Cat tale : the wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther

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"It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very nearly right. That the panther still exists at all is a miracle--the result of a desperate experiment that led to the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Endangered Species Act. And no one has told the whole story--until now. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people wh...

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Endangered species Florida

Florida panther Conservation

Wildlife conservation Florida

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ISBN:

9781335938800

Description:

336 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), photographs ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Prologue: Cat under glass
The cat of God
Pantherland
The hunter
The state animal
Mouth to mouth
The turbo-vet
The new Mr. Panther
Medicine man
Bottleneck
"Extinction is God's plan"
The vortex
The captives
Hail Mary
"Florida will be developed"
Mr. Influential
The showdown
The verdict
The whistleblower
The skunk ape's scapegoat
The wanderers
Cat cam bingo

LCCN:

bl2020002934

Control Number:

2983419

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