Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Eyes in the dark?

  • Babyballerina by Babyballerina

    I guessed these eyes might belong to Wildebeest. How do we tell?

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  • davidbygott by davidbygott moderator

    We can tell if we have access to any image editing software that lets us lighten an image. Doing that, I can confirm that there are at least 14 wildebeest there. One thing you often see in night photos of them is that some are sitting and others standing. So you tend to get two distinct 'strata' of eyes, as shown here.

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  • Babyballerina by Babyballerina

    Wah! 14! I thought maybe 7.
    Thank you.

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