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A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia
Contributor(s): Woinarski, John C. Z. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1486308635     ISBN-13: 9781486308637
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
OUR PRICE: $45.55  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Mammals
- Nature | Animals - Mammals
- History | Australia & New Zealand - General
Dewey: 599.470
LCCN: 2018439467
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" L (1.55 lbs) 280 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Australian
- Topical - Ecology
- Cultural Region - Oceania
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
It is the evening of 26 August 2009 on Christmas Island. The last known pipistrelle emerges from its daytime shelter. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up an elaborate maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise - even if captured, there is little future in just one bat. But the bat evades the trap easily, and continues foraging. It is not recorded again that night, and not at all the next night. The bat is never again recorded. The scientists search all nearby areas over the following nights. It has gone. There are no more bats. Its corpse is not--will never be--found. It is the silent, unobtrusive death of the last individual of a species. It is extinction; an unusual extinction in that it was both witnessed and its timing precise, and in that its fate was predicted--and seen--with hindsight, its pathway to that destiny was like watching in slow motion the frightening inexorability of a car crash.

This book is about that bat; it is about those scientists; it is about that island; but mostly it is an attempt to understand that extinction. It is a story with many components and many voices.

Contributor Bio(s): Woinarski, John: - John Woinarski is based at Charles Darwin University and is a Deputy Director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. He has extensive experience in threatened species research, management and policy in Australia. He has published widely on biodiversity (including threatened reptiles) of northern Australia and Christmas Island and on the impacts and management of fire, pastoralism and feral cats.
 
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