Extreme Conservation
Life at the Edges of the World
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Foreword
Prologue
Part I At the Intersection of Continents—Beringia’s Silent Bestiary
1 Motherless Children in Black and White
2 Before Now
3 Beyond Arctic Wind
4 Where Worlds Collide
5 Muskoxen in Ice
6 When the Snow Turns to Rain
Part II Sentinels of Tibetan Plateau
7 Below the Margins of Glaciers
8 The Ethereal Yak
9 Birthplace of Angry Gods
Part III Gobi Ghosts, Himalayan Shadows
10 Counting for Conservation
11 To Kill a Saiga
12 Victims of Fashion
13 In the Valley of Takin
14 Pavilions where Snow Dragons Hide
Part IV Adapt, Move, or Die
15 The Struggle for Existence
16 A Postapocalyptic World—Vrangel
17 Nyima
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Readings of Interest
Index
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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Biological Sciences: Behavioral Biology | Conservation | Evolutionary Biology | Natural History | Physiology, Biomechanics, and Morphology
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