This book tells the survival stories of ten of India’s rarest animals. A few have made truly heroic comebacks from the very brink of extinction; others have not been so lucky and are spiralling to their almost inevitable doom.The Asiatic LionThe Great Indian BustardThe BlackbuckThe VultureThe RhinoThe Hoolock GibbonThe Forest OwletThe GharialThe Lion-tailed MacqueThe River DolphinConservation writer and award-winning novelist Ranjit Lal writes an engrossing account of how human callousness has driven so many beautiful animals and birds out of their natural habitats.