Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Aardwolf or something else?

  • paulj201 by paulj201

    I have struggled to id this one, since it is just the backside and top of the tail. I have looked at a number of photos and the best I can come up with is an aardwolf. Are they out much in the day?

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  • dms246 by dms246 moderator

    I'm fairly sure that's not an aardwolf - apart from anything else, they're mostly nocturnal. It might be a young wildebeest - I think we can just see the start of a darker tail, and they start out a lighter chestnut colour and get darker as they grow up. But photos like this one are always going to involve a fair amount of guesswork, and weighing up of likelihoods.

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  • paulj201 by paulj201

    Agreed about the nocturnal bit which is why I was struggling. Tricky one as you say.

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