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

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( This post was last modified: 03-03-2018, 10:31 AM by Wolverine )

@Greatearth , Jankovski family were a Russian hunters with Polish origins. They were relatively wealthy farmers-landlords, so when the communists came to power in Russia in 1917 they started to hunt down and repress all wealthy people in the country. Jankovski the Seniour escaped them and found a refuge in neighboring Korea.  Unfourtumately later Soviets somehow (I don't know how) succeed to captcure him, he was prosecuted and sent to concentration camp, where he spent many years, probably a decade, and there he die from pneumonia only a few days before he had to be released from concentration camp and get a freedom; very tragical fate, his son Jankovski the Juniour was luckier. I don't know much about Korean guy Shin, but he was close friend both to the Jankovski father and son and his name could be found everywhere in the book "Tiger, deer, genshen", Shin was the guy who actually killed the giant Sungari tiger.

Here is the translation of the chapters of Jankovski's the Seniour book "Half century tiger hunting":
http://www.rulit.me/books/polveka-ohoty-na-tigrov-read-376086-1.html

Chapter 1: My first tiger hunt
Chapter 2: I am "entomologist"
Chapter 3: My first tiger
Chapter 4: Dangers of the forest ranger
5: Almost dead
6: Case with my father
7: My second leopard
8: Adventure with bear
9: Trioplet
10: Leopard on the background of rising sun
11: Sibata and the leopard
12: Tree leopards
13: Adventure with a poacher
14: Makarus and the wild boars
15: Inside the taiga
16: My first hunting in Manchuria
17: The stolen boar
18: Wounded bull
19: A lot of happiness
20. Again in the taiga
21. Traces of four tigers
22. Lulia follows a fresh tiger traces
23. Traces of predators
24. Tiger attack me
25. Enforced rest
26. The third tiger
27. IMAGES

The book is quite interesting, I just started to read it. It's probably a unique source of information about Far Eastern leopards, at least four of the chapters describe them. Vladimir Arseniev had more limited experience with that cats because Russian Ussuriland is situated in more Northern latitudes than Chinese Manchuria and Korea and actually its the very edge of the areal of that cat. Obviously in Korea that animals were much more numerous.

For now I red first tree chapters of the book. Shortly Jankovski described how his father got him to study the art of tiger hunting when he was only 11 years old. When Jankovski had been 15 years old he with his 2 brothers and one local peasant made his first real tiger hunt. A local tiger killed a horse from Jankovski's family farm so they start chasing him for many miles riding their horses. Their father told to sons to not tire the tiger during the chase too much because he will get angry to the people. They didn't listen him a the tiger attacked one of the horseman and slightly injured the rider. But luckily the horse succeeded to kick the tiger with it's metal hoof in the head. They shot the predator when he was trying to maul the peasant.

Jankovski the Seniour doesnt posses the narrative genius of Vladimir Arseniev - the greatest man in Russian Far East but he was a good writer with a huge forest experience. Once he was injured by tigress - the animal from the left in the bottom photo.
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