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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

by Jonathan C. Slaght (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 28, 2026 05:26PM

“Jefferson also hoped they might discover a living giant sloth. The bones of thus creature were well known to Jefferson, and his rational mind couldn't conceive of any reason why nature would be so wasteful and inefficient as to let a perfectly good species vanish.”
― Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

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“A single parrot locked in a cage is the saddest sight imaginable once you've sat under a fruiting rainforest tree full of chuckling birds, deftly plucking fruits, continuously chattering to each other, and occasionally taking a break from feeding to swing by their beaks from a branch just for the hell of it.”
― Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

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