By Steven M. Goodman, William L. Jungers, Velizar Simeonovski
ISBN-10: 022614397X
ISBN-13: 9780226143972
The landscapes of Madagascar have lengthy thrilled zoologists, who've came across, in and one of the island’s baobab bushes and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, together with anything impending 100 species of lemur. Madagascar’s mammal fauna, for instance, is way extra different, and extra endemic, than early explorers and naturalists ever dreamed of. yet long ago 2,500 or so yearsa interval linked to ordinary climatic shifts and ecological swap, in addition to partly coinciding with the arriving of the island’s first human settlersa massive share of Madagascar’s forests have disappeared; and within the wake of this loss, a few species specific to Madagascar have vanished perpetually into extinction.
In Extinct Madagascar, famous scientists Steven M. Goodman and William L. Jungers discover the new previous of those land animal extinctions. starting with an advent to the geologic and ecological heritage of Madagascar that offers context for the evolution, diversification, and, every now and then, swift decline of the Malagasy fauna, Goodman and Jungers then search to recapture those extinct mammals of their environs. Aided of their quest by way of artist Velizar Simeonovski’s attractive and haunting electronic paintingsimages of either person species and atmosphere assemblages reproduced the following in complete colorGoodman and Jungers reconstruct the lives of those misplaced animals and hint their relationships to these nonetheless living.
released along with an exhibition of Simeonovski’s art set to open on the box Museum, Chicago, within the fall of 2014, Goodman and Jungers’s awe-inspiring booklet will serve not just as a sobering reminder of the very actual risk of extinction, but additionally as a gorgeous tribute to Madagascar’s biodiversity and a catalyst for extra study and conservation.
