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020 $a0374246645 (hc. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aQL82$b.W45 2002
082 00 $a591.68$221
100 1 $aWeidensaul, Scott.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88244189
245 14 $aThe ghost with trembling wings :$bscience, wishful thinking, and the search for lost species /$cScott Weidensaul.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorth Point Press,$c2002.
300 $a341 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Ghost with Trembling Wings --$g2.$tProving a Negative --$g3.$tChance and Calculation --$g4.$tThe Noble Living --$g5.$tThe ABC's of Ghost Cats --$g6.$tCruising the Crypto-fringe --$g7.$tThe Brothers and the Bull --$g8.$tTest-tube Babies --$g9.$tThe Tiger That Isn't --$g10.$tSweat Bees Ate Our Earwax.
520 1 $a"Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. It is, scientists say, the worst global extinction crisis in the last sixty-five million years - the hemorrhage of thirty thousand irreplaceable life-forms each year.
520 8 $aAnd yet every so often one of these lost species resurfaces - such as the Indian forest owlet, considered extinct for more than a century when it was rediscovered in 1997, or Gilbert's potoroo, an endearing marsupial lost for 125 years until it was found in western Australia in 1994. Like heirlooms plucked from a burning house, they are gifts to an increasingly impoverished world.".
520 8 $a"In The Ghost with Trembling Wings, naturalist Scott Weidensaul pursues these stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections.
520 8 $aThe search takes Weidensaul to the rain forests of the Caribbean and Brazil in pursuit of long-lost birds, to the rugged mountains of Tasmania for the striped, wolflike marsupial known as the thylacine, to cloning laboratories where scientists struggle to re-create long-extinct animals, and even to the moorlands and tidy farms of England on the trail of mysterious black panthers whose existence seems to depend on the faith of those looking for them. The Ghost with Trembling Wings is a book of exploration and a survey of the frontiers of modern science and wildlife biology.
520 8 $aIt is, in the end, the story of our desire for a wilder, bigger, more complete world."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRare animals.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111441
650 0 $aExtinction (Biology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046568
852 00 $bmil$hQL82$i.W45 2002