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Wildlife documentaries filmed by wildlife

March 28, 2008 – 3:22 pm

Love this idea: Wildlife film-making outsourced to Indian…elephants? Nature documentary producer/director John Downer trained elephants in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India, to carry HD cameras while following tigers through the jungle. Looks like some pretty fascinating footage. The film, entitled Tiger - Spy in the Jungle, will be shown on BBC on March 30.
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Remote camera spots wolverine in Sierra Nevada

March 20, 2008 – 3:46 pm

Wolverine outside of Truckee, California, 2008
The above photo has been making waves in the wildlife science and conservation communities, as it is the first confirmed sighting of a wolverine in the Sierra Nevada since 1922. Oregon State grad researcher Katie Moriarty set up the motion-sensor camera to track martens, another elusive and weasel-like species, but [...]

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Reality TV meets nature

June 7, 2007 – 8:32 am

I love this story of a guy in Germany who mounted a cheap digital camera with a timer on his cat’s collar and has posted pictures of his cat’s adventures throughout the day.
I hope this “street use” of off-the-shelf technology for novel purposes is getting some attention in the field biology world. There are early [...]

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