Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Odd Image

  • clw115 by clw115

    In images 2 & 3, I can't figure out what is on the hyena's back. It looks like a branch maybe?

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  • kosmala by kosmala scientist

    Yeah, it's hard to tell. A branch makes sense to me.

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  • davidbygott by davidbygott moderator

    This seems so unlikely! Yet the object seems to move with the hyena. But whoever heard of a hyena with branch on its back?

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  • kosmala by kosmala scientist

    I'm wondering if there's a tree or bush just out of sight that has overhanging branches that the hyena is walking under and jostling. Perhaps...

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  • JPlegge by JPlegge

    Frame 3 seems to have another animal running into the scene from the right. The hyena doesn't see it in Frame 1. In Frame 2, the hyena stops and looks to the right, and then the last frame has a blur for the animal. Maybe another hyena?

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  • samhan by samhan

    There a branch/stick lying on the ground at the hyena's left in Frame 3. Human activity I think.

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  • L.Rowan by L.Rowan

    Looks like rain on the lens, to me.

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  • davidbygott by davidbygott moderator

    Looking at it again, I suggest this: the IR light comes on and the camera shoots 3 rather slow exposures. The hyena's head moves up and down and its reflective eyes leave 'ghost' trails during the duration of each exposure.

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