Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Unknown animal

  • ndenyar by ndenyar

    There are sometimes photos, like this one, where it is difficult to determine what the animal is. Other situations when this occurs is at night if the animals are further from the camera, and perhaps little more than glowing eyes can be seen. In this case it would be useful to have a classification of "undetermined", or even if partial recognition can be made, such as "looks like a dog", but then not have to classify it/them completely.

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  • tillydad by tillydad moderator in response to ndenyar's comment.

    Remember that many people view each image and make a "best guess" for tricky images until a consensus is reached . If no such consensus can be determined then the image is examined by "experts" and if no definite ID can be reached then the image is withdrawn from the data set .
    This is why we are all asked to make an ID for each image . There is no such thing as a "wrong" answer for these tricky images 😃

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