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The Great Auk
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Author : Errol Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2003
The Great Auk written by Errol Fuller and has been published by Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Nature categories.
A seabird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind, the last two recorded great auk's were killed on June 3, 1844. This book pays homage to this incredible species.
The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk
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Author : Jan Thornhill
language : en
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-10-01
The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk written by Jan Thornhill and has been published by Groundwood Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. And then they were gone ... For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that “weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen’s waist.” Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn’t fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn’t walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time ... until humans became seafarers. Great Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors’ items — their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks — one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.) Although undeniably tragic, the final demise of the Great Auk led to the birth of the conservation movement. Laws were eventually passed to prevent the killing of birds during the nesting season, and similar laws were later extended to other wildlife species. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It
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Author : Jessie Greengrass
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-30
An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It written by Jessie Greengrass and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world. There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance. Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.
Who Killed The Great Auk
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Author : Jeremy Gaskell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Who Killed The Great Auk written by Jeremy Gaskell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nature categories.
"Who Killed the Great Auk? takes us on a tour of some of the wildest and most remote communities on earth. We travel with Audubon to Labrador, sail to the remote Scottish island of St. Kilda, experience the hardship of life in the Newfoundland colonies, and follow the peregrinations of intrepid naturalists as they put to sea in search of the very last of the Great Auks."--Jacket.
The Great Auk
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: New American Library of Canada
Release Date : 1965
The Great Auk written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by New American Library of Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Auks categories.
The Last Of Its Kind
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Author : Gísli Pálsson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Last Of Its Kind written by Gísli Pálsson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Science categories.
How an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species. Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists’ Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern—and as something that could be caused by humans. Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson’s own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.
The Great Auk
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Author : Errol Fuller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Great Auk written by Errol Fuller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Great auk categories.
Garefowls, Penguins of the North, Riesenalks, Apponaths, Great Auks - all of these were names for a sea bird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind. The birds' existence ended on the morning of the third day of June 1844, when the last two recorded great auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey. a few miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. For thousands of years, until not so long before that fateful day, great auks swam the Atlantic in their millions and flocked to their breeding grounds from Newfoundland in the west, to Iceland and the Outer Hebrides in the east. Whole colonies at a time were hunted to death for their meat, feathers, and fat by sailors and fishermen from Europe and the Americas. Since the total vanishing of the species, the great auk has become an icon of extinction, alongside the dodo, the passenger pigeon, and the moa. More highly prized as a trophy than any other extinct bird, all its attributes - from its eggs to the oral history of its demise - were until fairly recently, voraciously collected. Its protean appearance in almost every artistic and visual form, from cigarette boxes to bronze and marble statues, has immortalised one of the most tragic man-made extinctions. The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin tells this tale of destruction and of what we, as a species, do to the world around us. Errol Fuller is a world-renowned authority on extinct birds and the author of many books concerned with extinction and conservation,"
The Great Auk
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Author : John Henry Gurney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
The Great Auk written by John Henry Gurney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Auks categories.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn
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Author : Parkin Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-11-10
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn written by Parkin Thomas and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-10 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Evolution Extinction Of The Great Auk
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Author : Jessica Emma Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Evolution Extinction Of The Great Auk written by Jessica Emma Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Great auk categories.
The great auk, (Pinguinus impennis), was a flightless bird, once abundant and widely distributed across the North Atlantic. It was, however, heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, oiland feathers, and latterly as a display item. Despite wide scientific and general interest in the species, it remains unclear if hunting alone was responsible for its demise, or whether it was already in decline due to other factors such as climate-driven environmental change. Here, we address various issues relating to the great auks' evolution and extinction, including morphometric differentiation and population genetics. In contrast to previous findings,morphometric studies on humerus samples indicated no-significant population-specific sizevariation. High-throughput sequencing of ancient DNA (aDNA) samples of complete mitochondrial genomes from 41 great auks was undertaken from samples across the Holoceneand Late Pleistocene range. Data showed consistently significant high levels of geneticdiversity and gene flow persisting through time and across their range. Demographic reconstructions revealed the great auk had a large and stable effective population size, with noevidence of decline, associated with periods of climatic change. Population viability analysisindicated that harvesting of 5-7% of the total population would be required to cause extinctionin a period of fewer than 350 years; levels commensurate with documented observations.Findings are consistent with the current consensus that human hunting was the primary causeof the great auks' extinction. Additional analysis of nuclear DNA yielded no data due to low coverage of the 495 targeted markers. Related analyses on mitochondrial genomes of five candidate specimens and the organs from the last documented pair of great auks allowed for a170-year-old mystery to be solved, by matching the male organs with the skin currently on display at the RBINS, Brussels. Collectively, our findings yield insights into the lives of aniconic extinct bird.