How do they get such crazy footage for nature documentaries?

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I’m watching Our Planet on Netflix right now and this one single episode has Siberian tigers, giant aerial bird fights, and underwater newt orgies. According to the doc, Siberian tigers roam a 30x30sq mile area in the winter. How do they get such high quality footage of such seemingly rare animals/events?

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Years and years of monk-like focus and camera traps. I remember a National Geographic article from a few years ago about a photographer who spent a year alone in Greenland, collecting footage of polar bears. He also got to collect weather data, because he was, you know, in Greenland for a year, and somebody somewhere wanted to know what goes on in the uninhabited parts. Nature photographers are on a whole nother level of dedication and crazy.

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