野性邊緣 World's Deadliest Towns

　　MAN’S ON THE MENU IN THREE OF THE WORLD’S DEADLIEST TOWNS
　　Animal Planet’s Large Predator Expert Dave Salmoni Explores Fatal Hot Spots Where Elephants, Hippos, Tigers And Humans Live Much Too Close For Comfort
　　In ...展开Animal Planet’s three-part miniseries WORLD’S DEADLIEST TOWNS, large predator expert Dave Salmoni takes viewers to three deadly spots in the world where animals and people are locked in extreme mortal combat.
　　Stacked back to back Monday, February 21, from 8-11 PM, the miniseries shares intense, real-life scenarios where people are in perpetual fear for their lives. Led by Salmoni, WORLD’S DEADLIEST TOWNS transports viewers to remote Indian and African villages, where rogue elephants, killer hippos and man-eating tigers have waged full-on wars – pillaging people’s land, eating their food and, in some cases, putting man on the menu.
　　Killer Elephants (8 PM) – Elephants can be gentle giants, but in West Bengal, India, human encroachment has driven them to be nothing like their reputation. Elephants are by nature herbivores, but something’s going on in this Indian village that’s causing them to trample, gore, tear people from limb to limb and even consume human flesh. Killer Hippos (9 PM) – On Zambia’s Zambezi River, a hippo kills an entire family of nine, and the villagers are convinced voodoo caused it. The local witch doctor invites Salmoni to check his scientific baggage at the door. Digging deep into a world of black magic and spirit possession, Salmoni takes part in a ritualistic hippo exorcism. Killer Tigers (10 PM) – In India’s Sunderbans, Royal Bengal tigers kill people on a daily basis, and now they’re teaching their cubs how to hunt man. Stalking their victims from behind, these tigers deliver a lethal attack to the back of the neck and are becoming stronger hunters every day.
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　　“WORLD’S DEADLIEST TOWNS shows the remote corners of the world where people must live under the constant threat of predatory and threatening animal presence,” says Salmoni. “The people I visited in Bengal, the Sunderbans and Zambia all have that in common – the persistent, mortal fear that they may not be alive tomorrow – that an elephant, a tiger or a hippo will be the death of them or someone they love.”
　　WORLD’S DEADLIEST TOWNS is produced by Icon Films for Animal Planet. Harry Marshall is executive producer for Icon Films, and Dawn Sinsel is the executive producer for Animal Planet. Marc Etkind is the vice president of development for Animal Planet.
　　EPISODES
　　Killer Elephants
　　Elephants have the reputation of being gentle giants, but in a village in northeast India, they've put man on the menu. Joining forces with an armed elephant squad, Dave Salmoni helps defend the villagers, their land and their crops from rampaging elephants in the dead of night. During the past 10 years, hundreds of men, women and children in this region have been trampled to death by the planet's largest land mammal, and the situation has just reached crisis point as a necropsy shows that one elephant even consumed man. It's one of the most hostile wildlife war zones on Earth. What has happened to make these beasts become so dangerous?
　　Killer Hippos
　　Dave Salmoni understands what makes hippos so deadly, but on Zambia's Zambezi River he's entering a world of African witchcraft and sorcery that makes him rethink everything he thinks he knows about animal attacks. Dave struggles to explain Zambia's most vicious hippo attacks because his scientific approach meets local, nontraditional beliefs. He enters a world where the locals believe in witches and witchdoctors... where evil sorcerers possess hippos and make them kill. Dave is skeptical, but he takes part in a ritualistic hippo exorcism ceremony that leaves him amazed and baffled. After this journey, will he look at these hippo attacks in the same light?
　　Killer Tigers
　　Tiger attacks are on the rise. Every day, tigers are killing people and are putting a rural Indian community at the front line of conflict between man and man-eater. Dave Salmoni is on a mission to find out why fatal attacks are on the rise. Putting himself at extreme risk, Salmoni uncovers one recent case that reveals a shocking development in the tigers' deadly strategy, helping explain why the crisis is worsening and what might be done to solve it.