Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink
Record details
- ISBN: 0446559946 (large print edition)
- ISBN: 0446581771 (regular edition)
- ISBN: 9780446559942 (large print edition)
- ISBN: 0446559946 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780446581783 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780446581776 (hc)
- ISBN: 9780446559942 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780446581776 (regular edition)
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Physical Description:
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xxiv, 392 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Jane's feather -- Lost in the wild. Black-footed ferret ; Mala or Rufous Hare-wallaby ; California condor ; Milu or P¨re David's deer ; Red wolf ; Thane's field notes : Tahki or Przewalski's horse -- Saved at the eleventh hour. Golden lion tamarin ; American crocodile ; Peregrine falcon ; American burying beetle ; Crested ibis ; Whooping crane ; Angonoka or Ploughshare tortoise ; Formosan landlocked salmon ; Vancouver Island marmot ; Thane's field notes : Sumatran rhino ; Gray wolf -- Never giving up. Iberian lynx ; Bactrian camel ; Giant panda ; Pygmy hog ; Northern bald ibis or Waldrapp ; Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit ; Attwater's prairie chicken ; Asian vultures ; Hawaiian goose or Nene ; Thane's field notes : Cotton-top tamarin ; Panamanian golden frog -- The heroic struggle to save our island birds. Black robin or Chatham Island robin ; Abbott's booby ; Bermuda petrel or Cahow ; The birds of Mauritius ; Short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross ; Thane's field notes : Blue-and-gold macaw -- The thrill of discovery. New discoveries : species still being discovered ; The Lazarus Syndrome : species believed extinct and recently found ; Living fossils : ancient species recently discovered -- The nature of hope. Healing Earth's scars : it's never too late ; Why save endangered species? -- What you can do. |
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Subject: | Endangered species Nature conservation Wildlife rescue Large type books Wildlife reintroduction |
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