Elephant Cam!

By Alex in Animals & Pets on Mar 25, 2008 at 4:58 am

Film-maker John Downer had a brilliant idea. He attached cameras to elephants and let them loose in an animal reserve to capture wildlife photos as you’ve never seen before:

He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" – a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.

Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor. [...]

Don’t miss this one: Link (Photo: John Downer)


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  1. Wincey
    Mar 25th, 2008 at 7:07 am

    That’s a funny-lookin’ elephant you got there.

  2. Kathleen
    Mar 25th, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Awe, those were adorable :)

  3. Ali S.
    Mar 25th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    That one “bearly” looks like an elephant! ;)

  4. D-san
    Mar 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    This is nothing new, there was a show on animal Planet where they put cameras on animals in the wild.


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