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The battle of the sexes was never this brutal. In National Geographic’s Hidden World of the Bengal Tiger, you’ll watch from atop an elephant’s back as Lakshmi, a mother tiger, tends to her young in the face of the grave danger posed by her fiercest enemy: a male tiger. The forest is cool, green, and beautiful, and thanks to exceptional cinematography, the viewer seems to melt into the trees as Lakshmi hunts and fends off the stalker. The filmmakers’ sympathy with their sub… More >>
8:41 pm on September 18th, 2009 1
I’ve been to Kanha, else this video wouldn’t have particularly interested me: but as a souvenir, it’s fine.
Could do with more of a “storyline” (e.g. Lions & Hyenas, Mortal enemies) but as a “general” film of tigers it’s ok.
Rating: 3 / 5
11:06 pm on September 18th, 2009 2
This video is a perfect compliment to “Land of the Tiger”, which due to a broader scope only touched on the fact that a mother tiger’s greatest danger is a male tiger who is not her cubs’ father.
We watch with forest rangers as Lakshmi raises her triplets to sub-adult. Then, ominously, the remains of the triplets’ father are found – he had been patrolling territory overlapping Laksmi’s and had been killed by another male.
Then, one shattering day, the rangers find Lakshmi wounded, presumably at the hands of the stranger male. As this was natural and not the work of man (i.e., poachers), they do not intervene. She then disappears, and tension rises as time goes by with no sign of her. Is Lakshmi alive? What of the cubs, the hotheaded boys and their more competent sister? I’m not telling – watch and find out! Another gem in NG’s cap.
Rating: 4 / 5