The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

hunting, until he dies. The tiger’s life is enlivened by breeding, but only briefly. These moments ...

predation scenarios that demonstrate stalking and killing techniques and then allow the cubs to safely prac ...

specimens. By Tuesday morning, December 9, the Markov attack was frontpage news. LAW OF THE JUNGLE, cr ...

the taiga all my life,” he said. “I have been in many situations, including poaching. I won’t lie to yo ...

he and some local villagers were skinning out the Khomenko tiger, the understanding had been that they ...

tiger hunting. When Ivan Dunkai found out what had happened to Markov, he was flabbergasted: “A ...

In an effort to demonstrate the sophistication of the tiger’s thought process, Sokolov described the following inci ...

will sit and wait specifically for the hunter who has fired shots at them.” The caveat here is that each ...

the east coast of Primorye, and, over the years, they have caught, sedated, examined, and collared doz ...

gunfire. Fights between animals are rarely to the death because killing a powerful adversary ...

never be fully understood, the discovery and description of such scenes would go a long way toward explainin ...

not prohibit it,” he explained. “The attitude was, if you’re drumming at night, that’s your business. ...

form of furs, but nothing was off limits: when Manchus got wind of a Cossack advance, their first response ...

exotic, or stimulating to the senses. But there is no question that the boreal jungle is an acquired taste, ...

“Some years ago [c. 1870], at the time of all those fruitless hopes for unity and cohesion, an institution ap ...

jingle. I would be running along the walls in my socks, trying to step as softly as I could—like a tiger. ...

breath, and drivers had to stop periodically to clear them in order to keep the animals from suffocating. ...

and the Yankovskys retaliated accordingly.* Unlike the animist Udeghe who were native to the region, or the Chinese a ...

would buy it from us whole; they were particularly interested in the meat, heart, and bones. Of course, ...

assumption that they had been granted dominion over the land—just as God had granted it to Noah, the origi ...