Radek Maly - Kihalt animals atlasza

Stories about the creatures that humans have wiped out and the people who have done it. "And they are still alive today, if they are not dead" - the well-known ending of fairy tales cannot be said positively about any of the 41 living creatures in this book. The mammoth, the dodo, the Neanderthal man: they are all extinct. However, they live on in Radek Malý's descriptions, Jiří Grbavčic and Pavel Dvorský's full-page, colorful illustrations. The magnificent, detailed depictions and descriptions of species and subspecies draw our attention to how many forms of life have already disappeared from Earth. The forever-lost living creatures of the blue planet come alive before us, and perhaps we become aware that the fate of those that still exist is in our hands, in addition to the change of the environment, the extinction of animal species cannot leave us cold either. The book also warns that man does not seem to learn from his own mistakes: the disappearance of animal species continues today. From page to page we approach the present, we can also read about living creatures that existed a few years ago, such as the Zanzibar leopard (until 1996), the Pyrenean ibex (until 2000) or the Chinese river dolphin (until 2007). Inevitably, the bitter question arises: which living creature would the next page belong to?