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Last Chance to See

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by Mark Carwardine


  calves, 301

  droppings, 300, 301

  feeding, 300

  finding, 301, 303–4

  numbers of, 301

  pigmy, 45

  whaling, effect upon, 299, 301

  whale, grey, 258, 261, 260, 266

  barnacles on, 264

  calves, 261, 262, 264

  feeding, 260

  friendliness, 258, 262

  hunting of, 261–2

  migrations, 260–1

  population, 262

  swimming with, 263, 264–6

  whale, humpback, 285, 286

  breaching, 289, 290–2, 293

  calves, 293

  character, 290

  flippers, 288

  flukeprint, 294

  lobtailing, 285

  mating, 291, 293

  naming, 293

  search for, 290–1

  size and colour, 288

  song, 286–8

  tail breaching, 289

  tail markings, 290, 292

  wildlife watching, best time for 125–7

  World Bank, 54

  Yangtze River, 9, 306

  Yangtze river dolphin (baiji), 9, 306, 307, 309, 310–11

  appearance, 306

  extinction of, 309–10

  numbers of, 305, 306, 308, 309

  Three Gorges Dam and, 306, 308

  rescue plan for, 308, 309–10

  Zaire, 70, 71, 101 see also Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I would like to thank the following people for helping to make this project possible:

  Lilly Arajova

  Myles Archibald

  Rachel Ashton

  Jane Belson

  Dan Bucknell

  Betty Carwardine (Mum)

  David Carwardine (Dad)

  Simon Christopher

  John Craven

  Jo Crocker

  JP Davidson

  Adrian Davies

  Lindsay Davies

  Cathy Dean

  Sue Doody

  Emily Douglas

  Simon Enderby

  Suzi Eszterhas

  Nick Garbutt

  Tim Green

  Greg Grivetto

  Kes Hillman Smith

  Roz Kidman Cox

  Richard Klein

  Michael Landau

  Richard Lewis

  Sally Lisk-Lewis

  Janet McCann

  Don Merton

  Haley Miles

  Caroline Montgomery

  Doreen Montgomery

  Sam Organ

  Simon & Ange Peers

  Ian Redmond

  Jo Sarsby

  Andre Singer

  Ness Smith

  Ben Southwell

  Michaela Strachan

  Miranda Sturgess

  Emma Swain

  Debra Taylor

  Jane Thrift

  James Thrift

  Simon Watson

  Joe Yaggi

  And a very special thanks to Stephen Fry, for everything.

  PRODUCTION TEAM

  Head of Factual & Music

  Adrian Davies

  Executive Producers

  Sam Organ

  Andre Singer

  Series Producer

  Tim Green

  Producers / Directors

  Tim Green, Ben Southwell and JP Davidson

  Assistant Producers

  Sue Doody, Emily Douglas and Claire Messenger

  Production Manager

  Lindsay Davies

  Production Assistants

  Eleanor Hogan

  Emma Samuel

  Specialist Researcher

  Jess Tombs

  Camera

  Will Edwards, Sam Gracey, Alan Duxbury,

  Robin Cox, Simon Ffrench and Simon Enderby

  Sound

  Tim A Green, Jake Drake-Brockman and Don Anderson

  Editors

  Alex Boyle

  Paul Burgess

  BBC Last Chance to See website

  Jo Pearce, Anwen Aspden, Mat Fidell,

  Angharad Rhys, Sian Davies, Luke Baker,

  Steven Green, Simon Rooney,

  Andrew Dudfield, Kieran Bowler

  and Takako Tucker

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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2009

  © Mark Carwardine and West Park Pictures Ltd 2009

  Photography © Mark Carwardine except: front cover, p10, p42 (Will Edwards), p194, p221 (Don Merton), p250 (Jake Drake-Brockman), p214 (Ben Southwell)

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  Foreword © Stephen Fry

  Associate Publisher: Myles Archibald

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