An action shot in the field of me and some other students speaking with Dave Smith, the other instructor of this course. He was describing the utility of the method that we were learning in the field that day and giving us feedback on our map. Dave is an extremely knowledgeable tiger biologist who always pushed us to improve our technical skills and knowledge.

An action shot of me removing a small songbird from a mist net in Bueng Boraphet Wetland in central Thailand. Though the class is touted for its tiger-related study, we also spend a few days at this wetland doing work on birds. We spent two days learning about how to set up mist nets to capture birds, banding for population surveys, deploying cannon nets for shorebirds, and field techniques for handling live birds.

The view from our window at our hotel in Bangkok. After two weeks in the jungle living at research stations, some creature comforts like a hot shower and a lovely city view hit the spot! We spent the last three days of the course in Bangkok for a brief exposure to Thai culture and a lovely farewell dinner hosted by Francie and Dave!

Presenting our class project during our last days at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary. This is a major portion of how the course is graded and a great opportunity to get hands on with data that can be directly used to help the progress of Team Tiger! For this project, we aged the jawbones of a main source of tiger prey to assess which types of individuals in that population that tigers prefer to eat.

Full group shot of the entire class. We took this photo at the overlook to Huai Kha Khaeng when we were going out and practicing the use of a radio collar tracking technique.

A group learning shot of some of the class learning some of the mammal tracks that can be found at Huai Kha Khaeng including tigers, leopards, elephants, cows, buffalo, and deer!