How Filmmakers Used Drones to Capture Wild Tigers
Clip: Season 45 Episode 2 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
See how filmmakers used lightweight drones to capture wild tigers without disturbing them.
To film the elusive tigers of "Tiger Island," filmmakers turned to a new approach: lightweight drones equipped with powerful zoom lenses. This innovative technique allowed the crew to continuously monitor the tigers without disturbing them.
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How Filmmakers Used Drones to Capture Wild Tigers
Clip: Season 45 Episode 2 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
To film the elusive tigers of "Tiger Island," filmmakers turned to a new approach: lightweight drones equipped with powerful zoom lenses. This innovative technique allowed the crew to continuously monitor the tigers without disturbing them.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- On this series, we've got a new approach for filming tigers, which is to use lightweight drones with powerful zoom lenses.
It means we can monitor the tigers continuously without disturbing them.
We've got four drones in the sky.
We can relay in the air, come back, switch our batteries, and fly straight back out.
And there's always someone on the tigers following them.
- Look, look, look, look, look.
You can see us and the tiger together.
- Yeah.
- Does that?
- It just looks straight.
- Wow.
- It does.
Oh, that was a really close call.
- This is good.
He's going to cross.
Wow.
- My gosh.
This is nuts.
With these drones, we are going to follow individual tigers like never before.
(birds chirping)
Meet the Local Wildlife Guides Behind Tiger Island
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Clip: S45 Ep2 | 1m 36s | Meet the two Nepali sisters whose wildlife expertise helped filmmakers track down wild tigers. (1m 36s)
A Mother Tiger's Desperate Search for Her Cub
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Clip: S45 Ep2 | 3m 1s | When her cub wanders close to a village, a mother tiger must find a way to bring it safely back. (3m 1s)
Preview of Tiger Island: Part One
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Preview: S45 Ep2 | 30s | In Nepal, a team of wildlife experts begin an expedition following two tiger families. (30s)
Tigers Aren't Supposed to Do This
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Clip: S45 Ep2 | 2m 55s | Tigers are known to be solitary animals, but these two mothers appear to be breaking the rules. (2m 55s)
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