'Born to be Wild' filmed the Philippine eagle and Philippine tarsier in 4k and it’s all sorts of trippy

“Born to be Wild” has always been a cool, trippy show, putting to the forefront nature and the wild life — things that urbanites like ourselves often do not get to experience.

But the show’s most recent episode on the Philippine Eagle was even trippier, as it was filmed in 4k technology, meaning the colors are brighter, the texture is richer — as though you’re seeing things in real life.

“Parang hindi ka na nakatingin sa telebisyon, kundi nakatingin ka na sa bintana and seeing our subject,” Doc. Nielsen and Doc Ferds said.

The team first went to North Cotabato, where there were Philippine Eagles nesting, and then to a forest in Misamis Oriental, where a mommy Tarsier was taking care of its baby.

In February 2019, forest rangers reported to have found a nest with a Philippine Eagle chick in it.

When the “BTBW” team went to the North Cotabato forest, they stationed themselves right across and on eye-level with a nest that had now a fledgling — a chick ready to leave the nest — in it.

So when the hosts say on voice over “pag tumitingin siya sa amin, naka-tilt yung head. It’s like he sees us and he observes us. That makes us nervous,” and the visuals show exactly that, you can’t help but feel nervous yourself, as though the very breeze rustling through the trees on your arms.

In the Tarsier part meanwhile, the 4k lenses allowed the team to see the tarsier’s “almost naked tail” its nails, and the baby tarsier hiding in its mom’s care. — LA, GMA News