Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Night kill caught!

  • ajg by ajg

    So after seeing the sequence and then stretching in Photoshop --- I think we've got a night kill here. The background eyes are forward facing and close together --- cheetah? Either way, I think that Hartebeest (or Reed buck) is in trouble. In the first shot you can see a rump blurring off in motion past the camera.

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    Thoughts?

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  • ajg by ajg

    In the last frame you can see the super quick motion of the buck turning and then seeing the backlegs one way and the front legs the other.

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  • faythy by faythy

    Looks like another Hartebeest to me. Ears are all wrong for a cat, plus you can see a set of horns which aren't much bigger than the ears so I'm guessing it's a young one.

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  • ajg by ajg

    ah dang --- now I see the horns 😦

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  • craigpacker by craigpacker scientist

    yeah, looks like a couple of hartebeest -- but something must have spooked them to get them to run like that..

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