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As a wildlife cameraman,
I have travelled the world,
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trying to capture life's most
intimate and dramatic moments.
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But wouldn't it be incredible
if we could see the world
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from an animal's point of view?
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Well, in this series, that is
exactly what we're going to do,
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with the help of
the animals themselves.
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They're going to be the ones
that are doing the filming.
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They're going to take us to places
that a cameraman like me
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simply cannot go,
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and reveal a side of their lives
like we have never seen before.
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Working with scientists,
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we're designing cameras small enough
to take us into their hidden world
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for the first time.
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We're heading in. Wow.
Barging past some pups.
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Our camera crew is one of the most
diverse teams to ever film
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a wildlife series.
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From 30-centimetre tall meerkats...
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..to 60mph cheetahs.
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From free diving fur seals...
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..to nest-building chimps.
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Our unconventional film crew
are revealing surprising behaviour
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and giving us new insights
into how they live their lives.
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Wow. That's really cool.
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Instantly, you get a real chimp
point of view.
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This is their world,
their footage.
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Oh, yeah, look. Wow!
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Their story.
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And we're going to see it
through their eyes.
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She's definitely got
her game face on.
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In this programme, our cameras
reveal the hidden lives
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of three very different families.
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In Australia's shark-infested
waters,
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we discover how fur seals escape
from the deadly jaws
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of one of the ocean's top predators.
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Oh, wow. Goodness me.
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In South Africa, we see the conflict
between baboons and local farmers.
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With tensions mounting, could
our cameras help find a solution?
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The cameras are basically
my last hope.
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But my adventure begins
in the wilds of Namibia.
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This is a stronghold for Africa's
most endangered big cat,
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the cheetah.
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Famously, cheetahs are spectacular
sprint predators,
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chasing down their prey
over the open savannah.
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That's how I've seen them
in the past.
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In the open grassland, it's easy
to watch these incredible athletes.
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But, here in Namibia,
they live in bushland,
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where they're much harder to see.
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We're hoping our cameras can help us
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follow the lives of three
very special young cheetahs.
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Conservationist Marlice Van
Vuuren adopted this trio
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when they were orphaned
at just one day old.
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They still rely on Marlice for food,
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but she wants to find out
if they can catch their own prey.
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Come.
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Come!
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Come.
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She's hoping our cameras could
help her track their progress
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as they learn to hunt
in this dense scrubland.
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Who are your friends?
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This is Odyssey. You're beautiful.
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Male? Yeah, he's a boy.
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OK. He's a male. What about
the other two?
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They're two females,
Shiloh and Wonder.
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Odyssey and his sisters
are now 18 months old.
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By now, most wild cheetahs
would be making their own kills.
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But these orphans
have had no-one to teach them.
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Can they work out
how to hunt for themselves?
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So, going to show you
what we've come up with.
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This is the camera. Oh, OK.
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Feel the... Feel the weight. Yeah.
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And this goes on the head?
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On the head. What do you think?
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I would love to see the footage
out of this.
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And it's nice
that it's nice and elastic,
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and it's not going to restrict them
at all,
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so I think it will work.
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The cameras look good to us,
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but the youngsters will decide
if they're happy to wear them.
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Who is this? Is this Odyssey?
This is Odyssey. OK.
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The one that sits down.
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Hey, Odyssey.
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Odyssey's sister, Wonder,
is first up for a fitting.
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Camera's running.
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I keep one part of my shirt clean,
so I can clean the lenses.
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OK. That's perfect.
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Look at you. Look at you!
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Well, she's not upset,
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otherwise she would immediately
start clawing and stop purring.
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She's happy.
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I'm their mum. To see what
they actually do when I'm not there,
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it would make me very proud to know
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that they're actually doing
very good.
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Huh? Hello.
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You want one? He's asking,
"Where's mine?"
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It's all the latest thing amongst
cheetahs in this part of the world.
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Don't worry, no stress.
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There we go. You are... There we go.
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Quite a couple. Yeah.
With new bling. You happy with that?
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They've got Bushveld bling.
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With two of the three cats
wearing cameras,
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we watch them head into the bush.
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They're soon out of our sight,
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but the cameras
are filming their every move.
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I don't know about you, but
I'm very excited we're seeing this.
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OK, here we go.
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Wow.
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That's quite incredible.
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That's what it looks like
to be a cheetah.
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Oh, he's rolling around.
That's fantastic.
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You can see, they're just
kind of chilling out,
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enjoying being together.
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This is an intimate insight
into the cheetahs' lives.
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Oh...
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Watch the camera.
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Head shake.
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While Odyssey takes a drink,
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Wonder finds a good scratching post.
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And it's not long before
our playful young cheetahs
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decide to stretch their legs.
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And we're running
with the fastest mammal on Earth.
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Oh, wow. Yes, it's beautiful.
Look at the tail.
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Wow. That is stunning.
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Absolutely incredible.
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Oh, look at that.
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It's an amazing insight
into the youngsters' lives.
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But what we really want to know
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is whether they can hunt
for themselves.
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Hopefully, the cameras
will give us the answer.
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I'll also try to film them
for as long as I can.
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Trying to spot the three cheetahs.
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They've gone into this
very thick bush,
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and...
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I don't know where they are.
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None of them. Any of them.
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They're all gone.
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It's only when Odyssey emerges from
the dense cover
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that I finally find him.
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Or, really, it's more a case
of him finding me.
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Hey, beautiful.
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No, no, no, no. OK, I think you're
going to jump up onto the car.
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To get a better view.
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OK, that's fine.
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With this gain in height,
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Odyssey can see so much more
than he can see
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when he's down on the ground.
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So this isn't about a cheetah
coming to say hello to us,
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it's about just kind of having
a better field of view.
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Maybe saying hello as well.
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That's not what you're supposed
to be doing.
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You going to go hunting?
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Where's your sisters?
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There's no room in the back,
if that's what you're thinking.
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Odyssey's not showing much
sign of independence just yet.
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But he does finally head off
to rejoin his sisters.
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They've spotted a herd of gemsbok
in a clearing.
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For young cheetahs,
these are a very dangerous target.
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Three cats altogether.
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They look like a force
to be reckoned with.
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I don't quite know
how this is going to play out.
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I have seen cheetahs hunt before,
but out in the open plains,
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and I'm not sure how it's going
to change their behaviour,
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somewhere as thick as this.
It's very, very scrubby and bushy.
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OK, cheetah there, moving in.
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Right.
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OK, one's running.
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Second one running.
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Towards the game.
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They don't yet know that the
cheetahs are gaining on them.
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They're actually just...
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OK, full-on run from the
front cheetah, a full-on run.
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No, they're just scattering
the herd.
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The gemsbok panic.
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The cheetahs are after
an easy target.
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OK. Oh!
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Confusion, confusion.
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It's very hard trying to keep track
of three cheetahs.
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Wonder's camera captures
what I can't see.
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She's chasing one animal
away from the group.
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In amongst the bushes,
Wonder's losing speed.
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Her sister Shiloh
charges in on the left,
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but the gemsbok is now so far ahead,
it's safe.
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The thick vegetation has scuppered
our cheetahs' chances.
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Wonder skulks back to the clearing,
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where the tables have turned.
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Oh, just got charged
by a big, big gemsbok there.
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They're now at risk of being
skewered by this large male.
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The prey knows that the predator
is around -
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the cheetah
have lost their advantage.
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Ah!
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Now they're just
getting chased away,
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they're being humiliated.
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Taking on such a large prey
was a real rookie mistake.
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But will they learn
from the experience?
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Over the next few days,
the cameras keep rolling.
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The youngsters need to turn this
scrubby terrain to their advantage.
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And soon, we see encouraging signs.
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The three cheetahs are following
animal trails in the undergrowth.
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Shiloh appears to sniff the ground,
to work out what prey is around.
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See, this is impossible.
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There's absolutely no way we could
see this any other way. Uh-huh.
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They're also using the thick bush
as cover.
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The closer they can get to the prey,
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the more likely they are
to make a kill.
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They're trying to get eyes on. Hm.
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Odyssey creeps forward.
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He spots the target
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and freezes.
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So his sister's
on his left, one of them.
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That's a clear sign that they're
working together,
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because he sees the prey, stops,
checks his sister's there.
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And then he's looking back
to the prey. Yeah.
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And there he goes.
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Oh, my God!
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Oh! It's a youngster.
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My God!
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One of his sisters
is in front.
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It's a baby. It's a baby eland.
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Yeah.
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Look at that. Oh, my gosh.
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His sister, Shiloh, tries to trip
the calf.
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Oh, so close.
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Oh, my goodness me.
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What on Earth?
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Odyssey is forced to swerve
to avoid a thorn bush.
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Could you see the difficulties of
negotiating those bushes?
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And now the mum's trying to keep
them away.
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There she goes.
My heart is in my mouth.
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That is quite something.
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A cheetah can only sprint
at top speed for ten seconds,
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so the eland and her calf
manage to escape.
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I'm completely blown away
by these images.
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It's brilliant to follow them. Hm.
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What are they actually doing
in the Veld?
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Yeah. You know, and I'm proud
as the mum of them.
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You know, they're actually working
in a team
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and they... They have huge
challenges, and they take it.
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They're not scared. So this is
amazing, this is really a good idea.
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But Marlice has yet to see
a successful hunt.
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We leave our cameras with her,
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to keep watch
on the youngsters' progress.
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For our next mission, I'm travelling
to the south coast of Australia,
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to the remote and rugged
Kanowna Island.
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Few animals have what it takes
to survive out here,
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but there's one hardy sea mammal
that does.
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The island itself is more of
a rocky outcrop.
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It's uninhabited but for
the thousands of fur seals
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that call it home.
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On the island,
the fur seals are safe.
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But the surrounding seas
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are deadly...
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Teeming with the ocean's
most feared predator,
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the great white shark.
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I'm here to help scientists
to discover
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how fur seals avoid the sharks
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and thrive in this unforgiving
wilderness.
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We're hoping our cameras
will help solve the puzzle.
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There it is.
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Home, sweet home.
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Leading the research team
is Professor John Arnold.
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Hello. Gordon.
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Nice to meet you. What an amazing,
amazing place.
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Thank you. Good to meet you.
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For the next week, this windswept
spot will be my home.
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Oh, perfect. Everything a man needs.
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John's team have been studying
the seals for 20 years.
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But their lives out at sea
are still shrouded in mystery.
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So what are the big questions you
want to be answered
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by the seals taking cameras
with them?
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They spend up to 80%
of their lives at sea.
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Every time their mothers
leave the colony,
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they have to run the gauntlet
of any sharks that are out there.
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What are they doing?
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Just seeing them on shore gives us
a very small view of their life.
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The big Holy Grail for us,
is what are they seeing?
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What are they hunting?
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How successful they are
at catching prey...
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It's a hard life for these seals.
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There are around 15,000 fur seals
on Kanowna Island...
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..so it's no surprise that the
island's a magnet for great whites.
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These giant sharks specialise in
hunting marine mammals like seals.
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Our first challenge will be
to test our cameras.
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John's been fitting seals
with trackers for years.
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He operates with military precision.
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His tactic is to keep low...
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I'm going to sneak in,
see what I can find.
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Okey-dokey. ..keep quiet...
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and bring a very large net.
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OK, we've got her.
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Let me know if there's anything
I can do.
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Our mother seal gets a light
anaesthetic to help keep her calm.
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Wow. 86.0, plus board,
so she's 80 kilos.
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At such a healthy size,
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John's happy that she won't be
hampered by a small camera.
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OK. Well done.
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Go back.
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While our mum goes on her first
filming trip...
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..I want to see what the seals
get up to close to shore.
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The theory is that this spot
is too shallow for sharks.
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It's the seal equivalent
of a paddling pool,
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a safe and sheltered spot
where pups can learn to swim.
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That is absolutely beautiful.
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It is probably one of the nicest
things I've ever seen underwater.
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This cove is the only place
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I can observe these seals
beneath the waves.
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But we want to understand
their lives
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away from the sheltered shallows.
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And that's what the deployment
of these cameras is all about.
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Our camera testing seal
has also been taking a dip.
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Time to see
what the footage reveals.
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Heading down to sea.
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See the way her shoulder blades
are working.
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And she's about to jump
into the water.
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There she goes. Into the...
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Wow. Oh, wow!
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Look at that!
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As soon as she dives, the camera
captures unexpected behaviour.
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Oh, look at that. Look at that.
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She's rubbing against the rocks.
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Oh, yeah.
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On that green stuff.
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They are rubbing... Wow, yeah, you
can see it very clearly there.
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Yeah.
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And now she's rubbing the side
of her face, her neck.
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The other animals around her
are doing the same thing.
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They're all doing it. Yeah.
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And you've never seen this before?
No, I wouldn't have known.
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I mean, you see them offshore
at the surface, playing.
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This is brand-new stuff.
I've never seen this before.
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Wow!
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John thinks the seals could be using
the seaweed to clean their fur...
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..brushing up against it
to remove parasites.
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Already, we've captured
brand-new behaviour.
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We deploy more cameras.
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Hopefully, these seals will head
further out to sea.
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We know from John's previous
research that some seals will travel
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as far as Tasmania...
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..a 200-mile round trip.
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But they face the greatest danger
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from sharks within the first few
miles of their journey.
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There she goes.
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Will our cameras finally reveal
the seals' survival strategy?
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You see seals coming ashore
with injuries from sharks.
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They're the lucky ones
that got away. Mm-hmm.
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As soon as our seal
enters the danger zone,
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she heads straight down
to the bottom.
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It's a deliberate tactic.
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Great whites prefer to ambush prey
from below.
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She's trying to slip
under the shark's radar.
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She can hold her breath
for eight minutes...
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..but then she must come up for air,
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and this is when
she's most vulnerable.
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Now, she starts to swim
in a completely different way.
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All the time when she's coming
towards the surface,
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she's looking around. A 360 view.
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In these dangerous surface waters,
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she's doing everything she can
to avoid a surprise attack.
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Rotating her head
gives her an all-round view.
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Just constantly barrelling
and it's just twisting and turning,
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it's incredible.
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You wouldn't know that unless you
had a camera on an animal. Yeah.
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As soon as she can, she returns
to the safety of the sea bed.
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This is the first time John
has ever seen how seal mums
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give sharks the slip.
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Further out, she switches into
hunting mode.
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Skimming over the sea floor
has another benefit.
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She's onto something.
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It's a cuttlefish.
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Wow!
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Look at that!
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That's a big one.
Like a big plate of ink.
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The cuttlefish squirts ink
to try and confuse the seal...
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Wow.
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..but it's too late.
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I don't know if we've seen
cuttlefish in their diet before.
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Really?
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18 metres down, her super senses
soon detect something else.
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Oh, what's she chasing here?
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Oh...
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It's big. Oh, yeah.
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It's a big octopus.
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See it, it's the tentacles.
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Yeah. I didn't even see her
grab that.
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A struggling octopus is hard to eat.
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Our seal risks heading
to the surface.
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Up here, she kills her prey and
bashes it into bite-sized chunks.
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Wow.
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At the same time she's doing that,
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she's having to keep an eye out
for sharks. Yeah.
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The cameras have revealed how
mothers specialise in hunting
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on the sea floor.
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But when this seal comes up for air,
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something else
catches her attention.
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Is that dolphins?
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Yeah. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow!
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Goodness me!
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She's come across a bunch of
dolphins feeding in the bay pool.
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Oh, you can see her snatching them
there.
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00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,360
Wow, that's incredible.
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So, the presence of those dolphins
is going to help her.
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Well, I think she's just getting
a free meal here.
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The dolphins are
rounding up the fish,
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and the seal dives in
for an easy meal.
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00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,760
The... Oh, there's another one.
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00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,760
Wow, that's incredible!
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Without the onboard cameras,
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John would have no idea these seals
take advantage of dolphins.
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But once the dolphins leave,
the fish spread out.
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A lone seal can't keep them
bunched together.
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We see here that she's working
really hard
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and there's a huge school
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of fish there, but she's getting
very few of them.
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With a belly full of food,
she heads back to the sea floor.
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These cameras have given us a
remarkable insight into the lives
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of these seals far out at sea.
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For John, these insights
have transformed his research.
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You've learned more from, say,
a two-hour video
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of the animals underwater
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than years and years
of dive recorders and GPS
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data logger tracking, because now
you are seeing how they are behaving
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underwater in response to what
they're seeing.
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Therefore, the cameras give us
a brand-new view of their life.
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Now we're facing
a very different challenge.
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On the other side of the world,
there's trouble.
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War is raging in the
South African bush...
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..between the local farmers
and Chacma baboons.
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The baboons' natural habitat
is shrinking,
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forcing them into farmland,
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where they damage
and eat the farmers' crops.
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It's a battle that's threatening
farmers' livelihoods.
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00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:39,360
Raino just harvested
his butternut squash,
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but half his crop was unsellable.
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All of these butternuts, basically,
in the field is all damaged
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with bite marks, scratching marks.
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That's the way they carry on,
take a bite from each one.
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Some farmers are already
shooting baboons,
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so a solution
can't come soon enough.
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Could cameras on the baboons reveal
how to keep them off these crops?
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Scientist Leah Findlay has spent
the last five years
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searching for answers.
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00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,720
So far, nothing has worked.
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00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,160
Baboons are very smart,
they're very dexterous, agile.
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It's basically like having a pack
of ninjas on your farm.
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00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,760
Yeah, it's a pretty tricky problem
to solve.
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We try everything
to stop the baboons.
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In the beginning, we'd put branches,
thorn trees around it.
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It never stopped them.
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00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,320
We've tried rubber snakes,
alarm systems.
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00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,840
We've made proper scarecrows
that move like this.
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Takes you about a week or so and
then they're getting used to it.
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We've tried electric fences, guards.
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If the guards are walking
on this side,
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they will be on the other side
of the field.
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Then if she can run to that side,
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then they will cross all the way
backwards,
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coming to this side again.
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They are very clever.
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These clever monkeys are not
in the crop fields every day.
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For the last week, the baboons
haven't been raiding,
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even though there are thousands
of butternuts in the field.
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If Leah can learn what is
keeping them away now,
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perhaps she can use it to
keep them out permanently.
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At this stage, I think the cameras
are basically my last hope,
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because I can't carry on like this.
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Now, we just need to get
our custom-built camera
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onto a baboon.
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I'm stuck!
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Leah sets the trap, baited with
the baboons' beloved butternut.
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When something pushes down
on the table,
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it will pull the latch out
and the door will slide shut.
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As night falls,
we have our first baboon.
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A female. The vet anaesthetises
her and fits the camera.
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Over the coming days, Leah catches
and puts cameras on more baboons.
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There we go!
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As the new day dawns,
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we get our first glimpse into the
lives of these secretive animals.
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They slept in the trees for safety.
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00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,080
Now they're sunbathing to warm up.
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00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,040
That's beautiful footage here.
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She's having a good look at it,
isn't she?
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So, this is basically our eyes now.
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Whatever we see now,
it's like through their eyes.
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00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,080
Yeah.
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Considering this has only
been on overnight,
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she's not bothered by it, is she?
Nothing at all, not at all.
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This one is grooming her.
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Grooming is the way they socialise,
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so I think she might be a more
dominant female. Hm.
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It's wonderful to finally
see the baboons' world.
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But will this teach Leah and Raino
how to keep them off the crops?
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Fence. Not even jumping over it,
just going through it.
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00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,040
Yeah, just straight through, she
pulled it down and she went through.
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00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,760
It's like it's not even there.
These fences, to be honest,
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I don't think are going to stop them
at all.
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My opinion!
496
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,680
Does anything put the baboons off?
497
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,880
One of our cameras
gives us a clue.
498
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,800
And now they're running. Yeah.
499
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,440
Because nice open area... Yeah.
500
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,400
Which suggests that they don't like
being in it.
501
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,880
That's definitely something
that we can think about
502
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,360
in terms of the crops.
503
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,600
Leah thinks an empty space
around the crops
504
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,520
would be a better barrier
than a fence.
505
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,400
And soon, we get more
inside information.
506
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,080
The baboons are digging for water.
507
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,600
It's dry season, so the rivers
have dried up.
508
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,600
But there is an easier way
to get a drink.
509
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:04,480
Why bother digging
when there's a water trough?
510
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,440
Has the camera gone under water?
511
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,240
Yeah.
512
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:11,760
Is it waterproof?!
513
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,560
Has to be.
514
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,600
It gives Leah another idea.
515
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,160
I'm just thinking about, you know,
516
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,880
keeping water points
away from the crops,
517
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,440
because maybe having our water
close to the crops is, you know,
518
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,880
drawing them in.
519
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:31,000
And finally, we learn
why the baboons
520
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,440
aren't raiding at the moment.
521
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,680
This is the first ever glimpse
522
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,760
of what these baboons are eating
in the wild.
523
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,360
And it goes like this,
524
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,840
it's basically every time they
put a fruit in their mouth.
525
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,520
Yeah, yeah.
526
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,640
At first... Just shovelling it in,
yeah.
527
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,120
And it feels like she's going
to feed you.
528
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,840
Yeah!
529
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,440
Same kind of fruit, that kind
of roundish fruit tree.
530
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,240
Yeah, yeah.
531
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,880
This fruit could be the key.
532
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,880
It's from an alala palm.
533
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,040
They take up to four years to ripen
and fall to the ground.
534
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,360
And when they do, there are
thousands of them.
535
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,480
It's a feast.
536
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,600
The baboons are choosing this wild
fruit over the butternuts.
537
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,760
When there's enough feeding
and stuff,
538
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,200
they prefer to use
their natural food.
539
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,240
When there's plenty out there,
they don't come in. Yeah.
540
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,400
You could plant more of these trees
that have their natural food
541
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,560
that maybe they prefer. You know,
that might be an option.
542
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,080
The peak time for crop raiding
is the dry season,
543
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,480
when there is little
other food around.
544
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,320
If Raino could plant bushes and
trees that fruit in the dry season,
545
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,080
it might get the baboons through
this hunger gap
546
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,280
and keep them off his fields.
547
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,440
Our cameras reveal a wide range
548
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,840
of the baboons' favourite fruit
and berries,
549
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,680
showing Raino exactly
what to plant.
550
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,960
I think we've definitely learned
some new things.
551
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,560
We've learned a lot, yeah.
552
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,720
Does this make you feel any
differently about the baboons?
553
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,480
Having a baboon's-eye view?
554
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,920
Feeling more sorry for them,
actually. Oh, really? Yeah.
555
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,400
Why's that? It's their
natural environment,
556
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,880
so there has to be space
for everybody.
557
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,960
Leah has gained new insights into
the feeding habits of the baboons.
558
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:09,840
These will be crucial to her effort
to solve this tricky conflict,
559
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,680
finding a peaceful way for farmers
560
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,440
and baboons to coexist.
561
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:36,120
Back in Namibia, 700 miles away,
562
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,800
we've been putting our cameras
on three orphaned cheetahs.
563
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,760
OK. Fantastic, there we go.
564
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,000
Their surrogate mum, Marlice,
565
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,080
wants to know if they can hunt for
themselves in the bush.
566
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,080
We've seen some encouraging signs...
567
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,560
Oh, she's seen something.
568
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,400
They're all up on their feet
looking off in that direction.
569
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,880
I can't see what they can see.
570
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,480
..but until now, the cameras have
captured near misses.
571
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,240
No successful hunts.
572
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,360
Several months on,
Marlice is still using her cameras
573
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,400
to see how their hunting is
coming on.
574
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:32,040
Odyssey flushes a warthog.
575
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:37,440
A warthog is one of the animals
that they are most scared of.
576
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,840
The tusks on these powerful pigs
can kill.
577
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,720
Just in time, he realises it's
a mistake to follow a warthog
578
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,160
into the bush.
579
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,920
SHE CHUCKLES
He did give up.
580
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:03,800
A bat-eared fox...
581
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:13,840
It's just amazing that...
582
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,560
I mean, I didn't even know that they
go for bat-eared foxes,
583
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,000
if it wasn't for the camera.
584
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,080
Shiloh and Wonder move in
from each side...
585
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,080
..and the cameras capture their
deadly strike.
586
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,480
With the cameras and with technology
like this,
587
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,080
it just proves that actually
without a mum,
588
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,840
without an adult showing them how
to do it, and with opportunities,
589
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,120
they can actually learn.
590
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,720
By working together, they're
becoming a formidable hunting trio.
591
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,880
And their choice of prey is
getting better.
592
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,960
Springbok are one of the fastest
of all African animals.
593
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,800
But up against cheetahs, this one
has little chance of escape.
594
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,680
Success at last.
595
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,800
The right prey and the perfect
technique.
596
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:34,880
I can see that they are ready.
597
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,280
They've learned a lot,
598
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,360
they are ready and they're working
in coalition.
599
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:44,120
It's two females and a male together
and making their hunt successful.
600
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:48,560
It helps me to kind of cut
the umbilical cord and know
601
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,480
that they actually, really,
they can go.
602
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,040
Yeah, it's really impressive to see
and I'm so proud of them.
603
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,000
Our cameras have given us an insight
604
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,080
that otherwise would be impossible
to see.
605
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,520
And it's the cheetahs themselves
606
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,600
that have given us their view
of their world.
607
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,200
They have taken us with them deep
into the African bush.
608
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,680
The cameras have shown Marlice
that her three young cubs
609
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,760
can fend for themselves.
610
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,560
And our new insights into the lives
of cheetahs
611
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,840
could help us to better protect
these incredible big cats.
612
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,400
In this episode,
613
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,400
two very different African animals
614
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,200
presented us with two very different
problems.
615
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:10,480
How to fit a camera onto
the superfast cheetah...
616
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,600
..and the super-shy baboon.
617
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:22,560
It was up to mini camera expert
Chris Watts to find the solutions.
618
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,200
When I first think about making
a camera system for an animal,
619
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,440
a lot of it is kind of really
studying how they move.
620
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,560
And with the cheetah, the first
thing you notice
621
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,440
is that the head is so stable
when they're moving and running,
622
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,480
the head is just completely locked.
623
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,560
And we all thought, how amazing
would it be if we could actually get
624
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:42,840
the camera on the head?
625
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,360
But before the team could try this
ambitious plan
626
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,240
on the three young orphans,
627
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:53,360
they needed to test their design
on a captive cheetah
628
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,520
with an easy-going nature.
629
00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:00,840
Enter Pride - possibly the most
relaxed cheetah in Africa.
630
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:05,440
Her keeper, Derek Van Heerden,
631
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,960
didn't think she'd object
to trialling our head camera.
632
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,000
Chris designed a 3-D printed harness
633
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,400
fit for the heat
of the African bush.
634
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,800
Cooling is a massive issue.
635
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,680
We didn't want to put something
on their head which was going to,
636
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,000
you know, make them overheat.
637
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,320
So we've tried to have vent holes
638
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,160
here so you get air underneath
the head.
639
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,240
And the way we've attached it to
the cheetah's head is just using
640
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:37,000
this flexible, breathable neoprene.
641
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:41,960
Chris's design needed to be quick
to deploy,
642
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,560
but easy for the cheetah to
pull off if she wasn't happy.
643
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:50,400
I'm really excited to see
what we're going to get.
644
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,440
But no-one knew how Pride
would react.
645
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,520
Do you reckon...? Do you reckon
that's all right, isn't it?
646
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,440
Seems pretty good.
647
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,840
No problem.
648
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,080
Once Chris was happy with the fit...
649
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,160
..Derek and I kept a close eye on
how Pride was doing.
650
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:28,880
The key thing, really, is for this
camera to not interfere
651
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,480
with any of her senses.
652
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,120
Just a couple of minutes
with the camera on her head
653
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,920
and she's forgotten all about it.
Yeah.
654
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,280
It was encouraging to see how
comfortable she looked,
655
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,800
and how relaxed she was with other
cheetahs in her enclosure.
656
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,200
Oh, goodness me!
657
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:56,800
She gets a bit of a face-lick.
658
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,120
Wow.
659
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,600
Such an intimate moment.
Beautiful.
660
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,240
Certainly is amazing.
661
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,360
Ah, that's lovely, look at that.
That really is.
662
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,120
We had to be sure that Pride
663
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,840
could reach top speed while wearing
the camera.
664
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,440
It wasn't long before she was off.
665
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,200
There she is. Oh, whoa!
666
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:22,560
Really fast, there we go.
667
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,400
Unbelievable.
That's an explosive speed.
668
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:25,720
That thing is moving.
669
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,120
Look at this.
670
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,400
The footage was proof
671
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,200
that our camera wouldn't put a
cheetah off its stride.
672
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,200
That's amazing, it really
is excellent footage.
673
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,120
We were now ready to join our three
young orphan cheetahs
674
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,560
as they learn to hunt.
675
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:56,040
The next animal presented Chris with
a very different set of problems.
676
00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:01,440
The wild baboons we wanted to film
in South Africa
677
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,760
were extremely scared of people.
678
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,040
A camera test with them was
out of the question.
679
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,800
So once again, Chris needed a
body double.
680
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,040
We chose a group of hand-reared
baboons in a sanctuary in Namibia.
681
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,560
They weren't timid.
682
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,720
In fact, quite the opposite.
683
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,720
It is quite unusual working
conditions.
684
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:27,000
Ooh, ooh!
685
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,360
Before making his prototype, Chris
studied the way baboons move.
686
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:38,920
In contrast to cheetahs, baboons
move their heads all the time.
687
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,280
For more stable shots,
688
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,240
the camera would have to be worn
around the neck.
689
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,240
But this posed another problem
690
00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:50,520
due to the baboons' distinctive
facial features.
691
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,600
What I noticed is that their faces
are very long.
692
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,280
I'm quite concerned that the chin
might get in the shot.
693
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,960
But really, we've just got to try
it now and see what we get.
694
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,040
Testing was easier said than done.
695
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,640
Are you going to wear a camera?
696
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,840
The baboons might be used to
people...
697
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,040
Pff! OK.
698
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,000
Um, hmm...
699
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,960
..but they weren't used to
wearing collars.
700
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,600
It's to sort of make it into a bit
of a game.
701
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,440
Really don't want to annoy them
or lose a finger.
702
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:27,880
Oh, no, he's got it!
703
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,440
Eventually, perseverance
and patience paid off.
704
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,000
But, as Chris had feared,
705
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,600
the camera showed mostly chin.
706
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,200
Over the next few days, Chris
experimented,
707
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,240
altering the position and angle of
the camera to get the best results.
708
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,840
And finally...
709
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,040
..bingo!
710
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,400
You can see, you've got the bottom
of the chin just here,
711
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,080
and the lens there.
712
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,080
So height-wise, it's kind of
713
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:12,360
just about there.
714
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,800
The prototype camera could deliver
great footage.
715
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,880
But was it baboon-proof?
716
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,120
An adult male baboon can weigh
40 kilos...
717
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,800
and have canine teeth larger than
a leopard's.
718
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,400
But there's no way that will be
strong enough,
719
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,880
because a big wild male will just do
that straight away.
720
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,280
The last step was to add serious
reinforcement -
721
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,320
a stronger housing,
and a thicker collar.
722
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,440
Feels pretty much perfect.
723
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:55,440
Now Chris's baboon cams had to work
out in the wild.
724
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:01,400
Once in South Africa,
725
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,080
getting the cameras onto the baboons
was fairly straightforward.
726
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,440
There we go!
727
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,280
Here, the biggest challenge...
728
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,000
..was getting the cameras back.
729
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,920
Each was set to drop off after
two days filming.
730
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,920
In such dense scrub, Leah's only
chance of finding the camera
731
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,440
was to track the baboon using
the transmitter in its collar.
732
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,720
But baboons have no respect for
human boundaries.
733
00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:40,360
With its camera just about to
drop off,
734
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,560
our baboon went trespassing on
a neighbouring farm.
735
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,880
We saw the baboon with
the collar on, with the camera,
736
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,320
crossing the road.
737
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,760
So she's just the other side of this
fence now.
738
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:55,720
Without permission to enter,
739
00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:58,440
Leah couldn't follow the baboon
any further.
740
00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:03,680
It's 4.55, so her collar
741
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,520
will be dropping off
in five minutes.
742
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,840
Bang on time,
the camera dropped off.
743
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,720
The battery in the tracking device
would soon be dead.
744
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,480
Finally, Leah got the go-ahead
to enter the farm.
745
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,440
It was now a race to find the camera
746
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,040
before the battery and the daylight
ran out.
747
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,040
It's getting louder.
748
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:36,960
I think it's that way.
749
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,480
And just as night was closing in...
750
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,960
Oh, there it is!
751
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,720
Ah, yes.
752
00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:48,880
Ah.
753
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:51,720
We've got the collar.
754
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,440
I'm so happy.
755
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:01,960
Next time...
756
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,320
We dive into the Atlantic Ocean
757
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:08,280
to reveal a secret gathering of
giant devil rays.
758
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,360
These are unbelievably privileged
views.
759
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,280
In the mountains of Turkey,
760
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,600
we are with brown bears, where
tensions are running high.
761
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:21,320
Ooh. Oh, wow!
762
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,320
And in France,
we discover what happens
763
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,360
when dogs come face to face
with wolves.