Maurice Hornocker is the director of the Hornocker Wildlife Institute at the University of Idaho. A wildlife biologist and one of the world's foremost authorities on the great cats, Hornocker pioneered the use of radio telemetry to conduct field studies of cougars and jaguars. Along with his associate Dr. Howard Quigley, Hornocker is co-director of the Siberian Tiger Project, and international research program based in eastern Russia studying the ecology and range and habitat requirements of the Siberian tigers as a basis for a plan to try and save it from extinction.