Tasmanian Tiger

The tragic story of the thylacine

David Owen, David Pemberton (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2023 | 2nd edition
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-76147-039-4 (ISBN)

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The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.

Is it still out there? People claim to keep seeing it still.
Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the Tasmanian tiger roamed the Australian mainland. Then confined to Tasmania for thousands of years, it was deliberately hunted down by settlers through fear, ignorance and greed. But was it a savage sheep killer or a shy and fussy nocturnal feeder? Did the last tiger die in a Hobart zoo in 1936, or did a few survive in the wild? And did it really drink its victims' blood?

A number of Australian species have miraculously reappeared after being labelled as extinct. Perhaps the tiger is still with us. And if it's not, can it really be brought back by cloning and returned to the wild?

'Sweeps us along with wonderful writing as we meet a truly incredible animal that became the centrepiece in an ecological tragedy. Anyone interested in nature and the conservation of the diversity of life should read this story.' -Professor John Seidensticker, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

David Owen is the author of 19 fiction and nonfiction titles, including Tasmanian Deviland Shark: In peril in the sea. He is the Official Secretary of the Governor of Tasmania. David Pemberton is a wildlife biologist and former manager of the Tasmanian Government's Save the Tasmanian Devil Program. He is co-editor of Saving the Tasmanian Devil, and co-author with David Owen of Tasmanian Devil.

Preface to the second editionPreface to the first edition
Acknowledgements
1 What's in a name?
2 In the beginning: evolution
3 At the end: extinction
4 'Pathetically little is known'
5 A rugged and determined front
6 Before the fall: Lutruwita
7 A land in need of taming
8 Tall tales, tiger men and bounties
9 Capturing tigers by their tales
10 'Them bloody useless things' 1888-1930
11 A bad finish: 7 September 1936
12 A lost object of awe
13 We wake up too late
14 The tiger in commerce and art
15 Cloning
16 Sightings and the science of survival
Notes
Select bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Verlagsort	Sydney
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
ISBN-10	1-76147-039-6 / 1761470396
ISBN-13	978-1-76147-039-4 / 9781761470394
Zustand	Neuware