BBC 'robot baby monkey camera' draws attention from pack of Iangur monkeys'

For those of you mourning the end of 'Planet Earth II', there's good news – a new animal documentary is set to hit our screens tonight. In the first episode, an African spotted dog can be seen approaching one of the robots, while an otter happily swims alongside another. But when the robot is accidentally dropped, the monkeys go into a state of grief The monkey robot, which looks fairly convincing, contains cameras hidden behind its eyes, which capture footage of the monkeys in the wild 'You never know you're going to be getting a chimp who takes a kitten as a pet. The Spy in the Wild producers were shocked when the monkeys took in the robot as one of their own In the first episode, an African spotted dog can be seen approaching one of the robots, while an otter happily swims alongside another This isn't the first time that robots have been used to capture footage of animals in their natural habitat. The cameras are hidden within the robots' eyes, and are virtually invisible with the naked eye This model of an African spotted dog may look believable, but it really has hidden cameras concealed behind its eyes Mr Downer said: 'In the 35 years I have been making wildlife films, we have never got so close to any subject for so long.