Drone Footage Captures Rare Moment of Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales 'Hugging'

Hugging isn’t just a land activity. The two whales in the clip — which Skerry and Steve De Neef captured on camera using a drone — are part of a surface active group, also known as a SAG. SAGs are desirable sights for researchers since they “are known to involve close interactions between groups of right whales, that may include playful, reproductive, and vocal behavior,” according to release about the research trip.

Drone Footage Shows Devastation of California City Where Wildfire Killed Residents, Destroyed Homes

It’s been nearly a week since a massive wildfire broke out in Northern California, wreaking havoc on the once picturesque town of Paradise. Now, survivors of the blaze — dubbed the Camp Fire — are left to pick up the pieces in the town reduced to rubble. “We’ve lost it all,” Paradise resident Cinda Larimer, 53, toldUSA Today. “My mother, she evacuated only took two outfits. Why? … We all thought we’d be going home today.

Drone Helps Police Find Blind Man, 62, Missing in Woods for 33 Hours: 'Time Was of the Essence'

Photo: Enfield Police Department A bird’s-eye view succeeded in helping police locate a missing blind man over the weekend. On Saturday morning, a concerned family member alerted the Enfield Police Department in Connecticut about his missing 62-year-old brother, who is blind and hadn’t been seen since the previous morning, the police said in astatement. Investigators were able to determine that the man likely “walked away from the home and became disoriented.

Drone Pilot Heads to Ukraine to Rescue Pets Trapped in War Zone: 'My Scariest Mission So Far'

Since June 2, Thron has roamed bombed-out towns and villages around Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, employing his drone — that can detect an animal’s body heat and pinpoint its location — to locate cats and dogs that have been forced to fend for themselves sinceRussia’s invasion of the country on Feb. 24. Courtesy of Doug Thron Once Thron arrives at that night’s destination, he goes to work amidst the rubble with his camera-equipped drone, searching for dogs and cats that likely would never be found otherwise because of the scale of the destruction in the region.

Drone Pilot Uses His High-Tech Skills to Rescue Animals After Natural Disasters: 'This Is My Calling'

It was shortly after California’s devastating Paradise Fire — that burned for 17 days in 2018 and destroyed more than 150,000 acres — that a lightbulb went off insideDoug Thron’shead. The Oakland-based cinematographer spent weeks out in the charred, blackened terrain filming renowned cat rescuerShannon Jay, who was using a handheld infrared scope to track down felines that would otherwise be impossible to find. “We got to talking,” recalls Thron — whose interview appears in this week’s issue of PEOPLE — “and we were both like, ‘This would be really cool if we could put an infrared scope on a drone.