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Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« on: December 27, 2010, 08:50 am »
No I DON'T want my picture taken: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment during wildlife documentary
     
    By   Gavin Allen
   24th December 2010

Wildlife documentary-makers are going   to increasingly cunning means to sneak into the secret world of their   subjects but don't think for a second that the animals are fooled, as   these images prove. 


Award-winning   director John Downer had disguised one of his remote-controlled spy   cameras as a large snowball to capture the journey of a polar bear   mother and her cub crossing the sea ice in Svalbard, Norway, in search   of seals.


But - in a   documentary Dowler says captures the bears' 'astonishing intelligence' -   this adult male wasn't having the wool pulled over his eyes.
   Chase me: The bear sets his sights on the mobile blizzard camera height=557 

Chase me: The bear sets his sights on the mobile blizzard camera



        Gotcha: Once the bear gets hold of the expensive piece of equipment ... height=415   

Gotcha: Once the bear gets hold of the expensive piece of equipment ...


        ...it doesn't stand a chance and the bear reduces the £100,000 piece to pieces height=286   

...it doesn't stand a chance and the bear reduces the £100,000 piece to pieces
 
Instead, he marched straight up   to the 'snowball' camera and, after briefly exploring it with a massive   paw, gave the director and his producer a close-up while he smashed it   to pieces.


But the   bear wasn't finished there and without pause for thought he set his   sights on a second piece of equipment, Downer's £100,000 blizzard   camera.

The 'blizzard cam'   is on wheels and remote-controlled, and even though the film-maker tried   to steer the expensive equipment out of harms way it was no match for   an angry polar bear weighing upwards of half a ton.
     Round two: The bear finds the snowball camera height=423      Breaking up: The bear explores the camera with its massive paws height=423       

Round two: The bear finds the snowball camera, gives it the once over with his massive paws and then ...

     ... smashes it to bits, sending half of it spinning away into the arctic wastes height=286 

... smashes it to bits, sending half of it spinning away into the arctic wastes
 
Fortunately, the documentary maker  had other equipment with which to record the attacks and, after  destroying two cameras, the bear calmed down.


'Curiosity satisfied, the animals eventually behaved normally,' said Mr Downer.


'Ultimately,  our spycams reveal that polar bears’ intelligence and curiosity are key  to their survival in a world of shrinking ice.'


His film, Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice, is on BBC1 next Wednesday.
   What are you looking at: The spy cameras took some incredible close-up footage before they were destroyed height=355 

What are you looking at: The spy cameras took some incredible close-up footage before they were destroyed

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341130/Polar-bear-destroys-wildlife-film-makers-equipment.html#ixzz19Js829w3
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 09:06 am »
Smarter than the average bear.   :lol:
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 09:20 am »
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 01:00 pm »
Polar bears: They break shit
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 08:52 am »
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2011, 12:06 pm »
I had a good chuckle when I heard about this. But in one respect, I feel kinda bad for all the work somebody put into constructing and concealing all that stuff only to have it get trashed. But, that's a known possible outcome in this kind of situation I suspect.
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2011, 03:27 pm »
first thing i thought was
"why did they let the bear hold the camera?"
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2011, 03:25 pm »
Quote from: Bluzeman on December 27, 2010, 09:06 am
Smarter than the average bear.   :lol:
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2011, 03:27 pm »
Some animals don't like their pictures taken either.
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Re: Polar bear smashes £130,000 of camera equipment
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2011, 10:51 am »
Neither does my son.
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