{"id":268651,"date":"2026-02-05T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:15:25","slug":"shes-trying-to-hit-it-with-the-camera-researchers-attached-a-camera-to-a-baby-chimp-and-recorded-something-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268651\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShe\u2019s trying to hit it with the camera!\u201d Researchers attached a camera to a baby chimp \u2013 and recorded something incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you give animals their own cameras? That\u2019s the premise of the 2018 BBC TV series Animals With Cameras, which follows wildlife filmmaker and presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/who-is-gordon-buchanan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Buchanan<\/a> as he meets scientists who want to take a closer look at what animals get up to.<\/p>\n<p>And in the first episode, in Cameroon, one young, orphaned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/facts-about-chimpanzees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chimp<\/a> \u2013 named Kimbang \u2013 is due to be released back into the wild after a traumatic start in life. But before she is, scientist Mimi Swift wants to make sure she can recognise and respond to dangers.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you go about testing this? By giving her a camera and hiding a fake snake in a tree, of course.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems to be successful, as Gordon Buchanan says, \u201cShe\u2019s improvising \u2013 using every tool at her disposal. She\u2019s trying to hit it with the camera! That\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/1X1RYDCsdV3HBWvMBtdsDYG\/how-to-get-onboard-footage-from-one-of-the-cheekiest-and-most-inquisitive-animals-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hannah Ward writes on a BBC blog<\/a>, \u201cWe quickly learnt that getting a chimp to wear a camera was no small task&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference between the chimpanzees wanting to wear the cameras and not wanting to wear them was miniscule and could change every few minutes, or the second that something or someone more exciting came along.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens when you give animals their own cameras? That\u2019s the premise of the 2018 BBC TV series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-268651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}