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PURRING As a wildlife cameraman, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:05 | |
I've travelled the world, trying to capture life's most intimate and | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
dramatic moments. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
But wouldn't it be incredible if we could see the world | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
from an animal's point of view? | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Well, in this series, that is exactly what we're going to do - | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
with the help of the animals themselves. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
They're going to be the ones that are doing the filming. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
They're going to take us to places that a cameraman like me simply | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
cannot go, and reveal a side of | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
their lives like we have never seen before. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
Working with scientists, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
we're designing cameras small enough to take us into their hidden world | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
for the first time. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
-We're heading in. Wow! -Foraging for some pups. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
Our camera crew is one of the most diverse teams | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
to ever film a wildlife series. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
From 30cm tall meerkats... | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
..to 60mph cheetahs. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
From free-diving fur seals... | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
..to nest-building chimps... | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
our unconventional film crew are revealing surprising behaviour and | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
giving us new insights into how they live their lives. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
-Wow! -That's really cool. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Instantly, you get a real chimp point of view. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
This is their world, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
their footage.... | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
-Whoa! -Oh, wow! -Groovy. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
..their story, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
and we're going to see it.. GROWLING | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
..through their eyes. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
She's definitely got her game face on. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
In this programme, we'll reveal | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
the secrets of three spectacular animals. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
In the mountains of Turkey, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
we'll find out what happens when bears come face-to-face. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
Oh! Oh, wow! Here's another bear! | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
Look at that, look at that! GROWLING | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
In France, we get to the heart of | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
the ancient conflict between sheep... | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
BARKING | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
..and wolf. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
BARKING | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
But my first expedition is far out at sea. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
We're setting sail from the Azores, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
a group of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
I've teamed up with Doctor Jorge Fontes, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
an expert on the sea life here. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
I'm travelling far out into the Atlantic Ocean. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
Mainland Europe is 850 miles in that direction. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
It's one of the wildest places on Earth, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
and I've come here to hopefully try and answer some very important | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
questions about one of the world's most mysterious, majestic creatures. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
Devil rays are fish with wing-like | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
fins that stretch to nearly four metres across. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
Jorge and his team have recently discovered that, every summer, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
the rays migrate thousands of miles to gather here. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
It's one of the most dramatic animal spectacles on Earth. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
But Jorge has no idea why it takes place. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
The rays swim too fast and too deep for divers to follow, so his best | 0:04:20 | 0:04:25 | |
chance of solving the mystery is one of our onboard cameras. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
This is one of our incredible camera systems, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
ready for deployment, and it's just attached to the harness. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
This is the bit that goes over the ray, kind of like a lasso, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
and you think, "How do you get it off?" | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Well, within eight hours in saltwater, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
this little magnesium bolt will | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
erode and then that will snap | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
and the whole system will float back up to the surface, | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
and we get it back and we all rejoice. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
Now all we need is a ray. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
EVOCATIVE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
Now it's a race against time to get cameras on | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
before the rays return to the depths. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
It's my first glimpse of these awesome creatures. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
There must be 40 devil rays in front of me. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
The rays can swim at 13mph. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
We couldn't get close enough carrying cumbersome scuba gear, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
so we're freediving. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
It means attaching the camera will | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
have to be done on just one breath of air. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Jorge makes it look easy. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
It was straight down there. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
Got it, got it first time. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
Woohoo! | 0:06:41 | 0:06:42 | |
The rest of the team soon get more cameras on board. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
After a few hours, the cameras are back. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
Oh, wow! | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
-And just swimming into the barracuda. -Yeah. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
That's fantastic. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
It is a real devil ray point of view. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
It looks as if you're just another ray going with the group. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
I think they're probably speeding very fast at this point. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
Yeah. The great thing is that the camera's not having any impact. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
This animal's keeping up with all the others, irrespective of | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
the camera, so it's really unobtrusive. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
The cameras also give a clear view of the remora fish, which stick to | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
the rays, hitching a ride and feeding on scraps. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
The rays are gathering at a sea mound - | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
an underwater mountain that rises over 1,000 metres from the sea bed. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:14 | |
The summit is just 30 metres from the surface. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
They've been just hovering and flying around | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
the summit of the sea mount. It really attracts them. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
But, suddenly, the rays start to head down. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
These rays can dive to 2,000 metres, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
one of the deepest diving of all animals. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
The descent is so fast, it puts the camera in a spin. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
-Whoa! -This is...it's flipping. -Yeah. It must be a huge speed. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:52 | |
-Oh, the bottom... -There's ocean floor there. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Jorge knew that the rays dived deep. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
Now, for the first time, he can see why. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
-Amazing. -This is amazing. This is... -What I wanted to see. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
..very different from what we've seen so far. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
By the amount of light here, it looks like it's quite deep. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
Very close to the sea floor. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
These are unbelievably privileged views. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
Did you see how close that was? | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
-Yeah. -That was, like, inches from the top of that rock. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
I never expected...just going through this canyon, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
-why would they do this? -Yeah. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
We think of devil rays as oceanic animals that just bask the surface, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
and here we see that that is not always the case. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
Apparently, they like to explore very close to the bottom, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
at the deep sea. That's very, very interesting, and it's a very new | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
-look into their lives. -Yeah. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
And, soon, we see one reason why the rays are gathering here. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
The camera shows hundreds of tiny floating animals - plankton - | 0:10:15 | 0:10:21 | |
clouding the water. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
As the ray hits a patch of plankton, | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
the long fins on its head unfurl and funnel food into its huge mouth. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:44 | |
When it's finished feeding, the fins roll back up. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
Seamounts are rich in food, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
because deep ocean current full of nutrients | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
swell upwards when they hit the sides of the mountain, | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
driving huge blooms of plankton. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
Rays are one of the few animals able to take advantage of | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
deep water prey. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:14 | |
They'll even eat fish up to a few inches long. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
But it's cold in the depths. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
At 1,000 metres, it's just six degrees Celsius, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
so rays can't stay down for long. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
After a deep dive, they head quickly back up. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
You can see the surface. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
That's amazing. They're really shallow right now. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
Jorge thinks they're sunbathing. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
And here we spot something new to science. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
The rays seem to shiver, to help them warm up. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
The abundance of food draws in these rays | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
but there are hundreds of seamounts around the Azores. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
Why do they all gather at just one or two? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
We need more footage to find the answer. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
But the conditions have deteriorated, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
and getting close to the rays is much tougher. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
A bit of a waiting game at the moment. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
We're waiting for the rays to come along, and there's absolutely | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
nothing around at the moment. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
There is nothing easy about this whatsoever. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:25 | |
HE GASPS | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
Fortunately, by the next morning, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
the sun is back out and the seas have calmed. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
I think I'm ready to try and deploy one of the cameras myself. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
I feel as able as I'm going to be, so I'll give it a go. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
A group of rays is passing right under the boat. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
It's the best chance I'm going to get. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
I did it. Eventually HE LAUGHS | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
Quite tricky. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
I managed to get the loop over one side and then the other, | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
come back to the surface and breathe. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
That was great. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
-Well done. -THEY CHEER AND LAUGH | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
As my camera ray swims off, Jorge and the team are successful, too. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
Will we finally get a clue as to | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
why the rays are here in such numbers? | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
Whoa! Look at this lot coming in! | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
That's fantastic. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
Soon we notice the gathering might not be as random as it first looked. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
The formation can be really close, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
almost like a jet fighter kind of formation. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
The rays appear to be taking advantage of each other's | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
slipstream, to make swimming easier. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
But each ray also seems to have its own place in the group. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
So, this one has been lagging behind the first three, and it still is. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
-I wonder if there's some kind of hierarchy within these groups. -Yeah. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
Jorge is wondering if the males might be competing over the females. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
We soon get a clue as to why. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
-A very pregnant female here. -This thing is huge! | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
-This looks like... -A jumbo jet. -A jumbo jet. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
We then realise that lots of the rays are pregnant. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
They each carry just one baby, known as a pup. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
Pregnancy lasts for around a year, with the pup nourished | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
inside the mother with a form of milk. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
What we see next has never been filmed before. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
This unborn baby ray is doing its version of kicking. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:08 | |
-Oh, wow! -Oh, that's so cool! -Wow! | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
This suggests that the pups will soon be born. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
In most ray species, | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
mating happens soon after birth, so could this seamount be where these | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
rays gather to give birth and mate? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
They spend most of their lives spread out in the open ocean, | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
so gathering to mate makes sense, | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
and the food-rich seamount is ideal for heavily pregnant mothers | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
and newborns. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
More evidence is needed to confirm whether this is the reason | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
for the gathering. EVOCATIVE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
But our cameras have given Jorge a remarkable new insight | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
into these animals' lives. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
It's really a privilege to be able to have the perspective | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
of what a devil ray sees. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
This is something that I would think impossible just a few years ago, | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
and, so, I'm really happy and really excited to be able to have this | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
perspective and be able to use this tool to learn more about this | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
mysterious species. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:58 | |
Time to prepare for our next mission. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
I've come to north-east Turkey... | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
..in search of an animal I've never seen before... | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
..the Eurasian brown bear. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
They're extinct through much of Europe. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Here, the forest is teeming with them, | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
but they're incredibly shy, making them hard to study. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:48 | |
Cagan Sekercioglu has been working on these | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
bears for ten years, | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
but his longest-ever sighting lasted just three minutes. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
And that's where our cameras can help. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
-How close do you think the nearest bear is to us? -Right now? -Yeah. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
-Within a mile? -Oh, God, easily. Half a mile. -Really? -Yeah. Yeah. -LAUGHTER | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
I mean, the numbers we have are among the highest densities | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
-on the planet. -Wow! Yeah. -They're everywhere. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
And, what, is there a single aim? | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
What do you want to find out from these bears? | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Well, a big goal was to find out how they manage to survive in this | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
relatively small forest. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
I would love to see how they interact. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Are they tolerant of each other? | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
-Is there a lot of fighting going on? -Yeah. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
This forest is small and hemmed in by people on all sides. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
So, how do so many bears survive here? | 0:20:42 | 0:20:47 | |
What do they eat? Where do they sleep? | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
And what happens when they meet each other? | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
We're hoping our cameras will unlock the secret of these elusive animals. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
Onboard camera expert Chris Watts has been hard at work. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:06 | |
He's added cameras to the radio collars that Cagan uses to track | 0:21:06 | 0:21:11 | |
bears for his ongoing study. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
For several days, | 0:21:22 | 0:21:23 | |
Cagan's team have been trying to catch and collar bears, | 0:21:23 | 0:21:27 | |
and I've been hoping to see them in action. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
We've just got some very exciting news. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
The team are not far from our base, and they say that they have captured | 0:21:35 | 0:21:40 | |
a big bear - a bear big enough to take our camera. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
Here we go. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
WHISPERS: It is one huge bear! | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
This bear has already been tranquillised. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
BEARS GROANS SOFTLY | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
While the vet checks it's healthy, | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
the scientists take measurements and fit the radio collar | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
with our camera attached. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
We're ecstatic! | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
It's in prime condition, | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
so it's a perfect candidate for an animal cam. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
I can't wait to see what we get on film. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
The bear quickly comes round and disappears into the forest. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:31 | |
The camera will automatically drop off after a couple of days. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
We've got footage in... | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
..from a four-year-old female, which Cagan has called Siha. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:52 | |
There it is. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
-The angle is great. -It is. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
-It's just enough of the bear to know that it's still there. -Yeah. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
-Ah, it's a complete bear's eye view of the world. -Yeah. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
-Is that...? Oh, yeah. -Having a proper drink. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
It's drinking water, yeah. Wow! | 0:23:11 | 0:23:12 | |
The camera itself has to go through everything the bear goes through, | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
so, walking down into gullies, | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
climbing up trees, going into the water... | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
The camera reveals that this forest is rich in bear food. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
She eats a wide range of nutritious plants, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
and turns over rocks to reach insects underneath. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
After her meal, she's walking into a cave. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Cagan didn't know that these bears use caves in the summertime. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
Most brown bears only use caves in winter to hibernate. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:52 | |
They don't need a big space. They don't need this huge cave. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
You know, you'd be surprised how little space they need. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
The presence of lots of caves is another reason why | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
this is a good bear habitat. BEAR SNIFFS AND SNUFFLES | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
After a quick rest, | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
she steps back out into the night and straight into danger. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
-Just right there. -Yeah. -As if it just appears from nowhere. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
Yeah. So, the road, basically, | 0:24:33 | 0:24:37 | |
it's called an Interstate highway, and this traffic is very fast. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
Siha is walking down a dangerous road. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
But, before long, we discover why. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
She's on the lookout for rubbish thrown from passing cars. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
This is worrying for Cagan. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
If bears develop a taste for rubbish, | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
they can become dependent on it. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
He says that's already happening at a place on the edge of the forest. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
So, I've come to investigate at a local dump. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
Oh, we've got a bear right here with a cub! | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
Wow! Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop, stop. DOGS BARK | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
Mother bear with a cub. That is a big bear! | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
To get a better look, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
I'm using a thermal camera which detects the bear's body heat. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
Oh, wow, look at that! | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
My goodness! | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
Brown bears are normally solitary, yet here they tolerate each other, | 0:25:54 | 0:25:59 | |
because there's so much food. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
It's quite something to see so many of them in one place. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
But it's not healthy for them to be feeding on our rubbish. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
bears digging in rubbish that is still alight. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
It's raking through the coals! | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
There are bears eating plastic... | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
..chewing on metal wires. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
This is not a pretty sight. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
I'm told that there are plans to close this dump down, | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
but the scientists are worried that that could cause another problem. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:43 | |
If they get rid of this, this dump overnight, that food | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
source has gone, and what that's going to leave | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
is a lot of hungry bears. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
These dump feeders will be pushed out into the forest, but is there | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
room for any more bears out there? | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
Too many bears could lead to conflict and stress. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
We're hoping that more footage will help us find out | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
how much the forest bears are interacting. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
Right, off we go. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
Cagan's continuing to collar bears, and I've been giving him a hand. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
My goodness, that's a big old head. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Should be good. I'm really excited to see what we get. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
Yeah, me too. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
-He just needs to keep the camera clean. -Yeah. -LAUGHTER | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
Our next footage is from a young adult male that Cagan | 0:28:06 | 0:28:11 | |
has named Farouk. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Oh, look at that beautiful morning light! | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
Look at that. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:17 | |
You can see the rain has caused a problem with the condensation. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
Well, May is the wettest month. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
I mean, you can still follow the behaviour pretty well. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:30 | |
-Hey, is he feeding? -You can actually see the water beater backlit, | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
-so maybe that. -Yeah, he is, yeah. He's licking the dew. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
-Wow! -Just drinking water, licking the dew off the grass, yeah. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
Sticking out that big tongue as he walks along, | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
-just getting some nice, fresh water. -Wow! | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
But Farouk's peaceful morning doesn't last long. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:47 | |
-Oh! -Oh, wow! -Oh, wow! There's another bear! | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
Farouk is being confronted, probably by another male. GROWLING AND SNARLING | 0:28:51 | 0:28:56 | |
Oh, look at that! | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
-Oh, man! -HEAVY THUDDING | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
After standing up to swipe at each other, Farouk continues to growl. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:06 | |
The other bear slowly retreats. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
Bites aren't unusual amongst male bears, but, in a crowded forest, | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
they may be more common and the risk of injury much higher. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:27 | |
As he lies down to recover, we see that Farouk is bleeding. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:34 | |
He's broken his claw. That'll be painful, | 0:29:39 | 0:29:43 | |
but the claw will drop off and grow back eventually. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
This time, he got off lightly. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
But, just when it looked like Farouk was in the clear, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
he spots another bear approaching. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
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He makes a run for it. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
He's being chased. | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
Running on an injured claw, the chase goes on for an exhausting | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
45 minutes before the pursuer finally gives up. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
Farouk climbs to high ground and checks all around | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
before he can eventually relax. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:49 | |
The camera has shown how high bear numbers are, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:55 | |
and how that can make life hard. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
And that's not the end of Farouk's excitement for the day. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:06 | |
Oh! Oh, wow! | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
There's another bear! Holy cow, look at that! | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
The other bear's not acting aggressively towards him. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
-No, no. -That's really interesting. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
He's relaxed. He's sitting down. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
No, they...they know each other. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
It appears that this is Farouk's partner. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:30 | |
JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
He may have been staying close to this female for weeks, | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
waiting for her to be ready to mate. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
But she makes it clear... GROWLING | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
..she's not ready just yet. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Farouk has had a very busy day, | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
and we've seen how stressful that can be. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
From what the cameras have shown him, Cagan thinks this | 0:32:11 | 0:32:14 | |
small patch of forest can't sustain many more bears. | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
If you were to close the dump overnight, | 0:32:22 | 0:32:25 | |
there's going to be trouble pretty quick on its heels. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
And it has to be done, not just by closing the garbage dump, but also | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
by creating better quality habitat | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
with more natural food and more connectivity. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
Cagan's hoping he can use this footage to gain support for a plan | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
to increase the size of the forest by planting 10 million trees. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
Then, if the dump closes, | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
there will still be plenty of space and food for these threatened bears. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:57 | |
In another wild corner of Europe, | 0:33:12 | 0:33:14 | |
another Animals With Cameras team is starting a new adventure. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
We've come to the hills of southern France... | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
..to see if we can help scientists protect one of Europe's most | 0:33:23 | 0:33:26 | |
controversial carnivores... | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
..the wolf. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:32 | |
Wolves were hunted to extinction in France less than a century ago, but | 0:33:35 | 0:33:40 | |
in the '90s they started to cross over the border from Italy. BARKING | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
Their numbers have been slowly growing ever since, | 0:33:45 | 0:33:49 | |
and there are now thought to be over 400 wolves | 0:33:49 | 0:33:52 | |
living in the French countryside. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:55 | |
This good news for wolf conservation is bad news for some farmers. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
Thousands of sheep roam these hills, and, every night, | 0:34:02 | 0:34:06 | |
an age-old conflict plays out. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC PLAYS | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
In the dark, wolves venture out to hunt... | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
..and sheep are often in their sights. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 | |
This flock can't sense the danger they're in | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
until it's too late. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:41 | |
SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
A sheep stands no chance against a hungry adult wolf. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:54 | |
BELLS RING | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
Farmers blame wolves for the deaths of thousands of sheep every year. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:10 | |
Some shoot wolves, even though they're legally protected. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
Wolf biologist Jean-Marc Landry | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
wants to find a solution to this problem. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
The presence of the wolf in France brings a lot of conflicts. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:28 | |
You have extremes. Some people are pro and some are against. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:33 | |
What we try is to be in the middle, to show a new way of coexistence. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:37 | |
Jean-Marc thinks one answer is to give the flocks their very own | 0:35:39 | 0:35:43 | |
security guards - a team of dogs. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
These guardian dogs live with the sheep all their lives | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
and have a strong bond with them. | 0:35:57 | 0:35:59 | |
Using dogs in this way is an old idea. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
But not everyone thinks it's effective. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:15 | |
Jean-Marc wants to convince people that it is and reveal | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
how the dogs operate. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:24 | |
But most wolf attacks are after dark. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:30 | |
Can our night-vision collar cams | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
take us to the heart of the conflict? | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
For us, for my team, it's very, very exciting. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:45 | |
Our goal now is to observe the interaction from the dogs, | 0:36:45 | 0:36:49 | |
to be able to observe how the dog will chase off the wolf. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
Jean-Marc also hopes that the cameras could reveal if some dogs | 0:36:56 | 0:37:00 | |
make better guardians than others. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:02 | |
It's very important with these dogs that they are able to fight wolves, | 0:37:04 | 0:37:07 | |
but they are very nice with people, and we need such a dog. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:11 | |
This is stealing my sausages! | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH | 0:37:16 | 0:37:20 | |
The cameras give an immediate insight into life amongst the flock. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:28 | |
The dogs are a mixture of traditional mountain dog breeds. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:36 | |
They don't herd the sheep, | 0:37:44 | 0:37:46 | |
they just travel as part of the flock. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:48 | |
They're not trained to protect the sheep. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
They should do it instinctively. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:02 | |
But, if a wolf attacks, are the dogs | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
really attached enough to the sheep to put THEIR lives on the line? | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
HOWLING | 0:38:18 | 0:38:20 | |
The collar cams have switched into night-vision mode. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
We can see exactly what each dog is doing. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
And our human camera team are in night-vision mode, too. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:39 | |
They're looking out for any wolves approaching over the hillsides. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:43 | |
It's midsummer, and the sheep are | 0:39:01 | 0:39:02 | |
more active at night when it's cooler. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
The flock is moving in search of fresh grazing, | 0:39:08 | 0:39:11 | |
and the dogs go with them. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:13 | |
The onboard cameras reveal something unexpected. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
Different dogs are taking up | 0:39:30 | 0:39:32 | |
different positions around the flock. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:34 | |
SHEEP BLEAT | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
Some of the dogs stay right in the middle... | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
..while others prefer to hang out around the edge. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
What role will these different dogs play when wolves attack? | 0:40:07 | 0:40:10 | |
OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS | 0:40:10 | 0:40:13 | |
There's plenty of other prey out here for wolves - | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
rabbits and deer - | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
but these vast flocks of sheep are a tempting target. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
A wolf begins to creep close... | 0:40:57 | 0:40:59 | |
..and it's one of the dogs on the edge of the flock | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
that's the first to sense danger. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:09 | |
BARKING | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
This wolf thinks better of attacking. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:16 | |
Jean-Marc thinks that these outlying dogs play a vital role as sentries. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:25 | |
BARKING | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
Barking alone can be enough to see off a single wolf | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
attempting a sneaky attack. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS | 0:41:35 | 0:41:37 | |
BARKING | 0:41:37 | 0:41:39 | |
But what will happen if a whole pack of wolves attacks? | 0:41:42 | 0:41:46 | |
It's three o'clock in the morning. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
Out on the hillside, the dogs in the centre of the flock look relaxed... | 0:42:01 | 0:42:05 | |
BARKING | 0:42:12 | 0:42:14 | |
..while the others are pacing around the edge. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS | 0:42:18 | 0:42:20 | |
They seem nervous. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
There's something out there. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:34 | |
La! La, la! The wolf is there. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
A group of wolves is heading straight for the flock. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:50 | |
SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
BARKING The alarm goes off... | 0:42:57 | 0:43:01 | |
..and other dogs rise to the challenge. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:11 | |
One from the middle charges out to help see off the attack. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:14 | |
The leading wolf flees. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
BARKING | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
Now all four wolves are in retreat. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:40 | |
It's a great result for Jean-Marc. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:48 | |
We have seen the dogs chasing the wolves off, so it's very successful, | 0:43:50 | 0:43:54 | |
-and no sheep were killed, so I'm very happy again. -HE LAUGHS | 0:43:54 | 0:43:59 | |
GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
Our collar cams have shown Jean-Marc the importance of selecting a good | 0:44:03 | 0:44:07 | |
mix of dogs. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:08 | |
We have different personalities in dogs, and this is just amazing, | 0:44:10 | 0:44:14 | |
yeah. We have some dogs who are, you know, they are very strong, they are | 0:44:14 | 0:44:19 | |
bold, and they will go and they will run after the wolf. | 0:44:19 | 0:44:23 | |
And you have also those who are very shy and they are afraid by | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
everything, you know, so we are observing now a team of dogs, | 0:44:26 | 0:44:29 | |
how they are working. And, of course, if a dog is a little afraid, | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
he will bark and maybe give the alarm. | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
So, in a pack of dogs now, | 0:44:38 | 0:44:39 | |
you need different personalities, not only one. | 0:44:39 | 0:44:42 | |
Jean-Marc shows the shepherds his evidence of what a good job the | 0:44:46 | 0:44:50 | |
guardian dogs can do. | 0:44:50 | 0:44:51 | |
These shepherds seem to be on board. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
With the use of guardian dogs, perhaps it will be possible for | 0:45:32 | 0:45:36 | |
wolves and sheep to coexist in the hills of southern France. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:41 | |
In this series, we travelled the world, from deserts to jungles | 0:46:02 | 0:46:08 | |
to oceans... UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS | 0:46:08 | 0:46:10 | |
..helping scientists make ground-breaking discoveries. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:17 | |
With the use of new camera technologies, | 0:46:20 | 0:46:22 | |
we have been able to increase our understanding and knowledge of the | 0:46:22 | 0:46:26 | |
most fantastic, most amazing wild animals, | 0:46:26 | 0:46:29 | |
and we've revealed a side of their lives that has previously been a | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
complete mystery. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:35 | |
We captured the very first images of day-old meerkats, | 0:46:35 | 0:46:38 | |
-deep underground. Wow! -Foraging for some pups. | 0:46:38 | 0:46:43 | |
We discovered how seals track down their prey, far out at sea. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:48 | |
-Look, dolphins! Oh, wow! -They're playful. -Oh, wow, wow! | 0:46:48 | 0:46:51 | |
And revealed how young cheetahs develop their hunting skills. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:57 | |
-Oh, so close! -Big fall! -Oh, my goodness me! | 0:46:59 | 0:47:03 | |
It's been the animals that have taken us into their world... | 0:47:03 | 0:47:07 | |
and hopefully what they've shown us will help to better protect them in | 0:47:09 | 0:47:14 | |
the future. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:15 | |
MID TEMPO BLUES MUSIC PLAYS | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
In this episode, our biggest tech challenge was designing a camera for | 0:47:31 | 0:47:35 | |
one of the deepest diving animals on Earth. | 0:47:35 | 0:47:38 | |
Our first inspiration came from the remora fish, | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
which stick to the devil rays. | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
The work began in a shed in Devon. | 0:47:51 | 0:47:55 | |
Camera engineers Jonathan Watts and Marcus Shirley tested their idea on | 0:47:55 | 0:47:59 | |
a skate from the fishmonger. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:01 | |
We're going to try putting suction cups on a piece of fish to see what | 0:48:03 | 0:48:06 | |
the adhesion is like. Rays are, by their nature, quite slippery. | 0:48:06 | 0:48:11 | |
They're not the sort of thing that you necessarily would be able to | 0:48:11 | 0:48:14 | |
stick something to, so this is, this is something else. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
Oh, yeah, that's sticking reasonably well. | 0:48:18 | 0:48:21 | |
But the rays would be in seawater... | 0:48:22 | 0:48:24 | |
and with water and salt added, the suckers didn't stick. | 0:48:30 | 0:48:34 | |
So Marcus came up with a new plan. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
So we have been told that some scientists have used peanut butter | 0:48:40 | 0:48:44 | |
successfully on rays before. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
-OK, there you go. -Lovely. Right, here we go. In it goes. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:53 | |
You know what? That's not bad. I wouldn't say it was perfect. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:58 | |
I think the legend may be true, may have something in it. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:02 | |
-Next stop, real Mobula ray. -Yeah, I think so. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
The team join the scientists in the Azores, | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
armed with their newly built sucker cam and the tub of peanut butter. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
-It's always nice to have some energy food on board! -LAUGHTER | 0:49:16 | 0:49:19 | |
No-one told Gonzalo that that was used on dead fish before! | 0:49:21 | 0:49:26 | |
Good stuff. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:27 | |
FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS | 0:49:27 | 0:49:30 | |
But despite the encouraging lab test, the suction power of the | 0:49:45 | 0:49:48 | |
humble peanut was no match for the thick slime on the ray's back. | 0:49:48 | 0:49:53 | |
Enter plan B... | 0:50:05 | 0:50:06 | |
The Towcam - a revolutionary new design. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:11 | |
Jorge tested the camera in the harbour. | 0:50:21 | 0:50:24 | |
By the way that it's moving underwater, it looks quite stable. | 0:50:30 | 0:50:34 | |
I'm very confident that we'll be happy with the quality of the | 0:50:34 | 0:50:37 | |
footage from these tests. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:38 | |
But the rays can dive to more than 1,000m. | 0:50:39 | 0:50:43 | |
Jorge had to be sure that the camera would work at these crushing depths. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:47 | |
So now we're going to test how it behaves at depth. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:58 | |
OK, moment of truth. | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
A diving weight pulled the Towcam down. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:08 | |
By 150 metres, the light was starting to fade. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
-That's it, OK. -HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
The camera reached the end of Jorge's line and it was still | 0:51:28 | 0:51:31 | |
working. But had the foam housing survived the pressure? | 0:51:31 | 0:51:36 | |
I can see some white. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:43 | |
Well, structurally, it seems OK. | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
So we just have to check if it still floats as we expect. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
It's negative. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
Unfortunately, it looks like the | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
foam took, indeed, a lot of water in. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:04 | |
If we deploy this, it will just go down to the bottom after it's | 0:52:04 | 0:52:08 | |
released from the animal and this | 0:52:08 | 0:52:10 | |
would cause us to lose all the system. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:12 | |
We needed much tougher foam. | 0:52:14 | 0:52:17 | |
FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS One month later, and Towcam Mark II was ready to make its debut. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:25 | |
We just got the new system, | 0:52:28 | 0:52:29 | |
rebuilt these in the right foam, the right material. | 0:52:29 | 0:52:33 | |
Hopefully this one will behave as we expect in terms of flotation and | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
resistance to pressure. | 0:52:37 | 0:52:39 | |
After another depth test... | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
Yes. It's floating. It is still OK. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
..Towcam II was ready for action. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:49 | |
But it's a 24-hour boat ride out to the devil rays, | 0:52:53 | 0:52:57 | |
so first we wanted to test the camera on an animal closer to port. | 0:52:57 | 0:53:01 | |
So we come here to the sheltered north shore, and | 0:53:07 | 0:53:09 | |
hopefully we'll be able to attract a couple of blue sharks, | 0:53:09 | 0:53:12 | |
and deploy our cameras, just to see how they look when they're being | 0:53:12 | 0:53:16 | |
towed by an actual animal. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:17 | |
Jorge's team used fish scraps to entice the sharks. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
Yeah! Yeah! | 0:53:34 | 0:53:36 | |
Blue sharks can grow to nearly four metres. | 0:53:44 | 0:53:47 | |
Jorge has been studying them in the Azores for years, | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
and he knew that they could comfortably tow a camera. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:57 | |
He slipped a noose over the shark's nose with the Towcam attached. | 0:54:02 | 0:54:07 | |
Ooh! | 0:54:10 | 0:54:12 | |
-Yes! Oh! Yeah! -Well done. | 0:54:14 | 0:54:18 | |
This, I believe, the first camera on a blue shark, ever. | 0:54:18 | 0:54:21 | |
The camera would detach after eight hours. | 0:54:24 | 0:54:27 | |
But it's good. Perfect position. Yes! Woo! Yeah. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:36 | |
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS | 0:54:38 | 0:54:41 | |
It was time to hand filming duties over to our shark. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:44 | |
-Look at that! Oh! -Oh! -He's going fast. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:12 | |
Oh, very good. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
There's a lot more movement on the shark than on the camera. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:17 | |
It's actually...it's perfect. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
Success. The camera captured a steady, clear shot. | 0:55:22 | 0:55:26 | |
A very nice perspective of the pilot fish, just taking advantage of the | 0:55:30 | 0:55:33 | |
wake of the shark, so saving energy. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:36 | |
It's very amazing. Look at that. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:40 | |
I'm very, very happy with these first results. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
We can only hope that this new tool opens a new frontier. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
Now, confident in our camera, | 0:55:52 | 0:55:56 | |
we could finally enter the devil ray's underwater world. | 0:55:56 | 0:56:00 | |
EVOCATIVE MUSIC PLAYS | 0:56:00 | 0:56:03 |