Boing Boing » National Geographic http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:09:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 How To: Film cheetahs in slow motion http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/how-to-film-cheetahs-in-slow.html http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/how-to-film-cheetahs-in-slow.html#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:57:58 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=196989

For this project you will need one cat toy on a string, a high-speed camera mounted on a moveable track, and also some cheetahs.

This behind-the-scenes video shows you how National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo captured amazing footage of big cats in motion. It's a complicated process and I wish they'd shown more of the animal-handling part of it. I certainly didn't realize that some zoo animals were so comfortable with humans that you could walk them around on a leash and let them off to run free around a dozen unfamiliar members of a camera crew. Still great to watch, though.

Via Laughing Squid, which has the 7-minute video showing the final footage of running cheetahs. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/how-to-film-cheetahs-in-slow.html/feed 9