- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Prologue
-
part i The Hunt for Eden -
Chapter 1 The Wolf is at the Door-Who's Afraid? -
Chapter 2 The Shy Giant of the Forest -
Chapter 3 A Tropical Primate in Alaska -
Chapter 4 Emissaries of a Dying Epoch -
part ii The Meek and the Bold -
Chapter 5 Subarctic Shadows -
Chapter 6 To Know Thy Enemy -
Chapter 7 Among the Naive -
Chapter 8 A Tiger East of the Sun -
part iii A Search for Ice Age Relicts -
chapter 9 A Continent of Virgins and Recent Ghosts -
Chapter 10 On Being Caribou and Musk Ox -
Chapter 11 Islands of Ice and Innocence -
part iv The Predator's Gaze -
Chapter 12 Changing the Rules of Engagement -
Chapter 13 Nomads of the Gobi -
Chapter 14 The Silent Cats of Patagonia -
part v Making the Beast More Savage, or Less? -
Chapter 15 A Credibility Conundrum -
Chapter 16 Different Sides of the Darwinian Divide -
chapter 17 Of Fear and Culture - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Readings of Interest and Exploration
- Index
A Tiger East of the Sun
A Tiger East of the Sun
- Chapter:
- (p.128) Chapter 8 A Tiger East of the Sun
- Source:
- The Better to Eat You With
- Author(s):
Joel Berger
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The Russian Far East is the northernmost home of the tiger. These specialized carnivores stride across white sands lining the Sea of Japan. They consume seal, and they live in deep snow where temperatures plummet to −40°F. In the Russian Far East, as throughout Europe, elk are known as red deer. In Russian they are called ilch or izubar. Large bruins with a dish-shaped face and a well-defined hump are grizzly bears to Canadians and Americans but brown bears to everyone else. In Russian, the word is medveeyet. Like elk and brown bears, moose, too, are Holarctic in distribution. The same species occurs from Mongolia and Manchuria to Europe and throughout boreal North America. In Europe and Scandinavia, moose are called “elk.” In Russia they are moose, the local word being los. It was the ilch (elk) and los (moose) that lured the author to the Sikhote–Alin Mountains, an area once hunted by the Chinese, by the Ainu of Japan, and more recently, by Dersu Uzala.
Keywords: Russian Far East, tigers, predators, elk, moose, grizzly bears, brown bears, Sikhote–Alin Mountains, Ainu, Dersu Uzala
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Prologue
-
part i The Hunt for Eden -
Chapter 1 The Wolf is at the Door-Who's Afraid? -
Chapter 2 The Shy Giant of the Forest -
Chapter 3 A Tropical Primate in Alaska -
Chapter 4 Emissaries of a Dying Epoch -
part ii The Meek and the Bold -
Chapter 5 Subarctic Shadows -
Chapter 6 To Know Thy Enemy -
Chapter 7 Among the Naive -
Chapter 8 A Tiger East of the Sun -
part iii A Search for Ice Age Relicts -
chapter 9 A Continent of Virgins and Recent Ghosts -
Chapter 10 On Being Caribou and Musk Ox -
Chapter 11 Islands of Ice and Innocence -
part iv The Predator's Gaze -
Chapter 12 Changing the Rules of Engagement -
Chapter 13 Nomads of the Gobi -
Chapter 14 The Silent Cats of Patagonia -
part v Making the Beast More Savage, or Less? -
Chapter 15 A Credibility Conundrum -
Chapter 16 Different Sides of the Darwinian Divide -
chapter 17 Of Fear and Culture - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Readings of Interest and Exploration
- Index