| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-225) and index. |
| Summary |
"In The unburnt egg, Brian Gill continues his spellbinding stories from more than thirty years as a curator. Some tales are so bizarre they read like fiction: a population of ship rats decimating the entire wildlife of an island and then collapsing; birds leaving their young to be raised by other birds; frogs and lizards living in trees and flying. Others reveal the painstaking detective work involved in solving mysteries presented by the police, biosecurity agencies, government departments and members of the public. Frogs' legs on sale as chicken, a feather hidden in a bag of sugar, a live boa constrictor on a street in snake-free New Zealand - it's all in a day's work. Into these stories Gill weaves as fascinating a cast of characters as you are ever likely to meet."--Back cover |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A hapaless king penguin -- Secrets of the shining cuckoo -- The unburnt egg -- The man who imagined the moa -- Flight of the long-tailed cuckoo -- Booby eggs and a solar eclipse -- Song of the huia -- Seals in sand dunes -- Ship rats of Big South Cape Island -- Charles McCann's giant flying frogs -- Seeking Pacific skinks -- Rarotonga revisited -- Baden Powell's sea-slug paintings -- Fur, feathers and frogs legs -- Further reflections. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gill, Brian (Brian James)
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Gill, Brian (Brian James) |
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Auckland War Memorial Museum -- Anecdotes.
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Auckland War Memorial Museum. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Subject |
Museums -- Curatorship -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes.
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Museums -- Curatorship. |
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New Zealand -- Auckland. |
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Natural history museum curators -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes.
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Natural history museum curators. |
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Zoological specimens -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes.
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Natural history -- New Zealand.
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Zoological specimens. |
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NATURE -- Animals -- General. |
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Natural history. |
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife. |
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New Zealand. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Anecdotes.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill, Brian (Brian James). Unburnt egg. Wellington : Awa Press, 2016 9781927249291 (OCoLC)957076780 |
| ISBN |
9781927249307 (electronic book) |
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1927249309 (electronic book) |
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9781927249291 |
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1927249295 |
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9781927249314 (mobi) |
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