The Cellar - March 27, 2008: Ele-Vision

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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.

This is the camera setup...
http://cellar.org/2008/ele-vision.jpg

And one of the pictures from the Ele-Vision camera.
http://cellar.org/2008/ele-vision2.jpg

Be sure and check out the rest of the pictures at the Daily Mail.

And for you Brits...

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The three-part documentary Tiger: Spy In The Jungle begins on BBC1 on Sunday at 8pm.

oddly, there seem to be no pics of tigers . . .

They're saving them for the TV show.

Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 441905)

Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p

Only the monkey's can do anything about it...they're the ones with thumbs.:D
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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.;))

You've obviously never pissed off a bear, boar or deer. ;)

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 441905)

Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p

rrrroooowwr!

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!

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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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 442000)

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?

Plural being the important point (that'd be pride then :rolleyes: )

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The wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I'm the only one

Tigers are also solitary and do not hunt in groups. (I think :o )

I think they're only scared of 6-year olds with pop guns.

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Elephants do not see tigers as a threat, and tigers are comfortable with elephants.

However, Mythbusters proved elephants will do just about anything to avoid a mouse.

I'm still trying to figure out why elephants need firewood.

And, if the elephants took the pictures, why are they copyright John Downer?

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 442026)

I'm still trying to figure out why elephants need firewood.~snip~

:lol2: 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?