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Animal investigators : how the world's first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species / Laurel A. Neme ; foreword by Richard Leakey.

Title
Animal investigators : how the world's first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species / Laurel A. Neme ; foreword by Richard Leakey.
Author
Neme, Laurel Abrams, 1963-
Publication
New York : Scribner, 2009.

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Leakey, Richard E.
Description
xxv, 230 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Shares behind-the-scenes cases by the world's only forensics lab dedicated to solving animal crimes, in a volume that describes the scientific methods through which they safeguard endangered animals that are being poached for their body parts.
Subject
  • United States Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
  • Wildlife crime investigation > United States
  • Forensic sciences > United States
  • Poaching > United States > Prevention
  • Wild animal trade > United States
  • Wildlife conservation > United States
  • Endangered species > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Native Alaskan subsistence hunting -- Walrus forensic investigation -- Native Alaskan solutions to walrus headhunting -- Busted for bear galls -- Bear bile-- or not? -- The impact of bear investigation -- The feather artifacts -- Fly-by-night evidence -- Buyer beware.
ISBN
  • 9781416550563
  • 1416550569
LCCN
^^2008056004
OCLC
213303964
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library