The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

understood that the zebra was in serious trouble. What is remarkable about this experiment is that very ...

successful at noticing animals, and they did so 90 percent of the time. When something like a wheelbarro ...

disturbing as it may be, man-eating occurs within the acceptable parameters of the tiger’s nature, which ...

PART TWO ...

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POCHEPNYA ...

15 It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales ... that a parent should purchase his own safety by sa ...

thing to a deity its inhabitants had. When all else failed—and it had—she alone had stood by them. If ...

after two years away, both of them were having trouble readjusting to village life. On the one hand, they ...

for many in the Bikin valley, it is a factual description of their reality. Denis Burukhin summed it up bit ...

that evening, Denis’s mother and father flatly forbade him going into the taiga again. “He wanted to go,” ...

out; this is the best part of the season.’ I said, ‘Let it be. Life is more important.’ ” The situa ...

something. His parents told me he had gone out to look for a job.” “I will tell you how it happened,” sa ...

because he had been spared seeing Markov’s remains or the scene at his cabin. As a result, the threat this ...

over again, he caught fresh scent, stalked viable game, and set up ambushes that, a week ear ...

that had been sealed inside a plastic jar, the tiger hauled Tsepalev’s mattress out of the shel ...

abyss. In the case of the hunting-manager-turned-big-cat-researcher Sergei Sokolov, it took years to p ...

He lost the trail and, as he circled around to find it again, he crested a ridge where he paused to ca ...

“He was about forty yards away and I saw him running toward me. The word ‘fear’ doesn’t really describe the ...

and tendons were torn apart.” And yet, in spite of this, the pain Sokolov felt then was as keen in ...