This is the first time that singing mountain gorillas have been caught on camera.
(Image: © Copyright John Downer Productions)
Mountain gorillas have been caught on camera as they "sing" during their supper, a behavior that has never before been documented on video. Filmmakers captured the astonishing footage of the primate crooners with a little help from a very special camera: a robotic "spy" designed to look like a young gorilla.
The singing apes make their television debut on April 29 in the returning PBS series, "Nature: Spy in the Wild 2."
Like its predecessor, which first aired in 2017, the program documents remarkable up-close glimpses of elusive wildlife behavior, seen through the "eyes" of robots that are uncanny lookalikes of the creatures that they film. more sing-a-long