Peter Heywood (Rhode Island Brown University)

The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras

Significance for Conservation

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Produktbeschreibung

Quagga zebras that pulled carriages and protected livestock against predators, are the focus of this book that combines history, biology, Bushmen stories, art, and literature. Hunted into extinction for their high-quality leather, their DNA showed rebreeding was feasible, and animals resembling quaggas now live in their old habitats.

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Produktdetails

• Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781108926911
• ISBN-10: 1108926916
• Artikelnr.: 63222473

Autorenporträt

Peter Heywood is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University, USA, where he has taught since 1974. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. Most of his scholarship has focussed on the cell biology of algae, protists, animals and plants, but he has also published on development of the inner ear in mammals, agricultural biotechnology, pedagogy and biography. His interest in quaggas started in 2006, and he has written on the history of quagga zebras, their representations in biology, art and literature, and their rebreeding.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Zebras
2. Quaggas
3. Coat coloration
4. Quaggas, zebras, and humans in Southern Africa
5. Quaggas abroad
6. Extinction
7. Afterlife
8. Rebreeding
9. Identity and conservation
Appendix 1. Early illustrations of quaggas
Appendix 2. Records of quaggas kept in Europe
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index.