Feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up as you read about how nature's deadliest beasts bite, poison, and eat their prey. Slithering snakes -- Terrible taipans -- More about taipans -- Super-quick mambas -- More about mambas --Killer king cobras --Poisonous sea kraits -- Giant bushmasters -- Ravenous rattlesnakes -- Deadly boomslangs -- Scary spitting cobras -- massive anacondas -- Long reticulated pythons.

Originally published: London : Franklin Watts, 2005.