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March 27, 2008: Ele-Vision
In the remote Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India, a team filming a documentry on Tigers for the BBC, needed better pictures of the wary Tigers.
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Downer said he came up with the idea three years ago when his team started filming the tigers. He noticed how gently the forest elephants carried firewood to their camp and wondered if they'd be as delicate with a camera. "And they were," he enthused. "Elephants do not see tigers as a threat, and tigers are comfortable with elephants. So we had the perfect team." The langur monkeys in the reserve provide fascinating pictures as they became transfixed by their reflections in the log-cams. The footage also resulted in incredible close-ups of jackals, boars and birds. Such access to wildlife usually eludes visitors. |
And one of the pictures from the Ele-Vision camera.
Be sure and check out the rest of the pictures at the Daily Mail.
And for you Brits...
| The three-part documentary Tiger: Spy In The Jungle begins on BBC1 on Sunday at 8pm. |
Cloud Wednesday Mar 26 11:33 PM
oddly, there seem to be no pics of tigers . . .
xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Mar 26 11:44 PM
They're saving them for the TV show.
Cloud Wednesday Mar 26 11:50 PM
tease!
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Mar 27 01:26 AM
Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p
Gravdigr Thursday Mar 27 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p
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I wondered why the sky was getting brighter...then it dawned on me. (Sorry xoB, I've been resisting that for a while now.
)xoxoxoBruce Thursday Mar 27 06:14 AM
You've obviously never pissed off a bear, boar or deer.
Cloud Thursday Mar 27 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p
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LabRat Thursday Mar 27 11:50 AM
That is so freaking cool. I'll have to keep an eye out to see if it ever airs on this side of the pond. Sweet!
Trilby Thursday Mar 27 12:45 PM
Doesn't it seem strange that huffalumps don't see tigg-ers as a threat when I've seen a pack of lionesses ambush and take down a huffalump?
Beest Thursday Mar 27 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
Doesn't it seem strange that huffalumps don't see tigg-ers as a threat when I've seen a pack of lionesses ambush and take down a huffalump?
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)| The wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I'm the only one |
)Cloud Thursday Mar 27 01:17 PM
I think they're only scared of 6-year olds with pop guns.
Clodfobble Thursday Mar 27 02:43 PM
| Elephants do not see tigers as a threat, and tigers are comfortable with elephants. |
HungLikeJesus Thursday Mar 27 02:54 PM
I'm still trying to figure out why elephants need firewood.
And, if the elephants took the pictures, why are they copyright John Downer?
Shawnee123 Thursday Mar 27 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus
I'm still trying to figure out why elephants need firewood.~snip~
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that's a damn good question! Also, do they have cameras in every piece of wood lying around? How could they know which logs the elephants are going to carry by the tiger?
monster Thursday Mar 27 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
I think they're only scared of 6-year olds with pop guns.
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sweetwater Thursday Mar 27 09:15 PM
i had hoped to say "smile, you're on canine camera" but just learned that elephant tusks, unlike those of most tusked mammals, are incisor rather than canine teeth. is it ok to ignore reality for a joke - albeit a weak one?
spudcon Thursday Mar 27 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
that's a damn good question! Also, do they have cameras in every piece of wood lying around? How could they know which logs the elephants are going to carry by the tiger? |
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Mar 27 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by sweetwater
i had hoped to say "smile, you're on canine camera" but just learned that elephant tusks, unlike those of most tusked mammals, are incisor rather than canine teeth. is it ok to ignore reality for a joke - albeit a weak one?
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Shawnee123 Friday Mar 28 10:23 AM
I know it was funny...but really...why do elephants collect firewood? After HLJ brought it up, I noticed they said how gently elephants carry firewood back to camp, and all I could picture was another elephant opening up the graham crackers to make s'mores.
xoxoxoBruce Friday Mar 28 11:40 AM
The camp, is that of the film crew.
Shawnee123 Friday Mar 28 11:59 AM
omg...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. 
Yep, dementia is looming.
Shawnee123 Friday Mar 28 04:12 PM
Hey, I've really been quite the elephant doubter today.
Don't misunderstand me. I think elephants are the bomb! 
spudcon Friday Mar 28 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
I know it was funny...but really...why do elephants collect firewood? After HLJ brought it up, I noticed they said how gently elephants carry firewood back to camp, and all I could picture was another elephant opening up the graham crackers to make s'mores.
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BrianR Friday Apr 4 11:45 AM
Wait! Don't we have a user who hangs with elephants in, um, er, someplace down there? Why not ask HER?
Brian
HungLikeJesus Friday Apr 4 11:53 AM
Leah? But that was before my time.
Cloud Thursday Oct 2 11:25 PM
just saw the tiger special with the elephant cams on Animal Planet. Very cool.
if humans let tigers become extinct . . . well, I don't know anything bad enough to say about that
beauregaardhooligan Saturday Oct 18 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
if humans let tigers become extinct . . . well, I don't know anything bad enough to say about that
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