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Linnean Society
7

lion
25
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27
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28
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29
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30
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31
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33
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34
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37
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38
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45
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47
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48
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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
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236
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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
,
128–9
,
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

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