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ENDANGERED, THREATENED, AND 



RARE FAUNA OF NORTH CAROLINA 



PART I. 



A RE-EVALUATION OF THE MAMMALS 



Edited by Mary Kay Clark 



This book is a report prepared by a committee appointed in 1985 

 by the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences to re-evaluate 

 the list of mammals presented in Endangered and Threatened Plants 

 and Animals of North Carolina (John E. Cooper, Sarah S. Robinson, 

 and John B. Funderburg, editors. N.C. State Mus. Nat. Hist., Raleigh, 

 1977), which is now out of print. Committee members were Mary Kay 

 Clark, David A. Adams, William F. Adams, Carl W. Betsill, John B. 

 Funderburg, Roger A. Powell, Wm. David Webster, and Peter D. 

 Weigl. The report treats 21 species listed in the following status 

 categories: Endangered (5), Threatened (1), Vulnerable (6), and 

 Undetermined (9). Most species accounts discuss the animal's physical 

 characteristics, range, habitat, life history and ecology, special sig- 

 nificance, and status (including the rationale for the evaluation and 

 recommendations for protection) and provide a range map and an 

 illustration of the animal's external characters. Ruth Brunstetter and 

 Renaldo Kuhler illustrated the book. An introductory section contributed 

 by Ms. Clark discusses the changes in status that occurred in the decade 

 between 1975 and 1985. It also mentions efforts to protect marine 

 mammals and includes a checklist of the cetaceans known from North 

 Carolina. 



1987 52 pages Softbound ISBN 0-917134-14-1 



Price: $5 postpaid. North Carolina residents add 5% sales tax. Please make 



checks payable in U.S. currency to NCDA Museum Extension Fund. 

 Send order to: ETR MAMMALS, N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences, 



P.O. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 2761 1. 



