Lost animals, disappearing worlds: stories of extinction

Part One: Introduction

1. Extinction

2. Memorializing Grief

Part Two: The Portraits

The Aurochs

The Dodo

The Rodrigues Solitaire

Steller's Sea Cow

The Great Auk

The Spectacled Cormorant (or Pallas's Cormorant)

The Falkland Islands Wolf

The Quagga

The Tarpan

The Rocky Mountain Locust

The Japanese Wolf (or Honshu Wolf)

The Passenger Pigeon

The Carolina Parakeet

The Syrian Wild Ass

The Heath Hen

The Thylacine

The Xerces Blue Butterfly

The Arabian Ostrich

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

The St Helena Earwig

The Eskimo Curlew

The Tecopa Pupfish

The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog and the Northern Gastric-Brooding Frog/Eungella Gastric-Brooding Frog

The Dusky Seaside Sparrow

The Golden Toad

The Pyrenean Ibex

The Baiji (Yangtze River) Dolphin

The Pinta Island Tortoise

The Bramble Cay Melomys

The O'ahu Tree Snail

References

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.