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Cat tale : the wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther / Craig Pittman.

Van Pelt Library QL737.C23 P58 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pittman, Craig, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Florida panther--Conservation.
Florida panther.
Florida panther--Conservation--Social aspects.
Wildlife conservation--Florida.
Wildlife conservation.
Rare mammals--Florida.
Rare mammals.
Endangered species--Florida.
Endangered species.
Social aspects.
Florida.
Genre:
Nonfiction.
Physical Description:
336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2020]
Summary:
"It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very nearly right. That the panther still exists at all is a miracle--the result of a desperate experiment that led to the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Endangered Species Act. And no one has told the whole story--until now. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle"--Publisher's description
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Cat of God
ch. Two Pantherland
ch. Three The Hunter
ch. Four The State Animal
ch. Five Mouth to Mouth
ch. Six The Turbo-Vet
ch. Seven The New Mr. Panther
ch. Eight Medicine Man
ch. Nine Bottleneck
ch. Ten "Extinction Is God's Plan"
ch. Eleven The Vortex
ch. Twelve The Captives
ch. Thirteen Hail Mary
ch. Fourteen "Florida Will Be Developed"
ch. Fifteen Mr. Influential
ch. Sixteen The Showdown
ch. Seventeen The Verdict
ch. Eighteen The Whistleblower
ch. Nineteen The Skunk Apes Scapegoat
ch. Twenty The Wanderers
ch. Twenty-One Cat Cam Bingo.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
ISBN:
9781335938800
133593880X
9781335482211
1335482210
OCLC:
1136041797
Publisher Number:
99989246813

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