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Old 03-26-2008, 10:30 PM   #1
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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...


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...
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The three-part documentary Tiger: Spy In The Jungle begins on BBC1 on Sunday at 8pm.
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Old 03-26-2008, 10:33 PM   #2
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oddly, there seem to be no pics of tigers . . .
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Old 03-26-2008, 10:44 PM   #3
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They're saving them for the TV show.
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Old 03-26-2008, 10:50 PM   #4
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tease!
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Old 03-27-2008, 12:26 AM   #5
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Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p
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Old 03-27-2008, 03:51 AM   #6
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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.
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Old 03-27-2008, 05:14 AM   #7
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You've obviously never pissed off a bear, boar or deer.
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Tiger elitist! I'm tellin' the Bears and Boars and Deer and Monkeys, on you. :p
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Old 03-27-2008, 10:50 AM   #9
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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!
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Old 03-27-2008, 11:45 AM   #10
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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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Old 03-27-2008, 12:01 PM   #11
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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 )

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Tigers are also solitary and do not hunt in groups. (I think )
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Old 03-27-2008, 12:17 PM   #12
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I think they're only scared of 6-year olds with pop guns.
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Old 03-27-2008, 01:43 PM   #13
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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.
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Old 03-27-2008, 01:54 PM   #14
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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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Old 03-27-2008, 01:59 PM   #15
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I'm still trying to figure out why elephants need firewood.~snip~
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?
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