The man who discovered an unseen world

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Join us for a game of hide and seek. Imagine trying to track down an uncollared tiger in a vast, dense jungle in India… You’d need the help of experienced local trackers who have spent years perfecting the art of tracking animals through the language of surrounding species. To them, simply listening to the wall of sound around them paints the perfect audio map of what’s going on in the dense undergrowth. Speaking of maps, we hear the tale of a man who used satellite technology and imagery to discover an unmapped forest, uncovering a brand-new ecosystem. From forest to cities, expect unexpected stories, hidden truths and unwelcome surprises (like a python in your toilet…)

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:03.9	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:13.7	We were filming in India in a park called Bandavgar Tiger Reserve.
0:23.3	In some areas it's super dense. The understory is incredibly thick. So you can't see more than five metres off the dust
0:29.7	tracks that you're driving along. We'd often just stand there listening in pure silence.
0:36.1	Sometimes all you're listening to is for one call that will take you to that tiger.
0:42.7	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast.
0:45.8	The podcast that crawls into the thickest jungles,
0:48.9	crouches in the undergrowth and listens for hidden stories about the natural world.
0:55.0	And it'll just be one bark of one deer somewhere in the forest.
0:59.0	And you know that if you miss that, you're potentially missing out on the best thing that's going to happen that day.
1:05.0	This week, we're playing hide and seek.
1:10.0	We've got stories about searching high and low for animals that don't want to be found.
1:15.7	Stories about camouflage and subterfuge and staying very, very quiet.
1:22.4	And about what happens when you find things you weren't quite expecting.
1:29.1	Our first story comes from this man.
1:32.0	I'm Theo Webb. I'm director on the dynasty series for the programme Tigers.
1:37.7	Theo found that when it came to finding a relatively small tiger in a very large forest,
1:43.3	it was less about using your eyes, as using your ears.
1:47.1	The female that we were following is called Raj Behrer.
1:49.4	She's not collared.
1:50.5	She's, you know, we have no idea where she is.
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