00:05In the teak forests of central India, something extraordinary is about to unfold.
00:13This is Kavi K.J., a male Indian leopard, Pantera pardus fusca.
00:19He is blind, not slowing down, not limping.
00:25Blind, a predator built by four million years of evolutious eye.
00:30For he doesn't know a pack of 20 d-holes.
00:32Cue on Alpinus, the most relentless, cooperative hunters on the continent.
00:36Waze has already found his trail, and he doesn't know that something else is watching.
00:42Something the forest itself seems to fear.
00:53Stay with us.
01:17Then a territorial dispute with a rival male.
01:20Left deep facial wounds infection followed.
01:22By the time the dry season arrived, his vision was gone.
01:26Indian leopards, Duke Panthera pardus fuscaheim, are solitary ambush hunters.
01:32Their survival is built-ins.
01:34But Kavi adapted.
01:36A leopard's whiskers are among the most sensitive, tactile organs in the mammal world, capable he survives barely.
01:44But today, survival alone will not be enough.
01:49Kavi Panthera pardus fusca.
01:52The Kanha Pench Corridor, Central India, still hunting.
01:57The doles of the Kanapetch Corridor.
02:00Kuran Alpinous are not wolves.
02:04They are something older, more patient.
02:16A thulpak doesn't chase.
02:19It orchestrates...
02:20Twenty individuals operate as a single.
02:23Distributed intelligence, they are endurance specialists, wearing down prey through relentless pressure.
02:29They have now detected Kavi, the blind leopard.
02:38The fallen king cannot see them coming.
02:53The forest has its own opinion about what happens here.
02:58Today.
03:20In the Kanha Pench Corridor, another animal has been awake since before dawn.
03:25It eats termites and honey.
03:28Yet Bengal tigers and leopards avoid it.
03:33Why?
03:34Because the sloth bear is completely...
03:37spectacularly unpredictable.
03:41It has no fear response that other animals can read.
03:44Its claws can exert over 600 kilograms of force.
03:48Per strike, it has detected a predator pack.
03:51And the scent of a wound, what it does next,
03:53is something most biologists would not believe.
03:57Kaviya, the blind Indian leopard.
04:00Panthera pardus fusca, of the Kanha Pench Corridor forest,
04:04knows they are there and...
04:06He can hear the subtle pressure of their paws.
04:08On dry leaves.
04:09He can smell the pack musk of Kwan Alpina as...
04:14He roars.
04:16Not from fear, banan leopards don't roar from fear.
04:29He roars to project size to buy seconds.
04:33The duels pause they have encountered leopards before.
04:38The pack's lead female, unrecognizable by her pale eartips,
04:42takes one slow step forward.
04:45Then the forest shifts something large,
04:47something moving fast from the north,
04:50something that smells like nothing.
04:52The doles want to argue with today.
04:54Kaviya, the blind Indian leopard of the Kanha Pench Corridor,
04:58beckoning, does not need to see what is coming from the north.
05:06Boss never used 51bc0c785ca2f6808.
05:16What you're watching has no established scientific explanation.
05:20The sloth bear has placed itself between the holes
05:23and a blind leopard.
05:25Under normal circumstances,
05:27they are competitors for food and safety.
05:30The bear is not protecting cubs.
05:32There are no cubs it is not defending food.
05:35There is no food source.
05:37The bear's olfactory system
05:39has clearly identified both rivals,
05:42yet it chose this interspecies.
05:46Altruism is rarely documented in bear species.
05:51Something ancient and unnamed is happening right now.
06:12The lead female of the doll pack.
06:14Anne makes the calculation.
06:17A pack of 20 can bring down a leopard,
06:19perhaps even a...
06:27Not when the sloth bear is already positioned,
06:30already committed,
06:31already decided,
06:32the evolutionary mathematics that the holes perform.
06:35Without numbers tells them the cost is too high,
06:37and one by one the ghosts of the Kanha Pinch Corridor
06:40dissolve back into the teak forest.
06:51It's the Indian sloth bear out.
06:54Melossus ursinus watches the tree line for 40 seconds.
06:58After the last dice appeared behind it,
07:01Kavi, the blind Indian leopard,
07:03has not moved.
07:04He can smell that the dolls are gone for the first time.
07:07No, he hasn't.
07:09No, no, he doesn't.
07:15No, no, we can smell it.
07:29I can smell it.
07:57We cannot know what passes through the
07:59bear's mind day. Science has not yet found words for whatever this is. It looks, in the
08:05fading light of the central Indian teak forest, like mercy.
08:21The Indian sloth bear Malursus ursinus will not remember this tomorrow, or perhaps he will
08:27call me weenie, the blind Indian leopard primate, will wake tomorrow and navigate his forest.
08:36He lives by touch, sound and the extraordinary intelligence of his body. They succeed because
08:46they are extraordinary. And nature does not run on sentiment. This planet is not simply
08:53a machine of survival. In its unguarded moments, it looks very much like wisdom. We'll see
09:00you in the forest.
09:01We'll see you in the forest.
09:09We'll see you in the forest.
09:49We'll see you in the forest.
09:51We'll see you in the forest.
10:25So, let's go.
10:55So, let's go.
11:25So, let's go.
11:28So, let's go.
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