Snapshot Serengeti Talk

End of Special Extended Survey season (season 9,5)

  • maricksu by maricksu moderator

    You probably all soon get this message-image on Classify-page, and it means that Special Extended Survey season (season 9,5) is succesfully completed! Big thanks to everybody for your absolutely great and valuable work during this season! 😉

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    This season has been so great and very interesting. Images were from new locations and wider area in the Serengeti Ecosystem. We all have together helped the scientists in their very important and interesting project to study how herbivores impact vegetation dynamics under different conditions, to increase understanding of how the savannah ecosystem functions .

    When classifying we had an unique chance to see images from many different areas in the Serengeti NP, also some from outside the Park and to learn about various experiments used in this research.

    Challenging season to classify in many ways, so different from previous ones. Different camera locations, higher camera heights, images from several years with many background changes and animals of different ages, 1-frame images and quality issues in some images.

    Same time and mostly because of those same reasons, so very rewarding season to classify, with lots of absolutely wonderful images. Magnificent views and big herds of many animals e.g. giraffe, buffalo, topi, eland, elephant. Outstanding images of wildebeest migration during the year, also about rutting season and their tiny calves. Some black and white-images like paintings. So many young animals including very tiny ones of many different species. Beautiful landscapes of dry and wet seasons. Lovely photos of curious animals investigating the exclosures to protect tree seedlings etc. So many wonderful, enjoyable moments.

    Really hope that we all meet here when the next season comes and continue our important and valuable work.
    Next season will be again from the middle of the Serengeti, hopefully we get soon more information about season 10 😃

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  • diedelinde by diedelinde

    hooray! bring on season 10 😃

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  • diedelinde by diedelinde

    Is there a way to get access to the most 'liked' images per 'category'?

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  • maricksu by maricksu moderator in response to diedelinde's comment.

    Yes, can hardly wait for the season 10 with new images, hopefully it will be soon uploaded and made live!!

    There is no spesific, separate way to find and see the most liked images per category. With Search-option (on top of screen) is possible to find with different keywords lots of great images from all seasons. Also good way to find and see great images is to look all those wonderful collections, that people have collected (favorites, seasons, certain animals etc.). When you click user's name, you will see all collections they have 😃

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  • maricksu by maricksu moderator

    Hi everybody! We all are enthusiastically waiting for the next season 10 to be launched very soon!! You probably all have already noticed those great Blog posts with updates 😃

    Zooniverse team has, as usual during this short break between seasons, reactivated some completed images from previous season, so that the site still works for demonstration and people can classify these if they like. Also that data will be used, but scientists probably don't need that to get a good idea of what each image is. So if you want to take a quick visit to the other projects that also need help, you could join us over at e.g. Wildcam Gorongosa where many of us are currently trying to help finishing the first season of images from this project 😃

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