Snapshot Serengeti Talk
Well I'm gonna guess this is definitely mama: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG0012x21
Whose tail?
Kind of neat to see the camo in action.
HAY GUISE
Or the dainty little nose.
Maybe. Seems kinda rectangular and stripey, though. http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/06/Angolan-Genet-Genetta-angolensis.jpg
Yup. I saw another pic of this same guy (or his buddy), but couldn't see the wing patches... but that's got to be what it is.
Genet?
I'm not sure, but it's gorgeous. Dark chanting goshawk?
Lappet-faced vulture, I think.
Surprising how few vultures of any type show up here.
20 points to whoever can get this one.
The wildebeest have learned to use instagram.
Daytime dikdik.
10 with one in the background and one blocking the camera -- damn!
Male lion coalition.
Double baby topi all the way
Hornbill?
Look at it's little tail!
Another one-horned hartebeest, too.
I was watching "Cat Wars: Lion vs. Cheetah" on TV today, and they showed a photo that looked familiar.. http://youtu.be/abu4phfD6aE?t=34m33s
Only hartebeests and lions are anything close to this color... and it's not a lion.
Wildebeest, but man, that is a disorienting set of images.
Warthog ear maybe?
#caracal, finally!
#Elephant knocking down a tree.
WE'RE ON A REAL HUNT WHEEE, LET'S GO GET HIM, MOM!
I was going to vote "giant furry egg," but it looks like it's an aardvark: ASG000sipo
It's like a reflection of a butterfly wing... but reflected from what?
This camera was crooked, ASG000rzoz , and then this friendly hyena came and gnawed it upright again. I'd like to see a lion do that.
That definitely looks like the moon to me... the date stamp must be off. http://lunaf.com/english/moon-phases/lunar-calendar-2012/06/20/
Took me a few tries to see it, but maybe a line of guinea fowl?
This guy is bracketed in the shots before and after by hyenas... maybe he's a lone male? 'Yenas don't seem to be too impressed.
Interesting. If I change the monitor brightness, I can kinda see the outline... Never seen two adults together, assumed they were solitary.
That makes me cringe -- such potential for a painful misstep there....
I love how the camera has caught it at almost the same point in its gait in each photo.
#reedbuck twins?
Okay, now that's a #rhino.
I could believe it's the wildebeest equivalent of 9 months pregnant, though...
It's probably larger than me, but still. So tiny. ;.;
Three dik diks? What's going on here? Mom, dad, and baby?
Wait, I think I found it. H. ichneumon? The black face matches. The indian grey's coat is still crazy similar to this African version.
Do you have another name for that? 'Cause this dude does look pretty big, but the closest coat match I could find was the indian 'goose.
Baboon coming in for his close up?
#slendermongoose
Oh look, a buffalo. You can tell its a buffalo because of this species' most striking feature: the ever-present cloud of flies.
Its humps, its lovely hippo lumps.
Aww, that's so sweet. She's trying to help the baby gazelle find its mom.
Eyebrows.
So that's why the head looks like a butt.
It's hippo, I assume, but I'm really confused about what I'm looking at here.
Are there pictures anywhere of what these cameras look like? Didn't realize they were big enough for a baboon to sit on.
#Giraffe family
Stole someone's horns?
Trippy.
And another baby hyena!
aghhhhh baby hyena!!!
Guinea fowl.
Ahh I see it now. That's the left haunch you can see through the grass. I kept seeing it as wrinkles on the right haunch.
It's because the ladies are waiting to see which dapper gentleman is going to be asking them on a date.
untz untz untz
This another rhino? The texture looks wrong for a hippo, and the proportions/posture look wrong for an elephant...
I kinda want to say warthog, but that tail is too freakishly long.
Wombat.
This little piggy went to market...
Totally a leopard, and a cool action shot too!
Grass mustache.
Naw, definitely a lion. Hyena eyes are set straight in the face, or maybe slant a little up. Lion eyes slant down. Also wrong color here.
Hmmm. Maaaybe a dragonfly's wings? The vein pattern kind of reminds me of that.
Uh... shouldn't that thing be a bit higher in the air?
It's a bird of some kind, no idea what.
Before sunrise he's YOUR son.
'yena. Check the ears and scruffy fur.
It's a hyena. Actually, hyenas are, on average, going to to be larger than leopards, although some really large males pards could be bigger.
#leopard
Derpalo.
It's another (the same?) unicorn thomson's.
#dewlap
Maybe, but the eyes are slightly too pointed.
And a baby! Way too few baby topi here.
With like a million flies, ugh.
The rare and elusive buffalotree.
Check out ASG000pzvf. Healthy hyena would have much more imposing set of chompers, and tooth between first k9 and "molar" is definitely gone
It looks like it would be really uncomfortable to walk through the savanna like that.
Very cool! I thought it was a nifty bronze-blue bird too, but I think it's actually one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_mwanzae.
Hyenas everywhere!
Babeh thomson's gazelle!
This is my new favorite photo from this site. Love it. She's been shoulder deep inside a fresh kill.
Dik dik. The face is a little rabbit-looking, but in frame 2 you can see from the haunches that its an ungulate.
Thomson's. Brown-white-black on the sides, and stumpier than a grant's.
No cheetah. The spots are too regular and appear on the neck, and the pelt has too much of an even gold color.
Yup that's a big kitty.
omnomnom wildebeest foot
It's so tiny my heart hurts.
Droolyface.
Young grant's.
I... I don't even know. Is this elephant peeing on itself?
I thought an elephant had a really deformed tusk at first glance....
Kind of neat how well these zebras' stripes blend together.
At dawn, we ride!
Nevermind, another warthog, look at frame 2.
I think it's a warthog, but what's the animal in the middle of the screen? Is it a pale warthog, or is the warthog being stalked?
Is this just a shadowed #dik dik?
It's a jackal.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Having flies all over your face all day must suck.
#whitetailedmongoose
Wildebeest Geddan!
Kind of hypnotizing on loop.
Ahaha, is that the serval up in the tree? That is one brave bird to keep standing his ground like that.
Very cool, I hadn't seen a young'n before.
Impala, from the rump markings.
#cheetah
Buffalo. Stocky legs, dirty graphite color.
She's also missing at least one tooth, probably more (ASG000pzvf) and has a mangled ear on that side (ASG000pzve).
Spotted hyena, but not in good shape. Is she just failing to groom herself/be groomed, or could this be a burn mark?
Babybeest. #aww
#serval
#elephant breakdancing.
Unicornbeest.
Aghh, so tiny!
Five zeebers.
Baldie.
Definitely an elephant with that tusk... and it knocked the camera down.
Hyena butt.
Elephant -- check the dude chilling in the background.
Feline head.
#rain
No way to tell without color. This guy looks like a close match to me though - http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ecn220sD1qh9dn7o1_500.jpg
Oh my gosh, they are so cute.
Finding baby hyenas is my personal win condition for this game. Haven't managed yet.
Ostrich dance off.
#eland leg bands.
Snout looks too short to me to be a jackal, and the brow ridge too prominent.
Time for a game of Guess That Tail.
What a stylish mohawk.
Aardwolf.
Yep, very cool!
Giraffe number 3. You can see the neck reached out in frame 3.
It's mongooses, yup. At least three, possibly more.
I saw this photo in the load-up screen a few days ago, and it was bugging me! Glad you pulled up the talk page.
I originally thought this was a dik dik because of the eye spot, but on second glance, the scale seems off. Just a large-ish one?
Any suggestions on where I might find more info on the age-related markings? My google-fu is failing.
I'm used to seeing either eyes off to side of mask (ASG000tg8z) or on the mask but much shorter hair (ASG000r0yh). This guy is new to me.
How many subspecies of wildebeest are we likely to see in Snapshot? Just one? (Western white beard?)
Also a weirdly emphasized spiraling pattern in the horns?
Is it just me, or does this wildebeest have an unusually hairy face?
Interesting brow wrinkles on spotted hyena.
Another intrepid day hippo.
Rafiki butt.
So many servals this round!
Jesus Christ it's a lion, GET IN THE CAR
Bird people, any idea on the guy in frame 1?
My best (only) guess would be hoopoe, just because they also happen to be black and white...
#sweet-'stache
Has anyone found a shot of a baby dikdik? Would love to see one of those.
It's because zebras are inclusive and non-bigoted: http://youtu.be/P501H4HAtFg?t=55s.
It almost didn't... http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000pl3a
Baboon would be a match on size and color... but can't really see any details.
But I can conclusively identify it as a boy animal, anyway, haha.
The lower abdomen and back legs looks too rounded/"barrelly" for a predator, to me. Also coloring is wrong for a lion.. buffalo? Wildebeest?
Glamour shot...
That lioness needs to take a look behind her...
First #eland shot I've seen... looks like the whole herd decided to show up for it.
Daylight hippo! First one I've seen.
Oh! Well that explains what I was doing wrong... Should the ID guide be changed, maybe? It says to look for "a white circle around rump."
I was uncertain over this one, because it lacked the white butt-bullseye... turns out there's two subspecies, the defassa and the ellipsen.
Wow! It looks like a painting, not a shot from a motion sensor camera.
Family picnic.
Baby elephants kill me, every time.
Ostrich wing.
Gotta keep those lions fed somehow...
Likkle baby reedbuck, following its mom, over on the right.
It's a giraffe... they eat grass, they're just really awkward about it.
#adolescent-mane
Zebra doesn't like the paparazzi.
#hare
#weaverbirds
man vs. dragonfly
#babyelephant #daww
Whooa. Not a striped hyena. Some kind of canid, side-striped jackal?
#white-tailedmongoose
Simba's awkward teenage years.
Stop motion.
#golem
... that was so bad it looped back around to funny.
Come at me bro.
Mongeeses!
#antelopepee
#preggo
#jazzhooves
Peaceful, moonlit savanna... with this creeper watching you silently.
Wildebeest Sunday school.
#unicorn
#porcupine
Is this a leucistic grant's gazelle? He looks really pale compared to the others I've seen.
#baby #baboon
That's not how you take a selfie, zebra.
#hornbill?
#rhinoceros
#babyhartebeest
#eland
#topi
#waterbuck ?
#invisibleelephant
#hyena
#warthog ?
Scratch scratch scratch
#dawww
#levitatingchameleon
Seriously, what's going on here?
#mongoose
FORE!
Well I've never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair...
Lion cubs
Inquisitive jackals
Scornful buffalo is scornful.
lol
Warthog, you ugly.
triple giraffe all the way
Waterbuck...?
Hyenas?
Wildebeest and dik dik, bffs?
#ostrich
Jackal? Fox?
Baby wildebeest?
#boob
#reedbuck, baby maybe?
#elephant?
#malibustork. #malibu
Well I'm gonna guess this is definitely mama: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG0012x21
Whose tail?
Kind of neat to see the camo in action.
HAY GUISE
Or the dainty little nose.
Maybe. Seems kinda rectangular and stripey, though. http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/06/Angolan-Genet-Genetta-angolensis.jpg
Yup. I saw another pic of this same guy (or his buddy), but couldn't see the wing patches... but that's got to be what it is.
Genet?
I'm not sure, but it's gorgeous. Dark chanting goshawk?
Lappet-faced vulture, I think.
Surprising how few vultures of any type show up here.
20 points to whoever can get this one.
The wildebeest have learned to use instagram.
Daytime dikdik.
10 with one in the background and one blocking the camera -- damn!
Male lion coalition.
Double baby topi all the way
Hornbill?
Look at it's little tail!
Another one-horned hartebeest, too.
I was watching "Cat Wars: Lion vs. Cheetah" on TV today, and they showed a photo that looked familiar.. http://youtu.be/abu4phfD6aE?t=34m33s
Only hartebeests and lions are anything close to this color... and it's not a lion.
Wildebeest, but man, that is a disorienting set of images.
Warthog ear maybe?
#caracal, finally!
#Elephant knocking down a tree.
WE'RE ON A REAL HUNT WHEEE, LET'S GO GET HIM, MOM!
I was going to vote "giant furry egg," but it looks like it's an aardvark: ASG000sipo
It's like a reflection of a butterfly wing... but reflected from what?
This camera was crooked, ASG000rzoz , and then this friendly hyena came and gnawed it upright again. I'd like to see a lion do that.
That definitely looks like the moon to me... the date stamp must be off. http://lunaf.com/english/moon-phases/lunar-calendar-2012/06/20/
Took me a few tries to see it, but maybe a line of guinea fowl?
This guy is bracketed in the shots before and after by hyenas... maybe he's a lone male? 'Yenas don't seem to be too impressed.
Interesting. If I change the monitor brightness, I can kinda see the outline... Never seen two adults together, assumed they were solitary.
That makes me cringe -- such potential for a painful misstep there....
I love how the camera has caught it at almost the same point in its gait in each photo.
#reedbuck twins?
Okay, now that's a #rhino.
I could believe it's the wildebeest equivalent of 9 months pregnant, though...
It's probably larger than me, but still. So tiny. ;.;
Three dik diks? What's going on here? Mom, dad, and baby?
Wait, I think I found it. H. ichneumon? The black face matches. The indian grey's coat is still crazy similar to this African version.
Do you have another name for that? 'Cause this dude does look pretty big, but the closest coat match I could find was the indian 'goose.
Baboon coming in for his close up?
#slendermongoose
Oh look, a buffalo. You can tell its a buffalo because of this species' most striking feature: the ever-present cloud of flies.
Its humps, its lovely hippo lumps.
Aww, that's so sweet. She's trying to help the baby gazelle find its mom.
Eyebrows.
So that's why the head looks like a butt.
It's hippo, I assume, but I'm really confused about what I'm looking at here.
Are there pictures anywhere of what these cameras look like? Didn't realize they were big enough for a baboon to sit on.
#Giraffe family
Stole someone's horns?
Trippy.
And another baby hyena!
aghhhhh baby hyena!!!
Guinea fowl.
Ahh I see it now. That's the left haunch you can see through the grass. I kept seeing it as wrinkles on the right haunch.
It's because the ladies are waiting to see which dapper gentleman is going to be asking them on a date.
untz untz untz
This another rhino? The texture looks wrong for a hippo, and the proportions/posture look wrong for an elephant...
I kinda want to say warthog, but that tail is too freakishly long.
Wombat.
This little piggy went to market...
Totally a leopard, and a cool action shot too!
Grass mustache.
Naw, definitely a lion. Hyena eyes are set straight in the face, or maybe slant a little up. Lion eyes slant down. Also wrong color here.
Hmmm. Maaaybe a dragonfly's wings? The vein pattern kind of reminds me of that.
Uh... shouldn't that thing be a bit higher in the air?
It's a bird of some kind, no idea what.
Before sunrise he's YOUR son.
'yena. Check the ears and scruffy fur.
It's a hyena. Actually, hyenas are, on average, going to to be larger than leopards, although some really large males pards could be bigger.
#leopard
Derpalo.
It's another (the same?) unicorn thomson's.
#dewlap
Maybe, but the eyes are slightly too pointed.
And a baby! Way too few baby topi here.
With like a million flies, ugh.
The rare and elusive buffalotree.
Check out ASG000pzvf. Healthy hyena would have much more imposing set of chompers, and tooth between first k9 and "molar" is definitely gone
It looks like it would be really uncomfortable to walk through the savanna like that.
Very cool! I thought it was a nifty bronze-blue bird too, but I think it's actually one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_mwanzae.
Hyenas everywhere!
Babeh thomson's gazelle!
This is my new favorite photo from this site. Love it. She's been shoulder deep inside a fresh kill.
Dik dik. The face is a little rabbit-looking, but in frame 2 you can see from the haunches that its an ungulate.
Thomson's. Brown-white-black on the sides, and stumpier than a grant's.
No cheetah. The spots are too regular and appear on the neck, and the pelt has too much of an even gold color.
Yup that's a big kitty.
omnomnom wildebeest foot
It's so tiny my heart hurts.
Droolyface.
Young grant's.
I... I don't even know. Is this elephant peeing on itself?
I thought an elephant had a really deformed tusk at first glance....
Kind of neat how well these zebras' stripes blend together.
At dawn, we ride!
Nevermind, another warthog, look at frame 2.
I think it's a warthog, but what's the animal in the middle of the screen? Is it a pale warthog, or is the warthog being stalked?
Is this just a shadowed #dik dik?
It's a jackal.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Having flies all over your face all day must suck.
#whitetailedmongoose
Wildebeest Geddan!
Kind of hypnotizing on loop.
Ahaha, is that the serval up in the tree? That is one brave bird to keep standing his ground like that.
Very cool, I hadn't seen a young'n before.
Impala, from the rump markings.
#cheetah
Buffalo. Stocky legs, dirty graphite color.
She's also missing at least one tooth, probably more (ASG000pzvf) and has a mangled ear on that side (ASG000pzve).
Spotted hyena, but not in good shape. Is she just failing to groom herself/be groomed, or could this be a burn mark?
Babybeest. #aww
#serval
#elephant breakdancing.
Unicornbeest.
Aghh, so tiny!
Five zeebers.
Baldie.
Definitely an elephant with that tusk... and it knocked the camera down.
Hyena butt.
Elephant -- check the dude chilling in the background.
Feline head.
#rain
No way to tell without color. This guy looks like a close match to me though - http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ecn220sD1qh9dn7o1_500.jpg
Oh my gosh, they are so cute.
Finding baby hyenas is my personal win condition for this game. Haven't managed yet.
Ostrich dance off.
#eland leg bands.
Snout looks too short to me to be a jackal, and the brow ridge too prominent.
Time for a game of Guess That Tail.
What a stylish mohawk.
Aardwolf.
Yep, very cool!
Giraffe number 3. You can see the neck reached out in frame 3.
It's mongooses, yup. At least three, possibly more.
I saw this photo in the load-up screen a few days ago, and it was bugging me! Glad you pulled up the talk page.
I originally thought this was a dik dik because of the eye spot, but on second glance, the scale seems off. Just a large-ish one?
Any suggestions on where I might find more info on the age-related markings? My google-fu is failing.
I'm used to seeing either eyes off to side of mask (ASG000tg8z) or on the mask but much shorter hair (ASG000r0yh). This guy is new to me.
How many subspecies of wildebeest are we likely to see in Snapshot? Just one? (Western white beard?)
Also a weirdly emphasized spiraling pattern in the horns?
Is it just me, or does this wildebeest have an unusually hairy face?
Interesting brow wrinkles on spotted hyena.
Another intrepid day hippo.
Rafiki butt.
So many servals this round!
Jesus Christ it's a lion, GET IN THE CAR
Bird people, any idea on the guy in frame 1?
My best (only) guess would be hoopoe, just because they also happen to be black and white...
#sweet-'stache
Has anyone found a shot of a baby dikdik? Would love to see one of those.
It's because zebras are inclusive and non-bigoted: http://youtu.be/P501H4HAtFg?t=55s.
It almost didn't... http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000pl3a
Baboon would be a match on size and color... but can't really see any details.
But I can conclusively identify it as a boy animal, anyway, haha.
The lower abdomen and back legs looks too rounded/"barrelly" for a predator, to me. Also coloring is wrong for a lion.. buffalo? Wildebeest?
Glamour shot...
That lioness needs to take a look behind her...
First #eland shot I've seen... looks like the whole herd decided to show up for it.
Daylight hippo! First one I've seen.
Oh! Well that explains what I was doing wrong... Should the ID guide be changed, maybe? It says to look for "a white circle around rump."
I was uncertain over this one, because it lacked the white butt-bullseye... turns out there's two subspecies, the defassa and the ellipsen.
Wow! It looks like a painting, not a shot from a motion sensor camera.
Family picnic.
Baby elephants kill me, every time.
Ostrich wing.
Gotta keep those lions fed somehow...
Likkle baby reedbuck, following its mom, over on the right.
It's a giraffe... they eat grass, they're just really awkward about it.
#serval
#adolescent-mane
Zebra doesn't like the paparazzi.
#hare
#weaverbirds
man vs. dragonfly
#babyelephant #daww
Whooa. Not a striped hyena. Some kind of canid, side-striped jackal?
#white-tailedmongoose
Simba's awkward teenage years.
Stop motion.
#golem
... that was so bad it looped back around to funny.
Come at me bro.
Mongeeses!
#antelopepee
#preggo
#jazzhooves
Peaceful, moonlit savanna... with this creeper watching you silently.
Wildebeest Sunday school.
#unicorn
#porcupine
Is this a leucistic grant's gazelle? He looks really pale compared to the others I've seen.
#baby #baboon
That's not how you take a selfie, zebra.
#hornbill?
#rhinoceros
#babyhartebeest
#eland
#topi
#waterbuck ?
#invisibleelephant
#hyena
#warthog ?
Scratch scratch scratch
#topi
#dawww
#levitatingchameleon
Seriously, what's going on here?
#mongoose
FORE!
Well I've never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair...
#serval
Lion cubs
Inquisitive jackals
Scornful buffalo is scornful.
lol
Warthog, you ugly.
#preggo
#topi
#preggo
#eland
triple giraffe all the way
#topi
Waterbuck...?
#topi
Hyenas?
Wildebeest and dik dik, bffs?
#ostrich
#topi
Jackal? Fox?
Baby wildebeest?
#boob
#reedbuck, baby maybe?
#elephant?
#malibustork. #malibu