How the hell does Discovery channel get these crazy camera angles

[jadillac]

I'm watching this Africa thing now and its .

They got a beetle pushing a big grain of sand.

The beetle got to the edge of a small hill probably only 2-3 feet high, and it falls off and it and the big grain of sand go tumbling down. Then the beatle get's back up and starts pushing it back up the hill. How do they know in the span of a HUGE desert, WHERE this is gonna happen and more importantly by a tiny beetle.

There was another one where a mole rat was digging a tunnel into the ground and they already had their camera in there as the rat burrowed it's ways towards the lens. Even if they planted the lens initially, how do they know the rat is gonna go in their hole?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You can google these things.


Anyways national geographics pays teams all around the world to get footage. A lot of those shows on the discovery channel reuse the same footage.

 

[Walter H White]

That ain't sand, it's the dung beetle!

 

[Big Blue]

It literally takes them hours of waiting. Watch the Planet Earth Behind thr Scenes

 

[Brown_Pride]

you don't get to see the 12 additional hours of the beetle doing jack shyt that's why.

 

[NZA]

my assumptions...

they know the basic nature of many of the species they follow, or they ask the locals about them, and then they use that knowledge to determine where to set up the cameras. then they just wait around.

even in the case of "shocking new footage of a poorly known species", the locals, if living in a low tech society, will probably know quite a bit about that animal, but none of them work in media or academia so the rest of us dont know about the animal. when the camera crew is in country, they will ask around, and a local guide may be paid to lead them to the places where they typically see these creatures, and that local guide can tell them if the animal is nocturnal or whatever, and then the camera dudes set up shop, wait a long time, and eventually get footage.