The Chimpcam Project
Wildlife documentary. How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project attempts to answer that question by giving chimps a special camera.
Wildlife documentary. How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera.
How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations as power struggles, bites and fights get in the way of the hairy chimp directors. However, by the end of the programme we are privileged to see the world's first film shot by chimpanzees.
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Clips
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Sense of self
Duration: 01:25
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Status negotiations
Duration: 01:11
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Leadership challenge
Duration: 02:30
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Chimp insight
Duration: 01:46
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Stuart McQuarrie |
Participant | Betsy Herrelko |
Producer | John Capener |
Series Editor | Tim Martin |
Broadcasts
- Wed 27 Jan 2010 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two
- Fri 5 Feb 2010 02:25
- Fri 8 Feb 2019 16:30
- Fri 5 Mar 2021 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except England & Scotland
- Sun 5 Nov 2023 11:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Scotland
- Tomorrow 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Scotland
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