On Sep 25, 3:24*pm, jeff wrote:


morphing the thread to siberian tigers...listened to an interview on
public radio about a siberian tiger, shot by some russian poacher, that
didn't take kindly to it. *sniffed out the russian's home, awaited the
russian's return for several days, then when he returned it grabbed him,
carried him off, and tore him apart in what was described as an act of
revenge. there is a book about the incident...John Vaillant's The Tiger:
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/articl...sought-out-rev...

http://www.mensjournal.com/the-tigers-revenge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/book...evenge-Russian...

jeff

Interesting story. Even in such an isolated and thinly populated
backwater it's amazing that the Amur tiger has survived (if only
barely) into the age of serious widespread concern over its impending
extinction.

For a somewhat less passionate (if not to say hyperbolic) look at P.
tigris altaica, David Quammen's "Monsters of God" is an excellent
read. However, the tiger is only one of "The Man-Eating Predator[s]
in the Jungles of History and the Mind" referred to in the subtitle.
The others are also worth looking at.....while they are still around
to be looked at.

While I haven't read it myself, I've also heard good things about
Peter Matthiessin's "Tigers in the Snow." I did read his "The Snow
Leopard," for which he won a National Book Award. Good stuff.

giles