DJI, together with Good Morning America went on a spectacular journey to another
breathtaking natural wonder, Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.
On our quest to track and film wild animals in their natural habitat, our team and equipment
once again were pushed to their limits.
We faced scorching heat, dust, and the constant movements while we moved through
the rough terrain.
As we were not allowed to step out of the vehicles while we were in the crater
we had to work and operate from the moving jeeps
In this sequel of the ABC Hidden World series
we invited viewers to follow our trail and experience the beauty of nature
via live broadcast utilizing the DJI Phantom 4 and the Inspire 1 we captured never
before seen aerial wildlife footage.
I want to thank DJI for those drones, because wow, have they
captured so much. In fact, let's take a look at what our drones captured for you
this morning in just the past couple of hours.
We were really excited to test the new features of the DJI Phantom 4
in these stunning surroundings.
ActiveTrack and Obstacle Avoidance allowed us to autonomously
follow cars through a dense forest and fly a perfect circle around animals like zebras.
TapFly in sport mode helped us to capture images that were once
extremely difficult to achieve.
One of our major goals was to approach all animals as unobtrusively as possible.
Animal Planet's renowned wildlife expert Dave Salmoni guided and trained us on animal behavior.
When we went in with a drone the first thing I noticed is it's very unintrusive.
The prey species they were a lot more skittish we had to be a lot further away
to start with those, and then we saw sort of the bigger things that are both prey
and predator like a hyena, and they were very curious.
Lions of course, because they were a confident species, really just didn't care.
The footage that I'm seeing from these drones is incredible.
It's offering us angles and views that we just wouldn't get any other way, and lastly,
talking with the anti-poaching team and wildlife managers around here it seems like we
could come up with a lot of applications for a drone in what they do.
If anything science is going to pick up on it. We're gonna be able to do numbers and we're
able to habitat, we'll be able to have a lot more access to the animals we're trying to
learn about.
Using DJI technology you position
viewers eye-to-eye with those majestic creatures without interfering with their natural
habitat. For the first, time viewers at home were provided an aerial live
glimpse into the endangered beauty of this earth bound Garden of Eden.