ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(10-02-2018, 05:54 PM)peter Wrote:  

I would recommend a kind of series on Sysoev. For this reason, I added a title to your post (Sysoev - I). See what you can find. We're very interested.

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Amazing fact for professor Vsevolod Sysoev is that he lived 100 years (one century) from 1911 to 2011. Titles of his books include:
Hunting in Habarovski region
Hunting in the forests of Far East
Tiger-catchers
Notes of the far eastern naturalist
Amba
In the northern jungles
Amazing wild animals
Golden Rigma vol.1, vol.2
The landlord of the Little Hingan
etc etc

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Not only in "Amba" but also in his story "the Golden Rigma" Sysoev describes the live of young tigress and her interactions with other beasts.

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INTRODUCTION
"Do you know where grapes encircle pine trees and tigers hunt rain deers? This is our Amur region.
Despite I am born in one of the most wonderful places of south Crimea I quickly got used to the Far East, fell in love with this land with whole my heart, attached here for all my life. This is a truly wild country...…………………………………………..

In Ussuriland grow mixed cedar-broad leafed forests. Dence crowns of 40 m high cedars, oakes and other trees close above your head. Your way is fenced by high ferns, liana and thorny buches. Its darkish, dumpy and humid. The feet sink in the wet soil where at some places are printed a rounded traces of tiger paws. Everything resemble jungles.

I have roam countless times in forests of Sihote Allin mountains...…………………………………… I remember especially clearly the meetings with tiger-catchers, a men with romantic and manish profession, who you can find only in the Far east. I have also took part in catching of tigers - an wonderfull royal beasts.
in the literature tiger is described as fierce, blood thirsty beast. I cant agree with such a description. Our fareastern, relictic, longhaired tiger is a very valuable animal. He is not aggressive and is very usefull for the battle with the wolves avalanche. Tiger is a alive monument of the former greatness of the pine-broadleafed forests and deserves further research. Forests of Far East would get poor and boring if the tiger extinct.
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I have always been a passionate hunter and loved to hunt bears. In the Amur region there are a lot of brown bears. They reach up to half ton weight. These "landlords" of our forests insult not only deers and boars but dare to enter into battles with tigers and became a winners. We have not only brown bears but Hymalayan black bears as well and they have a semi-tree way of life. 
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to be continued Reply