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Return of the Crazy Bird The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo Bird

By: Clara Pinto-Correia
216 pages, 25 B/w illus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Return of the Crazy Bird
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About this book

Uses the dodo as a metaphorical starting point for an essay on the rise in extinction rates.

Contents

Foreword.- 1. When the Maps of the World Were Still in the Making.- 2. When the Forest Was No Longer.- 3. While the Vessels Were Arriving.- 4. While the Birds Were Not Afraid.- 5. After 83 Years.- 6. Ever Since Noah.- 7. Back When All The Sky Would Go Dark.- 8. In One Single Day.

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Biography

Clara Pinto-Correia is the author of the best-selling The Ovary of Eve. She has taught in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; served as a research assistant at Harvard University in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and is currently Professor and Director of the Masters Degree Program in Developmental Biology at the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal.

By: Clara Pinto-Correia
216 pages, 25 B/w illus
Publisher: Springer Nature
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From the reviews: "Pinto-Correia recounts the history of the dodo, both as a biological specimen and as an enduring subject of cultural history and lore." SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE "The Dodo went from being newly discovered to extinction in less than a hundred years. ! Clara Pinto-Correia, in following the bird's re-creation, shows in this remarkable book how the human intellect and the human imagination prey on sketchy facts and images, how missing pieces and incomplete lines are merged and fused to make a cohesive whole." (FirstScience.com, April, 2003) "Pinto-Correia skillfully weaves the tale of the discovery, exploitation, and extinction of the dodo and the closely related Rodrigues and Reunion Solitaires of the Mascarene Islands. ! the author has produced a readable, sometimes fascinating, history of the multiple discoveries of the islands by European nations. ! A thoroughly researched, footnoted, and readable book. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels." (S.W. Harris, CHOICE, June, 2003) "Pinto-Correia presents an excellent history of one of the most famous extinct birds, the dodo, and the two allied species found only in the Mascarene Islands ! . Delving knowledgeably into history, art, folklore, and biology, this is a fine, readable account of the vulnerability, everywhere, of island life forms. Highly recommended." (Henry T. Armistead, Library Journal, February, 2003)

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