It seems in the last day there’s been a bit of a flurry of webcam-related news in the headlines.
Skipping back a bit further to the 24th January, the Sun told the story of the first ever recorded birth of a black bear… which was being watched on its mother’s “Den Cam” by allegedly thousands of avid fans.
In a similar vain, it was reported yesterday that a baby Rhino had been born live on cam. The story here seems to be that the safari park in Scotland which housed the mummy rhino were blissfully unaware this was taking place until a viewer from Cyprus decided to ring them up and let them know there was a bit of a gooey mess on the floor.
Following on, in a similar vain – if it weren’t for someone’s bizzarely obscure and acute sense of “something’s not right here”, then an amateur German photographer would have frozen to death. He took a stroll out to photograph sunsets and found himself strolling perhaps a little too far, ended up on ice and completely lost in the darkness. Weirdly, this webcam happened to be trained on that exact spot and a viewer noticed the flashes going off and decided that was enough to call the police… amazing!
Back to giving birth, thought I’d mention it’s not just wild animals being watched. It was reported yesterday that Sandra Taylor of Edmonton, Canada gave birth to her baby daughter live over the internet from the delivery room at the hospital, thanks to a laptop and a webcam… and apparently a friend ‘typing updates’ (I’d love to see that transcript!) but thankfully in this instance there was just one viewer – the baby’s father, a soldier stationed in Afghanistan. Awww. I think.
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