March 27, 2008: Ele-Vision

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.

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...


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.