Robert Paddle

The Last Tasmanian Tiger

The History and Extinction of the Thylacine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This insightful examination of the history and extinction of one of Australia's most enduring folkloric beasts--the thylacine, (or Tasmanian tiger)-- challenges conventional theories. It argues that rural politicians, ineffective political action by scientists, and a deeper intellectual prejudice about the inferiority of marsupials actually resulted in the extinction of this once proud species. Hb ISBN (2000):0-521-78219-8

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521531542
• ISBN-10: 0521531543
• Artikelnr.: 21973003

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: science and the species from a European perspective
2. Constructing objectivity: changing scientific perceptions of the thylacine
3. Of signal importance: select social and predatory behaviours
4. A predatory entertainment: stimuli of consuming interest
5. Ovisceral exploitation: extracts of sheepish behaviour
6. Mythology becomes misology: the dogmatism of unenlightenment
7. Faunal fun and games: the politics of protection
8. The last Tasmanian tiger: indifference and the demise of the species
9. Post-extinction blues: contingency and responsibility in extinction
10. Conclusion: the lessons to be learnt.