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_a016135208 _2Uk |
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| 020 | _a9780253000996 (cloth : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | _a0253000998 (cloth : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | _a9780253001030 (ebook) | ||
| 020 | _a025300103X (ebook) | ||
| 035 | _a(OCoLC)740630833 | ||
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_aQL696.C67 _bP37 2013 |
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_a598.9 _223 |
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_aParish, Jolyon C., _d1977- _915172 |
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_aThe dodo and the solitaire : _ba natural history / _cJolyon C. Parish. |
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_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _c[2012], c2013. |
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| 263 | _a1212 | ||
| 300 |
_axxii, 406 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.), maps ; _c29 cm. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aLife of the past | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 383-398) and index. | ||
| 520 | _aThe Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution. Both birds were large and flightless and lived on inhabited islands some 500 miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded descriptions of the dodo were provided by Dutch sailors who first encountered them in 1598 - within 100 years, the dodo was extinct. So quickly did the bird disappear that there is insufficient evidence to form an entirely accurate picture of its appearance and ecology, and the absence has led to much speculation. The story of the dodo, like that of the solitaire, has been pieced together from fragments, both literary and physical, that have been carefully compiled and examined in this extraordinary volume. | ||
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_aDodo. _915173 |
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_aDodo _vPictorial works. _915174 |
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_aSolitaire (Bird) _915175 |
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_aSolitaire (Bird) _vPictorial works. _915176 |
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_aExtinct birds _zMauritius. _915177 |
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_aExtinct birds _zMauritius _vPictorial works. _915178 |
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_aBirds in art. _915179 |
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_aExtinct animals in art. _915180 |
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_aLife of the past. _915181 |
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