Title: Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record /
Authors: Fuller, Errol.
Publisher: Bloomsbury,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Extinct animals.; Photographs; Popular Science and Mathematics.
Abstract: A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a handful of cases featured the last known individual of the species. There are some familiar examples, such as Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, recently fledged and perching happily on the hat of one of the biologists that had just ringed it.
Contents: Atitlan Giant Grebe -- Alatora Grebe -- Pink-headed duck -- Heath Hen -- Wake Island Rail -- Laysan Rail -- Eskimo Curlew -- Passenger Pigeon -- Carolina parakeet -- Paradise Parrot -- Laughing owl -- Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Imperial woodpecker -- New Zealand bush wren -- Aldabra brush warbler -- Bachman's warbler -- Kaua'i'O'o -- O'u -- Mamo -- Po'ouli -- Guam flycatcher -- Thylacine -- Greater short-tailed bat -- Caribbean monk seal -- Yangtze river dolphin -- Quagga -- Schomburgk's deer -- Bubal hartebeest.