What kind of animal is this?

• by Tarime

  Could this be an ostrich?

  Posted June 30, 2013 4:37 PM

• by kosmala scientist

  It's really hard to say. Your guess is as good as mine.

  Posted July 2, 2013 1:44 AM

• by Sterrennevel

  I would say it's grass. During the day it looks like this: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000py34

  Posted July 4, 2013 7:55 PM

• by areinders moderator

  Neat! That is the second "ghost animal" I've seen. The other one is the mysterious "cat" that also is a plant during the day:
  ASG000nego during daylight, next image in the series ASG000negp.

  Posted July 4, 2013 9:18 PM

• by Envirogirl667

  I think its a small deer like animal.

  Posted July 5, 2013 7:22 PM

• by AowlanCrystal moderator

  Its grasses, these images (and others like them) have been catching us out a bit, but this one pretty much shows the same image for many, many sequences and finally when daylight comes and you can see the grass. Sterrennevel found ASG000py34 showing the grasses in daylight, ASG000py2a shows the start of the sequence where the grasses start to cause the effect and ASG000py2b show the effect increasing.

  Posted July 6, 2013 2:06 AM

• by Envirogirl667

  Oh. That makes alot of sense now.

  Posted July 6, 2013 3:40 AM

• by Tarime in response to Envirogirl667's comment.

  Thanks a lot, for the mystery resolved 😃

  Posted July 14, 2013 8:45 PM

• by Tredegar

  ok so I didn't know the grass phenomenon and I identified it as another as a small dear like a gazelle. So how does this skew the results of this project?

  Posted July 14, 2013 10:15 PM

• by telophase

  From what I understand, there will probably be enough wildly differing IDs from the different people who look at it that it should be flagged for review by an expert.

  Posted July 16, 2013 7:31 PM

• by aliburchard scientist, translator

  @telophase - yep, you're exactly right. Tredgar -- you can read a bit more about how we go about deciding on the "correct" ID for a species here: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb

  Posted July 17, 2013 1:46 AM