The show, as it wades into what Adler-Bell calls a “swampy morass” of conservative history that touches on free markets and American interventionism, is heavy on reading lists.

Like Bahraich today, the 1996 wolf attacks took place in villages near riverbanks, surrounded by rice and sugarcane farms and swampy groves.

For people in the steamy, swampy, jungle-covered state of Tabasco, the howler monkey is a cherished, emblematic species; local people say the monkeys tell them the time of day, by howling at dawn and dusk.

The newly discovered behemoth lived 47 million years ago in western India’s swampy evergreen forests.

Because bonobos live in remote, swampy rainforests, it has been much more difficult to observe them in the wild than chimpanzees.