Last of the giants
Subtitle: the rise and fall of Earth's most dominant species
By: by Jeff Campbell ; illustrations by Adam Grano
Contributors: Grano, Adam, ill
Publisher: Zest Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781942186045
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Endangered species; Extinction (Biology); Effect of human beings on; Nature
Description: Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the world s biggest and baddest creatures including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators who have been pushed to extinction in the modern era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271).

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Table of contents: title: gIntroduction:; title: Meet the giant --; title: Moa --; title: Aurochs --; title: Elephant Bird --; title: Steller's Sea Cow --; title: Indian Ocean Giant Tortoises --; title: Passenger Pigeon --; title: California  Grizzly --; title: Thylacine --; title: Lions --; title: Red Wolf --; title: Tigers --; title: Baiji --; title: Rhinoceroses --; title: Written in the Earth: the sixth extinction & the anthropocene --; title: Call to action -- -- Sources.