Abstract
Tropical rainforests or "jungles" are commonly thought of as harboring a vast array of man-eating crocodiles, gaudy lizards, noisy frogs, and huge snakes which either "crush" their victims or dispense with them quickly by injection of lethal venoms. This view of the rainforests, so commonly portrayed in Hollywood productions, contains less truth than it does fiction. In contrast, the scientific literature dealing with herpetofaunal communities of tropical rainforests is rieh in factual information, the interpretation of which frequently is more fictional than true.
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Duellman, W.E. (1989). Tropical Herpetofaunal Communities: Patterns of Community Structure in Neotropical Rainforests. In: Harmelin-Vivien, M.L., Bourlière, F. (eds) Vertebrates in Complex Tropical Systems. Ecological Studies, vol 69. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3510-1_3
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