The Chimpcam Project

Genre

documentary film

How it feels

A group of chimpanzees at a zoo are given a special camera and learn how to use it. The documentary follows them as they film their own daily lives. It shows what happens when the animals take control of the filming process.

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What happens

The Chimpcam Project is a documentary featuring the first movie to be filmed entirely by chimpanzees. The chimpanzees do this using a "chimpcam" - a video recorder housed in a chimpanzee-proof box. The device is used by 11 chimpanzees living at the Edinburgh Zoo in the U.K. The experiment was the idea of producer John Capener and became part of the studies of primatologist Betsy Herrelko, who is studying for a Ph.D. in primate behaviour at the University of Stirling. The documentary was a co-production between the BBC strand Natural World and Animal Planet. It premiered on BBC Two on 27 January 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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