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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. 
Weigh 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 27611. 
