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Informationen zum Autor Christine Taylor-Butler (she/her) is the author of more than eighty fiction and nonfiction books for children. A graduate of MIT, she holds degrees in both civil engineering and art & design. She has served as a past literary awards judge for We Need Diverse Books and the Society of Midland Authors. She is an inaugural member of SteaMG, an alliance of middle grade science fiction authors. You can visit her online at christinetaylorbutler.com and follow her on Twitter @christinetb. Chelsea Clinton (she/her) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Persisted, She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science , Don't Let Them Disappear, It's Your World and Start Now!, as well as Grandma's Gardens and The Book of Gutsy Women, which she wrote with Hillary Clinton, and Governing Global Health with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea earned a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she is now an adjunct assistant professor, and a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. She is also the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she works on many initiatives, including those that help empower the next generation of leaders. She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, their three children and their dog, Soren. Klappentext "Did you know that a tiger roar can be heard from two miles away? Or that tiger saliva prevents infection? Or how about that a tiger's urine smells like buttered popcorn? Perfect for all animal lovers--and tiger fans in particular--this book is filled with information that young readers will love to learn. From where tiger habitats are found to what it's like to be a tiger to why tigers are endangered and who has been working hard to save them, this gives readers all the facts they know to become tiger experts"-- Leseprobe 1 Home on the Range If you wanted to find a tiger, you might try looking in a rainforest. Or you might try a swamp. Of course you might also try looking in places with plenty of tall grass. A savanna would do quite nicely. Even a cold, frozen tundra would work. But even though tigers live in many climates, there is only one continent where you will find wild tigers. That continent is Asia. Tigers in the Wild How many tigers are still living in the wild? That’s not an easy question to answer. Scientists think there were once one hundred thousand tigers living in Asia. That’s enough tigers to fill every seat in the Roman Colosseum twice. Today there are probably fewer than four thousand tigers still living in the wild, so the seats would be almost empty. To find the tigers that remain, be prepared to travel. There are only six subspecies (or types) of tigers left on Earth. But they don’t live in the same places. Sumatran tigers live in tropical rainforests and mangrove swamps. Because Sumatra is an Indonesian island, these tigers don’t ever come in contact with other types of tigers. Indochinese tigers are found in the evergreen forests and mountains of Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and southern China. There might be tigers in Cambodia and Laos, but no one has seen any recently, so we don’t know for sure. Malayan tigers live in dense, moist tropical forests and brush on a strip of land called the Malay Peninsula. It is surrounded by water on three sides and contains parts of Malaysia, Thailand, and Myanmar. Siberian tigers (also known as Amur tigers) live in the north where it’s often cold and snowy. They make their homes in Chinese and Russian pine forests. Sadly there are only a few South China tigers left on Earth. To keep them from becoming extinct, the few that remained were first moved to Chinese zoos for breeding. But the tigers did not thrive at the zoos. No cubs were born. Now they ...
