ML141286
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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Elephants crossing river. Timecode In: 00:16:58. Timecode out: 00:18:03. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Butwal city ambi. Timecode In: 01:03:00. Timecode out: 01:07:15. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Strange bus horn. Timecode In: 01:07:30. Timecode out: 01:07:34. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Spaced Omni Stereo; DPA 4060 Omnidirectional Microphones; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Nepal Log of DAT #: 13 Engineer: McQuay Date: March 30/31, 2001 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 00:10 walking in forest with Danny ¿ on elephant JN ¿ what was that noise you were making was that a rhino call? VG 1:03 Danny ¿ making a rhino grunts¿.discussing rhino calls 2:16 the winners sreaching noise in the bag ¿ rhino calls¿..VG --- 2:34 PB - other calls that you like to do? 2:48 Danny - when they fight they do this ¿ whistling ¿ VG good whistle and a grunt - a rhino fighting 3:15 Danny ¿ monkey screaming VG PB ¿ how about a tiger? 3:48 Danny ¿ making tiger sounds VG..they are huge, make very large noise and when roars it vibrates and goes in your heart ¿ makes you feel better. Keep listening. (this isnt very clear.) 4:41 walking on elephant in woods 5:46 Danny ¿ there are tracks in there 6:02 Danny making weird sounds ¿ to attract a tiger? Walking on elephant in woods 6:53 Danny ¿ that is a sloth bear 7:34 walking on elephant in woods Danny talking about seeing a mother and baby sloth bear encounter with an elephant 8:36 Danny ¿ there is a peacock there peacock on the right hand side 8:45 on elephant through grasses? (diff ambi) 9:13 Danny ¿ there are 2 males arguing. Trying to fight 9:42 Danny ¿ other day we saw 2 leopards here¿.. 9:57 JN ¿ when a tiger finishes eating what does he leave behind. Danny - Usually he is all finished and then afterwards comes wild boar, jackles, ??, and porcupine, birds of course ¿ he crow ¿ 3 or 4 of them (not sure what he is looking at) and mongoose, sloth bear maybe¿..magpie¿.. 11:41 on elephant in woods ¿ interesting bird in bg (Danny says woodpecker) 12:13 Danny ¿ so we had a good tiger sighting ¿but here we had about 200 sighting from Sept through May, and 180 this year. Tiger sighting is not too bad. One day we saw 3 different tigers. Sometimes it looks like there are tigers everywhere. Another day I was taking a long drive¿¿.danny talking about seeing tigers¿.14:42 15:02 Danny ¿ if you see a tiger during the day you are very lucky 16;10 on elephant in woods VG 16:59 ¿ 18:03 crossing a stream on the elephants 18:09 Danny ¿ for some reason it is very quite today 18:50 on elephant 19:36 Y ¿ up! A command to the elephant? 19:50-20:29 VG animal sound¿.(almost sounds like a "meow") 21: 52 on elephant 22:18 weird animal sound again, but talking in Hindi over it 22:41 crossing stream on elephant VG - 22:59 Danny very fresh tracks down there 23:13 lot of splashing around in water on elephant 23:26 Danny making a sound to elephant? 23:52 command to the elephant ? 24:30 Danny - burning ¿ this whole ? goes on fire every year¿(Bill - these aren't set fires?) yes someone did it¿ 25:31 command to elephant 26;00 on elephant 26:46 ¿ 28:42 Danny ¿ see the fire? Ambi on elephant John talking about Hannibal crossing Europe on elephants 29;47 JN ¿ if a tiger grabs me by the throat don't drop the mic! Bill ¿ and don't say anything Peter ¿ if you lose consciousness it is okay 30:04 JN ¿ can we tape it to you , bc maybe we can get the sound of you being dragged off, and eaten (laughter by Bill) 30:16 JN ¿ we eventually located Bill, we found his skull (Peter ¿ and the tape was still rolling) JN ¿ and the tape was still rolling the bony ¿ (... (Notes truncated)
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- 23 Nov 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 21 Nov 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 23 Nov 2009 - Ben Brotman