TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pittman,Craig
TI  - Cat tale: the wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther 
SN  - 9781335938800
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario
PB  - Hanover Square Press
KW  - Florida panther
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Wildlife conservation
KW  - Florida
KW  - Rare mammals
KW  - Endangered species
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index; Cat under glass -- The cat of God -- Pantherland -- The hunter -- The state animal -- Mouth to mouth -- The turbo-vet -- The new Mr. Panther -- Medicine man -- Bottleneck -- "Extinction is God's plan" -- The vortex -- The captives -- Hail Mary -- "Florida will be developed" -- Mr. Influential -- The showdown -- The verdict -- The whistleblower -- The skunk ape's scapegoat -- The wanderers -- Cat cam bingo
N2  - "It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very nearly right. That the panther still exists at all is a miracle--the result of a desperate experiment that led to the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Endangered Species Act. And no one has told the whole story--until now. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle"--
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