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Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues
Lost Land of the Dodo The Ecological History of Mauritius Reunion and Rodrigues
Author: Anthony Cheke, Julian P. Hume
Uninhabited by humans, the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles: giant tortoises, parrots, skinks, geckos, burrowing boas, flightless rails and herons, and, most famously, dodos. But the discovery of the three isolated islands in the 1500s, and their colonization in the 1600s, led t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300141863
ISBN-10: 0300141866
Publication Date: 9/23/2008
Pages: 480
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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