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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Colophon</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"/></head><body><div class="colophon" title="Colophon"><h1 class="title"><a id="colophon"/>Colophon</h1><p>The animals on the cover of <span class="emphasis"><em>Learning Java</em></span>, Fourth
Edition are a Bengal tigress and her cubs. The Bengal tiger
(<span class="emphasis"><em>Panthera tigris</em></span>) lives in Southern Asia. It has been
hunted practically to extinction, principally for its bone, which is reputed
to have medicinal value. It now lives mostly in natural preserves and
national parks, where it is strictly protected. It’s estimated that there
are fewer than 3,000 Bengal tigers left in the wild.</p><p>The Bengal tiger is reddish orange with narrow black, gray, or brown
stripes, generally in a vertical direction. Males can grow to nine feet long
and weigh as much as 500 pounds; they are the largest existing members of
the cat family. Preferred habitats include dense thickets, long grass, or
tamarisk shrubs along river banks. Maximum longevity can be 26 years but is
usually only about 15 years in the wild.</p><p>Tigers most commonly conceive after the monsoon rains; the majority of
cubs are born between February and May after a gestation of three and a half
months. Females bear single litters every two to three years. Cubs weigh
under three pounds at birth and are striped. Litters consist of one to four
cubs, with occasionally as many as six, but it’s unusual for more than two
or three to survive. Cubs are weaned at four to six months but depend on
their mother for food and protection for another two years. Female tigers
are mature at three to four years, males at four to five years.</p><p>Their white ear spots may help mothers and cubs to keep track of each
other in the dim forests at night.</p><p>The cover image is an original engraving from the book
<span class="emphasis"><em>Forest and Jungle: An Illustrated History of the Animal
Kingdom</em></span> by P.T. Barnum (1899). The cover font is Adobe ITC
Garamond. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe
Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag’s Ubuntu Mono.</p></div></body></html>