saddest-summer:

Innovative wildlife filmmaker John Downer uses covert digital technology to bring human audiences astonishingly close to the most reclusive wild animals.

Downer employs three types of cameras to track the lives of two mother bears as they lead their cubs across Arctic Norway in search of seal hunting grounds for the den’s survival. The snow cam, disguised as a lump of snow, was equipped with four-wheel drive and tundra wheels to get across land and ice. 

The cameras didn’t always blend into the Arctic’s barren environment though, and late last year an adult male polar bear smelled a ruse, discovered he was on camera and destroyed more than $200,000 worth of equipment with his mighty paw.

(via broocewayne)