The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

In 1969, George Schaller, the author of The Deer and the Tiger, a seminal study of predator-prey relations, ...

concluded “that under similar conditions a carnivorous hominid group could have survived by a combination of ...

1950s, at the same time Ardrey was conceptualizing his first book on the topic, Robinson Jeffers, one of ...

is far less evocative, but it was gathering, carnal and otherwise, that surely kept our ances ...

expedition arrived, the central Kalahari ecosystem was intact. Bushmen were the only humans around, and they ...

calibrated long before the Pyramids were even imagined. In other words, there was a culture in ...

without doubt, and the Paleolithic cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc in the Ardèche valley of southern France i ...

appeared to be a secondary concern. But in the Bikin valley, in 1997, this primordial understanding had bee ...

10 Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. NIKOLAI GOGOL, Dead Souls^1 THE FIRST ANSWER ...

logger would have recognized it immediately and would have considered it primitive even then—what that g ...

hand and the men brought a couple along. Markov’s weapon—wherever it was—was of no use because, at that point ...

on his back—headless now, disemboweled and frozen solid. After the initial bolt of horror, the emptine ...

Where many of his friends and neighbors bore visible scars and appeared many years older than they act ...

Sakirko, Luzgan, and Isayev, who were interviewed separately, each recalled Markov being anxious about his dogs, ...

Trush, something went awry: it seems now that the interview never took place. Like Trush, Lazurenko is ...

territory, and its loyalty to its master, it becomes clearer just how difficult it would ...

Ivan Dunkai described these experiences, too. “There is something hypnotic in a tiger,” he explained. “ ...

resolved, and with no third parties attempting to conceal evidence. In human terms, Khomenko’s death was a t ...

11 The story of cats is a story of meat.^1 ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS, The Tribe of Tiger MARKOV’S BURIAL ...

clothing provided. Then they slipped a pack of cigarettes into his breast pocket, covered him with a w ...