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Back from the brink : saving some of the world's rarest animals / Malcolm Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Malcolm, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildlife conservation.
- Endangered species.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, UK : Whittles Publishing, [2015]
- Summary:
- Featuring some of the most iconic animals from around the world this book details the success stories of animals threatened with extinction, whose fortunes have been reversed.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreward; 1 Introduction; 2 Bringing the Empty Quarter Back to Life-Arabian Onyx; 3 Out Of The Red and Into the Black-Black Rhino; 4 Where They're Talking Turkey Again-Wild Turkey; 5 The Forest Emperor Returns-European Bison; 6 The Mermaid That's No Longer a Myth-Florida Manatee; 7 A Display of Extravagance-Houbara; 8 A Breach in Time for the Ocean Giant-Humpback Whale; 9 Burning a Little Brighter-Siberian Tiger; 10 The Scavangers Set to Return-India's Vultures; 11 Coming Out of the Mist-Mountain Gorilla; 12 An Elegant Recovery-Whooping Crane
- 13 The Rabbit Killer Returns-Iberian Lynx14 The Enigma That's Not All At Sea-Zino's Petrel; 15 No More Singing the Blues-Large Blue Butterfly; 16 The Bird That Didn't Follow The Dodo-Mauritius Kestrel; 17 Endpiece; Appendix
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781849952163
- 1849952167
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