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How filmmakers make animals stare on cue

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Capturing deep, soulful animal intelligence is mostly just exploiting their stomachs. When a script demands a beast stare intently just past the camera with intense curiosity, crews simply slather a large wooden pole in cheap peanut butter and slowly wave it directly out of the frame.

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