Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A pelican with a GoPro gives us a beak at the world below


GoPro cameras were originally designed to capture the greatest moments in surfing, though the tiny cameras are turning out to be infinitely more entertaining when strapped to birds. The latest: a pelican in Tanzania that befriended the staff at the Greystoke Mahale, a camp on the foot of the Mahale Mountains. The injured creature ended up there after a storm, and with some coaxing, recovered to the point where it could fly again. Its first successful flight was captured using a GoPro camera that was strapped to the top of its beak.


The video is perhaps the most touching in a series of videos featuring birds interacting with cameras. In January, a camera capturing footage of a rockhopper penguin colony while disguised as an egg, went...


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