The BBC has a small piece on Polar Bears whaling on remote-controlled robotic cameras designed to unobtrusively chart the bears in their natural habitat in Svalbard, Norway. This splendid piece of observation and film-making yielded some really gorgeous footage of polar bears being polar bears*, which includes some spectacular ingenuity in the field of tearing the living hell out of the electronics.

The cameras used for a documentary on polar bears were designed to be as unobtrusive and resilient as possible.

Polar Bear: Spy on The Ice used hi-tech “spy cams” to get as close as possible to the bears during summer in the Arctic islands of Svalbard.

But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed by their subjects.

The producer must have wept, then wet him/herself at the prospect of what was in the camera afterwards.

Thanks Paul Saffo!

*OMG SO FLUUUFFYYYY!!

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