -- tan, cream, pink, gray or sandy, with darker patches on its back of gray, yellow or tan.
		The Sidewinder travels quickly over desert surfaces using its unique "side winding" locomotion to prey on Pocket Mice, Kangaroo Rats, lizards and sometimes birds.
	www.desertusa.com /mag98/april/papr/du_sidewind.html (303 words)

	The Living Edens "Namib" -- Teacher's Resources -- The Sidewinder and the Sidewinder
		They use a sidewinding motion to move across the hot surface sand and have only a small part of the body on the hot sand at one time.
		Sidewinders use quick motions to wiggle into the sand to bury the greater part of their body.
		The Sidewinder is a perfect example of parallelism where both species survive in very similar surroundings and behave in very similar ways.
	www.pbs.org /edens/namib/source5.htm (577 words)

	The Living Edens "Namib" -- Dawn
		Also known as Peringuey's adder, the sidewinder snake reduces contact with the hot sand by its peculiar side-to-side form of locomotion.
		Early in the morning, the sidewinder coils up in the fog and licks water droplets off its body.
		As the day progresses, the heat of the sun loosens the sand and makes it harder for the sidewinder to move, but easier for it to conceal itself in the sand to ambush its prey.
	www.pbs.org /edens/namib/dawn.htm (647 words)

	Rattlesnake!
		If you have to remove a snake from the trail, a safer approach might be to calmly and lightly pitch small stones or dirt clods at the snake from a safe distance.
		A calm process resembling "OK snake, we'll be going" would be a safer departure than a panicked reaction where the horse's sudden movements may appear aggressive to the snake and provoke a strike, or worse yet, ending up stepping on the snake or getting the rider thrown.
		Gopher snake bites can be quite painful, and the wound, like any animal bite, should be cleansed, but this snake has no venom and thus is considered harmless to humans and livestock.
	www.whmentors.org /saf/snakes.html (1939 words)

	sidewinder. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		This 2-ft (60-cm), pale yellow and pink snake is named for its curious method of locomotion.
		The sidewinder has prominent, erect scales above its eyes and is sometimes known as the horned rattlesnake.
		The sidewinder is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/si/sidewind.html (176 words)

	RedOrbit - Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Sidewinder is the most common name of a species (Crotalus cerastes) of highly nocturnal rattlesnake found in the southwestern United States.
		The sidewinder is named for its unusual form of movement across hot desert sands.
		This snake is a pit viper, using its sensory pits to detect the infrared (heat) radiation of potential prey.
	www.redorbit.com /education/reference_library?article_id=751 (203 words)

	Rattlesnakes (DesertUSA)
		In the northern areas of their range and at higher elevations, snakes congregate in the fall at crevices in rocky ledges to hibernate for the winter, returning to these places annually.
		Most snakes are secretive in their summer activities, hunting at night and remaining inactive and out of sight for days at a time during the digestive period after eating a squirrel or small rabbit.
		Consequently, more snakes are seen in the spring and fall migrations to and from their winter homes.
	www.desertusa.com /may96/du_rattle.html (963 words)

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		The beautiful coral snake has the most toxic venom’s of all the American snakes, but it is rarely seen.
		Snakes can swallow things that are bigger than their heads.
		Snakes are naturally shy animals and only bites people if disturbed or trodden on by mistake.
	www.iol.ie /~bmesch/snakes.htm (501 words)

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	www.networkcomputing.com /1108/1108sp5.html (1183 words)

	AIM-9 Sidewinder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is named after the Sidewinder snake, which detects its prey via body heat and also because of the peculiar snake-like path of flight the missile had when launched.
		The first combat use of the Sidewinder was in 1958 with the air force of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
		The last upgrade to the missile motor on the AIM-9X is the addition of a wire harness that allows communication between the guidance section and the control section, as well as a new 1760 bus to connect the guidance section with the launcher’s digital umbilical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder (2312 words)

	Crotalus cerastes cerastes - Mojave Desert Sidewinder
		The segment of the rattle closest to the body on an adult snake is brown.
		Juveniles are born with only a silent button at the end of the tail.
		Inhabits primarily areas of wind-blown sands, especially where sand hummocks are topped with vegetation.
	www.californiaherps.com /snakes/pages/c.c.cerastes.html (696 words)

	Global Deserts Outlook
		Many rodents, invertebrates, and snakes avoid heat by spending the day in caves and burrows, and procuring food during the night.
		Side-winding, a form of lateral movement in which only a small part of the body is in contact with the surface, is employed by many sand snakes (Figure 1.13).
		Many snakes have upwardly-turned nostrils that allow them to burrow rapidly in loose sand; others are flat and can bury laterally.
	www.unep.org /geo/gdoutlook/029.asp (1434 words)

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