Thylacine

The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger

Branden Holmes, Gareth Linnard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-1553-6 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive exploration of this unique animal. With 78 contributors, this exciting work presents an accurate, evidence-based profile of the thylacine, examining its ecology, evolution, encounters with humans, persecution, assumed extinction and its appearance in fiction.

Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger is a comprehensive exploration of this unique animal.

Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, and its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions.

Alternately portrayed as both a scourge and high value commodity, the thylacine's ecology and behaviour were known only anecdotally. In recent years, its taxonomic position, ecology, behaviour and body size have all been re-examined scientifically, while advances in genetics have presented the potential for de-extinction.

With 78 contributors, this exciting work presents an accurate, evidence-based profile of the thylacine, examining its ecology, evolution, encounters with humans, persecution, assumed extinction and its appearance in fiction. The final chapters explore the future for this iconic species – a symbol of extinction but also hope.

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Covers the thylacine from evolution to extinction to fiction and presents the best evidence to date for the species' post-1936 survival.
The authors are generously allocating all their royalties from the sale of this book to support research into Devil Facial Tumour Disease, a devastating and contagious disease now threatening the wild population of Tasmanian devil – the world's current largest marsupial carnivore.

Branden Holmes is a thylacine researcher who studies the earliest period of European–thylacine interactions and the resulting misperceptions. He jointly re-discovered the last known moving images of the species and is currently based in Two Rocks, Western Australia. Gareth Linnard primarily specialises in the historical trade in thylacines during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in South Wales, UK, he co-authored a revision of the identity of the last captive thylacine.

Foreword

Cultural sensitivity warning

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Prologue

Introduction: The thylacine in Australian ecosystems

List of contributors

Part 1: Anatomy, biology and ecology

Part 2: Evolution, palaeontology and taxonomy

Part 3: Aboriginal knowledge and archaeology

Part 4: Early European encounters (1792–1829)

Part 5: The bounty years (1830–1914)

Part 6: A rapidly disappearing species (1915–1936)

Colour plates

Part 7: Into the shadows (1937–present)

Part 8: Beyond the present

Part 9: Beyond reality

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	785 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4863-1553-4 / 1486315534
ISBN-13	978-1-4863-1553-6 / 9781486315536
Zustand	Neuware