The call of distant mammoths
Subtitle: why the ice age mammals disappeared
By: Peter D. Ward.
Publisher: Copernicus
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Mastodon.; Extinction (Biology)
Description: Discusses the impact of humans on the extinction of animals, focusing particulary on mammoths in the Ice Age, but also including mass extinctions throughout history, such as marsupial lions and giant kangaroos in Australia, the giant moa in New Zealand, and various prehistoric animals in North America, all of which followed the spread of the first humans in those regions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229) and index.