Extinct and Vanishing Animals A biology of extinction and survival - Ziswiler, Vinzenz; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1967)
1. Direct Extermination -- Meat and Eggs -- Hides, Furs and Feathers -- Souvenirs -- Superstitious Beliefs -- Live-Animal Trade -- Trophy Hunting and Morbid Pleasure in Killing -- Animals as Competitors -- 2. Indirect Extermination -- Destruction of the Natural Vegetation -- Drainage of Wetlands -- Ravaged Waters -- Air Pollution -- Radioactive Radiation -- Animal Traffic Victims -- Domestic Animal Diseases -- Animals as Indirect Victims of Biocides -- Denaturalized Fauna -- 3. Local Extermination -- 4. The Biology of Extinction -- "Killed Off and Dying Out" -- The Extermination Process -- The Dangers of Island Life -- The Balance of Nature -- Man and the Balance of Nature -- 5. Protecting Nature -- The Necessity of Research -- Nature Protection Through Conservation -- Maintaining and Breeding Threatened Animal Forms in Captivity -- Nature Protection Through Restoration -- Wildlife Management -- In Closing -- Appendix I. List of Bird and Mammal Forms Already Extinct -- Appendix II. List of the Most Gravely Threatened Animal Forms -- Literature.
Keywords: Zoology; Medicine; Zoology; Biomedicine, general