Mammals are everywhere. Sir David Attenborough reveals the ingenuity behind their success.
The Mammals Dark team travelled to Argentina to film one of the least mammal-like mammals in the world – the ‘large hairy armadillo’.‘Armadillo’ is a Spanish word meaning “little armoured one”. Like all armadillo species, the large hairy armadillo has an armoured shell of tough, overlapping scales or ‘scutes’, a useful anti-predator device.
As with every shoot in the Dark episode, the biggest problem we faced was lack of light. Thanks to radical improvements in low-light camera technology in recent years, we could film the armadillos under just moonlight as they foraged amongst the grassy fields, using their sharp claws to dig for grubs and insects in the dirt.
“The challenge of building a remote rig of that complexity – with five remote cameras working simultaneously - was that there were five-times as many things to go wrong’, explains Jo. ‘Trying to make it all work from a kilometre away was particularly difficult. We had to build quite a lot of bespoke equipment. But it was rewarding in the end because we could have a very low impact on the armadillos.
So the stage was set. Max and Esteban scanned the surrounding fields with thermal scopes, while Jo and I took up position in the farmhouse 1km away. Sitting down in front of a dazzling array of monitors, switches, control boards and cables, we felt like security guards beginning a long night shift of checking the CCTV.The bespoke spy rig was an immediate success – within hours our star armadillo popped out from a hole in the ground.
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