A Gap in Nature
Subtitle: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Contributors: Peter Schouten (Illustrator)
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: October 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780871137975
Subjects: Nature/Ecology; Animal Populations; Mammals; Nature; World - General; Animals; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Extinct animals
First sentence: The first Maori arrived in Aotearoa, the archipelago now called New Zealand, around 1200, and in the next few centuries all of its eleven species of moa were hunted to extinction.