The Hunt for the Golden Mole (39 page)

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

crop science
182
,
186
,
187

Cross River gorilla
128

Cuban solenodon (
Solenodon cubanus
)
115

Curzon, Lord
129

Cyprus spiny mouse (
Acomys nesiotes
)
115

D'Addario, Silvia
202
,
203
,
204

Dartmoor
12–13
,
131–2

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

Domalin, Jean-Yves
44
,
45

Dorper sheep
187

doura
50
,
51

Drusillas Animal Park, Alfriston, Sussex
167

du Chaillu, Monsieur
6

dugong (
Dugong dugon
)
213
,
260

Dürer, Albrecht
162–3
,
216

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 Africa
105
,
142
,
177

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

ecology
39
,
98

Eden Project
200

Edentata
10

EDGE Project (
Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered
)
244–7
,
248–57
,
259–63
,
294

Ehrlich, Paul
200
,
246

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

Elmoge, Adam
179
,
185

Endana Secondary School, Kenya
178–9
,
180
,
181
,
185–6
,
190

environmental debate, debased condition of
184–5

environmental journalism
181

Eskimos
56
,
57

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

European Union
148
,
182

Europol
165
,
166

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

fungi
211
,
247

Gabon
1
,
150
,
263

Gaia
77
,
192

Galapagos mouse (
Nesoryzomys indefessus
)
248

Galileo
280

gazelle
38
,
95
,
105
,
117
,
118
,
133
,
158
,
159
,
194
,
197
,
198
,
237
,
248
,
261
,
272
,
282

genera
210–11
,
212

Genzick, Dr
26–7

gerenuk (
Litocranius walleri
)
105
,
282

Ghana
139
,
147

giant fossa (
Cryptoprocta spelea
)
248

giant golden mole (
Chrysospalax trevelyani
)
62–3
,
202
,
260
,
283

Gichohi, Nathan
161

Gilbert's potoroo (
Potorous gilbertii
)
260

Gill, Eric:
Mankind
94
,
95

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

GM technology
181
,
182

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