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by Boldened15 474 days ago
That's cute. Also just reading the first part "Drone captures narwhals using their tusks..." my mind jumped to a more sinister interpretation, poachers using drones to spot and hunt narwhals by recognizing tusks with AI... I've clearly been reading too many AI headlines recently.
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The word "captures" also caused my brains parser to exit trying to grok that title. Perhaps "records" would have avoided the negative connotation of the word capture given the conversational status of many whale species. Also, the recent drone headlines didn't help the situation either.
"films" world also work. or "narwhal's shown to use tusks... in the wild via drone footage". or any number of other ways.
I recently watched "Karate Kid" with my 8 year old son. I was trying to explain that the reason it looked so good because it was shot on film instead of digital. And we still call making movies "Filming" even though the film is long gone.

Explaining film to a kid that only knows digital cameras was not so easy. "You edit it by cutting long strips apart and taping it back together." "You have to go into a dark room and wash the film in chemical baths." Sounds like some sort of magic ritual.

Now I am wondering if I just think the look of film is better because that is what I watched when I was a kid. Maybe todays kids will think digital looks better.

I thought it was drones grabbing them by the tusks.