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Tigers
A Carolrhoda Nature Watch Book
written and photographed by Lynn M. Stone
Tigers
Tigers
A Carolrhoda Nature Watch Book
written and photographed by Lynn M. Stone
Carolrhoda Books, Inc. / Minneapolis
CONTENTS
Tigers Are Cats 7
Tiger Country 14
Born to Kill 20
ing a Tiger 27
Tracking Tigers 35
Saving the Perfect Predator 38
Glossary 46
For Brittany, who loves cats of all stripes,
and for Cyndi and Craig, who brought me Index 47
closer to tigers than I had ever been before.
Copyright © 2005 by Lynn M. Stone
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of
this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written
permission of Carolrhoda Books, Inc., except for the inclusion of
brief quotations in an acknowledged review.
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
A division of Lerner Publishing Group
241 First Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401, .
Website address:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stone, Lynn M.
Tigers / by Lynn M. Stone.
p. cm.
“A Carolrhoda nature watch book.”
Includes index
Contents: Tigers are cats — Tiger country — Born to kill
— ing a tiger — Tracking tigers — Saving the perfect
predator.
eISBN 1-57505-832-4 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. Tigers—Juvenile literature. [1. Tigers.] I. Title.
2005
—dc22 2003023230
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 6 – JR – 10 09 08 07 06 05
Tigers are both beautiful and dangerous.
6
Few humans would
want to face the fury
of a snarling tiger
up close.
TIGERS ARE CATS
The tiger, in a single, handsome pack- tiger. No one looks at a tiger without
age, is everything we love—and fear— feeling something. It may be a feeling of
about wild animals. A tiger can be the awe, joy, or sheer terror. It’s one thing to
picture of motherhood, beauty, grace, admi