How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way – by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera.

How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations as power struggles, bites and fights get in the way of the hairy chimp directors. However, by the end of the programme we are privileged to see the world’s first film shot by chimpanzees.

Burning Gold Productions have a pedigree for producing innovative and ground breaking films within the natural history and scientific genres.

Last year they used stunning computer generated imagery to virtually drain the world’s oceans of water to reveal deep ocean landscapes and geology. This 2 hour special was produced for National Geographic Channel US, NGCI & ORF Austria.

For more information about ‘The Chimpcam Project’ contact the program producer John Capener on john@burning-gold.co.uk

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Additional details on this program can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8472000/8472831.stm