Johns Hopkins University 16
Johnson, Boris 70
Johnston, Sir Harry 7, 100
Jones, Professor Phil 184–5
Juan Carlos of Spain, King 199
Juliana’s golden mole (Neamblysomus julianae) 251
Kenya 106, 124, 125, 128, 129–30, 134–5, 137–50, 151–73, 174, 176, 177–81, 185–90, 192–3, 194, 252, 262, 263, 293
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) 135, 139, 144, 145
kha-nyou (Laonastes aenigmamus) 261–2
Kiama, Josphat 186, 187
Kibaki, Mwai 145
kipunji monkey (Rungwecebus kipuniji) 263–4
Kitchener, Lord 100, 129
kouprey or grey ox (Bos sauveli) 122, 228–31, 232, 233, 265
Kyoto Protocol 184
La Specola, Florence 277, 278–92, 279
Lamprey, Richard 159, 160, 161, 193, 197
Lankester, Professor Ray 7, 100
Lansdowne, Marquis of 20
Lanza, Benedetto 273
Laonastidae 262
Laos 119, 228, 238, 262
Lapps 55–6
Leakey, Richard 144
leopard 20, 38, 45, 53, 61, 67, 77, 83, 84, 105, 128, 133, 157, 172, 189, 240, 245, 293
lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) 248
Lester, Jack 91, 92
lesula monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) 263, 264
Lewa conservancy, Kenya 199
Liberia 128, 147
Limpopo bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus roualeyni) 31
Linnaeus, Carl 176, 177, 206, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 276
Linnean Society 7
lion 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 61, 91, 105, 128, 132, 133, 134, 154, 155, 157–8, 158, 159, 172, 180, 188, 193, 194, 195, 197, 205, 208, 234, 272
Little Swan Island hutia 248
Livingstone, David 28
Loch Ness Monster 115, 119
London Zoo 4, 5, 21–3, 40–1, 42, 55, 57, 89–90, 91, 95, 116, 129, 188, 230
long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) 245
long-tailed hopping-mouse (Notomys longicaudatus) 177, 248
Lonrho 159
Look 90, 92
Luo tribe 156
lycaon (hyaena-dog) 10
lynx 38, 128, 237, 238
Lyttelton, Alfred 100
Maasai 153, 156, 178
MacKenzie, Robert 229
Madagascar 14, 64, 114, 118, 119, 213, 215, 216, 231, 248
Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus (Hippopotamus guldbergi) 248
Madagascan tenrec (Echinops telfairi) 213, 215, 216
Malawi 141, 176
Malaysia 143, 149
Mali 147
malleus 217, 289
Mammal Research Unit, Bristol University 71
Mammal Species of the World 16, 17, 86, 118, 126, 176
Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe 143
Mananara River, Madagascar 114
Marley’s golden mole (Amblysomus marleyi) 67, 250–1
Marsh, George Perkins: Man and Nature; of Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 79–83, 93, 96, 98, 101–2, 105
mass extinction 15, 82, 113, 226
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 59
Mayhew, Henry 61
Mayr, Ernst 208, 209
McManus, Rove 127
Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) 260
megafauna 172, 227
mice, scientific experiments on 34–5
Milton, Joe 204, 205, 206, 207, 211
Miocene epoch 124
mole (Talpidae) 14, 35, 61, 124, 212–13, 212, 216
Mongolia 55, 68, 237
Monitore zoologico italiano 86
morphological convergence 214
Morris, Desmond 57
Mount Kenya 151, 157, 186
mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) 237
Mozambique 78, 128, 129, 132–4, 141, 160, 176, 179, 182, 183
Museo Civico di Zoologia, Rome 294
Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris 167–8
Museum of Natural History, Florence 168, 272
Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg, Sweden 168
Mutisya, Samuel 161
Myanmar 119, 128
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) 119, 128
N’hambita, Mozambique 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187
Nairn, Ian 67
Namibia 144, 149, 176, 197
National Academy of Sciences, Italy 274
National Museum of Natural History, Paris 230
National Wildlife Crime Unit 170
NATO 138
Natural England 234
Natural History Museum, London 7, 11–12, 19, 36–8, 37, 40, 58, 61–2, 86, 93, 94, 100, 113, 115, 117, 126, 166, 168–9, 200, 202, 203, 204, 206, 231, 280, 282, 289
Nature Conservancy 110
Nature Conservancy Council 234
Naughtie, James 247
‘A New Golden Mole from Somalia with an Appendix on the Taxonomy of the Family Chrysochloridae’, 1968 (Simonetta) 86–7
New Guinea 120, 191–2, 253
New Orleans 103
New York Zoological Society 102
New Zealand great short-tailed bat (Mystacina robusta) 250
Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique 128
Nicholson, Max 110
nomenclature 17, 210, 218, 290
Norfolk 14, 97, 98, 171, 180
North Africa 68, 104
Northern Cape 18
northern Muriqui woolly monkey (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) 248–9
northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) 128, 129, 168–9
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 229
Nottingham University 266
nuclear power 181, 182
Observer 105, 110, 163
Odhiambo, Andrew 153, 154, 155–6, 157, 158, 159, 172, 174, 193
okapi (Okapia johnstoni) 7–8, 21, 41, 100, 119, 230
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya 129–30, 147, 150, 151–63, 164, 169, 171, 172, 174, 177–81, 185–90, 192–7, 199, 225, 229, 234, 236, 236
olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) 294
Oman 237
Omondi, Patrick 145, 147
‘Operation Costa’ 138, 142–3
orang-utan 2–3, 43, 44–5, 93, 128, 245, 255, 282
Orange Free State 99
ornithologists, importance of within conservation movement 97–8
oryx 105, 110, 119, 158, 236, 237
Osborn, Fairfield 110; Our Plundered Planet 102–4, 105
otter shrew (Potamogale velox) 216
Outamba-Kilimi National Park, Sierra Leone 143
Owen, Richard 6, 12, 36–7, 58, 93, 113, 203, 219, 280
Packham, Chris 235–6
Palau flying-fox (Pteropus pilosus) 248
panda 21–3, 67, 73, 92, 109, 110, 128, 235, 236, 240, 245, 249
Papillo 211
park rangers 76, 107, 134, 135, 139, 146, 161, 293
passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) 283–4
Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeitzkowi) 128
Pemba Island 128, 237
Pemberton’s deer mouse (Peromyscus pembertoni) 248
‘penitent butchers’ 101, 110, 129, 225
pet keeping 41
People’s Trust for Endangered Species 240
Perrier’s sifaka (Propithecus perrieri) 245
Petherick, John 27, 28
Philippines 141, 142, 244
Phyla 211
phylogenetic systematics 86, 209
phylogenetic trees 205, 213, 224, 225–6, 230, 245, 246
phylogenetics 86, 204–5, 213, 224, 225–6, 230, 245, 246, 262, 277
pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) 248
pitfall traps 52
plants (Regnum Vegetabile) 211
platypus (Ornithorynchus anatinus) 7, 16, 61, 120
Pleistocene 226, 230
Pliny 206
poaching 84, 106–8, 124, 125, 12
8–9, 133, 134–50, 160, 161, 164, 169, 189, 199
potamogale 10, 17
preservationists 97
Prettejohn, Giles 193, 194, 195, 196
Primates 212
Prochrysochloris miocaenus 124
proteles (Aard-wolf) 10
protoctista 211
Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) 237
pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) 128, 260
pygmy spotted skunk (Spilogale pygmaea) 122
pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) 249
Qatar 146, 149
quagga (Equus quagga quagga) 95, 95, 100, 265–6
Quagga Project 265–6
racial classification, Homo sapiens 59–61
Raffles, Sir Stamford 20, 27
red fox (Vulpes vulpes) 68–73, 77, 227
red gazelle (Eudorcas rufina) 117, 248, 261
red squirrel 214, 234, 235–6, 251, 259
rhinoceros 21, 24, 29, 30, 31, 38, 43–4, 45, 49, 54, 67, 77, 93, 105, 107, 109, 119, 128, 125, 128, 129–30, 132, 143, 149, 150, 157–8, 161, 162–71, 164, 172, 173, 176, 177, 178, 180, 188, 191, 199, 200, 226, 227, 236, 240, 245, 249, 260, 261, 286, 287, 293 see also under individual species name
Rhodesia 65, 104, 106
Ringling Brothers Circus 36, 45, 74
Ripley, William Z.: The Races of Europe 59, 60
riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) 260
Riviere, Oliver 61
Rodenta 212
romantic poets 33
Roosevelt, Eleanor 102
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 108
Roosevelt, Theodore 100, 129
Rose, Mark 127–30
Rosie (Indian rhino) 166–7, 173
rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) 251
Royal Society 7, 14, 171, 204, 258
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 40
Ruddock, Joan 144
Rwanda 124, 128, 138, 147, 176
Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) 232
Santa Catarina’s guinea pig (Cavia intermedia) 249
Santa Cruz tube-nosed fruit-bat (Nyctimene sanctacrucis) 248
saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) 119, 231, 232, 233
sarcoptic mange 71–2
Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus) 265
Savage, Thomas Staughton 2
Schouten, Peter 264
Schumacher, Fritz 156
Science Media Centre 204
Sclater, Philip Lutley 100
Scotland 234, 237, 238
Scott, Peter 90, 92, 95, 104, 106, 110, 127
sea levels, rising 259
sea mink (Neovison macrodon) 248
selective breeding 94, 187, 265–6
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania 146
Selous, Frederick Courteney 37–8, 37, 39, 40, 61, 100, 197, 203, 206, 207, 271, 272–3, 282
Severn Wildlife Trust 104
Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty 33
Shaw, George 7
shrews (Soricidae) 213
Sierra Leone 91, 92, 143, 147, 148
Simonetta, Professor Alberto M. 86–7, 88, 123–4, 125–6, 175, 202, 216–17, 218, 220, 221, 224, 252–3, 268–92, 279; ‘A New Golden Mole from Somalia with an Appendix on the Taxonomy of the Family Chrysochloridae’, 1968 86–7; Short History of Biology: from the Origins to the 20th Century 285–6
Simonetta, Stefania 286
Simonetta’s writhing snake (Lygosoma simonettai) 270
Singer, Peter 190
Sir David’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) 120–1, 245, 246, 250, 252–4, 255, 261
Slade, J. W. 44
slaughter of animals 222–3
slave trade 40
Sloane, Hans 4
Smit, Tim 200, 204, 209
Smithsonian Institution, Washington 274
snow leopard (Panthera uncia) 61, 67, 77, 128, 240, 245
Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, The (SPWFE) 99, 100, 101–2, 127
Somali golden mole (Calcochloris tytonis): known only from partially complete specimen in an owl-pellet 17, 18, 19, 112, 113, 121, 123, 221, 262, 267, 269, 273, 287–92 288; IUCN ‘critically endangered’ 18; author’s interest in 18–19, 36, 38, 244, 266–7, 287–92; size of 62; Bronner and see Bronner, Gary; Simonetta and see Simonetta, Professor Alberto; discovery of remains of (owl-pellet MF4181) 86–8, 252–3, 273, 274; search effort for 121; Somalia and 123–4; Kenya and 124, 125; similarity to ‘true’ moles 124–5; zalambdodontic molar 215, 240; IUCN ‘data deficient’ 251, 290; author views remains of 287–92, 288; nomenclature of 289–90
Somali mole rat 294
Somalia 18, 86, 122, 123–4, 125, 138, 141, 176, 252, 263, 270, 271, 272, 273, 279, 282, 287
South Africa 28, 38, 95, 106, 126, 141, 143, 144, 149, 150, 165, 168, 176, 187, 192, 193–4, 196–7, 199, 265, 289
South America 4, 82, 165, 214, 246
South Sudan 128–9
Southern chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) 294
species, what constitutes a 204, 208
‘speciesism’ 191, 223, 224
Speke, John Hanning 282
Speke’s pectinator (Pectinator spekei) 282
St Lucy’s giant rice-rat (Megalomys luciae) 248
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex 166
Steller, George 264
Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) 82, 248, 264–5
Stellingen 46–7
steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) 14, 171, 172
sterculia trees 77–8
Stirton, Brent 150
stoat 14, 240
Stony Brook University 258
Storer, Dr 2
striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) 174
Stryker, John Lloyd 160–1
Stuhlmann’s golden mole (Chrysochloris stuhlmanni) 17, 124, 125, 130
Sudan 53, 100, 128, 129, 139, 176, 252
suffering of animals 31–6, 42, 191
Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis) 122
Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) 260
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) 128
sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus) 263, 264
sundaic arboreal niviventer (Niviventer cremoriventer) 122
Sunday Times, The 96, 111, 113, 172, 184–5
Taiwan 84, 142
Tanganyika 106
Tanzania 124, 128, 134–5, 138, 139, 142, 146, 147, 148, 149, 159, 176, 237, 252, 263
Tasmania 95, 115, 116, 282
taxonomy 107, 204–18, 234, 270, 277, 290
television programmes, wildlife 75–6, 91–2, 106, 109, 115, 129, 151–2
Thackray, John 11
Thailand 135, 142, 149
Thayer, Nate 228–9
Theophrastus 206
Thomas, Oldfield 100
Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) 159
thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) 95, 115–16, 116, 119, 122, 177, 227, 248, 282
Tokyo 135, 137
Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) 128
Toolache wallaby (Macropus greyi) 248
translocation 237, 265
Travers, Will 144
Treadwell, Timothy 76
Trevelyan, Herbert 62
Tsavo national park, Kenya 137
Turvey, Dr Sam 256–7; Witness to Extinction: how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin 256, 283
Uganda 124, 128, 138, 159, 176
UK Biodiversity Action Plan 234
UK Border Agency 143
UNESCO 94, 105, 108
Ungulata 10, 282
United Nations 15, 293
universal rights, concept of 190–1
University of Alberta 242
University of Cape Town 86, 126
University of Florence 86, 87, 202, 269, 271
University of Queensland 14–15, 112, 121, 123
University of Tennessee 34
US De
partment of Agriculture 35
vaquita (Phocoena sinus) 249
Vietnam 119, 141, 142, 149, 165, 228, 232, 233, 238
Vigne, Richard 155, 177, 185, 189, 190, 193, 299
Visagie’s golden mole (Chrysochloris visagiei) 17, 18
VMAT2 170
Walcott, Charles Doolittle 274, 275
Wallace, Alfred Russel 4, 8–9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, 36, 37, 42, 79, 105, 106, 109, 154, 155
Wambui, Grace 262
Ward, Rowland 63
warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) 38, 105, 133, 134, 158, 159, 160, 189, 197
Washington University’s Center for Conservation Biology 141
Wat Phnom, Cambodia 228–9
Wells, H. G. 266
West Africa 2, 67
West Runton Elephant 14, 171, 172
western mountain gorilla 128, 260
Wharton, Charles 228
Whateley, Bishop: Notes on Noses 59
Whipsnade Zoo 94, 129
white-footed rabbit rat (Conilurus albipes) 248
white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) 92
White, Gilbert 71
Wilberforce, Bishop Sam 93, 219
Wild Cargo (film) 90
wild horse (Equus ferus) 122
wild pig (Sus scrofa) 232
wildebeest 30, 38, 70, 99, 105, 133, 134, 245
Wildlife and Wetland Trust 104
wolves, reintroduction into the wild of 234, 237–40
wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) 227
World Press Photo Awards, (2012) 150
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) 67, 84, 92, 110, 114, 199, 245
woylie (Bettongia penicillata) 245
Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 97, 239
Yemen gazelle (Queen of Sheba’s gazelle) (G. bilkis) 118
Zakouma National Park, Chad 139
zalambdotonty 215–16, 240
Zambia 139, 141, 143, 146, 148, 149
Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Procolobus kirkii) 237
zebra 133, 155, 158, 159, 174, 188, 197, 213, 265
Zimbabwe 132, 137, 143, 144, 149, 169, 176, 197
Zoo Magazine 94
Zoo Quest 90, 91
Zoological Society of London 7, 19, 20, 36, 62, 94, 100, 244, 245, 293–4; Wildlife Comeback in Europe 293–4
zoology: emergence as a science 10; as ‘full of stuff’ 242–3; calls for improbable combination of skills 270–1
zoos: receive first great apes 4, 5, 6; world’s first scientific (London Zoo) 20–1; first panda arrives at London Zoo 21–3; supply of animals to 24, 25, 27, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 55, 57, 63, 74–5, 91; conservation by 41–2, 169, 236–7, 266; zoological parks 46–7; first Children’s Zoo 94 see also under individual zoo name