Educational References involving TMLF Animals, Animals, Animals in the UK written by Barbara Brooks, TMLF Publicist These Tiger Pac Primers (7 in all) were produced by Animals, Animals, Animals in the UK. Distributed to children throughout the World with the assistance of Tiger Missing Link Foundation and our publicist Barbara Brooks.  Many of the tiger's names were utilized from our very own wildlife refuge Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge. These stories are factual based. They are free for your students to View or Download for Reading.     International References involving TMLF Scientists in the Field Series The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans written by Sy Montgomery • photographs by Eleanor Briggs Along the Bay of Bengal between India and Bangladesh stretches a strange and beautiful flooded forest. This enchanted forest is called the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve and is home to more tigers than anywhere else on earth. There are said to be some five hundred tigers here. Nowhere else do tigers live in a mangrove swamp. And nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people. Yet about three hundred people are killed each year by the tigers of Sundarbans. No one knows why. The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans is a mystery story, but it is also a story about science and myth, about people and tigers, and about different ways of seeing the natural world. Sy Montgomery traveled to Sundarbans searching for answers to the mysteries surrounding these tigers. She listened to what scientists had to say about the unusual tiger behavior and to the stories of the villagers who revere the very animals who hunt them. Sy Montgomery writes for children and adults. Her first children’s book, The Snake Scientist, was selected for the John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers and was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon selection, and as the winner of the 2000 International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award for nonfiction. Her work with the people and Tigers of Sundarbans was made into a National Geographic documentary of the same name. February • Full-color photographs Ages 8–12 • Grades 3–7 64 pages • 9 x 11 ISBN 0-618-07704-9 • LC: 00-32031 Nonfiction Animal Welfare References involving TMLF ' First' tiger to undergo open heart surgery dies of complications By Kylie Taggart VOLUME 37, NO. 02, January 16, 2001 COLLEGE STATION, TEX. – The first tiger cub to receive open heart surgery died of complications following what was thought to be a successful procedure. Karma, a five-month-old Bengal tiger cub rescued from an animal breeder, was operated on at the college of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University in early December 2000. The bypass surgery was carried out to correct the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot. Blood from Karma's mother was held for possible transfusion during the surgery. The surgery was carried out by Dr. Charles Fraser, chief of cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and Dr. Terry Fossum (DVM, PhD), chief of surgery at the college. Dr. Fraser has performed the procedure in children more than 200 times. "We were pleased overall with how Karma did in surgery. However, we were very concerned with his lung capacity and ability to breathe," Dr. Fossum said. "Karma's lungs filled with fluid and we were not able to save him. We are not certain if this was a response to the procedure, the medicine or other complications," Dr. Fossum said. Karma was rescued at six weeks of age from an exotic animal breeder in the American Midwest. Along with his sister and mother, Karma arrived at the Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge in Tyler, Tex., dehydrated, malnourished and suffering from other minor ailments. The presence of Tetralogy of Fallot was detected in October. The refuge is run by the Tiger Missing Link Foundation (www.tigerlink.org), which focuses on the rescue and rehabilitation of great cats which have been abused, neglected or displaced and in need of a home. Twenty-one cats live at the refuge. Scientific References involving TMLF Riding the Tiger Edited by John Seidensticker, Sarah Christie, Peter Jackson, Foreword by Richard Burge Cambridge University Press 2001 Cambridge University Press Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road Cambridge CB2 2RU Tel: +44 (0)1223 312393 Fax: +44 (0)1223 315052 Beauty, grace and power make the tiger one of the world’s most loved animals, yet it is precisely these qualities that have been its downfall. Poaching for skins and body parts, loss of habitat and prey and conflicts between people and wild tigers have caused catastrophic declines in tiger numbers throughout their range. If wild tigers are to survive through the next century, we must act now. Riding the Tiger is a comprehensive, scientific and eminently readable account of the problems and possible solutions of securing a future for wild tigers. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, it is written by leading conservationists working throughout Asia. It is a vital information resource for tiger conservationists in the field, necessary reading for serious students of carnivore conservation and conservation biologists in general, and an accessible overview of tiger conservation for general readers. Chapter Contents Foreword Richard Burge; Preface John Seidensticker, Peter Jackson and Sarah Christie; Part I. Introducing the Tiger: 1. Ecology, behaviour and resilience of the tiger and its conservation needs Mel Sunquist, K. Ullas Karanth and Fiona Sunquist; 2. Tiger distribution, phenotypic variation and conservation issues Andrew C. Kitchener; 3. Subspecies of tigers Joelle Wentzel, "Brian Werner, Tiger Missing Link Foundation (Texas Tiger)", J. Claiborne Stephens, Warren Johnson, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, Jill Pecon Slattery, Naoya Yuhki, Mary Carrington, Howard B. Quigley, Dale G. Miquelle, Ron Tilson, Jansen Manansang, Gerald Brady, Lu Zhi, Pan Wenshi, Huang Shi-Qiang, Leslie Johnston, Mel Sunquist, K. Ullas Karanth and Stephen O’Brien; 4. The tiger in human consciousness Peter Jackson; Part II. Tiger Ecology: Understanding and Encouraging Landscape Patterns and Conditions where Tigers Can Persist: 5. Population dynamics of the Amur tiger in Sikhote-Alin Evgeny N. Smirnov and Dale G. Miquelle; 6. Hierarchical spatial analysis of Amur tiger relationships to habitat and prey Sale G. Miquelle, Evgeny N. Smirnov, Troy W. Merrill, Alexander E. Myslenkov, Howard B. Quigley, Maurice B. Hornocker and Bart Schleyer; 7. Prey depletion as a critical determinant of tiger population viability K. Ullas Karanth and Bradley M. Stith; 8. Long-term monitoring of Indian tigers K. Ullas Karanth, Melvin E. Sunquist and K. M. Chinnappa; 9. Tigers in Panna Raghunandan Chundawat, Neel Gogate and A. J. T. Johnsingh; 10. Last of the Indonesian tigers: A cause for optimism Neil Franklin, Bastoni, Sriyanto, Dwiatmo Siswomartono, Jansen Manansang and Ronald Tilson; 11. The status of the Indochinese tiger Alan Rabinowitz; 12. Mapping the metapopulation structure of Thailand’s tigers James L. David Smith, Schwann Tunikorn, Sompon Tanhan, Saksit Simcharoen and Budsabong Kanchanasaka; 13. Metapopulation structure of tigers in Nepal James L. David Smith, Charles McDougal, Sean C. Ahearn, Anup Joshi and Kathy Conforti; Part III. Approaches to Tiger Conservation: A: Linking in situ and ex situ tiger conservation: 14. Effective tiger conservation requires co-operation Ron Tilson and Sarah Christie; B: The trade in tiger parts and what to do about it: 15. The beginning of the end of tigers in trade Ginette Hemley and Judy Mills; 16. Roaring back: Anti-poaching operations in the Russian Far East and the comeback of the Amur tiger Steven Russell Galster and Karin Vaud Eliot; 17. Tiger anti-trade and anti-poaching strategies for the Indian sub-continent Ashok Kumar and Belinda Wright; C: People, tiger habitat availability and linkages for the tiger’s future: 18. Where can tigers live in the future? Eric D. Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, John G. Robinson, K. Ullas Karanth, Alan Rabinowitz, David Olson, Thomas Mathew, Prashant Hedao, Melissa Connor, Ginette Hemley and Dolene Bolze; 19. A habitat protection plan for the Amur tiger Dale G. Miquelle, Troy W. Merrill, Yuri Dunishenko, Evgeny N. Smirnov, Howard B. Quigley, Dimitriy G. Pikunov and Maurice B. Hornocker; 20. The tragedy of the Indian tiger Valmik Thapar; 21. Reconciling the needs of conservation and local communities Kathy MacKinnon, Hemanta Mishra and Jessica Mott; 22. Tigers as neighbours Eric Dinerstein, Arun Rijal, Marnie Bookbinder, Bijaya Kattel and Arup Rajuria; Epilogue: Securing the tiger’s future John Seidensticker, Peter Jackson and Sarah Christie; Appendices; Literature cited; Index. Next Section (Contact TMLF) ---> Copyright © 2002 Tiger Missing Link Foundation. All rights reserved. TEXT MENU