Terai
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Sep 14, 2026
Wes LarsonHOST
Mike, what was the productive, this is from episode one, what was the productive tiger habitat in Nepal called?
Mike SmithHOST
The Terai.
Wes LarsonHOST
The Terai.
Wes LarsonHOST
Good pull.
Wes LarsonHOST
All right.
10 MINS LATER
Wes LarsonHOST
Um, worldwide-
Jeff LarsonHOST
What type of habitat is it?
Wes LarsonHOST
The Terai.
Akshay ChavanGUEST
And I'm like, "Why is this damn thing here?" I mean, why is this...
Akshay ChavanGUEST
And over time, as I was traveling, I mean, right from Terai, which is in the Nepal border-
Cyrus BroachaHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Akshay ChavanGUEST
... yeah, those mosquito infested-
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
Because for hundreds of years, this area known as the Terai Plains, which are these low, flat subtropical regions bordering India, it was practically an invisible fortress.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_0HOST
Right, because of the malaria.
speaker_1HOST
Everybody who was anybody.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
They were all coming down to the Terai Plains specifically to hunt big game.
speaker_0HOST
So the animals went from being protected by the jungle to being, well, actively targeted by the elite.
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
Our experience is that of new settlements.
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
We have done it in Tarai.
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
It is called Red Cross Village.
Sanjay Silwal GuptaHOST
I don't remember exactly, but
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
in the 17th or 14th flood in Tarai, we had built a huge Red Cross Village.
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
It had a huge impact on the village.
Sagar ShresthaGUEST
It was the same issue.
Wes LarsonHOST
All right.
Wes LarsonHOST
Uh [laughs]This tiger was born in the lowland Terai of Nepal in the late 1890s.
Wes LarsonHOST
She's born in the relative safety-
Mike SmithHOST
You can just say paw.
Wes LarsonHOST
Within a year, she's learning to hunt alongside her mother.
Wes LarsonHOST
She could bring down small spotted deer and boar.
Wes LarsonHOST
Then at about 20 months, she sets out on her own, establishing her own territory in the sweltering grass and jungle of the Terai floodplain, and becoming really adept at hunting spotted deer.
Wes LarsonHOST
She would stalk the deer from behind or from the side, and then when she's close enough, she'd burst out of the high grass at high speed, tackle the unsuspecting deer, sinking her canines into the spaces between the vertebrae, or biting its throat and suffocating it.
SanjayHOST
He got his enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, and I think he left his body at the age of eighty.
SanjayHOST
So for all these years, he just keeps walking in the northern part of India, you know, Bihar, UP, Terai area and all that area, you know.
SanjayHOST
And, and if you go now to Sarnath, they call that area where he used to sit was Gand Vihar.
SanjayHOST
You can still have his gandh.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
Vicious cycle, that is what you see.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
In India, what happens is in the Tarai region, it's the region to the south of the Himalayas.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
It's a savanna belt, largely a wet savanna belt.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
Bamboo forest, for example, the Nepal-India border.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
The vicious cycle, that is what you see.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
In India, what happens is in the Tarai region, it's the region to the south of the Himalayas, it's a savanna bed, largely a bed, savanna bed, bamboo forest, for example, in Nepal, India border.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
What you see is the Indian government tries to reclaim land, for cultivation and house the refugees displaced by the partition of the subcontinent.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
So what happens is Punjabi Sikh farmers that is trying to colonize the land and then they are brought into confrontation with local Tharu inhabitants.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
Vicious cycle, that is what you see.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
In India, what happens is in the Tarai region, it's the region to the south of the Himalayas.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
It's a savanna belt, largely a wet savanna belt.
Vivek NeelakantanGUEST
Bamboo forest, for example, the Nepal-India border.
Bikey AgarwalGUEST
And Triptu, Jhumri.
Shraddha PrasaiGUEST
Triptu didi's character is from Tarai in the film.
Shraddha PrasaiGUEST
So her accent is also supporting us.
Sanjay Silwal GuptaHOST
Jhumri.
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