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This paper continues our investigation of the dynamics of families of transcendental meromorphic functions with finitely many singular values all of which are finite. Here we look at a generalization of the family of polynomials $P_a(z)=z^{d-1}(z- \frac{da}{(d-1)})$, the family $f_{\lambda}=\lambda \tan^p z^q$. These functions have a super-attractive fixed point, and, depending on $p$, one or two asymptotic values. Although many of the dynamical properties generalize, the existence of an essential singularity and of poles of multiplicity greater than one implies that significantly different techniques are required here. Adding transcendental methods to standard ones, we give a description of the dynamical properties; in particular we prove the Julia set of a hyperbolic map is either connected and locally connected or a Cantor set. We also give a description of the parameter plane of the family $f_{\lambda}$. Again there are similarities to and differences from the parameter plane of the family $P_a$ and again there are new techniques. In particular, we prove there is dense set of points on the boundaries of the hyperbolic components that are accessible along curves and we characterize these points., Comment: 42 pages, 6 figures

In this paper we study the transition to chaos for the restriction to the real and imaginary axes of the tangent family $\{ T_t(z)=i t\tan z\}_{0< t\leq \pi}$. Because tangent maps have no critical points but have an essential singularity at infinity and two symmetric asymptotic values, there are new phenomena: as $t$ increases we find single instances of "period quadrupling", "period splitting" and standard "period doubling"; there follows a general pattern of "period merging" where two attracting cycles of period $2^n$ "merge" into one attracting cycle of period $2^{n+1}$, and "cycle doubling" where an attracting cycle of period $2^{n+1}$ "becomes" two attracting cycles of the same period. We use renormalization to prove the existence of these bifurcation parameters. The uniqueness of the cycle doubling and cycle merging parameters is quite subtle and requires a new approach. To prove the cycle doubling and merging parameters are, indeed, unique, we apply the concept of "holomorphic motions" to our context. In addition, we prove that there is an "infinitely renormalizable" tangent map $T_{t_\infty}$. It has no attracting or parabolic cycles. Instead, it has a strange attractor contained in the real and imaginary axes which is forward invariant and minimal under $T^2_{t_\infty}$. The intersection of this strange attractor with the real line consists of two binary Cantor sets and the intersection with the imaginary line is totally disconnected, perfect and unbounded., Comment: 52 pages, 15 figures