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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

sustainability
187

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

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