The Tiger

50 miles

Approximately how many miles from a paved road is the village of Sobolonye?

The Tsars

Before The revolution whom did people call "little father"?

Re-opening of the Chinese border following... With Beijing

Commercial tiger poaching was virtually known in Russia until 1989 what happened then?

No the tiger broke his wrist and both his legs he....died from the cold.

Did the tiger kill Khomenko?

A soviet-era snowmobile

For what did Markov and Onofreychuk trade the skin of a tiger?

Use to kill fish in creeks and blow bears out of dens.

For what purpose were the explosives that Inspection Tiger confiscated?

- Expense - Dense forests cover the Bikin Valley - Spotting from air is slim/ hard to find the right tiger - Difficult determination to make from 100 yards

For what reasons did the tiger hunting team decide against using a helicopter for the search?

What did the Russians call World War ll?

Great Patriotic War

Knee deep Walking single file

How deep is the snow the trackers were walking through? What did this mean for how they walked as a group?

Russians admire powerful & paternalistic ppl like Tsars.

How did Valliant explain Russians admiration of Putin and even Stalin?

Radio collars

How did the wildlife conservation Society's Siberian tiger ?

With vodka

How did they sterilize the wound?

Blood relatives, spiritual companions, hunting guides, sources of power

How do Udeghe, like the Sioux, identify with animals?

Reject the notion of animal consciousness

How do ethnologist differ from strict behaviorists?

Shuhai=forest sea

How do the Chinese refer to the forest of Primorye?

A devastating if effective reset of the nations currency.

How does Vaillant describe the New Ruble?

Fur traders, gold seekers and explorers, soldiers, industrial resources, navy, railroads Answer=All

How does Villant compare Russia's expansion into the Far East with American's into the West?

Study behavior in order to be able to hunt them

How is hunting like ethology?

Environmental Protection

In 1994 Trush left his job at a coal mine to do what?

Afghan war

In which war did Yuri Trush hope to fight in 1979?

1953

In which year did Stalin die?

Sea of Japan

Near which sea is primorye located?

Washington State

Primorye equals the size of which American state?

Next to the sea

Primorye means

Excepting a favor from communist party or magia

To what did Mikhail Dunkai compare accepting meat from a tiger?

1935 Appalachia

To what time and place does Vaillant compare Sobolonye today and why?

Staples made out of herring cans

Trush was "put back together" with a "herring". What was a "herring"?

Katastrokia

What "ignominious nickname" has Sobolonye earned since the mid '90s?

Amur River b/t China and Khabarovsk territory

What Is the Jewish autonomous region and where is it located

Honey and nuts, mushrooms and medical roots, ginger, fur trapping, gold mining Answer= All

What are some of the "small but well-developed industries and markets for many kinds of Forest products"?

Availability of powerful hunting rifles, Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicles, access via logging roads, breakdown in traditional hunting.

What are the four factors possibly contributing to a potential increase in scenarios like Markov's?

"Call of the tiger"- a powerful logging company gained acces "Udeghe Legend"

What are the names in English of the two new federal parks that were created in Primorye in 2007 and how did one of these parks get ransacked?

Logging, mining,fishing, hunting

What are the popular "crude" industries there?

Pay for medical and psychological test, costs up to $1000.

What are the steps involved in getting a license to own a gun?

Hunger, injury, and rage

What are the three possibilities Vaillant gives for the Tigers change the behavior of "calculated audacity?"

The tiger was considered a protector, a just Animal if you were to hunt or kill one it would take revenge against you and your family.

What believes do the nanai have about tigers?

Outer Manchuria- now Primorye and southern Khanbarovsk territory

What did Russia gain from the Treaty of Peking in 1860?

They have all been Russian

What did Vasily Dunkai, an aspiring shaman, point out about the Tigers victims?

Throw them away and burn them

What did Yuri Pionka's father tell him to do with the clothes he wore and knife he used when he skinned the tiger?

Bogatyri

What did one Tiger biologist called Tiger catchers?

Show no fear

What did the former Moscow policemen advise people to do if they encounter a tiger?

Bad luck

What do Russians believe about shaking hands across the threshold?

Zapovednik

What do Russians called nature reserves?

To give them human characteristics

What do anthropologists mean when they say the indigenous people tend to "anthropomorphize" the animals around them?

He is now marked with Tiger and some people won't let him sleep under the same roof

What do the native people tell Trush about the fact that he survive the tiger attack?

Sable Place

What does "Sobolonye" mean?

Mother Taiga

What does "Taiga Matushka" mean?

Entrenched, systematic, often barbaric

What does Vaillant say about hazing of new recruits in the Russian army?

They are Rare

What does Vaillant say about the Rees along the Bikin River Valley?

Crime, Alcoholism Dependency

What does Vaillant say replaced the communist assurances of education, employment, housing and food after Perestroika?

The Boreal Jungle

What does calling suggest we call the region?

Blackballed Soviet citizens could be exonerated of his crimes and restored to good standing dead or alive.

What does it mean when a person is rehabilitated?

Sanskirt Word for tiger

What does the brand-name Viagra mean?

Vigorous & impassioned

What does valliant say about political correctness, Eco-speak and patriotism in the Far East?

Executed Japanese spy's

What happened to Arseniev's wife and daughter?

The rifle had gone down the Tigers throat all the way to the stock

What happened to Trush's rifle?

Stuffed and put on displat in the Arseniev museum

What has been done with the tiger and where is it?

Korean pine nuts

What have been variously referred to as "Siberian conservation" the "bread of the forest" and "the hub around which the wheel of life revolves"?

One of the planets biggest carbon sinks

What in Siberia contributes to one of the main causes of climate change?

Illegal shipping gets you the low price

What is Vaillants explanation for how it is that we in the US can find a solid oak toilet seat for only $20?

Self-propelled versions of the Caravans Markov & loggers used

What is a Kung?

A man of the taiga

What is a tayozhnik?

Enormous fur-covered creature, "like a tiger" that eats ppl.

What is an egule?

Amur

What is another name for this subspecies of tiger?

To study behavior and social organization.

What is ethology?

**** your mother

What is mat?

A honey based drink comparable to mead.

What is medovukha?

Vladivostok

What is the largest city in the region?

Khanka

What is the largest lake in the Far East?

Investigate forest crimes, specifically those involving tigers

What is the purpose of inspection tigers?

Homemade, felt soled Arctic moccasins that mimics tiger pads

What kind of foods had Andrei Potepnya been wearing?

Drum

What objects serves as the shaman's "vital organ," "the membrane through which he travels to the spirt world"?

Markiz= Duke

What was Markov's nickname and what does it mean?

Make an Aspic

What was one man going to do with the Tigers head that he stole?

1937

What was the peak year of Stalin's purges?

Being Japanese Spies

What were the citizens of Primorye typically charged with for their arrest?

Lynx Fat

What would Markov sometimes give two sick children?

17th century

When did Russians begin colonizing Primorye?

9 days after death -soul wandering 40-soul has expected to settle

When do Russians hold vigils for the deceased?

The hunters there from Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf

When the loggers arrived at Markov's cabin with Onofreychuk to what does Vallient compare their loud entrance?

Outside to maintain their temp

Where do the poachers tend to store their guns and why?

Tipis, totem poles, bows/arrows, birch bark canoes, dog sled...

Which "quintessentially North America" aboriginal technologies originated in Primorye?

Siberian tiger Steppers of Mongolia Subtropics Boreal Forest

Which four distinct bio regions converge in Primorye?

Amur leopard

Which is rare are the Amur tiger or the Amur Leopard?

Amur

Which is the longest undammed river in the world?

Ussuri & Amur

Which two major rivers separate Primorye from the rest of Asia?

Henry V

Which world famous author wrote similarly about tigers?

Solitary Elderly Nanai hunter

Who was Dersu Uzala

Yuri Pionka That it was an appropriate response.

Who was the only native on the tiger hunting team and to what tribe did he belong? And what do his people believe about blood vengeance?

Conquistadors of Eurasia, Garuda of the Cezars, horsemen Answer= All

Who were the Cossacks?

A conservative branch of Orthodox Christians.

Who were the old believers?

Tigers ear them

Why are there few wolves in Primorye ?

He believed that the tiger had already taken his soul

Why did Mikail Dunkai believe that Markov would have walked through the forest alone when an angry tiger was looking for him?

Independence, fighting skills, and tribal solidarity

Why did Stalin add the Cossacks to his "long list of enemies"?

Strength from the tiger was transferred to him.

Why does Sergei Sokolov believe he is spiritually stronger than he used to be?

High mortality and relocation.

Why does the number of Russians in the far east decrease steadily?

Bc it doesn't live in Siberia

Why is "Siberian" Tiger a misnomer?

Logging

Why is the Tigers habitat decreasing?

Because that is what you could buy with a tiger

Why were tigers in Primorya referred to as "Toyotas"?

"if you're afraid of the wolf, stay out of the forest."

With which Russian pro verb does Vaillantbegin this chapter?