ZatzWorks is capturing amazing Cineflex HD video of walrus hauling out in northern Alaska (click on the picture to enable the links). Click here to see the amazing sights we captured on HDCAM SR. To avoid stampeding the walrus, we recorded these images from 4000′– something only possible with a quiet helicopter and a Cineflex. According to USGS scientists, these mass haulouts are a new phenomena brought about because the walrus have no Arctic sea ice to rest on.

Last year a large group was stampeded- resulting in the trampling deaths of several dozen animals. ZatzWorks traveled to Icy Cape to record this climate change related event, and this is what we recorded: Click here to see footage from Icy Cape in 2009.

The ZatzWorks R44/Cineflex system is the ideal system for wildlife monitoring and counting. Not only is the helicopter quiet, the Cineflex is so good, we can capture data better than NOAA’s latest digital camera systems. USGS scientists are now reviewing our footage to help understand the calf-cow-bull ration in these large walrus groups.