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This series on the natural history of the Indian sub-continent is presented by
Valmik Thapar. National Viewers & Listeners Association award for best series of
the year 1998, and numerous other awards for script and individual programmes.
In its exploration of Indias wildlife, the series ranges across the breadth and
width of the world's sixth largest nation -- from the spectacular coral reefs
along its eastern and western coasts to moist rainforests and parched deserts,
from sodden lowlands periodically flooded by the sea to the towering Himalayas
that ring its northern borders. Each of the episodes focuses on one region or
habitat type, providing never-before-seen glimpses into the lives of the
subcontinent's plants, animals, and people. In the Gir Forest on the
northwestern coast of India, seeing a pride of lions may fool you into thinking
you've somehow wandered into Africa. In reality, however, this corner of the
nation is home to India's last population of Asiatic lions. But in India, the
lion is not king of the forest. Instead, that symbolic throne is held by the
tiger -- India's official national animal. To see tigers close up, LAND OF THE
TIGER host Valmik Thapar travels to the Kanha National Forest on India's high
central plateau, one of the nation's 23 major tiger reserves. Here, tigers and
their cubs wander forests and fields alive with spotted deer, jackals, wild dogs
called dholes, and langurs, a monkey species. But the hunt isn't easy: the
monkeys in the ...
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