Here’s a great example of a creative video shot by Mark Rober who wanted to get some footage of monkeys and orangutans at his local zoo but saw that they ignored humans banging on the exhibit glass.  So he held up his phone to the glass and lured the primates over to look at themselves on the phone’s camera.  Not entirely happy with these results, Rober fabricated a mirror-cam so that his subjects would be centered in his shots as they investigated their reflections.  Great idea and one that worked well to get some amazing footage of primates exhibiting self-awareness.  One of the orangutans even brought over its baby, which proceeded to investigate its reflection.

Anyway, those of you who study animals might find this approach useful or inspirational to develop creative methods to film animals.  And the rest of you can just enjoy the interesting video: