Hello all,
has anyone been watching the tigers on BBC? I heard they attached cameras to elephants to film it, which sounds a bit complicated! But I keep missing it! Is it any good?

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, sounds interesting though. Putting cameras on elephants sounds like an interesting idea, I wonder how much actual footage they got from it though? Do they really spend that much time with tigers?

Somehow that doesn't really sound like a good idea! Even though elephants are perfectly capable of killing a tiger, I don't think that elephants really like being around tigers.

Kingfisher

I totally agree with you, i mean you don't expect a tiger to walk and hunt with an... an elephant!!!

The first program is available on the BBC iplayer website, it's called spy in the jungle I think. I'm hopefully going to get a chance to watch it today.

Thanks for that Bill! I was hoping to get another chance to watch it.

I've seen a few bits of different episodes now, and the elephants actually have people on them guiding the, but it means that they can get close with cameras to the tigers without having anything to fear as the tigers are no match for the elephants!

It's another program where the lives of a specific family are followed, and it's great to watch. The cubs when I last saw it where beginning to get on each others nerves so may be splitting soon.

Yes I've managed to watch some of it too now. It was different to what I had expected because I didn't realise people would be riding the elephants. I just thought they'd attach the cameras to the elephant and see how lucky they got. But even with humans being there, they've still captured the intimacy of the tigers

It is amazing how the tigers don't seem to notice the elephants or humans. I suppose they realise they are no threat. The only time one of the cubs interacted with the elephant was when it was thinking about grabbing its tail, which it decided better of!

I watched a small bit on iplayer a few weeks ago, and the adult tigers were definitely a bit wary of the elephants. A male especially got very aggressive towards them and the elephants didn't like it at all! (not surprisingly) I wouldn't have wanted to be ditting o nthe elephant at the time as it got very shakey and looked like it wasn't in much control/