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How Filmmakers Used Spy Tech to Catch Dolphin Slaughter
To reveal a gruesome dolphin slaughter to the world, the makers of the documentary The Cove used spy drones, cameras disguised as rocks and a lot of daring. Dolphin killing receives less attention than whale hunts, but many scientists say their death is every bit as tragic. It was O'Barry who convinced National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos to make a film about the killing in Taiji, from which only fragmented accounts of the hunt had previously emerged. They build high-definition video cameras into rocks so realistic "that when we went back to retrieve the rocks, we had trouble finding them again," said Psihos.
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