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At Edinburgh zoo cameras for animals’ selfie are launched

Автор: 28.01.2015 | nature, Scotland
Administration of Edinburgh city (Scotland) equipped enclosures of several animals with the cameras that can do selfie of their dwellers.

The stated devices take a shot as the animal touches it or unwittingly stumble on it, as Edinburgh News writes. Thus, the employees are going to receive spontaneous shots from the usual life of the zoo inhabitants.

«We do a lot of our own photography on-site and these shots offer something completely different - the animals showing off their true personalities. We were surprised by how much they enjoyed being in front of the camera, particularly with one of our resident koalas hogging the limelight», the representative of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Jon-Paul Orsi claimed.

In a result of experience, the zoo administration took unique photos and posted them in Twitter. The shots caused such a great interest among the users of social media that many people required new photos. 

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