The social organization of tigers in Royal Chitwan National Park

Sunquist's radio-telemetry monograph from Nepal was among the first rigorous field studies of tiger spacing, movements and predation. He documented home-range sizes, land-tenure dynamics and how prey distribution shapes tiger ranging, alongside data on kill rates, prey selection and the relationship between tiger density and ungulate abundance in the Chitwan lowlands. The study established that prey density governs tiger spatial organization and reproductive success, foreshadowing later prey-based conservation. Its methods and baseline data on solitary-felid spacing and predation underpin decades of subsequent tiger research, and it remains a key historical reference for the ecology of large solitary cats in tropical Asian forests and grasslands.