Nice Try National Geographic

[phillydog1958]

do you have a clip of this video? did you see it more than once, or for more than the one second you say it was on your TV? what makes you feel it was superimposed? do you have a film background? in your 10 years of avid aquarium-ness have you become a marine biologist and are certain that there is no possible species of marine fish that could resemble a cardinal tetra (a fish commonly sold to beginner fish keepers at large chain pet stores)?

im not saying i have, just cant help but feel i would write such pointless letter to such a large, reputable, and prestigious group of people without asking myself those questions. i feel the people national geograhpic is comprised of have more knowledge than to waste time super imposing some freshwater fish over coral when i am sure they have a video library of hundreds of thousands of hours of other beautiful real footage they could chose from.

I tend to agree that your identification might just be incorrect. I would've let that one go and not called them out on it so bluntly. You could've just asked what species of fish it was and not been so accusatory. I've always thought of NatGeo to be a reputable organization. I can't imagine them doing a cut and paste for a fish video. I look forward to their response, because you're accusing them of fraud.

 

[krichardson]

I tend to agree that your identification might just be incorrect. I've always thought of NatGeo to be a reputable organization.

See post #29.

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

Lol.

 

[patrickjohnsgarcia]

i stand corrected, that looks like it might be it
even if the fish were not cardinals they still appeared to be added to the shot

 

[Pyramid_Party]

sent this email to national geographic.

I SEEN WHAT YOU DONE THERE

To Whom it May Concern,
Tonight while I was watching a program called "Capturing the Deep" on the Natgeo Wild channel, I noticed something strange. About 5 minutes into the show there is a brief scene where a school of large blue and red fish swim infront of the camera and into the reef below. Having been an avid aquarist for over 10 years I immediately recognized these fish as Cardinal tetras, Paracheirodon axelrodi. You may be thinking, "What's so strange about fish on a coral reef?. Well Cardinal tetras are not found on coral reefs, they are found in slow moving creeks and black water pools in the Orinoco basin of South America. upon closer inspection I discovered that the fish were added into the shot after it was recorded, for reasons I do not know. I would have expected better than this from a company so prestigious as yourselves. Next time, if you are going to alter a shot, please make sure it is geographically and biologically correct.
Sincerely Disappointed, Colin M

So what did Nat Geo have to say about this letter you sent them?

 

[ceeej31]

So what did Nat Geo have to say about this letter you sent them?

never got a reply, I doubt they even read it tbh

 

[shock6906]

never got a reply, I doubt they even read it tbh

Either that or they're still laughing too much to reply.

 

[ceeej31]

Either that or they're still laughing too much to reply.

hopefuly the first

 

[bobblehead27]

Even if they did put the cardinal tetras in there... that could just be a ploy to get all of us to watch their program :-D :-D look at how many extra viewers they got there just from this one thread

 

[cichlid2006]

TBH, I was waiting on a member here starting a thread about an email they received at work from some guy trying to be clever.
I can understand how it might have looked wrong in a glancing split second shot of the moving shoal after seeing the picture Bottomfeeder provided.