The Hunt for the Golden Mole (38 page)

African Elephant Coalition
148

African wild dog (
Lycaon pictus
)
128

Afrosoricida
216

Afrotheria
212
,
213
,
214
,
216

Agnelli, Paolo
280
,
286
,
287
,
288
,
290–1

Algeria
117
,
261

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

Annamite Mountains
119
,
232

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

Aristotle
204
,
206
,
208
,
285

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

bacteria
211
,
276

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

banteng
229
,
230

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

Bates, Henry Walter
4
,
9

Bavarian pine vole (
Microtus bavaricus
)
248

BBC
184
,
247

bears
21
,
45
,
48
,
76
,
125
,
188
,
237–8

beaver
83
,
226
,
237

Bedfordshire
151
,
155

Beeton, Isabella
22

Benn, Hilary
149

Bentham, Jeremy
31–2
,
190–1

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

bison
16
,
38
,
103
,
294

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

Burundi
124
,
138
,
176

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

Carnivora
10
,
212

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

Chordata
211
,
212

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

Colchester Zoo
169
,
170

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