Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record / Errol Fuller.
Fuller, Errol, author.
2014
QL88 .F85 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record / Errol Fuller.
Author Fuller, Errol, author.
ISBN 9780691161372 hardcover
0691161372 hardcover
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number QL88 .F85 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 591.68
Summary A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals is a unique photographic record of extinction, presented by a world authority on vanished animals. Richly illustrated throughout, this handsome book features photographs dating from around 1870 to as recently as 2004, the year that witnessed the demise of the Hawaiian Po'ouli. From a mother Thylacine and her pups to birds such as the Heath Hen and the Carolina Parakeet, Errol Fuller tells the story of each animal, explains why it became extinct, and discusses the circumstances surrounding the photography. Covering 28 extinct species, this book includes familiar examples like the last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, and one of the last Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, photographed as it peers quizzically at the hat of one of the biologists who has just ringed it. But the book includes rare images as well, many never before published. Collected together here for the first time, these photographs provide a tangible link to animals that have now vanished forever, in a book that brings the past to life while delivering a warning for the future.
Note Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-238) and index.
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Atitlán giant grebe
Alaotra grebe
Pink-headed duck
Heath hen
Wake Island rail
Laysan rail
Eskimo curlew
Passenger pigeon
Carolina parakeet
Paradise parrot
Laughing owl
Ivory-billed woodpecker
Imperial woodpecker
New Zealand bush wren
Aldabra brush warbler
Bachman's warbler
Kauaʻi ʻOʻo
ʻOʻu
Mamo
Poʻouli
Guam flycatcher
Thylacine
Greater short-tailed bat
Caribbean monk seal
Yangtze River dolphin
Quagga
Schomburgk's deer
Bubal hartebeest.

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