The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

been so tightly linked to animals that trigger the tiger’s wolf-killing instincts, the likelihood ...

them. Lying on the ground, bleeding from his head and arms, West tried to fathom what to do next. It ...

survive in the taiga.” Markov was certainly one of the latter, but sometimes that isn’t enough. B ...

people attempting to do this with a tiger. Mikhail Ivanovich Yankovsky (Jankowski) was also an ...

12 The only beasts that enter the myth complex are those that kill the hunter and those into which h ...

was on the surface. The pyatka measurement that is burned into Lazurenko’s mind is 13.5 centimete ...

Driven off Markov’s corpse by Trush and his men on December 6, the tiger limped eastward, halting periodi ...

to those who smelled like him, whatever form they might take. Markov had been a regular at the road ...

termites, locusts, birds, porcupines, pangolins, badgers, sables, squirrels, cats, dogs, dholes, wolves, rats, m ...

with this tiger, so in his mind there was no possibility of a conflict. Many of his neighbors felt the ...

legendary heroes, were hunting on the Bikin when they were attacked by an egule in the river; thei ...

13 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee. Job 12:7 If a lion could talk, we would not understand ...

environment, a place that exists in theory but that none of us can truly know given the inherent ...

highwaywoman by her sense of smell. The odor of butyric acid, that emanates from the skin gl ...

on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey —even to the point of disguising him ...

could understand. “A hunter can only rely on himself,” he said. “If anything happens, there is ...

valley, it is generally believed that if a tiger has decided to attack you, you will not be able to see ...

camp to trade, returning home at dusk. Meanwhile, the tiger returns to his kill. It is clear that it ha ...

Here, a problem arises in this scenario: where does he get the gun from? Because of condensation issues, ...

already fled. He smokes, strokes his dogs if they are around, and gathers himself, assessing the damage, and tryi ...