Animals with Cameras | Episode 1

The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop progress of an orphaned chimpanzee in Cameroon.

Kimbang is a four-year-old female chimp who had a difficult start in life. Poachers killed her mother and she's had to learn how to be a chimp from human caregivers. Donning a wearable camera, Kimbang climbs high amongst the treetops and reveals what exactly she's been snacking on. Will this prove she's ready for the wild?

Newborn meerkats are typically hidden from view, only emerging from their burrow when two to three weeks old. In a filmmaking first, a camera-wearing meerkat goes underground to reveal her colony's newest pups.

Learn how the "Animals with Cameras" team designed cameras small enough to be worn by a meerkat and capture unprecedented footage of a meerkat burrow.

Wildlife Cinematographer Gordon Buchanan and NATURE's Executive Producer Fred Kaufman discuss the making of NATURE's new series, Animals with Cameras.