Author: jonathanslaght

• Tigers & the Art of Persuasion

  The latest from my Scientific American series, East of Siberia: THE TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS OF PRIMORYE become dense and green in summer, a vastness lost on those within it. Visibility can drop to…

• An Osprey, Until It Wasn’t

    The latest from my Scientific American series, East of Siberia: In autumn, 2012, hunters found a young osprey wandering the forest of coastal Primorye. Whereas most of these fish-eating raptors…

• Walking Rivers with Tigers

  My most recent post at Scientific American: Why do tigers always seem to turn up when I’m looking for owls? My Russian colleagues and I spent about a month surveying…