The latest GoPro video to go viral briefly tells the story of a young pelican that is orphaned in the Mahale Mountains of Tanzania, then taught how to fly by its human rescuers—who then affix a Hero3+ to the bird's beak so it can grab some footage of its first flights. It's as strange and inspiring as it sounds.
Since it was posted two days ago the "Pelican Learns to Fly" video has been viewed almost 600,000 times. GoPro released this video on its own YouTube channel—the San Mateo-based company (which was founded in Half Moon Bay) is the fourth most-popular brand on YouTube.
As you can imagine, the vast majority of the GoPro content on YouTube was not released by the company but by GoPro users. Most of that is the stuff GoPro was invented for—jaw-dropping footage of surfers, mountain-bikers, skiers and snowboarders, wingsuit skydivers, etc. But along with that is a subcategory that is even more popular: footage retrieved from GoPro cameras stolen by animals.
First there was "Seagull stole GoPro," from Cannes, France, posted in June, 2011.
Amazing, right? Well here's something more amazing—it happened again: "GoPro STOLEN by a SEAGULL!! - Unique San Francisco sunset," published in April 2012.
There are a number of videos on YouTube of GoPro's being stolen by octopi. Is it me, or is this one (with six-million-plus views) disturbing?
It happened again last week, when the camera was stolen by a monkey at the Uluwatu Temple on the island of Bali. The monkey somehow decides to use the camera to take a selfie.
I like the guy at the end yelling: 'Yo monkey! No, no, no, no, no, no. That's a f--king $500 camera. F--K that's a GoPro.!"
Here's my favorite: A GoPro falls from a helicopter and lands in a pig pen where (you guessed it) a pig tries to eat it.
You couldn't make this stuff up. Or .... hmmmm.
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