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Tracking The Highland Tiger - In Search of Scottish Wildcats (Paperback)
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Tracking The Highland Tiger - In Search of Scottish Wildcats (Paperback)
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Loot Price R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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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.
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