1 00:02:40,226 --> 00:02:41,989 December. 2 00:02:42,128 --> 00:02:46,792 It is winter in anha National Park in central India. 3 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:51,535 These very same grasslands and forests were the inspiration 4 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:55,505 for Rudyard ipling's immortal Jungle Book stories. 5 00:02:55,642 --> 00:03:01,478 The spirit of wild India that he evoked still lives here. 6 00:03:27,874 --> 00:03:31,366 Anha National Park is prime tiger country. 7 00:03:31,511 --> 00:03:39,179 Sixty years ago its 363 square miles were part of vast primordial forests. 8 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:44,416 Since then these forests have been denuded on a gigantic scale. 9 00:03:44,557 --> 00:03:48,926 But anha has been preserved in its pristine state. 10 00:03:49,963 --> 00:03:54,764 The tiger still roars here, still spreads his dread. 11 00:04:27,333 --> 00:04:32,066 Just before dawn this male tiger killed a sambar stag. 12 00:04:32,205 --> 00:04:37,837 Now, a few hours later, he drags his prize into deep cover 13 00:04:37,977 --> 00:04:41,538 to hide it from the prying eyes of vultures. 14 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:46,918 Like all of his kind he is solitary for most of his life 15 00:04:47,053 --> 00:04:50,216 a lone hunter who lives by stealth. 16 00:05:01,534 --> 00:05:03,263 The night has been cold. 17 00:05:04,404 --> 00:05:07,965 The gray langur monkeys, after their first meal of the day, 18 00:05:08,107 --> 00:05:11,941 rest and groom each other in the warmth of the early sun. 19 00:05:16,616 --> 00:05:20,450 Winter is the season of birth for most langurs. 20 00:05:21,421 --> 00:05:26,154 This newborn, only a few hours old, is the center of attraction. 21 00:05:26,292 --> 00:05:30,285 The new member of the troop is passed from one female to another 22 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:33,490 as many as ten times in half an hour. 23 00:05:33,633 --> 00:05:37,330 It is treated with great curiosity and affection. 24 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:40,405 This "aunt" behavior, as it is called, 25 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:46,069 inducts the infant into the troop, makes it feel welcome and secure. 26 00:06:34,927 --> 00:06:38,761 The monsoon rains ceased more than two months ago. 27 00:06:38,898 --> 00:06:42,959 But along the streams the vegetation is still green. 28 00:06:43,102 --> 00:06:47,198 Grass-shrouded water holes are perfect hiding places 29 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:50,935 from which the tiger tries to ambush the chital. 30 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:14,565 Despite his power and camouflage 31 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:17,760 the tiger often fails to make a kill. 32 00:07:18,738 --> 00:07:23,198 Only about one hunt in twenty ends in success. 33 00:07:44,163 --> 00:07:47,621 In mid-January, when winter is at its coldest, 34 00:07:47,767 --> 00:07:51,225 the rut of the barasingha reaches its peak. 35 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:12,188 During this season of courtship and mating, 36 00:08:12,325 --> 00:08:14,350 stages bugle and fight 37 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:17,930 to establish who among them will mate with the does. 38 00:08:27,807 --> 00:08:30,708 A tigress watches the combat from her cave 39 00:08:30,843 --> 00:08:33,573 where she is hiding newborn cubs. 40 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:40,247 Helpless young with great fierceness and devotion. 41 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:52,020 It will be some weeks before she will bring her cubs out into the open. 42 00:09:02,074 --> 00:09:07,102 For the most part, anha's tigers remain elusive and mysterious, 43 00:09:07,246 --> 00:09:11,478 concealed by the dense undergrowth and the jungles of grass. 44 00:09:12,451 --> 00:09:17,388 But in Ranthambhor National Park 370 miles to the northwest, 45 00:09:17,523 --> 00:09:21,015 the habitat is drier and more open. 46 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,254 In February, early spring in India, 47 00:09:24,397 --> 00:09:29,164 Ranthambhor's 64 square miles are already parched. 48 00:09:29,302 --> 00:09:33,238 The monsoon rains are only a vague memory. 49 00:09:33,372 --> 00:09:36,899 But cradled in the hills is a chain of lakes, 50 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:41,946 and it is because of this permanent water that wild animals flourish here. 51 00:09:51,958 --> 00:09:53,789 Unlike pristine anha, 52 00:09:53,926 --> 00:09:57,453 ranthambhor has a long history of human occupation 53 00:09:57,597 --> 00:10:00,157 dating back to the 11th century. 54 00:10:00,299 --> 00:10:04,463 Dominating the reserve is Ranthambhor fort. 55 00:10:05,371 --> 00:10:09,933 Now deserted by man, the fort has become the haunt of animals. 56 00:10:16,549 --> 00:10:20,212 Centuries ago it was the focal point of a vigorous city. 57 00:10:20,353 --> 00:10:24,016 Battles raged back and forth over the hills. 58 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:42,607 In more recent times villages thrived deep inside Ranthambhor. 59 00:10:42,742 --> 00:10:45,836 But their inhabitants have also gone. 60 00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:50,381 They were encouraged to settle on better land outside the park. 61 00:10:56,322 --> 00:11:00,088 Monuments to forgotten dramas dot the reserve. 62 00:11:00,226 --> 00:11:04,560 This stone marks the spot where a widow committed suttee 63 00:11:04,697 --> 00:11:09,100 where she burned herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre. 64 00:11:13,939 --> 00:11:16,271 Only the ruins remain. 65 00:11:16,409 --> 00:11:21,312 Man has moved out of Ranthambhor after almost a thousand years 66 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:24,041 and returned it to the wildlife. 67 00:11:25,051 --> 00:11:30,387 On this cool spring morning it is not an ancient warrior who keeps vigil, 68 00:11:30,523 --> 00:11:35,654 but a tigress on the lookout for sambar, her favorite prey. 69 00:12:19,572 --> 00:12:24,441 When the sambar lie down to chew their cud, they are still out of range 70 00:12:25,177 --> 00:12:28,578 The tigress waits patiently. 71 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:06,176 The deer's senses of smell and hearing are acute, 72 00:13:06,318 --> 00:13:08,718 but their vision is only moderate. 73 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:14,389 As long as he tigress moves very, very slowly 74 00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:16,620 or remains motionless 75 00:13:16,762 --> 00:13:19,128 she cannot be been by them, 76 00:13:19,265 --> 00:13:22,632 even when only 30 or 40 feet away. 77 00:13:22,768 --> 00:13:26,226 Her camouflage hides her completely. 78 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:34,210 The wind shifts and the tigress is scented. 79 00:14:14,753 --> 00:14:16,118 The hunt is over. 80 00:14:27,566 --> 00:14:30,296 A tigress stakes her claim to her home range 81 00:14:30,436 --> 00:14:33,667 by spraying prominent trees and bushes 82 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,898 Male tigers mark their territories in a symbolic fashion. 83 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:13,300 The size of a tiger's home range thus marked out varies widely. 84 00:15:13,445 --> 00:15:18,405 On the average a female's territory is some ten square miles. 85 00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:24,315 Males have much larger territories which overlap those of the females. 86 00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,955 When one tiger smells the scent of another 87 00:15:34,099 --> 00:15:37,933 it grimaces in what is called a "flehmen" display. 88 00:15:38,070 --> 00:15:41,767 By following scent markings and listening for roars, 89 00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:44,842 males and females find each other. 90 00:16:38,597 --> 00:16:43,034 The pair stays together for two or three days and mates frequently 91 00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:47,298 for some periods as often as every 10 to 15 minutes. 92 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,643 The hills are almost devoid of nutritious grazing. 93 00:19:11,783 --> 00:19:15,412 The sambar must come to the lake to feed on water plant. 94 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:36,035 The deer and the mugger crocodiles share the lake peaceably. 95 00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:47,852 The sambar are nervous and uneasy 96 00:19:47,986 --> 00:19:51,854 ready to flee at the slightest sound or movement. 97 00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:56,484 The constant and hidden menace of the tiger haunts their every move. 98 00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:41,694 Though he failed to make a kill, 99 00:21:41,833 --> 00:21:45,291 as is so often the case, this exceptionally bold 100 00:21:45,437 --> 00:21:50,773 and athletic male specializes in hunting from ambush around the lakes. 101 00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:32,976 Early the next morning this same tiger finally killed a sambar in the lake. 102 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:38,351 But to his fury the crocodiles have snatched it from him. 103 00:23:20,766 --> 00:23:25,135 Intimidated by the crocodiles' strangely aggressive behavior, 104 00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:28,000 the tiger reluctantly retreats. 105 00:23:42,521 --> 00:23:46,753 But like all of his kind he does not give up his quarry easily. 106 00:23:49,127 --> 00:23:51,721 For nine hours the tiger waits. 107 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:02,566 When sambar come down to drink, he is not distracted from his purpose. 108 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:10,005 Finally he summons up enough courage to reclaim his kill. 109 00:24:53,258 --> 00:24:56,591 The water is deep, and it takes a supreme feat of strength 110 00:24:56,728 --> 00:25:01,995 to swim through the water plants while dragging the 250-pound sambar. 111 00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:27,417 The crocodiles' teeth are designed to seize and hold prey, 112 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,493 not to cut through skin. 113 00:25:29,628 --> 00:25:32,825 During all the hours the sambar lay in the water, 114 00:25:32,964 --> 00:25:36,559 they were unable to penetrate the deer's tough hide. 115 00:25:38,403 --> 00:25:41,338 The crocodiles make a few token objections, 116 00:25:41,473 --> 00:25:44,271 but in the end give up without a struggle. 117 00:26:44,069 --> 00:26:48,130 During the night a tigress has brought down a large sambar doe. 118 00:27:06,591 --> 00:27:10,027 The ever present tree pies are already in attendance. 119 00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:12,891 The birds eat only miniscule amounts, 120 00:27:13,031 --> 00:27:16,626 but the tigress resents any interference with her kill 121 00:27:16,768 --> 00:27:19,100 and relentlessly chases them off. 122 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:30,605 Her usual strategy for dealing with constantly pestering scavengers 123 00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:33,843 would be to drag the carcass to a hiding place. 124 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:38,445 But this kill is too heavy, the terrain too difficult. 125 00:27:38,590 --> 00:27:42,788 Another ruse would be to cover it with dry grass or leaf litter. 126 00:27:42,927 --> 00:27:45,418 But these are absent here, 127 00:27:45,563 --> 00:27:50,694 and the stones she tries to rake over her prize are ineffectual. 128 00:28:07,318 --> 00:28:09,684 The only thing left to do is to guard her kill 129 00:28:09,821 --> 00:28:12,688 by virtually lying on top of it. 130 00:28:16,127 --> 00:28:18,118 The kill is well worth protecting 131 00:28:18,263 --> 00:28:22,290 for she can expect to feed on it for four days or more. 132 00:29:03,641 --> 00:29:07,133 The next morning the tigress in not at her kill. 133 00:29:07,278 --> 00:29:11,112 During the night it has been wrested from her by a male. 134 00:29:44,716 --> 00:29:49,415 She watches from a distance while the male feeds on her sambar. 135 00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:59,589 Wisely the tigress does not stay to dispute the ownership of the kill. 136 00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:09,432 She retreats to a spring deep in a ravine. 137 00:30:36,935 --> 00:30:42,373 Another tigress did fight over a kill. She came off second best. 138 00:31:01,492 --> 00:31:05,690 Spring is the rutting season for the sambar in Ranthambhor. 139 00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:13,364 The stages spray themselves with their male scent. 140 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:17,038 In this way they become more attractive to the does 141 00:31:17,175 --> 00:31:19,973 and more intimidating to other males. 142 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,814 In April, as spring changes to summer, 143 00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:34,823 it becomes drier and hotter. 144 00:31:37,762 --> 00:31:39,423 For the sambar the squeeze 145 00:31:39,564 --> 00:31:42,328 between the need to drink and eat in the lakes 146 00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:47,700 and running the gauntlet of tigers in ambush becomes ever tighter. 147 00:32:25,977 --> 00:32:29,572 The sambar, alert and cautious at all times, 148 00:32:29,714 --> 00:32:31,841 cannot see the tiger. 149 00:32:31,983 --> 00:32:35,919 To them the tall grass is like a blank wall. 150 00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:25,554 May is the height of summer in Ranthambhor. 151 00:34:35,139 --> 00:34:37,801 Tigers stay close to the water holes. 152 00:34:37,942 --> 00:34:41,469 Another six weeks of relentless heat must pass 153 00:34:41,612 --> 00:34:44,376 before the monsoon brings relief. 154 00:34:47,852 --> 00:34:51,686 Anha, in the meantime, has also dried out in the summer heat. 155 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:57,762 But because it is a less arid region, many trees and shrubs remain green. 156 00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:01,663 The streams have ceased to flow. 157 00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:06,166 Only sporadic water holes remain. 158 00:35:07,505 --> 00:35:09,905 Moisture is at a premium. 159 00:35:10,041 --> 00:35:16,105 Even a patch on wet sand is prized by a blizzard of thirsty butterflies. 160 00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:57,919 The cubs of the cave-dwelling tigress have grown. 161 00:35:58,055 --> 00:36:02,856 The two, a male and a female, are now five months old. 162 00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:06,657 The cave has a commanding view, 163 00:36:06,797 --> 00:36:09,994 and the tigress keeps watch for possible prey 164 00:36:10,134 --> 00:36:13,433 and for anything that may be a threat to her cubs. 165 00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:26,939 In late afternoon the tigress sets off to hunt. 166 00:36:29,253 --> 00:36:30,652 The cubs follow her. 167 00:36:41,832 --> 00:36:43,231 Before she has gone very far 168 00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:46,666 the tigress meets a real danger to her young, 169 00:36:46,804 --> 00:36:49,034 the resident male tiger. 170 00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:56,537 She calls on all her ferocity to challenge the much larger animal. 171 00:37:20,671 --> 00:37:24,107 Territorial males, which are known to kill cubs, 172 00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:26,836 are the main threat to the young tigers. 173 00:37:29,046 --> 00:37:31,412 After the frightening confrontation, 174 00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:34,450 the female cub seeks reassurance. 175 00:37:37,288 --> 00:37:39,449 The summer heat continues. 176 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:44,786 Every day it is 105 degrees or more in the shade. 177 00:37:45,696 --> 00:37:48,290 The few water holes are shrinking. 178 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:52,395 Animals must travel long distances to drink. 179 00:38:02,813 --> 00:38:07,841 As in Ranthambhor, there is a constant threat from the well camouflaged tigers 180 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:51,551 A white-breasted kingfisher has taken up residence 181 00:38:51,696 --> 00:38:54,665 and bathes frequently to cool himself. 182 00:39:22,126 --> 00:39:24,959 Langur monkeys spend hours licking salt 183 00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:28,532 and other minerals from the rocks that surround the pool. 184 00:39:34,505 --> 00:39:37,736 The water hole attracts a multitude of birds. 185 00:39:49,286 --> 00:39:54,246 Even the shy red junglefowl, the gaudy ancestor of the domestic chicken, 186 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,657 must leave the protection of the forest to drink. 187 00:40:00,731 --> 00:40:05,794 A lesser adjutant stork probes the water hole for fish and frogs. 188 00:40:25,589 --> 00:40:29,252 The checkered keelback snake is an unwelcome visitor 189 00:40:29,393 --> 00:40:32,453 treated with circumspection by the other animals. 190 00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:44,130 But the reptile is no threat to most of them. 191 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:48,109 It is non-venomous and a confirmed fish-eater. 192 00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:03,483 The deserted water hole no longer has any interest for the tiger. 193 00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:21,142 When the oppressive heat of the day abates, 194 00:41:21,278 --> 00:41:24,736 the barasingha emerge from the forest to drink. 195 00:41:29,186 --> 00:41:33,122 It is a time too when the tigress and her cubs leave their cave. 196 00:41:36,093 --> 00:41:38,960 Before she sets out to feed on the remains of a sambar 197 00:41:39,096 --> 00:41:41,064 she killed two nights ago, 198 00:41:41,198 --> 00:41:42,722 the tigress suckles her young 199 00:41:42,867 --> 00:41:46,894 during an interlude of extraordinary peace and tenderness. 200 00:43:16,627 --> 00:43:20,063 This morning the tigress did not bring the cubs to her kill 201 00:43:20,197 --> 00:43:23,394 even though they are old enough to eat meat for themselves. 202 00:43:23,534 --> 00:43:27,994 Danger in the form of the male tiger is still near. 203 00:44:15,319 --> 00:44:18,755 When the male approaches, she hides the remains of her prey, 204 00:44:18,889 --> 00:44:20,584 covering it with leaves. 205 00:44:22,259 --> 00:44:25,228 She will stay with in until the threat has passed. 206 00:44:48,986 --> 00:44:52,979 Early June is the hottest, driest time of the year. 207 00:44:53,390 --> 00:44:57,588 The shade temperature rises to 110 degrees. 208 00:45:05,069 --> 00:45:08,266 Tigers suffer more than most animals in this heat. 209 00:45:42,773 --> 00:45:44,331 Then one day in mid-June, 210 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:48,206 as the koel and the brainfever bird scream for rain, 211 00:45:48,345 --> 00:45:52,645 a cool wind whips up; the air becomes humid. 212 00:46:14,471 --> 00:46:16,905 The monsoon has finally arrived. 213 00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:43,227 For four days it rains 214 00:46:43,367 --> 00:46:46,461 sometimes lightly, sometimes in torrents. 215 00:46:46,603 --> 00:46:49,697 The temperature drops about 20 degrees 216 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,573 The heat, the dry streams, the brittle bleached grasses, 217 00:46:54,711 --> 00:46:58,078 the aridity of eight virtually rainless months 218 00:46:58,215 --> 00:47:00,547 have disappeared at one stroke. 219 00:47:06,590 --> 00:47:11,721 After the monsoon's first days of rain the sun briefly reappears. 220 00:47:11,862 --> 00:47:18,392 Anha has been transformed, has taken on a cloak of fresh new green. 221 00:47:23,941 --> 00:47:28,071 Termites celebrate the onset on the monsoon with mating flights. 222 00:47:31,181 --> 00:47:36,619 Velvet-textured mites erupt out of the ground and feast on the termites. 223 00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:46,693 Male bullfrogs vie for the females in duels of sound. 224 00:47:48,765 --> 00:47:51,325 Life has been liberated by the rain. 225 00:47:51,468 --> 00:47:54,665 Plants explode into untrammeled growth 226 00:47:54,805 --> 00:47:58,901 The new lushness attracts hordes of leaf-eating insects, 227 00:47:59,042 --> 00:48:03,775 and when the caterpillars unleash their appetites on the monsoon's bounty, 228 00:48:03,914 --> 00:48:07,350 they are an effective restraint on the new leaves. 229 00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:12,786 In July, when the monsoon is firmly established, 230 00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:15,153 the chital gather on the grassland, 231 00:48:15,292 --> 00:48:19,228 which soon reverberate with the sounds and energy of their rut. 232 00:48:29,072 --> 00:48:35,204 A peacock unfurls his train a symbol for the renewal and exuberance of life 233 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,911 A predator other than the tiger, 234 00:49:08,045 --> 00:49:10,377 and one feared by all the animals, 235 00:49:10,514 --> 00:49:13,312 moves down from the hills at this time of year, 236 00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:17,409 spreading disquiet in forest and grassland alike. 237 00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:25,925 It is the Indian wild dog. 238 00:49:26,063 --> 00:49:28,998 No animal is safe from these marauders 239 00:49:29,132 --> 00:49:33,569 and even the mighty tiger will usually avoid a direct confrontation. 240 00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:57,386 The dogs move in packs that may number up to 30. 241 00:49:57,527 --> 00:49:59,119 Though an individual wild dog 242 00:49:59,262 --> 00:50:01,992 could never challenge the supremacy of the tiger, 243 00:50:02,132 --> 00:50:04,930 large packs have been known to attack him. 244 00:50:05,068 --> 00:50:09,471 During such a fight the big cat can inflict heavy casualties. 245 00:50:09,606 --> 00:50:17,843 Once a besieged tiger destroyed 12 dogs before he himself was killed and eaten 246 00:50:18,949 --> 00:50:20,416 As the younger dogs play, 247 00:50:20,550 --> 00:50:24,145 they are watched by a mob of near-hysterical chital. 248 00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:43,370 The herd rushes into the forest where the pack will soon follow. 249 00:50:46,977 --> 00:50:49,707 The incapacitated are left behind. 250 00:51:03,860 --> 00:51:06,624 The lush grasses lure the reclusive gaur, 251 00:51:06,763 --> 00:51:10,460 or Indian bison, out of their forest strongholds. 252 00:51:11,234 --> 00:51:14,203 These are the largest wild cattle in the world. 253 00:51:14,337 --> 00:51:17,795 A large bull stands over six feet at the shoulder 254 00:51:17,941 --> 00:51:20,603 and may weight up to 2,000 pounds. 255 00:51:21,478 --> 00:51:24,345 The adults have little to fear from the tiger. 256 00:51:24,481 --> 00:51:27,678 It is the calves and yearlings that are vulnerable. 257 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,460 Whenever a tiger is detected, 258 00:51:38,595 --> 00:51:42,258 when the cows and bulls snort and toss their heads in threat 259 00:51:42,399 --> 00:51:45,391 the big cat has no chance of making a kill. 260 00:51:45,535 --> 00:51:50,199 To the contrary, an alerted herd can be a danger to the tiger. 261 00:52:11,928 --> 00:52:17,560 At the turn of the century some 40,000 tigers stalked India's jungles. 262 00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:22,297 By 1972 they numbered fewer than 2000. 263 00:52:22,439 --> 00:52:25,499 This grim fact was the signal for courageous 264 00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:28,770 and far-reaching conservation efforts. 265 00:52:28,912 --> 00:52:33,849 These have been so effective that if the tiger is to survive in the wild 266 00:52:33,984 --> 00:52:36,919 its best chance is now probably in India, 267 00:52:37,053 --> 00:52:40,045 in reserves like anha and Ranthambhor 268 00:52:40,190 --> 00:52:43,819 where the tiger has already made an impressive comeback. 269 00:52:46,696 --> 00:52:49,961 With anha's riches restored by the monsoon, 270 00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:54,662 the tiger is no longer tied to a few scant water holes. 271 00:52:54,804 --> 00:53:00,401 It wanders widely and leaves the plains for the denser vegetation of the hills 272 00:53:01,044 --> 00:53:04,172 A green curtain is drawn over its presence, 273 00:53:04,314 --> 00:53:07,647 and the tiger becomes more elusive than ever, 274 00:53:07,784 --> 00:53:11,345 a hidden force that inspires even greater dread 275 00:53:11,488 --> 00:53:15,390 among all the animals that live under its tyranny.