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Author Neme, Laurel Abrams, 1963-

Title Animal investigators : how the world's first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species / Laurel A. Neme ; foreword by Richard Leakey
Edition First paperback edition
Published Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2010

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  363.25987 Nem/Aih  AVAILABLE
Description xxv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Native Alaskan subsistence hunting -- Walrus forensic investigation -- Native Alaskan solutions to walrus headhunting -- Busted for bear galls -- Bear bile-- or not? -- The impact of bear investigation -- The feather artifacts -- Fly-by-night evidence -- Buyer beware
Summary Shares behind-the-scenes cases by the world's only forensics lab dedicated to solving animal crimes, in a volume that describes the scientific methods through which they safeguard endangered animals that are being poached for their body parts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-217) and index
Subject United States Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory.
Wildlife crime investigation -- United States.
Forensic sciences -- United States.
Poaching -- United States -- Prevention.
Wild animal trade -- United States.
Wildlife conservation -- United States.
Endangered species -- United States.
ISBN 9780813035628 :
0813035627