Tracking The Highland Tiger
In Search of Scottish Wildcats
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Date of Publication 27 May 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472954374
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 196x130x14 mm
- Weight 210 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Black and white illustrations by the author throughout 215
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Long description:
A mysterious and rarely seen beast, the Scottish Wildcat is Britain's rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores in the world.
Over the centuries, one by one, Britain's most formidable wild animals have fallen to the thoughtless march of humankind. A war on predators put paid to our lynxes, wolves and bears, each hunted relentlessly until the last of them was killed. Only our wildcats lived on.
The Scottish wildcat's guile and ferocity are the stuff of legend. No docile pet cat, this, but a cunning and shadowy animal, elusive to the point of invisibility, but utterly fearless when forced to fight for its life. Those who saw one would always remember its beauty - the cloak of dense fur marked with bold tiger stripes, the green-eyed stare and haughty sneer, and the broad, banded tail whisking away into the forest's gloom.
Driven to the remnants of Scotland's wilderness, the last few wildcats now face the most insidious danger of all as their domesticated cousins threaten to dilute their genes into oblivion. However, the wildest of cats has friends and goodwill behind it. This book tells the story of how the wildcat of the wildwood became the endangered Scottish wildcat, of how it once lived and lives now, and of how we - its greatest enemy - are now striving to save it in its darkest hour.
Table of Contents:
Prologue - gatita fiera
1. A Cat in Context - evolution, relationship
2. Wild Tales - myth and legend
Trip 1: Speyside, 2013
3. Born to Kill - biology of cats and wildcats
Trip 2: Ardnamurchan, 2013
4. Life Unseen - how wildcats live
Trip 3: Speyside, 2014
5. A Bloody History - humans and wildcats in conflict
Trip 4: Speyside and Beyond, 2015
6. Of Cats Tame and Wild - wildcats and domestic cats
Trip 5: Ardanmurchan, 2016
7. Salvage Operation - conservation efforts to date
Trip 6: Speyside, 2018
8. An Uncertain Future - population, projects
Acknowledgements
Further Information
Index
