aardvark (Orycteropus afer) 10, 21, 42, 106, 176, 213, 214, 244, 245, 250, 262
aardwolf (Proteles cristata) 10, 21, 106
Aberdare Mountains, Kenya 157
Aesop’s fables 68
Africa 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 38, 39, 41, 42, 51, 52, 56, 75, 77, 86, 90, 91, 92, 98, 101, 105, 106, 107–8, 109, 111, 119, 128–30, 132, 135, 137, 138–73, 174, 177, 178, 182, 184, 193–4, 197, 199, 200, 214, 216, 225, 263, 265, 288, 290 see also under individual nation name
African Elephant Coalition 148
African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) 128
Afrosoricida 216
Agnelli, Paolo 280, 286, 287, 288, 290–1
Allsop, Kenneth 111
Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) 294
Amazonia 225
Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) 260
Amblysomus 217
American Museum, New York 6–7
American Psychologist 35–6
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 40
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) 84–5
animals (Regnum Animale) 211
Ankole 188
Antarctica 214
antelope 30, 31, 38, 45, 50, 53, 105, 117, 119, 133, 231, 282
Anthropocene 176, 191, 192, 229
anthropometry 59–61
anthropomorphism 32, 34, 47, 68, 222
Arabian gazelle (Gazella arabica) 117, 237
Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) 110, 237
archaea 211
Arcus Foundation 160
Arend’s golden mole (Carpitalpa arendsi) 17
Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus) 260
Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 25
Attenborough, David 90–1, 92, 94, 106, 111, 127, 245
Audubon, John James 283
aurochs (Bos primigenius) 95, 248
Australia 116, 120, 166, 176, 189, 286
baboon 50, 51, 53, 54, 105, 112, 133, 157, 272, 282
Bactrian camel, wild (Camelus bactrianus) 260
badgers, culling 258
baiji or Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) 122, 250, 255–7, 260, 264, 265
Baillie, Professor Jonathan 244, 245, 247, 249, 252, 253, 253, 256, 259–60, 261, 273
Banks, Joseph 4
Baratay, Eric: Zoo: a History of Zoological Gardens in the West 45, 46, 49
Barclay, Maxwell 207, 208, 209–10, 211, 213
barn owl (Titus alba) 86, 98, 202, 218, 272, 284
Barnum, Phineas T. 6–7, 36, 45–6, 48, 262
Barre, Siad 123
Bartlett, Abraham Dee 4, 5, 6, 21–3, 24, 112
Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) 248
bears 21, 45, 48, 76, 125, 188, 237–8
Beeton, Isabella 22
Benn, Hilary 149
Berg Rara, Cyclops Mountains, Indonesia 253
Bernard of the Netherlands, Prince 110
Bible 2, 11, 15, 58, 76, 97, 206, 226, 251, 260
biodiversity: meaning of 39, 200
‘biological species concept’ 208
birds: importance of ornithologists in conservation movement 97–8; list of species soars 120; British birdsong 260 see also under individual species name
black rhino (Diceros bicornis) 128, 129, 157–8, 165, 166, 176, 177, 199, 227
black-footed ferret (mustela nigripes) 237
Blanchett, Cate 127
Blixen, Karen: Out of Africa 129, 152
blond titi monkey (Callicebus barbara-brownae) 260
blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 260
bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) 38, 100, 248, 265
boma 194–5
Boni Forest, Kenya 263
Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton 167
Boran 188, 193–4, 195, 196, 197, 229
Born Free Foundation 144
Boston Society of Natural History 2
Botswana 144, 149, 176, 197, 199
Bouba N’Djida reserve, Cameroon 199
Britain: biodiversity of 13–14, 233–6; red fox in 68–73; wetland habitat in 104–5; ivory trade and 148, 149, 165; poverty in 153; depauperate 233; red squirrel and grey squirrel in 235–6, 251, 259; habitat in 236; reintroduction of locally extinct species into their original or similar habitats within 234–40; life in gardens within 260
British Association for the Advancement of Science 60
British Cyclopedia of Natural History: combining a scientific classification of animals, plants & minerals (Partington) 175, 216, 281
British East Africa 174
British Museum 6, 7, 10–11, 57–8, 62
broad-faced potoroo (Potorous platyops) 248
Bronner, Gary 85–6, 87–8, 126, 202, 203, 214, 215, 218, 240
Brown, Robert K. 229
Brumas (polar bear) 89–90, 129–30, 204
Buck, Frank 40, 43, 44, 73–5, 74, 76, 90, 91, 112
Buckland, Frank 23, 24, 25–6, 27–8, 43, 44, 112
buffalo 29, 30, 31, 38, 53, 82, 105, 117, 133, 134, 154, 157, 158, 172, 194, 195, 196
bulldog rat (Rattus nativitatis) 248
Burgess Shale fossil fields, Canadian Rockies 274–5
Bushnell, Horace: Sermon on the Power of an Endless Life 79
Buxton, Edward North 100
Cambridge University 126–7
Cameroon 124, 128, 149, 176, 199
Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) 276–7, 281
captive-breeding programmes 21, 75, 233, 236–7, 265
carbon trading 184
Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) 248, 265
Carr, Greg 134
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring 78, 79, 96, 103
Castle Museum, Norwich 165
Chad 139
Charles, Prince 235
cheetah 38, 48, 61, 105, 133, 157
Cheirogaleidae 113–14
chimpanzee 3, 94, 105, 160, 179, 204, 243, 282
China 22, 136, 137, 141, 144, 145, 163, 165, 166, 169, 170, 232, 252, 271, 277
Chitengo Camp 132–3, 134, 160, 189
Cincinatti Zoo 284
Cingalese exhibition, (1884) 56
circuses 45, 47–8, 51, 61, 74, 132, 166
clades/cladistics 209, 214, 215, 226
Clarke, Brian 157
classification of species 176–7 see also taxonomy
climate change 14, 22, 80–1, 85, 184–5, 226, 232, 233, 249, 251, 258–9
Climategate scandal 185
Coastal rock gecko (Pristurus simonettai) 270
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 33
Commander Islands, Bering Sea 264 common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) 251
Congo-Zaire 271
Conservation Foundation, U.S. 110
conservation movement: birth of 78–85, 93–111
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) 271
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) 136, 142, 143–4, 146, 148, 149, 167, 169
Copernicus, Nicholas 219
‘Correlates of rediscovery and the detectability of extinction in mammals’ (Diana O. Fisher and Simon P. Blomberg) 121
Craig, Batian 193
Crania Britannica (Davis/Thurnam) 60
crescent nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea lunata) 248
Cromer, Lord 100
Cross River gorilla 128
Cuban solenodon (Solenodon cubanus) 115
Curzon, Lord 129
Cyprus spiny mouse (Acomys nesiotes) 115
D’Addario, Silvia 202, 203, 204
Darwin, Charles 4, 11, 36, 37, 58, 61, 93, 192, 203, 204, 207, 208, 219, 280
Davy, Sir Humphry 20
DDT 103
deer 14, 38, 55, 84, 95, 204, 232, 233, 238, 239, 246, 248, 282
deforestation 80–1, 98, 99, 102
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 128, 129, 139, 147, 263
Dench, Dame Judi 127
Denis, Armand 90, 91, 106, 109, 129, 151–2
Denis, Michaela 90, 91, 106, 109, 115, 129, 151–2
Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) 144, 148
Descartes, René 32
desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) 248
desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) 248
Dghoumes National Park, Tunisia 236
Diatomyidae 262
dibatag (Ammodorcus clarkei, or Clarke’s gazelle) 282
Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis) 245
DNA: map of Africa 141; ivory trade and testing of origin 142, 169; taxonomy and 212, 214, 229, 230; Frozen Ark Project and 266
Dorper sheep 187
Drusillas Animal Park, Alfriston, Sussex 167
du Chaillu, Monsieur 6
dugong (Dugong dugon) 213, 260
Durrell, Gerald 118–19
Durrell’s vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) 118–19, 121, 231
Duthie’s golden mole (Chlorotalpa duthieae) 17
‘Early Evidence for Complex Social Structure in Proboscidea from a Late Miocene Trackway Site in the United Arab Emirates’ 171
East Riding Association for the Protection of Sea Birds 97
Eastern Cape 99
eastern hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides) 248
echidna (Tachyglossidae) 16, 61, 70, 120–1, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252–5, 261
Eden Project 200
Edentata 10
EDGE Project (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) 244–7, 248–57, 259–63, 294
Einstein, Albert 102
elephant 14, 21, 26, 29, 30, 31, 34, 38, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 63–4, 65, 73, 74, 75, 82, 93, 99, 105, 106, 107, 124, 128, 133, 134, 136–50, 147, 154, 157, 158, 159, 171, 172, 177, 188, 198, 199, 205, 213, 218, 227, 229, 232, 245, 286, 293 see also ivory trade
Elephant Trade Information Service (ETIS) 142, 144–5
elephant-shrew (Macroscelididae) 10, 17, 21, 213, 215
Endana Secondary School, Kenya 178–9, 180, 181, 185–6, 190
environmental debate, debased condition of 184–5
environmental journalism 181
Ethiopia 124, 138, 176, 194, 260, 271
Ethiopian water mouse (Nilopegamys plumbeus) 245, 260
Eugenics Society 93
Eulipotyphla 213
Eurasian elk (Alces alces) 294
European bison (Bison bonasus) 294
European lynx (lynx lynx) 237, 238
European mole (Talpa europaea) 35, 61, 212–13, 212
European pine marten (Martes martes) 214, 240
Evans, Harold 96
experiments on animals 34–6
extinction: mammals previously thought extinct actually still alive 14–15, 112–24, 128; scale of losses 15, 120, 248, 250; mass extinction events 15, 82, 113, 226; why it matters 15–16; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species see IUCN; mammals hunted to 38, 82, 232, 265; fifty-year extinction test 114, 121; ‘new species’ discoveries and 118–24; ‘purportedly extinct’ species known from fewer than five historic sightings 121; search effort for 121–4, 252–5; species eliminated by loss of habitat ‘is likely to be overestimated’ 123; size of animal and 227–8; reintroduction of locally extinct species into their original or similar habitats 234–40, 293–4; EDGE and see EDGE; failure to save an animal from 255–7; percentage of world’s species threatened with 258; climate change as cause of 258–9; recovery through selective breeding 265–6; birds 283–4
Falklands Islands dog (Dusicyon australis) 248
Farasan Islands, Red Sea 108
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) 127–9, 159, 160, 161, 197, 245
Fauna and Flora Preservation Society 101
Fauna Preservation Society 101, 110
Fea’s muntjac (Muntiacus feae) 115, 232
‘Feejee Mermaid’ 6–7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 127
Flannery, Tim 98; Here on Earth: a new beginning 191–2; A Gap in Nature 248, 264, 283
Florence 86, 87–8, 124, 125, 126, 168, 175, 202, 203, 221–2, 267, 268–92
Florence Institute of Zoology 125
Friedman, Milton 96
Friends of the Earth 184
Frozen Ark Project 266
Fry, Stephen 127
Galapagos mouse (Nesoryzomys indefessus) 248
Galileo 280
gazelle 38, 95, 105, 117, 118, 133, 158, 159, 194, 197, 198, 237, 248, 261, 272, 282
Genzick, Dr 26–7
gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) 105, 282
giant fossa (Cryptoprocta spelea) 248
giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) 62–3, 202, 260, 283
Gichohi, Nathan 161
Gilbert’s potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) 260
Giohar, Somalia 18, 86, 272, 289, 291
giraffe 10, 30, 38, 41, 42, 43, 45, 50, 53, 55, 105, 107, 154, 157, 158, 159, 172, 187, 188, 189, 197, 198, 226, 286
Gloucestershire 104
God Species, The (Lynas) 231–2
golden jackal (Canis aureus) 294
golden moles (Chrysochloridea) 10, 17–19, 21, 36, 38, 39, 42, 61, 62, 67, 85–8, 98, 100, 106, 112, 117, 121, 124–5, 126, 128, 130, 156, 161, 168, 174–6, 189, 200–1, 202–3, 215, 212–18, 219, 221, 240, 244, 245, 250–1, 252–3, 260, 262, 266–7, 270, 272, 273, 274, 276–7, 281, 283, 287–92, 288, 294 see also under individual species name
golden-rumped sengi/golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) 262
Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn 28–31, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 42–3, 112, 136, 150, 163, 192, 197, 203, 207, 224, 271, 272–3
gorilla 4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 21, 26, 106, 119, 128, 245, 249, 260, 282
Gorongosa National Park 132–4, 160, 182
Gould, Stephen Jay: Wonderful Life 274–5
Gould’s mouse (Pseudomys gouldii) 248
Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) 159, 197, 272, 282
gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) 246, 251
Great African Rift Valley 132, 225
Great Exhibition, (1851) 28, 48
Great Exhibition, Chicago, (1893) 48
Greece 103–4
Greenpeace 96
grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 14, 188, 235–6, 259
grey wolf (Canis lupus) 294
Grey, Sir Edward 100
Grizzly Man (film) 76
Guenther’s dik-dik 282
habitat loss/protection 84, 98, 99, 104–5, 123, 128, 227, 230, 236, 240, 249, 255, 259, 265, 266
Haeckel, Ernst 39
Hagenbeck, Carl 45–56, 57, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 73, 112
Haggard, Rider 37
Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) 128
hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) 114, 118, 119
Haldane, J. B. S. 207
Hamburg 42, 45, 47, 48, 51, 55–6
Hamer, Dean 170
Hanno the Navigator (King Hanno II) 1, 2, 4, 17, 91
Hardouin-Fugier, Elisabeth: Zoo: a History of Zoological Gardens in the West 45, 46, 49
Harper, Francis 114
Hasek, Jaroslav: The Good Soldier Schweik 126–7
Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey 166
hedgehog (Erinaceidae) 14, 70, 140, 213, 214, 234, 253
Hennig, Willi 209
Herzog, Harold A. 35–6
hide beetles 206–7
Highland wolf 240
Hilton-Taylor, Craig 126
hippopotamus 10, 21, 23–4, 26–8, 30, 31, 34, 38, 40, 42, 51, 52, 53, 54, 73, 105, 128, 133, 143, 147, 157, 204, 248, 260 see also under individual species name
Hispaniolan edible rat (Brotomys voratus) 248
Hitchens, Christopher 160
Hobart Zoo 116
Holocene period 230
honeyguide (Indicator indicator) 276
Hong Kong 135, 142, 149, 165, 293
horseflesh, consumption of 24–5
Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) 283
Huguenard, Amie 76
Hunter, Captain John 7
hunting of animals 15–16, 26–32, 33, 34, 36–8, 39–66, 52, 53, 98, 99–100, 110, 159, 160, 189, 227, 232, 233, 242–3, 263, 265, 283–4
Huxley, Aldous 102
Huxley, Julian 93, 94, 95, 104–10, 111, 129, 154, 163, 165
Huxley, Thomas Henry 58, 93, 113, 203, 207, 280
hyena 21, 31, 38, 45, 50, 61, 105, 128, 154–5, 157, 158, 172, 189, 205, 243
Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) 294
Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) 128
icecaps, melting 259
Ilin Island cloudrunner (Crateromys paulus) 248
Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) 162–3
Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) 286–7
Institute of Zoology 256
intelligence, animal 32, 47, 222
International Species Information system (ISIS) 21
Interpol 135, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 149
Ipswich Museum, Suffolk 166–7, 173
Irwin, Steve 75–6
Istanbul 198
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) 109, 110, 117, 232, 233, 240, 245, 246, 247–8, 262; Red List of Threatened Species 18, 21, 41, 68, 84, 109, 118, 120, 121, 227, 231, 232, 240, 249, 255, 263–4, 265, 290; status reports 118; ‘data deficient’ 68, 117, 118, 122, 251, 290; ‘critically endangered’ 18, 21, 68, 120, 122, 240, 245; ‘least concern’ 68, 124, 240, 250, 251; ‘near threatened’ 68; species programme 126; World Conservation Congress, South Korea 247; Species Survival Commission 247
IUPN (International Union for the Protection of Nature) 109
ivory trade 30, 99, 107, 125, 135–50, 165, 167, 191, 198, 199, 293
Jackman, Brian 96, 156, 157, 172, 199, 200
jaguar (Panthera onca) 9, 61, 92–3, 128
Jamaican rice rat (Oryzomys antillarum) 248
Janjaweed militia 139
Japan 6, 7, 15, 136, 141, 143, 144, 145, 152
Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) 265
Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) 249, 261
Jenkins, Paula 113–14, 115, 118
Jentink’s duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) 115
Johns Hopkins University 16
Johnson, Boris 70
Jones, Professor Phil 184–5
Juan Carlos of Spain, King 199
Juliana’s golden mole (Neamblysomus julianae) 251
Kenya 106, 124, 125, 128, 129–30, 134–5, 137–50, 151–73, 174, 176, 177–81, 185–90, 192–3, 194, 252, 262, 263, 293
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) 135, 139, 144, 145
kha-nyou (Laonastes aenigmamus) 261–2
Kibaki, Mwai 145
kipunji monkey (Rungwecebus kipuniji) 263–4
kouprey or grey ox (Bos sauveli) 122, 228–31, 232, 233, 265
Kyoto Protocol 184
La Specola, Florence 277, 278–92, 279
Lamprey, Richard 159, 160, 161, 193, 197
Lankester, Professor Ray 7, 100
Lansdowne, Marquis of 20
Lanza, Benedetto 273
Laonastidae 262
Lapps 55–6
Leakey, Richard 144
leopard 20, 38, 45, 53, 61, 67, 77, 83, 84, 105, 128, 133, 157, 172, 189, 240, 245, 293
lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) 248
lesula monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) 263, 264
Lewa conservancy, Kenya 199
Limpopo bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus roualeyni) 31
Linnaeus, Carl 176, 177, 206, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 276
Linnean Society 7
lion 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 61, 91, 105, 128, 132, 133, 134, 154, 155, 157–8, 158, 159, 172, 180, 188, 193, 194, 195, 197, 205, 208, 234, 272
Little Swan Island hutia 248
Livingstone, David 28
London Zoo 4, 5, 21–3, 40–1, 42, 55, 57, 89–90, 91, 95, 116, 129, 188, 230
long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) 245
long-tailed hopping-mouse (Notomys longicaudatus) 177, 248
Lonrho 159
Luo tribe 156
lycaon (hyaena-dog) 10
Lyttelton, Alfred 100
MacKenzie, Robert 229
Madagascar 14, 64, 114, 118, 119, 213, 215, 216, 231, 248
Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus (Hippopotamus guldbergi) 248
Madagascan tenrec (Echinops telfairi) 213, 215, 216
Mali 147
Mammal Research Unit, Bristol University 71
Mammal Species of the World 16, 17, 86, 118, 126, 176
Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe 143
Mananara River, Madagascar 114
Marley’s golden mole (Amblysomus marleyi) 67, 250–1
Marsh, George Perkins: Man and Nature; of Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 79–83, 93, 96, 98, 101–2, 105
mass extinction 15, 82, 113, 226
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 59
Mayhew, Henry 61
McManus, Rove 127
Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) 260
mice, scientific experiments on 34–5
Milton, Joe 204, 205, 206, 207, 211
Miocene epoch 124
mole (Talpidae) 14, 35, 61, 124, 212–13, 212, 216
Monitore zoologico italiano 86
morphological convergence 214
Morris, Desmond 57
mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) 237
Mozambique 78, 128, 129, 132–4, 141, 160, 176, 179, 182, 183
Museo Civico di Zoologia, Rome 294
Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris 167–8
Museum of Natural History, Florence 168, 272
Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg, Sweden 168
Mutisya, Samuel 161
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) 119, 128
N’hambita, Mozambique 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187
Nairn, Ian 67
National Academy of Sciences, Italy 274
National Museum of Natural History, Paris 230
National Wildlife Crime Unit 170
NATO 138
Natural England 234
Natural History Museum, London 7, 11–12, 19, 36–8, 37, 40, 58, 61–2, 86, 93, 94, 100, 113, 115, 117, 126, 166, 168–9, 200, 202, 203, 204, 206, 231, 280, 282, 289
Nature Conservancy 110
Nature Conservancy Council 234
Naughtie, James 247
‘A New Golden Mole from Somalia with an Appendix on the Taxonomy of the Family Chrysochloridae’, 1968 (Simonetta) 86–7
New Orleans 103
New York Zoological Society 102
New Zealand great short-tailed bat (Mystacina robusta) 250
Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique 128
Nicholson, Max 110
nomenclature 17, 210, 218, 290
Northern Cape 18
northern Muriqui woolly monkey (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) 248–9
northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) 128, 129, 168–9
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 229
Nottingham University 266
Odhiambo, Andrew 153, 154, 155–6, 157, 158, 159, 172, 174, 193
okapi (Okapia johnstoni) 7–8, 21, 41, 100, 119, 230
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya 129–30, 147, 150, 151–63, 164, 169, 171, 172, 174, 177–81, 185–90, 192–7, 199, 225, 229, 234, 236, 236
olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) 294
Oman 237
orang-utan 2–3, 43, 44–5, 93, 128, 245, 255, 282
Orange Free State 99
ornithologists, importance of within conservation movement 97–8
oryx 105, 110, 119, 158, 236, 237
Osborn, Fairfield 110; Our Plundered Planet 102–4, 105
otter shrew (Potamogale velox) 216
Outamba-Kilimi National Park, Sierra Leone 143
Owen, Richard 6, 12, 36–7, 58, 93, 113, 203, 219, 280
Packham, Chris 235–6
Palau flying-fox (Pteropus pilosus) 248
panda 21–3, 67, 73, 92, 109, 110, 128, 235, 236, 240, 245, 249
Papillo 211
park rangers 76, 107, 134, 135, 139, 146, 161, 293
passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) 283–4
Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeitzkowi) 128
Pemberton’s deer mouse (Peromyscus pembertoni) 248
‘penitent butchers’ 101, 110, 129, 225
pet keeping 41
People’s Trust for Endangered Species 240
Perrier’s sifaka (Propithecus perrieri) 245
Phyla 211
phylogenetic systematics 86, 209
phylogenetic trees 205, 213, 224, 225–6, 230, 245, 246
phylogenetics 86, 204–5, 213, 224, 225–6, 230, 245, 246, 262, 277
pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) 248
pitfall traps 52
plants (Regnum Vegetabile) 211
platypus (Ornithorynchus anatinus) 7, 16, 61, 120
Pliny 206
poaching 84, 106–8, 124, 125, 128–9, 133, 134–50, 160, 161, 164, 169, 189, 199
preservationists 97
Prettejohn, Giles 193, 194, 195, 196
Primates 212
Prochrysochloris miocaenus 124
proteles (Aard-wolf) 10
protoctista 211
Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) 237
pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) 128, 260
pygmy spotted skunk (Spilogale pygmaea) 122
pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) 249
quagga (Equus quagga quagga) 95, 95, 100, 265–6
Quagga Project 265–6
racial classification, Homo sapiens 59–61
red fox (Vulpes vulpes) 68–73, 77, 227
red gazelle (Eudorcas rufina) 117, 248, 261
red squirrel 214, 234, 235–6, 251, 259
rhinoceros 21, 24, 29, 30, 31, 38, 43–4, 45, 49, 54, 67, 77, 93, 105, 107, 109, 119, 128, 125, 128, 129–30, 132, 143, 149, 150, 157–8, 161, 162–71, 164, 172, 173, 176, 177, 178, 180, 188, 191, 199, 200, 226, 227, 236, 240, 245, 249, 260, 261, 286, 287, 293 see also under individual species name
Ringling Brothers Circus 36, 45, 74
Ripley, William Z.: The Races of Europe 59, 60
riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) 260
Riviere, Oliver 61
Rodenta 212
romantic poets 33
Roosevelt, Eleanor 102
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 108
Rose, Mark 127–30
Rosie (Indian rhino) 166–7, 173
rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) 251
Royal Society 7, 14, 171, 204, 258
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 40
Ruddock, Joan 144
Rwanda 124, 128, 138, 147, 176
Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) 232
Santa Catarina’s guinea pig (Cavia intermedia) 249
Santa Cruz tube-nosed fruit-bat (Nyctimene sanctacrucis) 248
saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) 119, 231, 232, 233
sarcoptic mange 71–2
Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus) 265
Savage, Thomas Staughton 2
Schouten, Peter 264
Schumacher, Fritz 156
Science Media Centre 204
Sclater, Philip Lutley 100
Scott, Peter 90, 92, 95, 104, 106, 110, 127
sea levels, rising 259
sea mink (Neovison macrodon) 248
selective breeding 94, 187, 265–6
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania 146
Selous, Frederick Courteney 37–8, 37, 39, 40, 61, 100, 197, 203, 206, 207, 271, 272–3, 282
Severn Wildlife Trust 104
Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty 33
Shaw, George 7
shrews (Soricidae) 213
Sierra Leone 91, 92, 143, 147, 148
Simonetta, Professor Alberto M. 86–7, 88, 123–4, 125–6, 175, 202, 216–17, 218, 220, 221, 224, 252–3, 268–92, 279; ‘A New Golden Mole from Somalia with an Appendix on the Taxonomy of the Family Chrysochloridae’, 1968 86–7; Short History of Biology: from the Origins to the 20th Century 285–6
Simonetta, Stefania 286
Simonetta’s writhing snake (Lygosoma simonettai) 270
Singer, Peter 190
Sir David’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) 120–1, 245, 246, 250, 252–4, 255, 261
Slade, J. W. 44
slaughter of animals 222–3
slave trade 40
Sloane, Hans 4
Smithsonian Institution, Washington 274
snow leopard (Panthera uncia) 61, 67, 77, 128, 240, 245
Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, The (SPWFE) 99, 100, 101–2, 127
Somali golden mole (Calcochloris tytonis): known only from partially complete specimen in an owl-pellet 17, 18, 19, 112, 113, 121, 123, 221, 262, 267, 269, 273, 287–92 288; IUCN ‘critically endangered’ 18; author’s interest in 18–19, 36, 38, 244, 266–7, 287–92; size of 62; Bronner and see Bronner, Gary; Simonetta and see Simonetta, Professor Alberto; discovery of remains of (owl-pellet MF4181) 86–8, 252–3, 273, 274; search effort for 121; Somalia and 123–4; Kenya and 124, 125; similarity to ‘true’ moles 124–5; zalambdodontic molar 215, 240; IUCN ‘data deficient’ 251, 290; author views remains of 287–92, 288; nomenclature of 289–90
Somali mole rat 294
Somalia 18, 86, 122, 123–4, 125, 138, 141, 176, 252, 263, 270, 271, 272, 273, 279, 282, 287
South Africa 28, 38, 95, 106, 126, 141, 143, 144, 149, 150, 165, 168, 176, 187, 192, 193–4, 196–7, 199, 265, 289
South America 4, 82, 165, 214, 246
South Sudan 128–9
Southern chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) 294
species, what constitutes a 204, 208
Speke, John Hanning 282
Speke’s pectinator (Pectinator spekei) 282
St Lucy’s giant rice-rat (Megalomys luciae) 248
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex 166
Steller, George 264
Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) 82, 248, 264–5
Stellingen 46–7
steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) 14, 171, 172
sterculia trees 77–8
Stirton, Brent 150
Stony Brook University 258
Storer, Dr 2
striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) 174
Stryker, John Lloyd 160–1
Stuhlmann’s golden mole (Chrysochloris stuhlmanni) 17, 124, 125, 130
Sudan 53, 100, 128, 129, 139, 176, 252
suffering of animals 31–6, 42, 191
Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis) 122
Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) 260
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) 128
sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus) 263, 264
sundaic arboreal niviventer (Niviventer cremoriventer) 122
Sunday Times, The 96, 111, 113, 172, 184–5
sustainability 187
Tanganyika 106
Tanzania 124, 128, 134–5, 138, 139, 142, 146, 147, 148, 149, 159, 176, 237, 252, 263
taxonomy 107, 204–18, 234, 270, 277, 290
television programmes, wildlife 75–6, 91–2, 106, 109, 115, 129, 151–2
Thackray, John 11
Thayer, Nate 228–9
Theophrastus 206
Thomas, Oldfield 100
Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) 159
thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) 95, 115–16, 116, 119, 122, 177, 227, 248, 282
Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) 128
Toolache wallaby (Macropus greyi) 248
Travers, Will 144
Treadwell, Timothy 76
Trevelyan, Herbert 62
Tsavo national park, Kenya 137
Turvey, Dr Sam 256–7; Witness to Extinction: how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin 256, 283
Uganda 124, 128, 138, 159, 176
UK Biodiversity Action Plan 234
UK Border Agency 143
universal rights, concept of 190–1
University of Alberta 242
University of Cape Town 86, 126
University of Florence 86, 87, 202, 269, 271
University of Queensland 14–15, 112, 121, 123
University of Tennessee 34
US Department of Agriculture 35
vaquita (Phocoena sinus) 249
Vietnam 119, 141, 142, 149, 165, 228, 232, 233, 238
Vigne, Richard 155, 177, 185, 189, 190, 193, 299
Visagie’s golden mole (Chrysochloris visagiei) 17, 18
VMAT2 170
Walcott, Charles Doolittle 274, 275
Wallace, Alfred Russel 4, 8–9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, 36, 37, 42, 79, 105, 106, 109, 154, 155
Wambui, Grace 262
Ward, Rowland 63
warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) 38, 105, 133, 134, 158, 159, 160, 189, 197
Washington University’s Center for Conservation Biology 141
Wat Phnom, Cambodia 228–9
Wells, H. G. 266
West Runton Elephant 14, 171, 172
western mountain gorilla 128, 260
Wharton, Charles 228
Whateley, Bishop: Notes on Noses 59
white-footed rabbit rat (Conilurus albipes) 248
white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) 92
White, Gilbert 71
Wilberforce, Bishop Sam 93, 219
Wild Cargo (film) 90
wild horse (Equus ferus) 122
wild pig (Sus scrofa) 232
wildebeest 30, 38, 70, 99, 105, 133, 134, 245
Wildlife and Wetland Trust 104
wolves, reintroduction into the wild of 234, 237–40
wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) 227
World Press Photo Awards, (2012) 150
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) 67, 84, 92, 110, 114, 199, 245
woylie (Bettongia penicillata) 245
Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 97, 239
Yemen gazelle (Queen of Sheba’s gazelle) (G. bilkis) 118
Zakouma National Park, Chad 139
Zambia 139, 141, 143, 146, 148, 149
Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Procolobus kirkii) 237
zebra 133, 155, 158, 159, 174, 188, 197, 213, 265
Zimbabwe 132, 137, 143, 144, 149, 169, 176, 197
Zoo Magazine 94
Zoological Society of London 7, 19, 20, 36, 62, 94, 100, 244, 245, 293–4; Wildlife Comeback in Europe 293–4
zoology: emergence as a science 10; as ‘full of stuff’ 242–3; calls for improbable combination of skills 270–1
zoos: receive first great apes 4, 5, 6; world’s first scientific (London Zoo) 20–1; first panda arrives at London Zoo 21–3; supply of animals to 24, 25, 27, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 55, 57, 63, 74–5, 91; conservation by 41–2, 169, 236–7, 266; zoological parks 46–7; first Children’s Zoo 94 see also under individual zoo name