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 Lion | The Great Indian Bustard | The Blackbuck | The Vulture | The Rhino | The Hoolock Gibbon | The Forest Owlet | The Gharial | The Lion-tailed Macque | The River Dolphin Conservation 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.