Nolwen, an anthropologist and psychomotor therapist based at EHESS-Paris and ULiège, focuses her doctoral research on the affective dimensions of human-animal “sudden encounters” in Nepal. This article centers on Bhadai Tharu, who lost an eye in a tiger attack in 2004 and transformed this event into conservation activism through songs. Nolwen's ethnographic account includes and analyzes one of Bhadai's original conservation songs about a tigress from India falling in love with a Nepalese tiger — a poetic metaphor for the vital wildlife corridors that must remain to ensure animals' freedom to move across borders.
