Author Name: Sunquist, Fiona.
Title: Tiger Moon.
Binding: Hardcover with DJ
Book Condition: Good/Good, former library, general shelf wear, good reading copy.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) 1988
ISBN Number: 0226780015 / 9780226780016
Seller ID: 4042
Royal Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal is one of the largest tiger reserves in Asia; it is also home to other endangered species, including the one-horned rhinoceros. In 1974, the Smithsonian Institution, in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund and the Nepalese government, sent the authors to the park to study the tiger population, a two-year project that would use radio tracking for the first time. This account of their adventureshunting and immobilizing tigers, a close encounter with a rhino, the hardships of camp lifeis delightful. Stories about the elephants put the tigers in second place, however; we read of one occasion when an elephant capsized while crossing a river. (It survived. ) Ten years later, the authors returned to Chitwan. They report that the tigers appear to be in good shape, but tourism has caused vast problems. Nature
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