Animatronic Apes

Animatronic Ape Sent To Spy On Wild Gorillas Films Them Singing During Dinner Together

In this documentary that was captured by these filmmakers using a robotic spy gorilla, they were able to witness various footage’s ranging from singing to farting. What is amazing about this footage is that the gorillas seem so at peace with this robotic ape and almost treat it as if it is part of their family. In this video you can see the whole family of mountain gorillas eating leaves together and having fun while singing and farting due to the large amount of food they eat everyday.

This hyper-realistic robot gorilla was created to take part in the film by PBS called, Nature: Spy in the Wild 2. The show focuses on following the lives of these animals through robotic animals that are near impossible to tell the difference from a real ape. Since gorillas focus on eye communication, the producer Matt Gordon, made sure that there was no way these gorillas can tell that it was fake and mimicked proper movements. The show focused on making this “ape” act in very submissive ways to where it would never pose as a threat to fellow apes. The show claims that they sometimes even have to make the robot smell like feces in order to attract the other apes.

I really love how different this film is and how people are not only placing cameras all around jungles but allowing animals to interact with these cameras to learn more about them and how they react to certain objects. I believe this show will help promote new knowledge to scientists and how various different animals minds comprehend different reactions to an outside source.