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Tasmanian tiger : the tragic tale of how the world lost its most mysterious predator / David Owen.
- Title
- Tasmanian tiger : the tragic tale of how the world lost its most mysterious predator / David Owen.
- Author
- Owen, David, 1956-
- Publication
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
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- Description
- xii, 228 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In Tasmanian Tiger, David Owen tells the tragic tale of the thylacine, from its evolutionary origins and its physical and behavioral characteristics to its ill-fated encounter with European civilization and the ongoing fascination with the "Tassie Tiger" as a potent symbol of wildlife conservation."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Thylacine
- Alternative Title
- Thylacine
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Thylacine. Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-220) and index.
- Contents
- 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 : Trowenna -- 7. A land in need of taming -- 8. Tall tales, tiger men and bounties -- 9. 'Them bloody useless things' -- 10. A bad finish : 7 september 1936 -- 11. A lost object of awe -- 12. We wake up too late -- 13. The tiger in commerce and art -- 14. Beating a seventy-year hiccup : cloning -- 15. Sightings and the science of survival.
- ISBN
- 0801879523 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003021675
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries