Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Animals too far away to ID accurately

  • jules by jules

    How would you like us to classify this type of image (I've had a few)? Guessing doesn't seem right but neither does ignoring them.
    Distant wilderbeest?

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  • kosmala by kosmala scientist

    Please give it your best guess. While we realize that it won’t be possible in every case to make a 100% confident determination, you can usually narrow down difficult images to some reasonable options. For this one, I can tell the foreground animal is relatively large. The next one back is grazing with its head down and it's brown with no markings. That narrows things down quite a bit. Then there's an animal standing sideways that is also all brown and looks antelope-like. I think these are all wildebeest. But if you didn't guess that, it's not a problem. Your answer will be combined with answers of other volunteers, so don’t worry about getting it wrong.

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