Chimpanzee Whacks Camera Drone Out of Mid-Air with a Stick
Pro tip: Don’t fly your camera drone too close to chimpanzees. They might knock it out of the air using a stick.
That’s what happened to one camera drone user over in the Netherlands while flying a drone in a zoo’s chimpanzee habitat. One of the chimps decided that “enough is enough” when it came to bearing with the pesky and loud flying object.
While capturing a birds eye view of the chimp enclosure, one of the chimpanzees climbed up one of the structures and ambushed the drone as it flew by using a branch.
The chimps then gathered around the fallen drone to inspect their “kill.”
Here’s an animated GIF showing the chimp’s ambush, as seen from the drone’s point of view:
The zoo writes that the drone was completely destroyed by the attack, but that the GoPro survived with the unique footage seen above.
(via The Concourse and The Telegraph)