Changing the subject slightly….

I was watching a Sky nature programme called Wild India last night. It showed a clouded leopard hunting prey in the Jungle. Gibbons and Macaques in the trees were not safe from the brilliantly agile clouded leopard as it was shown climbing the branches. The footage was interchanging prey flying about and hunter climbing thin branches. We never saw them in the same frame together. Not surprising really as the clouded leopard was in a jungle (very convincing) compound! How can I be sure?  As the leopard ‘stalked’ a long a branch there was the clear shot of a man’s smiling face just behind the tree the leopard was walking on. OOPS.

The other point is they are nocturnal hunters so they wouldn’t be seen stalking prey up branches in the sunlight of this fil sequence. The keepers at the reserve I visited told me they will happily go in the compound (two keepers together!) when the suns out but as dusk approaches or on cloudy days…forget it.

So when is AI that different to manipulation of supposed wild filming using captive subjects sequences?


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