there were two of these; in 2013 and 2014. Unfortunately the BBC call the copyright feds on anyone who uploads a full episode and they get taken down.
I can’t understand why they are not just on permanent repeat for Iplayer and also shared to every EBU public broadcaster as documentaries like this are the reason why the BBC and public service broadcasting should exist.
they are not just “cute cat videos” but show a multicultural and gender diverse team of scientists and engineers working across the whole UK (from what I remember there was a Scottish Professor and vet, and another British Asian professor presenting the documentary), various universities in England and Scotland helped build the catcams (they also showed kids how a Raspberry Pi could be used to monitor their own pet cats and dogs).
During the 2014 edition as well as monitoring 100 cats from a village in SE England they even managed to get the feral cats in Oxfordshire to wear catcams (the tortoiseshell who was the matriarch of the feral cat pride made it clear she would not let the Asian lass put the catcam on her, although the older Scotsman managed to eventually do so).
The tom cats who had been loaded up with catcams then climbed into all the boxes and bags of accus and spare cables and did everything else possible to annoy the crews using the portable HD cameras :laugh_at:
They also used a super HD camera on high frame rate which the Chinese and Japanese (who are working on this for the EBU) had only recently invented to watch how cats jumped and moved. Interestingly all the cats who would perform for this without being distracted by the strong lights, cables and other kit in a TV studio were Siamese or Bengal other than a young English kitten who had been born in a rescue centre…
The UK also officially discovered group social behaviour in smaller cats as a new concept in zoology…
