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Canon 7D vs leaf cutter ants

submitted by Zawash

8 years 7 months ago

dpreview: Taking pictures of wildlife in the jungle isn't easy, which is why a lot of photographers set up 'trap' cameras. But every now and then, you end up attracting the wrong species altogether. Photographer Jeff Cremer set up his Canon EOS 7D overnight, in the hopes of capturing a jaguar in the jungles of Peru. His companion on the shoot, Phil Torres explains what happened when they went back in the morning, to check on the setup.

It's never pleasant seeing an expensive camera get destroyed but quite honestly we're more concerned about the health of the leaf-cutter ants after chewing through all of that plastic.

YT: We wanted to get a photo of a jaguar... it didn't go so well. The ants had their way.

6 Comments

oritteropo

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*doublepromote

siftbot

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Double-Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, June 9th, 2016 12:14am PDT - doublepromote requested by oritteropo.

siftbot

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Moving this video to Zawash's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

ant

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Dang paparazzis! Go away!

*bugs

siftbot

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Adding video to channels (Bugs) - requested by ant.

nanrod

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The ants will be fine. They use the leaves as mulch to grow fungus that they feed to their larvae. The adult ants feed on leaf sap, so when they cut up the plastic, no sap, no problem.