Small and tall tales of extinct animals
By: Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt ; [translated by Jen Craddock]
Contributors: Laverdunt, Damien, 1978-; Craddock, Jen, tr
Edition: 1st American ed., English language ed.
Publisher: Gecko Press; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Lerner Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wellington, New Zealand; Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9781877579066
Subjects: Extinct animals; Juvenile literature
Description: Divided into the Americas, Africa, Eurasia, and Oceania, this book records through tales and legends extinct animals that were made marginal by climatic and tectonic shifts and by hunting, population growth, deforestation, and industrialization.
Notes: Includes glossary.

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Table of contents: title: The Americas - Who's afraid of the mapinguari? - The giant ground sloth - How do you recycle a glyptodon's bony shell? - The glyptodon - Who shrank the giant beavers? - The giant beaver - How did William Cody become Buffalo Bill? - The Pennsylvania bison - What was Mr. Audubon's most ambitious project? - The great auk - Who did Charles Darwin meet in the Falkland Islands? - The Falkland Islands fox - Who were the extinct birds of Hawaii? - The mamo - Where did all the passenger pigeons go? - The passenger pigeon - Who were Lady Jane and Incas? - The Carolina parakeet - Who was nicknamed "Lonesome George"? - The lonesome tortoise of Pinta Island - Africa - Is the terrible kilopilopitsofy still haunting Madagascar's forests? - The Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus - Was the giant roc a good way to travel? - The elephant bird - How did poor old Itovo become a giant lemur? - The tratratratra - Who saved the tambalacoque tree? - The dodo - Eurasia - Who won the international antler contest? - The Irish elk - What is Siberia's largest treasure? - The woolly mammoth - Did Hercules skin the last European lion? - The European lion - What's the link between a cyclops and a dwarf elephant? - The Sicilian dwarf elephant - Who were the invincible Aurochs? - The Aurochs - Why should the sea cow have stayed out of sight? - Steller's sea cow - Are tigers doomed to disappear? - The Bali tiger - When did the Chinese river dolphin officially become extinct? - The Chinese river dolphin - Oceania - What were Australia's giant animals? - The long-beaked echidna - How did the warrior Ruru conquer the legendary Pouãkai? - Haast's eagle - Who were the "moa hunters?" - The giant moa - What was the thylacine really like? - The thylacine - Whose bad idea was it to bring a pet to Australia? - The pig-footed bandicoot.