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After an animated introduction about the history of extinct species (e.g. the quagga, the great auk and the dodo) it has gone to 60 countries and territories (including Turkey, Spain, Germany, Poland, Australia, Borneo, Chile, Spitzbergen, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Java, United States, and Peru) on all continents and to the most famous national parks.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered. This designation may be applied to either a plant or animal taxon, and is distinct from the term endangered or threatened. Designation of a rare species may be made by an official body, such as a national government, state, or province.
The project has been documented in a series of books: Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species. 2010. ISBN 1-4262-0575-9. Precursor to The Photo Ark project. Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures. National Geographic Kids, 2017. ISBN 978-1426327674. The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals. 2017.
This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands. Part of a series on the: Biodiversity of Scotland; Biodiversity. Flora; Fauna; Birds; Scottish breeds; Highland ...
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
As one reviewer explained, it is a book "about animals that might exist." [4] On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee, coelacanth, Komodo dragon and giant panda; and those that are believed to have become extinct relatively recently, such as the moa and Tasmanian tiger.
Only the Animals is a 2014 short story collection by Ceridwen Dovey. It is her second book after Blood Kin (2008). It is a collection of ten interrelated short stories about the souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and tells their stories of life and death.