The Jungle Page #2

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Have to work hard.

- Have eight children to feed.

- Eight?

- Yeah, lot of mouth to feed.

- Yeah.

Is it on?

Adi's found us a Dukan,

so we thought we'd check it out.

It's a very superstitious part

on Indonesia,

which is a problem

for the leopard program, because...

if people think the thing killing

their animals is a forest demon or...

...werewolf or whatever,

people just want it dead,

even if they end up killing a leopard.

This should be interesting.

Okay, ah...

I think, I think I've heard enough.

Yeah?

So Adi, what did

the what did the Dukan say?

He said the mountains round here

are very dangerous.

There's a forest demon,

ah just up in the mountain.

He uses black magic,

and when he catch you,

- chop of your head, take your heart out.

- Cuts off your head?

He keep you alive by black magic

- and make your head eat your hat.

- Wow!

And then he tell you when to die.

That's what he say.

What do you make of that, Bootie?

I'm Muslim.

I don't believe these thing.

What about you, Adi?

You believe it, don't you?

Not really.

You sure about that?

Well maybe. I'm not sure.

What about you?

- Me?

- Yeah.

- No, I don't believe any of it!

- Oh that's okay.

So there you go.

The tracker the government's

given to us,

the man who's supposed

to be leading us into the jungle,

believes there's a forest demon,

a sorcerer, up in the mountains.

And he cuts off your head.

Great!

Come on.

Hey, come on, satay!

Oh! Yum.

- Come.

- Food!

This is card three.

We're off to the village today,

so hopefully it's gonna be a good day.

Don't know who this guy is,

but there's a bit of talking going on.

Larry, tell us what's happening.

This man, Soovoo,

heard we were in town.

He came down

from the mountains to see us.

He said he's he's seen

what looks like a leopard

in a cage in the

jungle near his village.

We need to stop them.

We can go to the cattle kill area later,

- but if it's poachers we should go now.

- Yeah, okay.

Poachers, mate, they're scum.

They take the head, they take the fur,

...the organs. They take everything,

they sell it to the highest bidder.

Very beautiful jungle.

None of the local people want

to live up there.

Just make it easier for the poachers.

Been driving for a while now;

Apparently it's not too far from here.

Larry! Larry!

Possibly the gun?

The gun's just for the leopards,

in case anything goes wrong.

- Is that cool?

- Well, hopefully won't need it.

Not very far, he says.

They may be still around, so I think...

we keep quiet and...

Okay, let's go.

What?

Oh yeah, it's just animal.

Wow man.

They'll take anything.

- Oh yeah.

- What's this?

It's like a python.

Looks pretty young.

They can get up to about 20 feet

long out here.

This, look at this cage.

We could easily fit a leopard in it.

Look at this little guy.

- He could be still around.

- Just keep it.

There you go boy.

- You're free now.

- There you go.

Go home.

- Go home.

- Get that, Benny?

Yeah, I'm getting these.

Gotta be careful;

They're probably still about.

Soovoo just ah won't go any further.

He doesn't like the area.

He thinks it's bad

and he's told us not to stay here.

We should keep going.

Yeah.

Alright.

That's fresh blood.

Very fresh.

Very fresh, just now.

Okay. I'll go ahead.

I'll go first.

Looks like it's heading this way.

Look at this.

Whoa!

That looks like there's been...

- Something happened?

- Yeah. Some kind of skirmish.

This, lots of blood.

There's no ah, no paw prints though.

Larry!

Look at this, this could be.

Oh it's gotta be a leopard.

- A big one.

- Yeah, look they're deep, aren't they?

- That a trail?

- Lots more blood down here.

- Look, more blood up there.

- Yeah, and the blood goes all the way up.

Yeah, could be a big leopard.

Look at that.

This is a... this is a fresh site. We should

stay here tonight instead of going on.

Alright.

This is the hide. It's blending

in really well, which is what you want.

We bought a chicken off Soovoo.

Bait, we got scent baits, but live bait

is much more appealing to wild animals.

And um Bootie's got the remote.

We'll stick it on this tree here.

It'll pick up anything that we miss.

Strong man, medicine.

Okay, so Adi's found some

which is ah it's a herb the local people

sometimes chew for stamina and energy.

- So I'm gonna give it a go.

- Yeah, go.

Good for you.

Medicine.

That's disgusting.

Give us some water!

It's not that bad!

My mum used to chew that!

That's disgusting.

Why would you do that to me?

- That's awful!

- Adi idea. / That's serious,

that's medicine.

Medicine is taste like that.

Hey, Ben.

Bootie!

How you doing?

Leopards are a night creature,

so to see them we've got night vision.

Ben's camera, the tranquiliser gun

and the binocular all have night vision.

So when we turn off our torch...

this is what we see.

For me that's pitch black,

can't see a thing.

Now can see everything.

There's ah, there's a chicken,

not long for this earth, I reckon.

Look up the tree, mate.

Thought I heard something.

No, I can't see anything, no.

Swear I heard something.

Nothing.

That's the thing that strikes you

about being out here at night.

Night really is the time

when all these animals go about.

Yeah.

Especially leopards.

What's that?

Something's out there,

something's out there!

Look at that!

There's something

definitely moving out there.

Yeah.

Come on!

Listen.

Doesn't sound good!

Alright, into card four.

Um rough nut, not used to sleeping

in the jungle in a tent.

But ah yeah, hopefully

we get some good footage today.

- Hello, chicken.

- Still here.

Hello.

Let's go and see what we got.

There's three clips,

so we'll see what's going on here.

That's probably just the,

yeah, it's just the chicken

flapping its wings,

setting off the camera.

Nothing.

- Oh, did you see that!

- Back back back back!

We'll go back.

Wow.

Oh wow.

Look at that right there.

That's some. Yeah, I mean could be a boar,

a wild boar or a deer or something.

How far is that from the camera?

That's close.

Would've come in down here,

was nice and low.

Alright, okay, there's,

there's an old trail here, something.

- I can't see anything.

- You know, something's definitely

been through here because...

you can see some broken twigs,

kind of...

- There's no prints.

- Yeah, we've got to follow this one today.

We're gonna today we're going

to have to follow down here.

There's no prints this way.

- What?

- I can't see any prints.

What does it matter?

I can't see any prints.

- Do we have a problem here, Bootie, or...

- Look, Larry, no problem.

Look, I can understand if you're um,

if you're a bit scared, okay.

It's fine, but...

if you want to stay, you can stay.

Don't come with us,

you're just gonna slow us down, alright?

I'm not scared, mate.

This is interesting jungle.

This is my jungle.

These are my animals.

I love leopard as much as you do, Larry.

That's great,

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