An enormous video of London Zoo’s penguins is being proven on the Outernet this week, however the movie staff has to take away penguin poo from their footage earlier than it might be proven to the general public.
London Zoo launches 360-degree immersive underwater penguin set up, Penguin Paradise, at Outernet London (c) Jeff Spicer PA Media Assignments
The video was made by Nationwide Geographic videographer Ignacio Ferrando Margelí, who used a customized penguin-proof and waterproof digital camera rig, fusing six 4K-resolution GoPro cameras collectively to seize footage from all angles.
As soon as the digital camera was prepared, Ignacio and the Circus manufacturing staff winched the digital camera over the centre of the pool, earlier than reducing it into the water. The penguins didn’t wait lengthy to take a number of exploratory pecks on the digital camera, its plastic shell withstanding some nips from the colony’s most curious penguin, Phineas.
London Zoo penguin keeper Shannon Quinn mentioned, “The penguins are very curious by nature, in order that they had been undoubtedly intrigued by the 360° digital camera gear.
“The best problem was ready patiently for them to swim shut sufficient to the digital camera, once they made their laps across the pool. Apart from a bucket of fish, essentially the most great tool – and a penguin keeper’s greatest stored secret – was a laser pointer. Very similar to cats, the penguins are intrigued by the little beam of sunshine, and similar to once we use it to encourage them onto weighing scales for his or her well being checks, it proved massively useful in encouraging the penguins nearer to the centre of the pool.”
Whereas the cameraman and penguin keepers envisaged needing a number of takes to seize the birds on digital camera, nobody guessed that digitally eradicating penguin excrement can be the larger problem.
Shannon added: “We’d not anticipated how a lot the underwater digital camera would choose up. This yr’s theme at London Zoo is Poo on the Zoo, however we didn’t anticipate a must manually edit penguin poo out of lovely photographs of them swimming previous the digital camera!”
London Zoo’s Penguin Paradise set up runs at chosen occasions all through Friday 26 July to Thursday 1 August 2024
The time the penguins shall be proven could be checked right here shortly.
The Outernet is true subsequent to Tottenham Court docket Street tube station.
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