Title:
Cat tale : the wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther / Craig Pittman.
ISBN:
9781335938800
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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 who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle"-- Publisher's description.
OCLC Number:
on1136041797
Availability:
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