Field biologist Alan Rabinowitz has spent decades studying tigers and leopards in Thailand. His book “Beyond the Last Village,” recounts his time in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma.) He tells Steve Paulson that even the Burmese government didn’t really know what was there. He found a new species of deer; met the remnants of a tribe of pygmies who’ve chosen to let their race become extinct; and learned that the locals hunt animals for the Chinese medicine trade in exchange for salt.