BIRDS, MAMMALS and OTHER ANIMALS

Exciting pictures & detailed, specialized in-
formation on a wide variety of species and
their adaptations. Coverage includes birds,
primates,endangered, exotics,scavengers,
marine, nocturnal,aggression, learning,etc.

ENDANGERED ANIMALS
Expand your slide collection with pictures of some of our vanishing and some of our already vanished wildlife. 3 programs. 60 slides and guides.
EP #434X SLIDES
$99.95

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ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT ANIMALS Order #434..........$42.50

Animals faced with extinction and some animal treasures already lost.
Contents: passenger pigeon, great auk, heath hen, ivory bill woodpecker, Carolina
parakeet, cormorant, kangaroo, mongoose, white rhino, pygmy hippo, anoa, takin, yak,
kit fox, gila monster, python, caiman, tarpan, Somali ass and white tiger. 20 slides and
guide.

CONTENT SAMPLE: 13930 This fabulous animal is endangered by its great rarity.
As far as is known, there are no wild populations of the white tiger. The handful that exist are
scattered in zoos and collections throughout the world where intensive efforts are being made to
breed them. This has been successful at the Bristol Zoo in England and at the National Zoo in
Washington, D.C., among others.

The first white tiger was captured alive in India and turned over to an Indian nobleman
who started the captive breeding program. Eventually a small number of the white offspring were
sent to zoos overseas, but the Indian Government has indicated that it will not allow any more to
be exported. Now the zoos cooperate among themselves in their own breeding program.

The white tiger is not an albino, a creature totally without pigment, but a mutation in
which the usual orange color is replaced by white. In every other respect it is perfectly normal.

The breeding programs aim at conserving the gene for white fur. This is done by breeding
white tigers even with orange tigers so that the gene, though recessive, is carried by the orange
cubs. When these cubs are bred with others with the same kind of heredity, a number of the
next generation are white, following the laws of Mendelian genetics

All of the big cats are seriously threatened with extinction. A number have already
become extinct. As large carnivores needing substantial supplies of fresh meat, they inevitably
come in conflict with man. They are killed out of fear, for trophies, for fur for the fashion trade,
because they kill livestock, because it is a traditional way of demonstrating bravery. Man’s
weapons continually improve so they cannot escape. Man takes over their habitat for himself so
there is literally no place for them.

Unless large wilderness areas are set aside, unless we allow the big cats space for their
world, they will no longer be a part of our world. And when any part of our world is lost, we are all
immeasurably poorer.
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RARE AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS COLLECTION Order #412X ..........$72.50

Strongly conservation oriented programs that detail problems and current status
of those animals that have almost totally vanished. Animals that still live today, but by
next year may have disappeared forever. Presents a comprehensive picture of vanishing
wildlife. Details the current status of the giant panda, Bactrian camel, saiga, Volga
sturgeon, wisent, blue duck, tuatara, onager, leopard, okapi, angwantibo, nene,
chinchilla, manatee, wolf, Atlantic salmon, Muhlenberg turtle, grizzly bear, green turtle,
tiger, rhino, orangutan, Komodo dragon, Cape Barren goose, koala, lungfish, Galapagos
tortoise, pelican, trumpeter swan, pupfish, Przewalski's horse, European wildcat, oryx,
African spoonbill, zebra, mouse lemur, Pere David's deer and spectacled bear. (2 slide
sets) 40 slides and 2 guides.

CONTENT SAMPLE: 304 One of the most remarkable of all New Zealand animals is
the tuatara. Looks like a lizard, doesn’t it? This strange reptile is in a class by itself--literally.
Reptiles include turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodilians--and the tuatara, of which there is only
this one species.

Several hundred years ago tuataras lived on all the New Zealand islands. But the native
Maoris ate them and they disappeared entirely from the two main islands when European
settlers arrived with their domestic animals. Now tuataras live on a number of small islands off
the coast which have been made a preserve for them--all the destructive goats, pigs, dogs, rats
and mice have been eliminated so that tuataras have no unfavorable competition.

The tuatara may be two feet long and weigh two pounds. One of the very few reptiles to
have a true voice, it croaks. It lives in soil burrows which it digs for itself if it cannot move into
one already made by petrels, sea birds of the area.

Tuataras are the end link in a simple life chain: sun helps produce plankton which feeds
fish which in turn feed water birds who produce guano which attracts insects upon which the
tuatara feeds. They take 20 years to mature and may live as long as 100 years. Tuataras are
living fossils in the truest sense.

REVIEWS: “They are excellent sets, as are your other sets.” D.E.M., Educational
Assistant. The Burnet Park Zoo, Syracuse, New York. “These were excellent!” S.J.,
Coordinator MC, Lexington Public Schools, Lexington, Mass.

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MANATEES: A LIVING RESOURCE Video order #FV-1135V ...........$59.95

The definitive presentation by a leading expert on these engaging, endangered
marine mammals. Presents details of their mammalian characteristics, bodily
adaptations to an aquatic habitat, food habits, migrations, social and maternal behaviors,
deaths and injuries caused by man, population surveys, refuges, and vocalizations.
96 frames, 21 min., detailed teachers' guide. (Filmstrip order FS-1135F......$49.50.)

CONTENT SAMPLE:

11. Here we see a manatee breathing at the surface of the water. When manatees are
swimming, playing, or eating, they usually come to the surface and breathe every three or four
minutes. When they are resting, they can stay underwater for over twenty minutes.

12. Manatees have two nostrils at the end of their noses. The arrows in this picture
point to the manatee’s nostrils, which are used for breathing. When manatees are underwater,
small flaps cover their nostrils and keep water out of them.

REVIEWS: "The photography is well done and the narration is appropriate....Overall, the
information is accurate, and the technical quality is good." Science Books and Films.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: MASSASAUGA RATTLER AND BOG TURTLE
Video order #EV-2176V........$79.95

Faced with human apathy, prejudice, antipathy, ignorance, habitat destruction
and chemical pollution, the massasauga rattler and bog turtle are rapidly decreasing in
number and face extinction throughout a large portion of their range. Their needs and how
to meet them are the focus of this presentation. Live action video.
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~02020-79~ White Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris). photo by Charles R. Belinky, Ph.D.

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