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Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink
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"Along with Cincinnati Zoo driector Thane Maynard and coauthor Gail Hudson, she reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly endangered species whose populations are now recovering"--Back co...
"Along with Cincinnati Zoo driector Thane Maynard and coauthor Gail Hudson, she reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly endangered species whose populations are now recovering"--Back cover.
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- Creator
- Jane Goodall; with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson
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- Language
- English
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- First trade edition
- New York. N.Y. : Grand Central Pub, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 044658178X, 9780446581783
- OCLC
- ocn706784598
- Includes index.
- Includes reading group guide.
- Jane's feather -- Lost in the wild. Black-footed ferret ; Mala or Rufous Hare-wallaby ; California condor ; Milu or Père David's deer ; Red wolf ; Thane's field notes : Tahki or Przewalski's horse -- Saved at the eleventh hour. Golden lion tamarin ; American crocodile ; Peregrine falcon ; American burying beetle ; Crested ibis ; Whooping crane ; Angonoka or Ploughshare tortoise ; Formosan landlocked salmon ; Vancouver Island marmot ; Thane's field notes : Sumatran rhino ; Gray wolf -- Never giving up. Iberian lynx ; Bactrian camel ; Giant panda ; Pygmy hog ; Northern bald ibis or Waldrapp ; Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit ; Attwater's prairie chicken ; Asian vultures ; Hawaiian goose or Nene ; Thane's field notes : Cotton-top tamarin ; Panamanian golden frog -- The heroic struggle to save our island birds. Black robin or Chatham Island robin ; Abbott's booby ; Bermuda petrel or Cahow ; The birds of Mauritius ; Short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross ; Thane's field notes : Blue-and-gold macaw -- The thrill of discovery. New discoveries : species still being discovered ; The Lazarus Syndrome : species believed extinct and recently found ; Living fossils : ancient species recently discovered -- The nature of hope. Healing Earth's scars : it's never too late ; Why save endangered species? -- What you can do