A band of gorillas inspect a robotic counterpart, which has a camera in one eye, in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, during the BBC’s Spy in the Wild II John Downer Productions / BBCWatch out Sir David Attenborough: spy gorilla has his eye on your job. A range of animatronic creatures has been deployed to infiltrate animal communities around the world, capturing unprecedentedly intimate footage. A total of 51 spy creatures were created for Spy in the Wild II, a four-part natural history series due to be shown on BBC One in the coming months. In Borneo a robotic baby pygmy elephant had similar success in ingratiating itself with an older animal John Downer Productions / BBCThe undercover squadron includes a spy koala bear, a spy sloth, and even a spy Amazon river dolphin — each with a camera embedded in one eye. The most complex took six months to build at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds.

Source: The Times January 14, 2020 00:05 UTC