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Tiger Moon: Tracking the Great Cats in Nepal Paperback – June 1, 2002

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Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the Sunquists' two years studying tigers in Nepal—traveling by elephant, avoiding a rhino attack, and learning to recognize individual tigers by roar. A new afterword tells the story of promising efforts to reconnect fractured Nepalese tiger habitats.
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Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the two years Fiona and Mel Sunquist spent studying tigers in Nepal-traveling by elephant, avoiding a rhino attack, and learning to recognize individual tigers by roar. A new afterword tells the story of a promising effort to reconnect fractured Nepalese and Indian tiger habitats by developing an arc of protected areas that allows tigers and their prey to move more freely through the large territories they need to survive.

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Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the two years Fiona and Mel Sunquist spent studying tigers in Nepal-traveling by elephant, avoiding a rhino attack, and learning to recognize individual tigers by roar. A new afterword tells the story of a promising effort to reconnect fractured Nepalese and Indian tiger habitats by developing an arc of protected areas that allows tigers and their prey to move more freely through the large territories they need to survive.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (June 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 187 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226779971
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226779973
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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BoarBuster
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating True Adventure
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2019
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What a journey! A captivating true story written by the pioneering scientists who radio collared and tracked tigers (and leopards) in 1970's Nepal. Adventures skillfully woven with history, scientific documentary, local culture, and scenic beauty transported my wife and me to Chitwan where elephants served as primary transportation and rhinos guarded nighttime sprints between housing and an outhouse. We laughed, were fearful, and awed by the colossal effort required to accomplish the study. Nature lovers will enjoy this book!
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ian710
3.0 out of 5 stars Short history of the author's experiences accompanying her husband doing fieldwork in Nepal's terai landscape
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2014
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Paints a broad overview of the Terai landscape and ecology, including local culture. Not as personal as Rabinowitz nor as comprehensive though, since it is quite brief. I imagine the situation has evolved quite a bit since those days. Am looking forward to checking it out for myself!
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javier rena
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesante!
Reviewed in Spain on August 28, 2018
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Parece ser un libro muy interesante, ya que hay poca bibliografía sobre los tigres de Nepal, ademas cuenta con la amplia experiencia de los Sunquists, excelente libro!
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Dr S S Nagi (NYROBE)
4.0 out of 5 stars TIGER MOON
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2016
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This book was first published in 1988, has 173 pages, 12 chapters, 69 B/W photos and 1 large map of Royal Chitwan NP. The book is dedicated to 'Rita' and 'Campbell'. In this book, wildlife writer and photographer FIONA SUNQUIST and Professor of wildlife MEL SUNQUIST investigate social behaviour and history of wild tigers. They also come across rhino, sloth bears, elephants, deer and brilliant coloured birds. They worked on tiger ecology project for 2 years. Mel had gone to Nepal in Oct 1974 and Fiona followed him 6 months later. Their camp was on Rapti River. Their transport was an old jeep and 2 female elephants.
Extensive preparations had to be made before capturing a tiger and collar it. Searching for the partially drugged tiger on foot was a nerve-wracking business. The sleepy tiger was weighed, measured, photographed and monitored before a collar was put on its neck. When not tracking tigers, they followed der and leopards. They also had to face the heat, flies and floods. At night, they listened to the sounds of the forest and the wildlife or those of neighbouring villages.
Tracking tigers had its danger. Once a tigress charged a worker, mauled his buttocks, leg and thigh by jumping high at him in the tree. The elephants stampeded and the equipment was thrown. He was taken by elephant, then jeep and by plane to Kathmandu Hospital. He spent 5 months in hospital, having skin grafts and treatment for infection, but was thankfully back to work. The tigress was found to have cubs and attacked. She was not a man-eater (Man-eaters in Chitwan are darted and moved to a Zoo). It is now known that man-eating evolves, tigers that have lost their home ranges to other tigers.
Fiona had to use small grassy hides to photograph wildlife in Chitwan. She was obviously worried about one horn Indian rhino, whose sharp, slashing teeth could cause damage. She was lucky to observe a female leopard and her 3 cubs. Fiona also tracked collared leopards. Many of the leopards died of poisoning. Night tracking of tigers in Moon light helped to see what they were eating. The Roaring tigress called "Ahhaa-oon", deep and hollow, next to their camp at night, putting the tied elephants into panic.
Fiona and Mel visit the Chitwan Tiger Tops Lodge to see tigers at a bait site. After visiting a Nepalese wedding, their time in Nepal was coming to an end. Unable to start their jeep, they used elephant ride to Tardi Bazaar and a truck to Bharatpur Airport, and flew to Kathmandu and then Delhi.
This is another book on tigers.
Some other books of interest are:-
(1) With Camera in Tigerland, Champion 1927
(2) Wild Animals of Central India, Brander 1927
(3) The Tiger of Rajasthan, Col Kesri Singh 1959
(4) The World of the Tiger, Perry 1964
(5) The Deer and the Tiger, Schaller 1967
(6) Tiger Haven, Billy Arjan Singh 1967
(7) Tiger, Sankhala 1978
(8) Spell of the Tiger, Montgomery 1995
(9) Tiger, Karanth 2001
(10)Tiger Fire, Valmik Thapar 2013
Having born in Kenya, I found this book interesting.
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