A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
- ISBN-10
- 0871137976
- ISBN-13
- 9780871137975
- Category
- Extinct animals
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Author
- Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Description
Introduces the many animal species that became extinct over the past five centuries as the result of European expansion into various parts of the world, including the great auk, Carolina parakeet, thylacine, and passenger pigeon.
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