Prior mention of the tiger book.
I had the book out of the library for a few weeks and flipped through it. I didn’t read it but skimmed bits from the index.
One bit that caught my eye was how tigers change ecosystems. They released a tiger into an unoccupied habitat where wolves were the dominant predator. The wolves were soon eaten or pushed out by the tiger. I was surprised that they would do that.
Another example was how they spread out. Young males in some cases covered hundreds of miles looking for females or habitat they liked. That exposed them to a lot more mortality. Some were crossing the milewide(?) Amur river or going into and out of China.
This review covers some of my same reasons I didn’t read it completely. Slaght didn’t have a personal connection to the tiger work like he did with his owl book. The tiger book was more reportage on the politics and personalities involved than the tigers as I saw it. The time frame covered was the last 30-40 years.