Cat Wars : The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer /
In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The obituary of the Stephens Island wren
- America's dairy land and its killing fields
- The rise of bird lovers and cat lovers: the perfect storm
- The science of decline
- The zombie maker: cats as agents of disease
- Taking aim at the problem
- Trap-neuter-return: a palatable solution that is no solution at all
- A landcape with fewer free-ranging cats: better for cats, better for birds, better for people
- What kind of nature awaits?