Extinction for the coffee table is Jean-Christophe Balouet’s Extinct
Species of the World (Letts,pp 192, Pounds sterling 19.95). it lists 300
species, such as this ground-walking Cretan owl, already destroyed by man,
and argues that we need to act now to save other vulnerable species.
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