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McAuliffe, Kathleen. “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy.” Atlantic, March 2012.
Milner, Richard. Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time. New York: Harry Abrams, 2012.
Nielsen, R., et al. “Tracing the Peopling of the World Through Genomics,” Nature, January 19, 2017, pp. 302–310. (NOTE: The rapidly developing discovery of unknown human-like relatives is beginning to look like only the tip of a rather large iceberg, including one species that, in a manner similar to our fictional Nesbitt specimen, is known only by a broken off finger fragment.)
Suetonius, Gaius (translated by R. Graves, M. Grant edition). Nero [in] The Twelve Caesars. New York: Penguin, 1979.
For a compilation of what little history survives the legend, see W. H. Schoff, “Tamil Political Divisions in the First Two Centuries AD,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 33 (1913): 209–13, and K.A.N. Sastri, The Pandyan Kingdom: from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century (Madras: Swathi Publications, 1972).
For an introduction to the Scythians, see Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Lost Heroines (New York: Warner, 2003) and A. Karasulas and A. McBride, Mounted Archers of the Steppe 600 BC–AD 1300 (U.K.: Osprey Publishers, 2004).
On elephant vocalization, see Caitlin O’Connell, The Elephant Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Secret Herds of Africa (MA: University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (New York: Holt, 2015). To actually listen: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-secret-language-of-elephants2/ and http://news.nationalgeographic.com/animals/what-elephant-calls-mean/.
About the Authors
BILL SCHUTT is a vertebrate zoologist, explorer, educator, and author. He is a research associate in residence at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor of biology at LIU Post. Bill’s first book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, was praised by E. O. Wilson, the New York Times, and Alice Cooper. His latest nonfiction book, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, is a widely acclaimed exploration of cannibalism in nature and among humans. Bill lives with his wife and son on the East End of Long Island.
J. R. FINCH is the pen name of a painter, history buff, and cave explorer. He lives in New York with three cats.
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* According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, 1 stadium = 607 feet in length.
* Modern-day Sri Lanka.
* Latin term for the Himalayan Mountains.