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Frozen Planet II captures world first as rare big cats cover each other's tracks

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Frozen Planet II managed to film the Amur Leopard, the rarest big cat in the world, and the Siberian Tiger, the largest big cat on the globe, on cameras tracking each others footprints as they hunted for the same animals.

The pair were filmed by remote hidden cameras in Russia's remote Land of the Leopard National Park, pre-pandemic. READ MORE: BBC Frozen Planet 2 viewers 'sickened' by footage of penguins fighting with poo They appear on the BBC 's second to last episode of the programme - Frozen Lands - due to be shown on Sunday.The film crew built specially housed cameras strong enough to deal with the sub-zero winter conditions, which could be left outside in the wild for months.They also had to create software that could be triggered from a distance so they could catch more of the rarely seen animals, and worked with Russian park rangers to look after the cameras and move their locations when needed.Producer Jane Atkins said: “We had a a bear chew one of the cameras and break it.

We had a tree fall on another and we had cables just snap because of the minus 35 degree temperatures.“There were also massive snowstorms.

It really was a challenge. We also had to play detective, moving the cameras around each time we got a sighting to work out where they were most likely be next.”For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here It took two years to capture a Siberian tiger covering the tracks of an Amur Leopard.

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