Cat Wars : : The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer / / Peter P. Marra, Chris Santella.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 24 color photos. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- one. The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren
- two. America's Dairy Land and Its Killing Fields
- three. The Rise of Bird Lovers and Cat Lovers: The Perfect Storm
- four. The Science of Decline
- five. The Zombie Maker: Cats as Agents of Disease
- six. Taking Aim at the Problem
- seven. Trap- Neuter- Return: A Palatable Solution That Is No Solution At All
- eight. A Landscape with Fewer Free- Ranging Cats: Better for Cats, Better for Birds, Better for People
- nine. What Kind of Nature Awaits?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index