Animals Are Taking Selfies At The L.A. Zoo Starting Today

Google Photos is putting cameras with motion sensors in animal pens, and the results are roughly adorable as you'd imagine.

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Brendan Klinkenberg
by Brendan Klinkenberg

BuzzFeed News Reporter

So, Google is getting pretty good at getting animals to take selfies.

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It's an actual project for the company now, since a promotional campaign with the film Zootopia called for developing animal-friendly cameras and placing them in pens at the LA Zoo.

The cameras work with sensors, so when an animal gets within 18 inches, it takes a picture.

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The results, so far, are pretty great.

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Giraffes, especially, seem pretty into it.

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I.... don't know what this is. A warthog?

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This ongoing project that's launching today. You can check out all the photos that get captured in an album called Zoogle Selfies.

Here's a tiger.

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