Snapshot Serengeti Talk
could be serval!
Hi Ken!!
Or could it possibly be aardvark with head out of R frame? Not sure!
Not WBB, probably Black-bellied, Hartlaubs has 'cream stripe down foreneck' which i don't see here.
I agree, and short ears more like SSJ.
Not sure. It seems to have a pale chin and a dark throat.
Shows distinctive horn shape of #eland
#buffalo, legs too thin for rhino 😃
Baffled, can't help here!
YBO is correct 😃
Yes, #duiker looks good. Well done!
Bob, I admit our ID is somewhat subjective. Many people probably would call it reedbuck. To me it looks smaller and more delicate.
You would be unlikely to see a lone young ostrich, they have huge families!
AMAZING!!! We only have about 7 genuine photos tagged zorilla, and this is one of the best!
Yes I agree. Good spotting parsfan!
#Wildebeest and #zebra. From this perspective most of their backs are level with horizon; eles would project well above the horizon 😃
Foreground is a young #wildebeest, herds beyond look like wildebeest and zebra.
Texture looks like wildebeest.
Perhaps wildebeest or impala?
#elephant
see below
Under the tree, a #kori-bustard preening itself. I don't see anything else 😃
Correct, well done 😃
Aardwolf would show longer hair on neck and back, and different shaped ears. This is a #black-backed-jackal 😃
Could be a human hand 😃
Probably made by a rufous-tailed weaver, before the tree fell. Now it's vulnerable to every kind of predator, so perhaps abandoned.
Facing camera I think, foreleg in foreground.
Another #elephant. They don't really hang with anyone else!
#eland - black garters on forelegs, black tail tassel.
possibly hyena
We can't tell what you guessed, but these look like gazelles.
This kind of tail tuft, with a crest extending back up the tail, belongs to a #hartebeest
#thomsons-gazelle
Hornbills - perhaps Grey.
Beautiful!
#white-bellied-bustard
It's an #elephant 😃
Not sure...posture is quite like dikdik.
Could be eland
maybe more zebra?
It's probably gonna be something like hartebeest - not wrinkly like elephant, and hippos don't often come close to camera.
or buffalo?
Correct
I think hartebeest.
The long divergent horns of the L animal are typical of #grants-gazelle. Just L of treetrunk maybe tommy, because it has black tail.
Maybe Thomson's gazelle.
At least 3 #impala here, maybe 5 😃
Correct 😃
#buffalo
A small brown one. Can't give precise ID.
#reedbuck. The black spot below ear is a useful clue.
Possibly elephant gathering grass in trunk?
Vegetation
maybe a plant?
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
Seems so unlikely, and yet it kinda looks like one...not sure!
Very fast though. Could also be a swallow.
#buffalo 😃
Yes probably H-beest
Agree #thomsons-gazelle
One large animal, perhaps eland?
This is a #jackal, looks like young Black-backed
#buffalo - their tails are thin like a cow’s, whereas wildebeest hava tails more like that of a horse.
#zebra 😃
#guineafowl
But no-one else has legs that go "all the way up" like this!
Based on the ear detail visible, I'd guess zebra - so close to the camera flash that the striping is blown out. Other thoughts?
#young #buffalo. Even if cattle were illegally present in the park, they would not be roaming freely and grazing at night 😃
Tricky, but it's a #wildebeest 😃
You might possibly have found the elusive striped hyena! M, what do you think? Aardwolf would have bigger ears?
Good call 😃
The dark structure is a sitting #wildebeest facing L, and the grey animals beyond are 4+ zebras 😃
Probably lactating, yes, and belly full from feeding.
A baboon's tail would not normally be carried horizontally like this. Vervet monkey is more likely 😃
I agree, looks more like young gnu than anything I can think of.
Pale bare areas on face are quite common in older animals. The species is susceptible to sarcoptic mange, don't know if that's true here.
I'm not sure here. Not BEF or jackal. Doesn't quite look like a spotted h.
With those large ears and lack of dark markings, I also think steenbok.
Agree, most likely aardwolf.
Actually #wildebeest; looks like one lying and one standing close to camera 😃
Hey, great capture!
Tricky, but I'd say #hartebeest is a better fit.
Sorry Amelia, I can make no sense of this at all! I don't think it's an elephant or even a mammal. Possibly a bird?
Agree probably 2 cubs here
I think it's a #young cheetah standing and playing with camera, and we see its chest & neck & right arm, not tail, but I could be wrong.
It could be lion, not sure. I don’t think T is with us any more, but no news for 6 mo.
Maybe harrier.
We don’t even know if it’s alone! If so, he’s a bull, for they sometimes do travel alone. Females, almost never.
Bird is a #capped-wheatear, who probably has a nest in a hole in the mound nearby.
correct 😃
It is - with those forward curving horns.
M, I agree with your ID. Also in 2, 'bags under eyes' typical of BB Jackal 😃
Agree BBJ, not sure what it's carrying!
def #hartebeest
Agree eland.
Maybe a medium sized raptor, harrier or blackwinged kite, but as M says, not enough detail.
Yes could be BEF - not certain.
Or Grants. can't be sure.
Awesome, people, excellent ID!
Beautiful "sculpting" of the muscles in that light.
Yes, I thought I remembered something like that from months ago 😃
Could even be a grass head 😃
Yes I think lion too.
Told ya!
From color & texture, wildebeest is a good guess.
Too small for giraffe and very close to camera. Maybe tail of small mammal, various possibilities!
It's something small right on the camera, like a lizard or small bird.
Agree #eland
They walk, run, dig, wallow, play, fight, sleep, but yes a lot of eating 😃
Agree zebra
I'm thinking Bat-eared Fox only because of the dark-crested tail (right hand animal). Can there be another animal behind the weaver nest?
Does look like an eye, but could be that of a young ele.
2 cars, one coming from each side. #human
Could well be a corvid. We have Cape Rooks.
Very good clear photo of male reedbuck 😃
Agree #leopard - size, spots, much thicker neck than cheetah. Good call, Mokka!
I would say white-tailed mongoose, its head out of R frame 😃
I only see the left one. Impossible to ID, maybe a lark 😃
Still puzzled 😃
I wonder if it could be a large bird - like a w-b-bustard or E goose?
Try #wildebeest 😃 Black face (at left of body) blending with black bkg makes it hard to interpret. Stripes & beard on neck are good clues.
Duiker don't like open grassland, but #thomsons-gazelle do. Fuzzy black tail, black stripe below light stripe on side, are all good clues.
Absolutely right 😃
Yup!
Short hair & long neck more like reedbuck yes, but too much tail? or else it's 2 individuals?
Black-bellied bustard.
Flies & dust - welcome to Africa. Maybe there’s a buffalo nearby, shaking its head.
Could also be a primate, e.g. baboon or vervet.
Help can often be found in previous comments - @maricksu (below) is usually right... 😃
Trying to get rid of those stripes! 😄
Could it be a very torn buffalo ear? one of those scruffy old bulls?
Yes, a #crowned-plover / #crowned-lapwing at L in shade.
Thing close to camera is very close and furry, so maybe rodent such as squirrel?
Same as you M - no idea 😃
M, I agree completely 😃
All we can say is it's a large greyish animal with short hair. Maybe eland.
Probably a lion project car, as it has a mount for a radio-tracking antenna on its roofrack.
Not sure. Maybe one of the weavers.
Hard, but I think I agree with zebra.
Agree buffalo
Also, cattle would not normally be walking past cameras at night - herders keep them corralled at night.
They are 2 or 3 helmeted #guineafowl.
Nice perspective. You don't get this view of a lion, unless you are another lion 😃
Bird looks like a spurfowl.
Probably grey-breasted spurfowl.
Agree probably serval.
Hard to ID, perhaps a cisticola?
A bird that size would appear in more than one frame, so I’m guessing insect.
I'm seeing shiny metal and perhaps a keyhole - could be some kind of lock or other human artifact?
Hey, how about dung beetles? A large beetle rolling a ball of dung looks dark, and its eyes reflect the light. In Feb dung is abundant.
I can't think of any small mammal in SNP that is so dark. So that leaves birds, but still not sure what dark bird is on ground at night!
Correct. Both are quite young.
This is a male and he is advertising his territory, but no chick is visible.
It may be - perhaps sniffing a mark on the tree, then it will spray its own mark.
He is sitting facing away, not eating, just wiggling his tattered ears 😃
Maybe female Coqui Francolin.
Colour, texture and sparse irregular spots fit hyena.
Body shape suggests lion, but like you, I can't be sure.
Young male #impala
Nice one!
Looks like tail of a baboon.
It's a grass head like the one at lower left 😃
Looks like it 😃
You could legitimately say #wildebeest 51+ 😃
Delightful flying grass! 😃
Agree #wildebeest
Certainly could be the paw of another serval lying on its back!
#wildebeest with #young
I'm not even sure it's an animal, but if it is, more likely warthog as there is only one 😃
They look to me like wildebeest.
It's a vehicle on a road.
One of the best that I've seen here!
I think hartebeest. If uncertain, please don't # 😃
Can't tell!
Could be either. Bottom line: no animal here 😃
This #young #wildebeest has a mane which still sticks up. No porcupine 😃
I’d say tommy, because it shows a black side stripe and black tail 😃
Nest is of Rufous-tailed Weaver, bird is #superb-starling. May be occupant.
Yes, you have a mix of Grants and tommies here.
The bigger species could, yes.
No cheetah. Just a hen #ostrich walking with drooping wings.
or butterfly?
#coqui-francolin - yellow-orange heads.
Frame 2 is quite striking, a nice capture 😃
Right, but conventional spelling is #wildebeest 😃
You are dead right! Black ear tips are a good clue 😃
When lightened, the shape of hind legs and long pale tail indicate cheetah!
Yes, most likely Eurasian/Barn Swallow because that is common in March and has dark throat.
Seems likely
Well spotted BB!
#superb-starling looks right
Wonderful portrait!
But is it even an antelope? Waterbuck has a big white ring around the muzzle. This is a #buffalo 😃
Correct, well spotted 😃
If newborn it would stay very, very close to mother.
#black-backed-jackal
Groooovy!
That's right 😃
European #white-stork - intent on an insect!
Who? What? Where? 😛
#wildebeest - the dark long hair on either side of the paler tail is diagnostic.
Not porcupine, something with a slightly bristly face sniffing the camera - e.g. cat or hyena - but can't ID.
I’d guess roller but not sure.
No doubt about this one 😃
This seems to have b&w stripes and very short hair, and there is a herd of zebras on horizon, so.....I suggest #zebra
#wildebeest - that long dark tail is unique.
That is certainly possible.
Comparing pics of both spp, I think this is #steenbok. It stands with rear legs more bent than a reedbuck's, causing its butt to stick out.
Maybe Grant’s gazelles?
Very probably.
Because of blurriness, this is something v. close to lens therefore v. small. Maybe insect or tiny lizard.
This is a small #raptor, classic hawk shape, maybe Montagu's Harrier. Kori is MUCH bigger and shows long neck and legs when flying.
Your 'giraffe' looks more like a hartebeest 😃
#dailyzoo Nice one!
From posture, size, shape of ear - I agree #dikdik
I can't even tell what order of mammals this belongs to! The only spots I see are JPEG artifacts.
Now that’s unusual! We almost never see more than one.
I’d expect wildebeest to show more tail. Maybe something like waterbuck?
It’s probably an insect on the camera lens 😃
And a #guineafowl in background 😃
Probably #superb-starling
#black-headed-heron - preys on rodents and insects in grassland.
Wowwww! Amazing! #dailyzoo
The fg animal has big swatch of black on flank, and longer hair than impala - #thomsons-gazelle.
Could be just vegetation?
Someone with bristly face v close to camera. I think not enough bristles/whiskers for cat...buffalo perhaps?
#warthog from shape of ear.
Fairly small antelope, little spike horns, open plains = #thomsons-gazelle
But it has a little thin bill, not like a quelea. I'd go with Cisticola, maybe Stout C.
Most if not all are wildebeest 😃
#abdims-stork confirmed 😃
Great Grey / Egyptian #mongoose 😃
It's sometimes helpful to read the previous comments 😃
Record as #human.
No, female Grants rear centre and fore right, others are tommies. Note different rears of R Grant and central Tommy 😃
Yes - Looks like Falco naumanni, Lesser Kestrel male.
Agree CB sandgrouse 😃
#francolin species.
Not sure either. It looks like a cat but I think bigger and longer tailed than caracal.
Baboons are diurnal so that's one of the few animals it couldn't be 😃 Maybe buffalo?
I think so too 😃
All or most are Thomson's gazelles.
Neck & breast of #kori-bustard #bird
My guess is #marabou - they are scavengers, and are arriving at a scene that a #vulture is leaving...
M, I'd say that's a good guess 😃
Bkg eyes most likely more wildebeest. Please only hashtag when certain of ID 😃
Looks more like gazelle.
A rather aberrant wildebeest!
Wow what a hunk! We may imagine camera as a disembodied eye, but the shadows are from the twin-trunked tree that it is attached to 😃
Judy, that isn't a face 😄
As usual we don't know what you guessed, Claudio, but that is a giraffe 😃
It's weird! Baboon? but the ear (if it's an ear) is wrong.
Probably jackal.
Not serval, maybe jackal.
Or young adult lion with spotting? Not sure.
Not sure!
Cheetah in my opinion.
Yes dust - rain is more "directional" looking like white inverted drops
Agree lion most likely
Body-shape, scatter and location all point to #buffalo. Gnu are less likely to travel thru tall grass along river bank, buffalo don't care!
Yes, that is just how a male shakes after rain.
Agree #steenbok, because of big ears.
I think I agree but not # positive.
#spotted-hyena for sure.
Ditto
Can't ID from this!
Definitely #buffalo.
Agree #lion
Yes, that would be another cheetah following.
Yes - I'd guess ants.
Let's keep this 'Recent' section for objective discussion of photo ID please. 'Chat' is a more appropriate forum for what we love or hate 😃
Agree #serval, the funny little tail is another clue 😃
Nothing to add, maricksu - many of us have been tagging these as #slate, for the reasons you give, and I assume it's useful to do so.
Male #lion
While Slender is common in Serengeti, comparing its size with the guineafowl I vote for Egyptian.
I think no human would be out there at night! I suspect it's a spider, mantis, cricket or other arthropod, close to camera.
Has fully developed tail tuft but no sign of mane, so subadult 2-3 yrs is my guess.
I say the date, pasture type and selected food don't support wildebeest, but could be wrong. Maybe buffalo?
Correct 😀
No, but I'm not certain what it is. #bird-other
Also someone's rounded body at top R...wildebeest? buffalo?
Interesting view - shows the curvature very well 😃
I'd say dust - rain looks more uniformly white and shows motion blur, strangely, at bottom of drops
I think I agree with you Maricksu 😃
#mongooses #banded-mongoose
Looks like it, from size & shape.
#grants-gazelle looks good 😃
#reedbuck - photo from long ago, I'm just checking photos ID'd as oribi 😃 - didn't find any verified oribi posted here.
Right - so as it grazes, with head turned towards us, at L we see side view of horn and at R the front view.
Good guess! 😃
I'm guessing male #grants-gazelle. Colleagues, what say you?
No...that would be fuzzy rather than feathered. This is a #spurfowl.
My guess is zebra.
Yes. Note how #buffalo muzzles point mostly forwards; in wildebeest they point mostly down.
#thomsons-gazelle with a #butterfly - one of the Orange-tips, Colotis sp.
Looks good for #impala 😃
well...maybe!
Spotted hyena?
Here's a daytime photo of same scene, with that little bent tree: I think it has to be a (big) wildcat 😃 Image ASG001uvow
Undecided. To me, shape & long tail fits leopard, color and possibly size fits cat. We need more photos from this camera to judge scale!
Large, grey-brown, thin legs, long black horsy tail - there aren't many possibilities. In fact, just one. #wildebeest
Sorry folks, it has #cheetah spots and the tail is foreshortened by camera angle 😃
No, it's a #dikdik. A pair of them is regularly seen here.
Hypolimnas misippus, variously called Diadem, Danaid Eggfly or Mimic 😃
Plumage and behaviour support your hypothesis 😉
I'd go with reedbuck too 😃
Yes. If it were a spotted hyena we would surely see spots, but I think I see stripes e.g. on R side.
Tricky! From size and head shape and posture, I guess gazelle or reedbuck. Can we see horns as well as ears in #3?
Or a baby of another species?
Fascinating! How about a dirty lion lying on its R side. its back to us, we see its L hip and hind feet. Other ideas?
I agree looks like Northern, the tail and breast fit that better than the resident Capped wheatear.
Yes #young, about 2 yrs
Def #elephant, c. 10 of them,
Either that or small birds, but I can't think of a bird that would look like that.
As several have heads down grazing, they're probably all gnus in a safe situation.
I wouldn't swear that this isn't a young BBJ. They often show less distinction between back and flank color than adults.
Maybe that IS their roost. They just spend the night on the ground in the grasslands 😃
You're quite right, that's an #eland. There's no reason for them to conflict, though I can't recall seeing both in a picture before 😃
I think no animal here, just leaves.
Agree, that's a ?? for sure. Too much fog or condensation!
Correct! 😃
I'd guess a female tommy - because of that single little thin horn, and I think Grant would be taller.
That shape is typical of #spotted-hyena 😃
Maybe Lappet-faced #vulture.
Yes, looks like it 😃
A fine mature bull - grey of colour and very heavy around the neck and shoulders.
The "eyes" are in front of an acacia canopy, so either they are really eyes of (eg) bushbaby, or they are a brightly lit insect near camera.
These are #impala 😀
Beige animal probably zebra but we can't be certain.
No need to tag unidentifiable, as most such images are identifiable. Probably #buffalo calf at L, as there are more buffalo beyond.
We prefer you remove the # from wildebeest if you're unsure. In fact they are #elephants, you can see the trunks of at least 2 silhouettes.u
But tell us what you guessed! The two left of centre are #eland and the tail at top left could also be eland.
The stripes indicate #zebra - I think 3 in this picture
Only one thing is possible here with smooth coat and black ear-tips - #impala. Another at left.
One of the small #bustard species.
Yeah...so what's going on? The red is almost like lens flare. One of those situations where we need to see b4 & after frames 😃
Great portrait of #spotted-hyena! (see what I did there?) 😃
That's hard to believe, because the grass is so green, it shouldn't burn at all - and the flame so red! But what else could it be?
Yes! That's a creche of young, so the oxpecker looks much bigger than you'd expect 😃
With such strong patterning on back and tail, might be black-bellied.
Could be. But I wouldn't entirely exclude lion 😃
This is how we clean the cameras 😃
There goes the neighborhood! Fortunately for the dikdiks, the zebra doesn't eat anything they depend on - he grazes, they browse on leaves.
Possibly. I can't tell what it is. A crowned plover would do that, but this doesn't look like one.
That could be an oldish one, from his fine horns and tattered ear.
Maybe...I can neither prove nor disprove that! 😃
They become adult at 1 yr but don't usually breed until 4, by which time horns are fully developed like this. So maybe 4 or more (a guess!)
Noted!
Great pic! That pale forehead shows this is a young adult, c. 2 yrs old.
Yes 😃
Agree spurfowl.
#white-crowned-shrike
Definitely #jackal 😃
Shape is good for #impala and there are several more at L which definitely look like impala - good call 😃
Yes, the closest animal is a young #grants-gazelle (has no horns yet), the other three are #thomsons-gazelle.
Or maybe the ear of a buffalo with some deep rips in it? I've seen a few ears like that in these photos.
You should tell us your guess, as we don't know! I suppose I would guess the dewlap of a bull eland, but I'm not 100%.
We are privileged to get such close views of eland here. When you try to approach them, they begin running when you're about 100m away 😃
Definitely #jackal, #black-backed-jackal - colors & shape wrong for BEF.
#wildebeest
😄 Probably the muzzle of a zebra, given that there's another in background.
That's normal in mature males. In some populations, like the extinct Barbary lion, the mane extended along the whole belly.
I think wildebeest, because of what appears to be a vertical part of its head below horn.
This #bird-other is a #black-headed-heron, its head out of R frame, Note how its neck moves but head stays rock steady - typical of herons.
Love the poetry! Just not sure she's an impala. Maybe a Grant's? Other views?
Yes, well done!
Nice shot!
Definitely #black-backed-jackal.
Correct. Though at least 3 present.
The ear shape is very distinctive, with a peak at top and a big rounded lobe at bottom - #spotted-hyena 😃 Mongooses are much smaller.
Don't forget, an elephant can be as small as 1m high (newborn!). This is an #elephant 😃
Not vervet. Looks and moves more like bird, but can't think of bird with such a long tail. A shrike maybe?
Well done! Every kind of cat seems to check out this tree stump.
Not anything....#lion! With one raised paw in R corner. May be >1 lion, can't really tell 😃
In fact that pale ear with a thick dark band across it, is specific to #zebra - back of the ear. There are more, beyond the #wildebeest.
#fighting and biting!
With so many nice clear little spots in frame 3, I'd say #cheetah 😃
Hard one! I wouldn't guess either rhino or warthog. Zebra?
See: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc 😃
Dang, now I see that canine! (former lion biologist blushes). Well done guys 😃
Whose picture weren't you given, what's the cropped version, and how would we know why? BTW this could only be a #thomsons-gazelle 😃
I dunno - with all that shiny bling on it, might be a human opening the camera?
I think these are smallish animals like impala but can extract no details.
#zebra
#thomsons-gazelle in front, #zebra on horizon
#young #cheetah
And 2 #baboons R of centre 😃
May not be. This place is a waterhole which is drying up, and the buffs are wallowing in the mud, hence strange posture.
You're right 😃
Yes - what an interesting and unusual capture! They're pretty common on the shortgrass plains but seldom seen in SSS study area.
I see what you mean but can't easily interpret picture. We often do get monkeys here, could also be a dikdik behind tree.
I guess butterflies.
Anything is possible. But this is an #elephant.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! Looks like an impala, but possibly reedbuck.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! Grazing animal behind rock is an #impala.
Distant mammals are #zebra and probably #wildebeest 😃
Maybe what??? This is a #thomsons-gazelle.
#bird-other - quite a big one.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! This is a #reedbuck male.
Meaning unclear. #zebra
#butterfly is Diadem or Eggfly, Hypolimnas misippus
Unfortunately we can't count shadows of animals outside the frame 😃
Maybe what? This is a #wildebeest.
Doesn't look right for lion, nor hyena...but ear is like a cat. Maybe serval? Not sure
I'd call this #raptor an eagle.
These lack the spots & stripes of a genet, they are 2 #white-tailed-mongoose 😃
Unusual to see an #aardwolf in daylight!
#kori-bustard. Buzzards are raptors 😃
Always good to check these dark ones. On a laptop I use cursor to drag the image over a white part of the window & see that zebra.
Terrific picture! Look at the reflection of eyes in water. This is just before dawn (time stamp is 3h off) #dailyzoo
There is actually a #zebra here, the furthest left 'tree' is the silhouette of its mane 😃
#raptor #eagle also see comments below 😃
I think the distant animals are zebra and wildebeest, and the tail is of a zebra.
Not sure...could also be smaller bird like weaver close to camera 😃
I think nothing, just grass heads moving against background.
I think #zebra would be a reasonable guess 😃
It's, uh, indulging in some personal hygiene 😃
Think it's just leaves close to camera.
Zebra is right. The clear stripes on neck and forelegs are the clincher. We prefer you only use # when you are sure of ID 😃
These are buffalo.
You got it! We can see the horn with large 'boss' suggesting a male, dark face with hint of paler cheeks - good guess 😃
Yes...I had to lighten it with photoshop. There's a big herd of #wildebeest with some #zebra too 😃
Right 😃
Maybe hartebeest.
But we can still ID it as #wildebeest 😃
That's right!
#multispecies - nice one!
Probably fairly young, to have such nice clear spots 😃
Yes, it's not unusual.
Beautiful! A dik-dik-dik!
Good guess.I think they could be.
Maybe. I'd expect to see more white than black on a zebra though. Really not sure what this is (blush)
Genarally the cameras can't see over a wildebeest's back. Something smaller, maybe reedbuck?
I'm thinking impala - where the flank meets the thigh, that's the black and white mark at R. Tommy would show a thick black stripe there.
Small bird? Diurnal rodents not often seen here.
Duiker is a fairly unusual capture - I suspect more likely dikdik.
#crowned-plover aka #crowned-lapwing
Yes - prob tawny but photo not good enough to confirm 😃
#steenbok. I'd be really surprised to see oribi in the SSS study area, though they are common further N by the Mara River.
#Insects could be flying termites. Flying #bird is #black-winged-kite.
#buffalo - a #young one 😃
Hard one - but I think I go with BEF. Aardwolf would show stronger stripes on body, paler legs.
No, it's a #warthog 😃
This is an #aardwolf 😃
Spoken like a true biologist 😃 The thing on the far right of the zebra may also be a zebra foal, a more likely target for the hyena.
Yes that's a #hartebeest 😃
However, it doesn't move at all, so is probably dirt or stationary insect on camera lens 😦
Beautiful! Wildebeest heaven - lots of green grass and the promise of rain to bring more 😃
#leopard - see below 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose
Yes - see discussion: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000007/discussions/DSG0001qbt
Definitely!
#eland
This is one of the small bustards, maybe Black-bellied. Kori always has a jaunty little black crest and bulky neck feathers 😃
#leopard
What looks like a crested head is the bird's right wing! May be one of the kestrels.
Possibly a mongoose...or else a bird like a spurfowl - very ambiguous 😄
Well they aren't impala! I think they're dikdiks.
I'd call them #elephant. Look at the shape of the one on the left, facing left...see it now? 😃
#elephants correct - at least 13 here 😃
#butterfly is right, one of the Pieridae.
Yes - this is a resident #dikdik pair often seen here.
Remember antelopes are not born with fully formed horns 😃 This is a #young #impala.
Perfect portrait showing all ID features 😃
She has about 6 #oxpecker #birds on her shoulder 😃
#warthog
Think #wildebeest is the only one here with pointy horns and a mane 😃
Another possibility: rhino. When lightened, shows 'water-mark' on lower part of body. Rhino also on this camera Feb 17 - Image ASG001wlym
Can't see as much plumage as I'd like, but the light-colored bill is right for RGV.
I think that's a great guess! The pattern looks good. M & T, opinions?
Not very, I expect - welcome back 😃
These are #white-bellied-bustards 😃
They are a herd of #wildebeest 😃
It is a flying piece of grass 😃
Curiously it seems hairy but doesn't move at all. I'd guess some insect sitting on the camera lens.
At L, a territorial male #wildebeest may be chasing rival.
#thomsons-gazelle and the #bird is #egyptian-goose
#wildebeest, about 10.
The #bird over the #wildebeest in frame 3 is a #white-stork. There is no "egyptian crane" 😃
There's nothing wrong with having independent confirmation! 😃
From horn shape & head height I'd say #thomsons-gazelle
Very unusual even to see this on safari. I've only seen small kori chicks twice in all my years.
Nor do I. I think you're free to interpret it as you wish 😃
Distinctive horns with big rounded boss, sweeping down & back then up at tips - #buffalo
#wildebeest adult and #young.
With that smooth dark reddish coat, it's a #topi.
Not sure if it's a secretary, but ele calves often do 'throw their weight around' and intimidate birds and other small things.
That's right. And they have no reason to quarrel.
Yes, #banded-mongoose often stand up like this 😃
Definite WBB 😃
Yes indeed! I'm thinking this could be lion, with the stripes being folds in her skin. Other possibility would be wildebeest. Opinions?
#elephant, with crinkled ele-pants 😃
#warthog male with huuuuge tusks! Why male? Because 2 sets of 'warts' between ears and tusks. Females usually only have the upper ones.
It is, so there must be a #human here. A road runs across this scene, just below horizon.
#dikdik. Young impala would show the typical impala black marks & white tail, and would likely be with other impalas 😃
They are common but localized - they tend to gather at water, or at carcasses, so we don't catch many on these cameras.
#bird is a #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
Probably several hundred wildebeest.
Yes, looks like #baboons.
#crowned-plover they are 😃
Interesting. I wonder if the wildebeest is trying to protect a new calf that we can't see? It's the right time of year.
Agree #cheetah.
The former, I think.
Looks like it
Yes, #buffalo
Wildebeest chilling. Beard of 1st close, legs of 2nd at L, legs & belly of 3rd, 4th & 5th sitting, framed by 6th & 7th standing 😃
They'll all be males. Close one is sniffing tree & camera for scent-marks. Then he may spray it. Then, murky pics for a while...😃
Man. this migration stuff is hard work! 😃
#buffalo #young
#grey-breasted-spurfowl, a #bird like a quail or partridge.
#mongoose #white-tailed-mongoose - nice view!
Insects, perhaps bees.
Agree #buffalo
Very likely.
The thing in centre? It is a termite mound 😃
Probably hartebeest.
Likely dust. But elephants LOVE rain too!
Looks like #hartebeest tail 😃
Fuzzy ones are young, yes. March is warm, July coldest month - but not so cold as to make zebras grow long hair!
Could be Rufous-tailed Weaver.
Doesn't look like bird to me - maybe vegetation.
The pale brown forehead of the gnu in foreground indicates that it's in its 2nd year. Subsequently this turns black.
Correct - this is a favorite dikdik hangout 😃
Maybe a new animal for you - #springhare, a kind of #rodent like a bushy-tailed kangaroo rat on steroids 😃
Mostly #wildebeest with a few #zebra
Hard to judge distance and scale! Your only other option is zebra, but I'm inclined towards elephant too 😃
#raptor for sure.
You got it!
You're probably right. Storks also circle in flocks, but if no green grass or fire, they likely wouldn't be there.
I agree with warthog, but the thing in tree doesn't look like a baboon. Maybe a big bird - eagle or eagle owl?
Insect close to camera, I think.
Good ID 😃
I only see grass here. Anyway, you would not see a monkey in Serengeti at night 😃
100% #rhino, well done!! 😃
That ear doesn't look like lion though...I think this is a warthog 😃
#abdims-stork - a wet season migrant, visiting from W Africa 😃
Good guess, #wildebeest is right 😃
Aren't they fun? Great picture here.
I agree, #hyena - well done!
In Serengeti, the bushbuck and reedbuck's closest relatives are the eland and waterbuck, respectively. Imagine that!
#reedbuck. Though superficially similar, the bushbuck's tribe split from the reedbuck's tribe very early in antelope evolution...10mya?
From the strong back streaking and yellow legs, I'd say #coqui-francolin.
Most of the cameras are attached to tree trunks. Trees make shade. Animals like shade!
I agree - a #young #elephant.
My guess is elephant, from the texture. Others?
#spotted-hyena. Note the relatively short body with sloping back.
I've posted a lightened version of this photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidbygott/34393559515
It happens - she probably lost a fight with another baboon 😃
No, but it's the very unusual #striped-hyena! Pale tail and many stripes. Study the aardwolf collections and you may see the difference.
Aardwolf is smaller, lighter, with a few distinct bands on body. This is #spotted-hyena 😃
If you've already clicked "Finish", you can't go back; but others will probably get it right, so no worries 😃
I think we are seeing 2 spotted hyenas standing shoulder to shoulder. The other eyes in bkg may be more, can't tell.
It's wild and it's a cat, but species is #cheetah 😃 This is a #young one.
#aardwolf is correct
Wish we could hear them roaring! 😃
Fantastic image. But something I REALLY don't want to see when walking through the bush at night 😃
#dailyzoo great action! 😃
Animals L of centre look like wildebeest, >10 😃
Dramatic view! Might be missing his R horn?
Yes, great portrait!
It looks grey above and orange below, if so it's a Silverbird, but in the shade it's hard to be sure 😃
Hopefully someone noticed this during the past 2 years 😃 Staff check the cameras several times a year.
A #human is driving a car along a road 😃
Or flies or bees - hard to tell.
Agree this #bird is a #crowned-plover
I wonder if there's another, at centre of horizon?
Like!
Nice. They are so much more active at night than I ever imagined.
What a fun picture!
I think this view has a road running through, and that is a stationary truck.
Good portrait of #black-backed-jackal.
Rain!
Rutting male ready for action!
Regular Helmeted guineafowl - the horny crest on head distinguishes them from other Phasianidae. Skin of face and upper neck is sky-blue.
Yes - hard to guess what they are though! Maybe zebra but who knows.
Yes, #kori-bustard
Correct - often seen in this camera view
Yes - a big bull #eland with large dewlap (L) and the characteristic black 'garter' on forelimb (R)
Strange view! Probably 2 more eles further back.
Not being snarky here...how we think they look, and how they look on these photos, can be surprisingly different! Practice helps a lot.
#lion. Light color, lack of pattern, thin tail. It's worth looking thru collections of cat spp to familiarize self with ID features 😃
I think #wildebeest. Striped hyena sightings are exceedingly rare and usually at night 😃
Difficult to ID 😉
Helmeted #guineafowl confirmed. Yes, nice sequence!
correct
I almost said no, but you're right! 😃
#buffalo is right
#spotted-hyena
Yes - #thomsons-gazelle
Yes, #young #wildebeest 😃
Probably...if it's coming slightly towards us and to L, kori could show that much white. Otherwise I can't think what it could be.
#banded-mongoose
Correct, the #grants-gazelle horn shape is distinctive.
Looks like #interaction, one male #impala chasing another.
Yes, maybe fighting
You didn't take long to get your gazelles sorted out 😃
Yes #white-tailed-mongoose. It's nocturnal. Note: long legs are darker than grey body, and tail is lighter - that's unique among mongooses.
#hippopotamus
Adult male #baboon. All dark brown, tail arched at base - vervet is paler grey and has tail longer than its body.
Looks like colorful alien life form but alas, it's just a plant 😃
Good one. And plenty of dinner in background 😃
I think you are right, it's #young - it moves - good spot 😃
I think not. IMO the male on L is too young to mate - a breeding male is bigger than a female and has massive neck & shoulders.
Nice!
😃 Spent time in Serengeti?
Wow, it's pouring rain in the distance. Happy gnus!
Shows well the "white tights" of this species.
Come now, only about 500 spp on SNP list! But those that we regularly see in these SSS photos are quite few.
Yes indeed!
Yes, what an odd pic! That's a big stealth #elephant hiding behind a small tree 😃
#serval
One of the small bustards, I think female Black-bellied.
The back of its R ear?
Now that could be a white-crowned shrike.
Also 2nd adult beyond the 1st and facing R.
Maybe zebra, from shape of muzzle.
Not enough data. Likely suspects include larger weaver spp or starling spp.
Not certain that it isn't a jackal 😃 BEF has very black legs, but still, they might be blown out by the flash.
Correct. If working on a computer, try click+drag image over a white window on desktop - sometimes helps to see what's there 😃
Yes, with that streaky belly, looks like spurfowl.
Could be swarm of bees.
I'd guess wildebeest 😃
Well spotted, welcome back S!
#wildebeest - female I think 😃
Looks to me more like a wasp than a grasshopper but not sure. There are solitary locust species in SNP, but no swarms.
Yes - a pair has a tiny range, so the local residents are commonly seen in this view.
I wonder if it could be a kori? The wing feather in centre shows barring, which SB doesn't have.
Excellent! #dailyzoo
Looks like it. Shows you how tall the grass can get here!
Yup. The black spot below base of ear is diagnostic.
Good interpretation. Looks like someone spray-marked this camera 😃
Nice view of a #side-striped-jackal, distinguished here by white tail tip.
They are wet-season migrants from W Africa and come in huge flocks to feast on Serengeti's grassland insects.
OK, great!
Yes, well done 😃
Right - the common one here is #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
That's right, #abdims-stork.
Well done - you know your animals 😃
Maybe a warthog.
A bull #buffalo is entering from R.
Distant herd = #zebra
#wildebeest. A cow's tail tassel starts much lower down, around the anatomical equivalent of its heel.
From the white markings on belly and underwing this is a #lappet-faced-vulture a.k.a. #nubian-vulture 😃
#impala. No need to keep tagging testes, they are present in half the population 😃
Little lost #baby #wildebeest. It is greyish with a dark face and dark mane 😃
My best guess is wildebeest.
It's a rock 😃
Correct - the 'two-tone' body color is distinctive.
Not with such big horns. Young male #impala 😃
Veg or termite structure 😃
There are 3 #hartebeest L of tree, a possible impala at R edge of photo, and the twin eyes may be another impala.
#wildebeest. If a warthog stood in front of a camera you could see over its back 😃
Good #wildebeest portrait!
#topi
of #wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle - the heavy black side stripe is distinctive.
Striking photo of #elephant "scenting" with raised trunk.
That's right - a lovely clear view of #aardwolf.
We are getting some really stunning photos this season - nice to see that better quality of image again.
Get well soon TD, meanwhile we'll watch the class 😃
#black-backed-jackal - nice shot.
Here you can see this in context: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/wildcam-gorongosa/talk/91/305252
#dailyzoo - That is about the best aardvark photo we've had!
With those ears, it's #serval. The ears are rotated backwards.
Possibly wildebeest
eland or maybe cow.
Pregnant in March is unlikely, but possible I suppose. Movement looks like breathing.
Yes, 2 #spotted-hyenas
Known glitch, see https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000007/discussions/DSG0001qbt
These are at least 3 adult #wildebeest and 2 or 3 calves.
All the animals are wildebeest. The 'ostrich' may be vegetation.
Jackals are too small to hunt #zebra 😃 This is more likely a zebra foal but hard to see clearly
Correct.
Far R is female #grants-gazelle, other 2 are #thomsons-gazelle.
Could be a spotted hyena.
Ostriches are a lot bigger. This #bird is a female Black-bellied or Hartlaub's #bustard 😃
This is actually how raindrops look on these cameras - they are travelling down, not up, despite looks.
Looks right for waterbuck - strange picture!
Could be a smaller bird, like a starling.
Looks like it.
#dailyzoo
wowwww! the colours....
Wow! I think that is the best wildcat I've seen here.
Yes, I can see the cord too 😃
Superb Starling is the common one here on the plains.
Yes, looks like a fight - with a #wildebeest referee!
Yellow with a black face, so this #bird is a #weaver; perhaps Vitelline but can't be sure.
Great photo!
I think quite a small antelope, maybe even dikdik - there's usually a pair resident at this site.
Yup.
That's a nice find! The calf is probably about 3 months old by May.
Actually #grants-gazelles, despite black sidestripe. Note how the white rump-patch curls over top of black bar
Yes I think so.
That's my guess too.
Yes - only #elephant has those pillar legs 😃
That's right! I get about 13 #elephants.
Could just be the wind moving the grass.
Over-saturated maybe, but hippos really are quite pink on the lower parts of their head and body 😃
If they see them often, yes. I've sometimes had lions resting in the shade UNDER my land-rover!
Everything I can see looks like #wildebeest.
But what is it?! I'm guessing impala.
Could be dust. The time stamp is wrong, but if date is right, fire is very unusual in February.
Agree #aardwolf.
These look like #wildebeest.
Probably feeding, but I can't ID this #bird.
Possibly something smaller, like a Rufous-tailed Weaver. But not sure.
Somebody's clothes? If it is animal, I think Eland is the best fit, the shoulder/neck of a bull.
Unusually clear & close photo of one, great! #dailyzoo
Nice. The #young one and all the others are #buffalo.
Here we see a #wildebeest beard and parts of 2 #zebra 😃
#buffalo. They are big & usually look a uniform dark grey at night 😃
Hint - distant zebra often look pale grey or almost white - often in herds and all about the same size - nothing else fits that.
I see it - I think it's one of a line of wildebeest moving L to R at edge of woods.
Nice sighting!
I think it's just leaves moving in breeze - no animals 😦
..."please" just doesn't fit in 140 characters. Thanks for all you do 😃
Sorry mandellina! My colleague is Finnish but her English is amazing. Sometimes we may seem brusque if we're in a hurry. And sometimes the..
Wildebeest sitting in foreground, more + zebras in bkg.
Previous comments sometimes offer a clue 😃
That's correct - some Bushnells were used in Season 9.5 but I think the central Serengeti cameras are a different species 😃
Insect/spider/suspended vegetation close to camera.
That is a weird effect! Some of the new photos, like this one, have a central rectangle with distorted colors, not sure why.
Yes, they are #buffalo and the central one is #young.
Correct. They are big, with sloping back, lion-colored with pale hindquarters.
Yes, they tend to be the ones with just a single photo instead of a series of 3.
Agree #oxpecker #birds on #buffalo.
Grass
I don't see any animal here. There are clumps of grass that look like animals. Civets are mostly nocturnal anyway.
I don't think it's an animal.
I think trees.
Agree the #bird is a #white-bellied-bustard
From color, most likely a #wildebeest
It's probably the body of a wildebeest
Nice photo! #dailyzoo
Probably right. Am away from books and will be off grid till end March 😃
Agree topi. Ear seems to be 'above' curve of horn. In buffalo it'd be below.
Looks more like bird than radio-collar 😃
If indeed it's an animal, maybe eland?
Thomson's gazelles.
I'd say fairly old with both horns broken.
I'd say about 14 zebra and 4 wildebeest.
Possibly impala? I think I can see the heel mark, rump stripe and body shape of impala.
Correct. Looks like there may be a giraffe too, beyond them on horizon.
I think Tommies but can't really explain why 😃
The #white-storks are there because of the fire, they catch small animals fleeing from the flames.
Young male #impala.
And this exclosure will be present in all images taken by this camera.
Thing at bottom R is a twig.
L is wildebeest, R something small like reedbuck? impala?
Or hartebeest? hard to tell.
tyre on back of truck?
Not abundant, but fairly common in riverine habitats. They need plenty of shade and easily available water.
Yes, that's why they are there.
I think so. If it's animal it's domestic.
Confirm #secretary-bird 😃
Looks more like #steenbok.
Agree, 2 lions walking exactly side by side 😃
Hyena seems reasonable.
#hartebeest I believe.
#hartebeest + #young in fg, #wildebeest in bkg
#eland - overall light color, 'garters' on forelegs, black tassel at tip of tail.
I prefer #impala
We are calling all domestics #cattle.
Spotting and body shape say #cheetah to me 😃
I agree
Note markings - black spots at reat hocks and groin, black bar on rump... #impala
Yes, can't see any animals even after tweaking it.
#impala
#topi with #young - the short swept-back horns of adult are distinctive. But there's also an #impala at R behind trees.
hartebeest?
It is a #topi, the grey patches on hips & shoulders bleached out by overexposure.
Maricksu, I think by now you have learned exactly what is in the view of every camera - impressive!
I'm not sure what that is in centre! But I do think there's a smaller giraffe beyond base of tree, facing R.
#impala is correct
#thomsons-gazelle is right.
Probably flying insect v close to lens.
#warthog 😃
Shows the "head-up" posture of a territorial bull. You can almost hear him honking!
Carcass of a bush 😃
I would say #impala. His horns look damaged but they curve back rather than forward.
That's what it looks like, but I find it hard to believe zebras here would just graze while a man walks by!
Looks more like buffalo to me, but hard to be sure.
#waterbuck 😃
Agree #eland.
Looks like impala.
Agree #steenbok
Absolutely #cheetah with that long slumped body and tiny head 😃
Can't think of anything but hyena for this, though it does look odd.
He could just be a pastoralist out for a walk - when you walk there at night, you feel safer with a spear, even such a puny one as this 😃
It would get mist, particularly after a night of rain, most likely Dec-Apr, but Maricksu has proved that this is indeed smoke.
Well spotted! It's the muzzle of a medium sized antelope, I would say impala. See also Image ASG001qgxc, 50 mins earlier.
The white storks are there because of the fire - they catch insects and other small animals fleeing the flames.
Impala would be the most likely suspect, for the bkg animal.
Probably eland.
Could be, but I wouldn't rule out a 1st year hartebeest calf.
Probably bat.
They look like tommies.
Yes, they usually calve ~ Jul-Sep so maybe 7-9mo old. They are already mature at 2 yrs.
That's correct - eye looks black.
Buffalo is correct. You aren't likely to see cattle at night, because herders round them all up and put them in a boma (corral) for safety.
Looks like #wildebeest to me.
You guess, so do many others, and if most guess the same thing, that's what it is! I guess wildebeest, cos seem to have vertical dark faces.
#buffalo and #young 😃
Most likely wildebeest but impossible to be certain.
If wildebeest it would be 8-9 months old, and that looks about right. The only other option would be eland.
I don't know what this could be!
Maybe small carnivore rather than springhare because a) posture (back straight not rounded) b) forelegs visible, c) eyes close together.
Definitely #buffalo, could be 3 in this photo.
Definitely big cat, I'd say lion.
Agree just one 😃
Definitely #impala. Note 2-tone body color, black eartips, groin spot and heel spot, hornless females.
Could also be reedbuck. Hard to be sure with this one.
Well done, they are #topi 😃
Absolutely #wildebeest. Long dark face carried almost vertical, hooked horns that don't droop down, mane.. many ID features visible.
I would say #spotted-hyena, Looks kind of indistinct but spotty, holds head low. They are frustrating, but don't despair!
Also with wildebeest, you would most likely get part of a horn in this kind of view.
If you mean the black patch, that's her tail 😃
Maybe one of the medium sized antelopes, like reedbuck or impala, but can't tell which species 😃
agree #reedbuck
Looks like smoke, yes.
Don't see fire. You mean the clouds, or the orange plastic thingy?
These are sheep, but we classify all domestics as #cattle.
Definitely #steenbok
Yes, maybe the Rattling C, which is one of the commonest.
Topi in centre, and maybe impala on R.
Agree #buffalo. You're unlikely to see cattle at night - the herders put them in fenced corrals.
We don't know what you guessed! It's likely to be a medium antelope such as an impala.
Agree #impala
Dark 2-humped thing may be termite mound.
Can't be sure - has binocular vision - could be a small carnivore like jackal, or even an owl.
Yes, this would be mainly guesswork - the guys under L tree look like buffalo to me.
Horns do vary, with age and across individuals. All the other features are good for impala.
Well done!
Yes, rather challenging! My guess is wildebeest. Others?
#impala yes, but the guy in lower L looks too small for gnu - I think #warthog.
with #young
All are #buffalo.
Correct, all distinctive marks clearly visible.
#wildebeest - note black face contrasting with light neck, and buffalo horns are more droopy.
You could answer a lot of your own queries by studying the ID guide and learning distinctive features of each species. 3 #eland + wildebeest
The curve of the horns makes this an #impala.
Yes, you got 51+ #wildebeest there.
Correct - heavy black side-stripe and tail.
Correct. Combination of body color, dark ear tips and lack of female horns is unique.
Correct - dark face and mane, hooked horns.
#eland. Gnu has proportionally bigger head and usually holds it lower - many other diffs.
Looks like it - even though washed out, you can see black ear tips.
No, it's a #wildebeest
Please un-tag lion. It is indeed a #wildebeest calf.
hmmm, still looks more like hartebeest to me.
See below. Cow-like build, level back, dorsal stripe, large size, slightly twisted horns - all fit #eland.
My first thought was #serval - note the long-legged stride, short head, short tail. What do you think?
Or white-tailed-mongoose?
Doesn't quite look right...pale body, dark legs, also a bit small. Other thoughts?
I don't know. Did you pass? It appears to be a male #thomsons-gazelle.
This image shows a #buffalo in R foreground and 2 or more buffalo in background.
Super photo! #dailyzoo
Try #black-backed-jackal.
Every giraffe is unique - this 'maple-leaf' pattern is common among the Maasai giraffe of Serengeti.
Green December grass gets no fire but plenty moisture 😃
Looks like adult female #thomsons-gazelle.
Can't tell - obscured by a bush 😃
Pooping - they typically give birth in the morning, lying down, in Jan/Feb 😃
#hartebeest
Yes #oxpeckers do occasionally sit on impala, and on warthogs too. I haven't seen them on gazelles though.
Really hard, cos so dark! Eland? or buffalo?
Agree #reedbuck
Ok, thanks for those examples, I think I was wrong and I can believe you have a young bull here 😃
If it's a bull, its horns do not look thick enough for a territory holder. Looks more like female. But I could be wrong - educate me!
I think wildebeest though no positive ID feature visible - just the way they all run en masse and are mostly dark 😃
Agree #steenbok...and welcome back to expert classifier AowlanCrystal!
They look too small for topi, I'd say impala. Good to know where this is!
I agree 😃
Anything you want me to be!
Black on ear-tips and crown are good clues that these are #impala.
#wildebeest. Serengeti has NO horses (other than zebras and donkeys 😃 )
Yes sheep - their tails hang down. Goat tails curl up. Anyway, we have to call them #cattle.
Or possibly scientist houses at the research institute?
Might be, or a tented camp.
The pale wavy streak is a flying #bat.
Cow-like build, large size, black-tasseled tail and black bands on forelegs, all point to #eland.
Agree #impala.
Yes, an #impala.
Certainly looks like bird.
A lovely Xmas eve...missed it, as I was in an aircraft on my way there 😃
Agree #impala from spacing of rings on horn.
Possibly warthogs
Wildebeest. Look at the tails.
#giraffe is right
Impala is correct
#hartebeest, as it lacks the dark markings of topi.
Don't know what you guessed - these are #wildebeest
Don't know what you guessed - these are 3 #wildebeest
Agree hyena, mainly because of the absence of any white markings - cheetah or leopard would show paler on chest and inner legs.
They look rather white and angular to be zebra. Maybe cattle but not sure.
If there are no animals, just score it as 'nothing here' and move on - no need to post blanks here, they are very common.
Young eland?
#topi - note the dark patches on thighs, and yellow "stockings"
Agree 2 x #warthog.
What we are seeing here are the two prominent horn-bosses of an old male, very close to camera.
Cool! That #bird is an #African-hoopoe, first time I have seen it on SSS.
I'd say #wildebeest, with head seen in profile...black vertical face, pale beard, etc.
Looks like it. Mounting, anyway.
Hard to tell - if so, something domestic with that color scheme.
Looks like it's part of a vertical dark face, as in Wildebeest. There is also a shape at L which looks like another sitting gnu.
I can't for sure see any zebra here, think all are gnu.
Some of these cameras are set high, so large animals may seem small. This looks more like #hartebeest. If unsure, pls don't use #.
tree shadow
The reason for no horse option is that there are no horses here. But there are very many #wildebeest and this is one 😃
Antelope with thick black side-stripe, most likely #thomsons-gazelle.
That's possible, but more likely dead wood.
Not trap. Exclosure for vegetation/grazing studies.
...and groin spot and horns. You're right, he's an #impala and the rest are #grants-gazelle - nice to see them together.
I think so.
Agree bat.
Oh yes. In that flat country the floods can be surprising!
Black centre bar in white tail is also a feature of #impala.
I would go with female Grant, because the horns though long are very thin.
Could be.
I think wildebeest would be unlikely in such a dry August landscape. But eland are correct.
I see what you are looking at, but I can't be sure that it's an animal.
#hartebeest is correct. Looks like 2 mums and 2 #young.
All of the larger antelopes (impala and up) form herds, though you may see single individuals.
Either impala or Grant, but I'm not sure either 😃
You are such an expert at this! 😃
#wildebeest. The form of the tail - with pale base surrounded by a fringe of very long dark hair - is unique to wildebeest.
I'm sure it was, but we don't know what you guessed! The black-tipped ears suggest #impala.
There are probably 4 antelopes here but very hard to tell what species! Possibly large ones like hartebeest?
These are 3 #wildebeest.
Seems to be a wildebeest. If unsure, please don't use # - it confuses people searching for those animals. You can edit your own post 😃
I see the rear end of an animal at R edge which appears to have zebra stripes.
Yes, you should always guess. We can't tell what you guessed, but hope it was #wildebeest 😃
Can't see any animal but the ele. The thing R of centre looks like a bush or grass clump to me.
The #young #wildebeest in foreground is not alone, there are at least 20 in background. Not sure what it's looking at, maybe dead wood?
Same animal as ASG001qifo.
Probably a bat.
How about the base of an #eland's horn?
#serval, that diagonal shoulder stripe is so distinctive.
Definitely a big cat. Cheetahs sometimes are active at night but I am not 100% sure either...thick neck...could be lion with artifact spots?
I say spotted hyena.
I think it's mud 😃
More commonly known as #impala.
#wildebeest lit by IR beam from camera 😃
They are #wildebeest like the foreground animals.
It's a wired exclosure for studying the effect of protection from grazing.
I would have guessed buffalo.
I can't for sure see any animal.
#buffalo is correct
Horns and neck stripes and body form most resemble #wildebeest.
Yes we think so.
#grants-gazelle. The long bent-back horns are unique to gazelles here. Eland have mostly straight horns, as do oryx which we never see.
I agree, but not # positive 😃
Strange & beautiful lighting! Typical 'harem' #impala group with single male and many females.
They are sheep, but we classify all domestic animals as #cattle.
They are #wildebeest
Also #grants-gazelle, 3rd from left.
The running one may be, but the head in foreground is an #impala - note black forehead and ear-tips
Maricksu is correct - white rump patch and horn shape of foreground animal show it's a Grant.
I don't think an adult bull would do that, but the one mounting here looks like only 18 months old.
That was my thought too BB, it could possibly be a young buff. Tapers too quickly and angle is wrong for ele tusk.
Can't even tell if it's an animal.
The 'rods' appear to be flying insects, maybe flies dislodged by a horned animal shaking its head. But who has a horn like that?
Yes #fire
#hartebeest, with those hooked horns it could be nothing else 😃
Looks like a #vulture.
Surprisingly difficult! These guys lack the Grant's black eyestripe and bar across nose. Horns very slender...but I think I agree impala.
#grants-gazelle
Could there also be a tiny giraffe calf standing behind the R adult?
Agree #topi #young
Def #grants-gazelle. Note how the white rump mark curls over top of black bar.
Great capture!
You nailed it, #hartebeest 😃
Probably not grass but a baby shrub or tree such as acacia. Female giraffes like this do 'browse down' a lot, more often than males.
Possibly wildebeest walking L to R but not certain!
Your instinct was good. Dark ear tips and facial markings and general shape, all match #impala.
Correct, no question!
All are #wildebeest. Front centre is a calf not a half, at left a mother and calf rear view, eyes are yet more gnus.
Adult #hartebeest
Or part of a plant close to camera?
I think it's a plant.
A wildebeest there in Aug seems unlikely, and would it have that thick black dorsal stripe? But what? Eland? donkey?
I think camera is lying on its side on ground - don't see any part of human.
I'd guess bat too.
Grey Flycatcher
Definitely 😃
I agree 😛 Baboon male going right - but why no tail? or warthog grazing facing left. You decide!
#impala horn for sure.
Looks right to me.
I think impala too.
Agree, probably hartebeest. Also some tommies present, e.g. far right.
Agree #spotted-hyena
Only #impala has that black heel spot 😃
Well spotted! I agree.
Can't be sure - may just be plants 😃
#impala - I can just make out his S-curved horns.
Just maybe. I'd expect more dark on its ears and legs.
I'd score it as nothing.
Could also be dirt or veg - can't positively ID it as horn. The other impala is a #hartebeest 😃
#spotted-hyena definitely, cubs probably.
The pattern does not change, just 'stretches' as the zebra grows.
Agree, #spotted-hyena
Identifiable, as #hartebeest
Right genus, wrong species...they are about 4 #zebra.
#spotted-hyena - larger size, small dark tail.
Now that's an unusual night capture!
Good guess. I can't swear that it's not a #young topi calf - they are very similar.
The white on the muzzle narrows it down very few species. This appears to be #impala.
There are 3 or 4 of them and I think impala is a better bet. Duiker is very rarely seen in Serengeti photos.
Tricky one, but I believe a gnu calf with horns that big would show a bigger darker mane, and the context makes eland much more likely.
#White-crowned-shrike
#zebra has a #young one standing behind it. At R is rear of a #wildebeest. The cage is some sort of exclosure for vegetation study.
#hartebeest confirmed!
Yes eyes - maybe more #zebra.
Could be a hare
#topi left, #hartebeest right. Study the difference.
I'm sure you're right...I might have been tempted to call this impala, but your other photo has to be topi.
Sold herself to Nike? 😛
They are all #grants-gazelle - the white rump patch is distinctive.
More likely #impala.
With those very black ear-tips it has to be #impala.
Too small and sleek for cattle. I think impala.
It looks to me more like a gazelle than a wildebeest.
I agree with #impala
You probably don't need to tag #Serengeti, since all photos are from there 😃 But #thomsons-gazelle is legit.
Now whatever could that be?........#zebra?
Dark eartips, dark forehead = #impala
I'd guess Impala.
The knobbly patches on body are dried mud from an earlier wallow - he looks OK to me.
They are topi, honest! They look grey because of the harsh light.
They are mostly sheep, but we code them as #cattle 😃
BB, it's random luck I guess...I see lots of them!
I can ID 2 species here - #zebra and #topi (both with #young). Not sure what is in rear centre but assume also topi.
This is a #topi - has short horns (in both sexes) that curve backwards. Waterbuck has longer horns (male only) that curve forwards.
I hope you do! It is even more fantastic than the photos 😃
No, it is shaped more like hartebeest. Pls don't use # if unsure of ID, because picture now gets sent to at least 2 reedbuck collections.
No, it's more medium-sized, possibly a reedbuck or Grant but I can't see enough head detail. Pls don't use # if unsure of ID 😃
It's a #hartebeest - its horns curve forward a little and then back - topi horns are more swept back. Also topi would look darker.
Yes, that's Heliotropium.
Well done! 😃
I'm not seeing an animal here at all. If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use # 😃
#buffalo - dark color is a good clue.
I doubt it.
2 #zebra
#spotted-hyena - vastly commoner than stripped or even striped 😃
#grants-gazelle is right - shape of white rump patch is distinctive.
#wildebeest confirmed
#hartebeest is correct.
#hartebeest I think.
I think all are wildebeest 😃
It's always good to see scientists having fun 😃 What animal do you think is being imitated?
It could also be a stump, termite hill, baboon...at this distance, we can't tell 😃
Looks like Black-lored Babbler
Yes, looks like #fire
Feels like a bat to me
Not sure if bat or moth
I can't imagine what would make the stripes at top left.
Bats?
The flying thing beats its wings 3 times during the flash; possibly moth.
I would guess windblown debris.
Possibly small insect travelling upwards very fast?
The flying thing between the #zebras may be a bat, showing a relatively slow wingbeat - two beats during the flash.
Maybe small insect close to camera, or windblown detritus
Probably flying insect
Maybe a strand of spiderweb close to camera.
Animal was beamed up to the mother ship? 😛
Looks like the back half of an #aardwolf.
And possibly a 2nd giraffe, small, just R of centre in front of big bush.
The stripes make me want to say zebra, but not 100% sure.
Yes, looks like a #young male #lion.
I'd guess wildebeest from size and motion.
They are #buffalo
Looks like oblique side view of the base of an eland's horns. Tricky!
Too small for elephant, I would guess wildebeest.
If aardwolf, we might see more stripes? I'd guess spotted hyena, as they can appear quite un-spotted 😃
Most likely grey-breasted spurfowl.
Yes sheep, but we tag livestock as #cattle. Sheep have tails that droop down, goat tails curl up - otherwise they can look rather similar 😃
Def #leopard! The white under the curl of tail, the stocky build as you say.
I think sticks. Nothing we know here has such long straight horns or could hold them at that angle.
#impala - note dark spots on heels
Or tommy??
Agree #grants-gazelle
They don't tend to hunt adult gazelles but may be looking for small fawns. Front gazelle acts like she's chasing it away.
Nice! Maybe Acraea.
Mmm, most project females take better care of hair...this looks very matted...could be lion mane!
I think it's smaller than kori, perhaps the size of white-bellied bustard.
Agree secretary.
Yes #eland.
Right, #reedbuck - lacks the bushbuck's black marks on forelegs.
It does, however, have enormous ears, so steenbuck is also a possibility.
Definitely #cattle, naughty cattle, shouldn't be in Park 😃
Yes looks like #elephant
#buffalo & something close to camera - part of another buffalo?
#secretary-bird
Very good!
Could it not be the tusk of said #warthog?
Does look as though he is threatening another male out of frame. Not sure what's on horizon, ostrich?
Seems to stick out sideways too much for either jackal or serval. How about a young hyena? I'm really not sure.
#bird-other, probably francolin, preening itself.
Eating.
Front leg of #elephant 😃
#bird-other tail or wing
#giraffe foreleg - brown with typical white 'sock'
#hippo is correct 😃
I agree, #kori-bustard
Good guess - #topi
I agree, #warthog
Nose of #zebra 😃 Stripes at top of the object, nostril at the bottom!
Pretty dawn light here.
Too tall for genet. Maybe hyena - not much to go on!!
Possibly baboon close to camera.
#hippo
Jackal?
Lucky zebra 😉
I can't see any background animals. Zebra shows partial 'saddle' mutation where stripes on back are broken into irregular spots.
Agree, looks more like #reedbuck.
#buffalo is right 😃
#cattle is correct 😃
Maybe flying insect.
What else has legs like that?
#wildebeest - it's the species most often seen with zebra 😃
#impala - rich orange brown color.
#dikdik - note big dark preorbital gland, pointed snout, relatively small ears.
It's a hard one, but not the first I've seen. Look at a side view pic of a bull eland and you'll see how it works 😃
I think so too.
Yes, not sure what's with the ear... wet? mud? blood?
Yes, #lion #cub looks likely.
Main subject is the dewlap of an #eland. The thing that comes in from left may be something it's eating.
I see your point 😃 Large, dark, a bit shaggy but not maned or bearded - I'd guess buffalo.
#bird-other in flight
I see no horns, so they may be.
Looks like a #weaver.
'Rodent' is #bird-other
Can't go back! For how to deal with multi species, read https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000057
Large rounded horn bosses (below #oxpecker) indicate #buffalo. Interface does permit entry of multiple species.
We can't know what you guessed, but these look like #thomsons-gazelle, dark side stripe visible.
Tsessebe is a general term for Damaliscus lunatus; the E.African ssp. D.l. jimela is known as topi. Looks dark because night photo 😃
All #impala
I believe this is a #spotted-hyena - smaller than lion, seems to have spots on arm, head down and out of sight so we just see hairy shoulder
agree t-mound 😃
Correct of course 😃
So much bling...might be human?
I say #wildebeest 😃
RGV is correct.
Definitely duiker. Also they look rather stout and stocky, short thick neck compared with dikdik.
Amy, it's an aardvark...armadillo only found in the Americas 😃
I see 1 hartebeest and a lot of #gazelle of uncertain species.
I'd call that a butterfly 😃
Kori is a bigger bird with a crest and a thick pale gray neck. This looks like a #black-bellied-bustard.
Could be a Coqui Francolin in front of the #thomsons-gazelles.
Agree #bat-eared-fox - white spot may be flying insect.
I'd say you have two #tawny-eagle L & R, then between them is a #white-headed-vulture - super bird, too bad we can't see her head!
Agree impala.
This looks like a much smaller animal than Grant but with narrow straight horns - I suggest steenbok.
#thomsons-gazelle - it has a black side stripe.
I think not a large #bird, maybe a shrike.
#bird-other perched on camera, perhaps Roller.
Tommy yes. #bird-other perched on camera is probably Lilac-breasted Roller.
Ha, that's a #lion!
#young zebras I believe, hence brownish tone. Gnu on left.
He's holding a grass slasher, obviously needs to use it 😃
Yes...birth happens at the other end 😃 Animal is #hartebeest.
Looks like something man-made. Maybe human arm/hand manipulating camera.
I'll go with #lion.
Agree all are tommies. The L female's horns happen to curve like a reedbuck's, but r'bucks don't hang with tommies - different food prefs.
I think #warthog
I'd vote for hippo.
Bill of #kori-bustard
#bird-other, probably francolin.
Cheetah watching zebras, yes. But she isn't going to mess with them - they could kill her!
Too tall for vulture, too many feathers on neck - #secretary-bird
It is quite common in female #thomsons-gazelle, for horns to be broken or deformed
Correct, #zebras and #hartebeest here
Normal #wildebeest with stripes on body.
#guineafowl is right
You're right, it's a #dikdik.
Black-bellied Bustard - think it's this rather than Hartlaub's.
There are 6 or more wildebeest.
Vegetation in foreground, perhaps zebras beyond.
and #topi in foreground.
You could hardly get a clearer image of cheetah than this!
#kori-bustard
#white-bellied-bustard, a smaller #bird than kori.
It's a fairly busy main road through the park.
yes, it's kinda green.
I propose that these are 3 giraffes 😃
correct.
#reedbuck confirmed! Spot under ear just visible in 3.
Good call. I thought giraffe leg when I first saw it, but of course you are right 😃
Agree #leopard, well spotted!!
L-shaped horns and no dark leg markings = #hartebeest
All are #gazelle but can't be sure of species.
They are #wildebeest, at least 15.
Don't - it is an enigmatic pic, and everyone has to learn 😃
Yes, and 2 more #topi at far R.
#gazelle is the best I can do!
Possibly hyenas. Hard to see!
#black-backed-jackal, golden would not have so orange a leg.
I don't see a white nose...animal is a #topi
Spike at bottom is plant. Thing at R edge is much closer, thus out of focus - could be insect or lizard on camera. I'm not seeing a Grant.
We often get this, it's the tail of a #bird-other perching on the camera 😃
It could be elephant.
Correct. Probably a tommy.
OK...I guess dikdik.
#gazelle, but can't be sure which.
I'm sure it was, but we'll never know 😃 #wildebeest
I agree hyena - with that sloping back.
They look small for dwarf m, and not red enough. Might be Arvicanthis grass mice - very common but seldom caught on camera.
Driver would be on R side with R arm out 😃
Yes! I guess this camera is mounted on a short post, not a tree.
Agree young #buffalo. Waterbuck would have white around nose.
Too big for hog, too smooth for ele, agree probably buffalo.
I think tail is cut short, yes.
Looks like arms of two different people. How does that work? 😃
Rather scruffy #thomsons-gazelle. You can see part of the curving black line that runs from eye to nose.
#impala - note black ear tips. Bushbuck is an unusual animal here, compared to that other place where it's so common 😃
I don't see any animals even when pic is lightened.
It is. This place is #dikdik Central, they live nearby. In bkg are #thomsons-gazelles.
Neck and ear of grazing #hippo
You are wise to deduce small antelope; normally a view like this would be giraffe, but this camera is on ground. #gazelle, maybe tommy.
Too low for wildebeest. This bristly hide on a short animal is typical of #warthog.
#crowned-lapwing
Cute... #young #elephant often lie or roll on ground.
#lion
They appear to be, yes.
I agree.
#impalas yes, black thing either bird or insect.
Well done, that #bird is a #grey-hornbill.
The dark thing on R horizon is a tree.
#lion looks right.
Yes, #bird is #crowned-lapwing / #crowned-plover
This is your second #hare! Bounding from R to L. Note how its ears are about as long as its tail...this is not true of jackals.
Looking at the 4 moving ones - 2nd from left is wildebeest, others are zebras, compare differences in profile.
Maybe; or hartebeest; something large and smooth-coated.
Fairly sure it's #buffalo
Animal - possibly serval but not # positive.
#kori-bustard is right, they are huge!
Starling, probably Superb.
#buffalo looks good.
Herd of #wildebeest on the move 😃
Two #egyptian-geese
The bird looks like a Superb Starling, about the size of a European starling 😃
Probably topi.
If you are referring to #zebra, there are >10 here.
Not sure...maybe zebra.
Looks like animal.
#lion is right, that little bearded chin is typical.
Could be!
It's the horn of a #buffalo. Better not to use # if not certain of ID 😃
I agree, #bushbuck.
Agree - the dark stripe along foreleg matches #reedbuck.
There are good reasons why we don't have this category, see Discuss section. These are wildebeest.
Hard one. It has to be one of the tall birds. I'd say secretary, perhaps a young one.
No idea what you guessed. This is a #topi
Probably another zebra - nothing else would stand so close.
Sorry, I can't see any 😃
#wildebeest is right 😃
The half-head at R is definitely #wildebeest so I think we can assume the eyes are too.
Raindrops in a windy storm.
Correct. It's guess-time!
Looks to me like Tommies on the left and perhaps zebras in the middle.
Not in October. The very short birth season normally falls between late December and early February.
They are all gazelles. I think Grant's but not sure.
I can see 4 here and possibly 5 😃
That's a #young calf in foreground, its coat red-brown, horns still smaller than its ears - an unusual view!
#serval is right
Definitely #impala
That was my best guess too.
I agree, #male #lion
Good-looking #buffalo.
Maybe sidestriped jackal.
Please no 😃 Just classify these as "nothing here" and no need to post them.
They'll be part of a larger troop, maybe 30-50 indivs.
From dark ear-tips, dark forehead and nose structure, I deduce #baby #impala. Then, the 3 in left bkg also look like impala.
Looks like #elephant.
The only animal I see here is the #reedbuck.
The #wildebeest may just be walking past the camera. In bkg are #grants-gazelle.
Not sure what is happening behind the #hartebeest!
#thomsons-gazelle #selfie
Yes good, they are #hartebeest.
This looks like the leg (left) and tail (right) of an #elephant who is dropping dust or other debris (the many small spots)
I see 5 #wildebeest on left and three #eland on right 😃
#bird on #wildebeest probably a wattled starling.
In foreground #hartebeest, #zebra in 3
Agree, though maybe #zebra too.
It may be a bird, like francolin, but not sure.
#insect
This #wildebeest would have given birth about 6-7 months after the date on photo 😃
Zebra.
I think he's OK.
Fruits of Sausage Tree. Please just use # when certain of ID 😃
Those are two words I don't often see together, but yes! 😃
Thing at top is tail of #bird-other
Probably.
I would guess cheetah.
Looks like #spotted-hyena hair and paw.
Fruits of Sausage Tree
Termite mound.
Probably another #buffalo.
True. It's June, so probably not gnu or zebra - pick any other herd-living animal 😃
Could also be dust or insects - no body outline visible.
Agree with TD.
It's a #bird-other 😃 The antelopes are, or include, #grants-gazelle.
The one we can see most clearly is a tommy, with dark side stripe and tail. Probably the others are too. Was that your guess?
No suricates in Serengeti, but could be a banded mongoose which similarly stands erect.
It's stamping on small prey to stun or kill it.
Looks like it. And looks like your spellchecker is infected with an American virus 😉
Definitely serval 😃
Agree #aardwolf 😃
Camera fired the first flash, #spotted-hyena is just reflecting...good try but no 😉
Or raindrops.
Probably large carnivore - lion or hyena.
#side-striped-jackal
Looks like a fork-tailed drongo chasing an insect.
Perfect!
You bet, #bushbuck. Banding on limbs also distinctive.
There is honestly no way to ID this. It could equally well be a lion 😃
Wonderful picture #dailyzoo
Everything I can see is #zebra. While elephants may look similar, they are a LOT bigger 😃
There are at least 6 together which would be unusual for bushbuck (which are seldom seen here!) or reedbuck - they look like #impala to me.
#grants-gazelle is correct! See our little features on Grants in Chat/Fun Facts 😃
It does look like #lion, probably a cub.
#zebra (black stripes...) Your # automatically adds this image to several rhino collections, but if you delete # you can correct this 😃
#zebra and the 'tail' is vegetation
#male #lion and #zebras
#thomsons-gazelle by color, also you would probably not be able to see horizon over a Grant's back.
Probably correct.
Most likely impala.
#bird-other. It's very unusual to see rodents in short grass plains in daytime, they would be too vulnerable.
Yes, looks like one.
#slate
Very very tall, with spotted legs and long flowing tail tassel... #giraffe 😃
Could be 😃
Animal at left is a #topi. If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use #.
Yes, probably a #bird-other part.
Correct, #lion ear.
#bird-other, probably shrikes.
Not a rook - frame 3 clearly shows a #raptor head, but I cannot say more.
#eland female. Note horns smooth & straight, crest of hair above neck, dewlap below it - all differences from topi 😃
You are good at finding problematic pics! I can't be sure here, it looks to me like a young Black-backed.
I don't see one.
Good point. Somehow it looks more like Eland to me, but I can't prove it 😃
Me neither. No outline visible. Probably fairly large grazer (eye on side of head), hartebeest or eland or such.
Whether you can or can't see sides, you can look at rump (big white rectangle) and horns (long yet slender) - female #grants-gazelle 😃
Themeda triandra - Red Oat-grass. Read about it in "Fun Facts".
That's right, the young are just starting to show signs of their dark limb markings.
Can't tell. Maybe a large bird like a kori bustard?
If it is so blurry, it is very close to lens, therefore very small. I suggest lizard.
#zebra with #warthog group
I'd guess reedbuck but can't be certain.
My bleary old eyes can't see any animals here, but I may be missing something 😃
Lion coloration, but it's a #hartebeest 😃 Chest and neck of lion wold have longer paler hair.
#wildebeest is correct.
#male #lion - one of the best yet! #dailyzoo
Or to something. Who gnows?
#slate #fail 😃
Think we are seeing shoulder & neck of big grazer - not gnu, not zebra, not h'beest or topi or eland, so how about buffalo?
You're always welcome 😃
Almost certainly 😃
#elephant #injury #trunk - Presumably truncated by a poacher's snare.
I think TD has the answer. Camera is in a locked steel box which may be secured to tree with a cable lock. Lion is pulling the cable!
Maybe tiny spider or other small object hanging from spiderweb.
Def. dirty #buffalo 😃
You brute! Spare that tree! 😃 But in fact, the dikdiks may enjoy feeding from some of the branches that the ele knocks down.
Agree #cheetah, well spotted!
I can't tell what it's doing. Not birth season and anyway he looks male. Perhaps just rolling, as they sometimes do 😃
Yes, 2 #wildebeest here 😃
Agree #hartebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle. Note the clear line between the back color and the paler flank color.
Thanks Amelievb for making that connection! I'm still not sure what it is.
In 2 & 3, it looks as though she is holding a piece of technology in her mouth - can anyone see what that is?
Could be that the lion has food, off-camera, and the jackals are monitoring the situation 😃
#banded-mongoose is correct. My #mongoose reference is here: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc
I'm impressed! It does indeed look like a small cheetah cub, rear view.
#wildebeest is right
#bird-other
No, it's a #thomsons-gazelle. A side-striped jackal has a fox-like gray tail with white tip.
Probably something larger, between gazelle and zebra size, but I can see no ID features.
Where there is one #wildebeest, you can usually assume that there will be more, and that is true here.
Color, texture, shape and movement are a better match for lion.
Maybe gazelle.
#white-tailed-mongoose is right.
Yes, babies often lie down to rest.
Foreground object might be part of a lion but doesn't move...might also be a fallen sausage fruit...I'm not much help! 😃
Conspicuous white rumps, so I'd guess white-crowned shrike or possibly wattled starling.
I'd say #aardwolf. Hyena is more densely striped.
Could be - I can't swear it's not hartebeest 😃
Super lion! #bird-other I'm not sure - head too big for vulture - cape rook?
Looks like a #warthog, right way up, ears at far L 😃
They are #oxpeckers and the giraffe is their supermarket; they eat its parasites.
Definitely bad-hair #warthog!
see below 😃
Another suggestion is lion - but to me it seems too tall and not long enough.
I think this is a Thomson's gazelle. A serval would not walk with its head held so low.
Much too big for hare...maybe aardvark with a notched ear?
#butterfly - you can be certain no elm seeds here 😃
Enigmatic - I doubt it would be cow, walking around at night - maybe eland?
Well done! So beautifully close and clear - pity we missed the face! 😃
I can't see any animal here.
I think just vegetation.
Correct, well spotted!
#hartebeest, doesn't look too bad, maybe old?
Definitely lion, because of the shape of ears, the black marks on their back side, and the very short head hair.
With that thick brown coat it is surely a #waterbuck.
#zebra and #warthogs
#lion with #collar
Judging from the grass, this camera may have fallen and is pointing at ground; animals may be dwarf mongoose.
Might be a pair of jackals sitting down.
#zebra, with probable #warthog under bush at L.
#thomsons-gazelle. Servals have spots, lions are bigger & beefier 😃
Nice! I think it's Spotted eagle owl because of all the spots on breast.
That's a really smart guess - it certainly could be!
Looks like 3 #spotted-hyena resting. Hyenas at a kill are generally standing over it, with blood and body parts everywhere 😃
Best to say 'nothing here' - camera has fallen down and small moving object could be vegetation.
For what? Hope you guessed #elephant - couldn't be anything else. We can't tell what anyone guessed 😃
Well done, #cattle they are 😃
#grants-gazelle is correct 😃
I only see grass moving. You're unlikely to see any rodents in this grass in daytime.
Cattle often are 'branded' with knife cuts, but usually on upper parts of body, visible above tall grass.
D'oh! Putting this together with Image ASG001m93c, this is not eland but domestic #cattle 😃
Maybe spotted hyena.
Do u mean the thing that looks like a couple of big leaves surrounded by short grass? They might be just that. Animals in bkg are #buffalo.
Yes - perhaps because of a combination of wildflowers and bushes that provide shelter from wind.
These are gazelles, probably Thomson's - there are no deer in Serengeti 😃
Yes! See below, also 2nd ID image for Mongoose, also https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc
Super shot! I think the #wildebeest would be even more worried if this were a lion - the cat is a #cheetah, less of a threat to adult gnu.
I think it has to be, but I wouldn't like to guess which species 😃
#bird-other it is!
Not with all those folds and wrinkles. It's most likely eland but I'm strongly tempted to say #cattle - tail more like #cow than eland?
Ha, we all do it 😃 And, well, it could be a shadow falling across pale gnu hide, or the border between face front and cheek...
#hartebeest, from horn shape.
Or even a zebra!
Ears of both gazelle species are similar. From horn shape I think #thomsons-gazelle.
Hairstyle and ears look more like hyena.
Right. I wonder what the hind-leg stripes are about? I've never seen that.
Awww...don't you find this #warthog cute?
30-50 might be a typical size for a Serengeti #baboon troop but it would be rare to catch all in one picture 😃
#male #lions and wary zebra!
Yes this looks like a #fire
They are identifiable, as #wildebeest and #zebra.
Definitely #buffalo bull.
PLEASE DON'T POST these multiple images of moving grass, wind, haze, whiteness, blackness....They serve no purpose. Thanks!
Much more likely to be an aardwolf. Striped H is a larger animal, about the size of Spotted H, and has longer mane hair.
Raindrops.
It is a #crowned-plover / #crowned-lapwing - much smaller than a kori.
It's on the main road thru Serengeti.
It probably is, and the 2 parents are by the dung-midden, to which one of them is contributing 😃
It could be a vulture.
Maybe wing of bird landing on camera?
#hartebeest front and far L, others are #zebra. Bushbuck prefer bush country to grass plains.
Impala avoid open plains like this and their tails are mostly white. This tail has b&w stripes... now who can that be? 😃
You can see ribs on one of the horns, which bushbuck don't have, but also a long smooth section at tip, so not gazelle. He's an #impala.
Yep, they're nesting.
Iridescent bird R of centre is a #superb-starling.
Someone with a big curved tusk growing out of his face!
A dikdik has a very pointed muzzle. This looks like a young reedbuck.
I think warthog.
It's not such an unusual sight actually.
Definitely #caracal, well done!
We know there is wind and vegetation in Serengeti. Please do not clutter this forum with such stuff.
Please restrict your posts to images that are hard to ID, show unusual animals, or are otherwise of interest.
Popcorn. Or hail?
#lion is right
Probably just food
Maybe reedbuck.
Why ?? Only a #giraffe could be so tall 😃
This is a #cheetah.
From the height and the sharp demarcation between grey and black on wings, I think #secretary-bird.
The #slate shows that on 27 Jun '14 a new memory card was started in camera J06 at 11:36 local time. Note computer time stamp is 3 hr fast.
Methinks serval is a tom. He has his own little 'lumps behind' 😃
Ummm. I think it would be more white if Grant's. But what else...hartebeest? looks a bit small.
From size, #buffalo looks mature. We really can't judge color well in these flash shots - he may look black in daytime 😃
Looks like 2 Grants interacting.
I think they are all Cape Rooks.
Perhaps mongooses.
Yes, #lion.
Flock of #birds. Not sure what, maybe Caspian plovers.
#elephant wallowing
Possibly serval.
Great #selfie!
Maybe francolin?
Not a lot to go on, is there? Could be hippo, or various other suspects 😃
Agree #hartebeest. A tommy is a small animal and usually the camera can see over its back to the horizon, which isn't true here.
Most likely a branch but I'm not # positive 😃
Great portrait. "Make my day!"
Good point - maybe something outside the frame is moving, like her tail or another lion. Note also radio #collar.
#kori-bustard is correct.
Small thing in centre is probably a bird.
#lesser-kestrel, male, moulting.
They look like zebras. The thing close to camera is a plant.
Not elephant, not giraffe, not porcupine, not zebra...hmm...probably Thomson's Gazelle 😃
#warthog is correct.
Hard to tell. Maybe go-away bird or one of the small hornbills?
How are we supposed to know? Think of a reason, e.g: He's after a fast buck 😉
yes, because of 'nappy' texture and brown stripes.
#raptor, maybe vulture.
#black-backed-jackal is correct 😃
#dikdik is correct.
It does appear to be a #kori-bustard.
Ha, yes! #serval
One of the most distinctive #bird species in Serengeti - the #saddle-billed-stork 😃
Maybe a weaver or sparrow - shrikes have longer tails 😃
Correct plural is mongooses. Nothing to do with goose, origin is Marathi language (India) 'mangus'
#secretary-bird - it is listed on the classification page.
Approx 5 zebra and 10 wildebeest
Even my superpowers cannot reveal your guesses, but this is a #warthog 😃
Can't tell what you guessed, but see below...
From the dark color it looks more like wildebeest.
Could also be an impala, or perhaps a topi or hartebeest...
The shape and the short neat hair look more like a female #lion.
The one in centre is more likely to be another #wildebeest sitting down.
Animals to the right of the wildebeest are zebra and more wildebeest.
It's the back of a #bird, probably a Black-bellied or Hartlaub's Bustard.
They are two #wildebeest.
What's your guess? We can't tell 😃 This is a #hartebeest
#bird-other, probably francolin. A leopard is a lot larger!
#wildebeest #young #calf
Animal is very vague - rounded back, head low, apparent dark tail and spots. I suggest Spotted Hyena.
Seems to me we've always had #hartebeest, though often in more open areas standing very close to camera.
#bird - something, probably a hawk, often perches on cameras and we just see its tail tip.
#zebra, about 4. You don't need to hashtag something as unidentifiable, because someone can probably ID it 😃
It's an #insect, probably butterfly.
I only see #spotted-hyena, and dung scattered in grass.
If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use #. These are #dikdik and they are very, very often seen in this scene - it's their home 😃
#cheetah
This was Oct 2014 so I am sure someone has fixed it by now 😃
#bat-eared-fox
That's a new one! This camera had fallen off a sausage-tree and is looking up at the sausage fruits. Please only use # when certain of ID 😃
If there's really no animal, no need to post it here. But there does appear to be a #bird, perched on the camera - its tail-tip at top left.
Black object probably an insect.
The two in centre may be zebra. Not sure about far R animal.
#banded-mongoose #mongoose
Yes, #cheetah.
I would call this a #black-bellied-bustard. Hartlaubs has a mostly black face. I also find it difficult to distinguish them!
Looks more like Hartlaub's but not certain.
They too are #zebra.
Could be an insect or small lizard crawling over the camera lens.
Actually not so hard...we see an ear, and below it a curving tusk, attached to the same head. What can that be?
Large tan short-haired animal - maybe hartebeest.
termite mound 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose is correct.
It could be a variety of things...tusk and trunk of a young elephant, or a plant close to camera!
All are #wildebeest.
Remember we don't know what you guessed - hope you got #eland 😃
#wattled-starlings confirmed 😃
The tight grouping, light shiny backs and big tails are typical of wildebeest, so I think that's what they are.
Smoke moves, green grass doesn't burn...I think the camera is just pointing into the sun, or its exposure control is kaput.
#insect, probably a wasp. Anything out of focus like that is very close to camera, therefore small.
Maybe topi, hard to tell. At this age, calf is only just showing adult coloration. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidbygott/4148848069
It's just lost in motion-blur. Compare with next frame and you can see a dark blur to L of his other leg.
Female #grants-gazelle
I could see this as a jackal's back, a buffalo's horns or a hippo's nose. Not helpful I fear 😃
...Large animal with unpatterned tan short-haired coat grading into white at rear, is most probably #hartebeest.
Read this thread: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000009/discussions/DSG000127t. Actually there are not many choices here...
Great sunset lighting on these #eland.
It's a #buffalo #calf, that's why it looks strange.
I think you have a group of wildebeest standing still at R with pale backs, and some buffalo at L or moving from centre to R.
Me neither. Pick any medium to large herbivore 😃
Is a #cheetah
Yes, good comparison of these very differently shaped animals.
A bushbuck does not have those rings on its horn, and you'd be unlikely to see it in open short grass like this.. This is #thomsons-gazelle.
Good enough. Two fairly-sures make a #duiker. Done!
#superb-starling #bird
Probably #insect
Also a #hartebeest exiting R.
Not sure about this one. Its neck looks thick and short, more like a duiker. Other thoughts?
I'd say too big & stout for wildebeest and not enough neck hair - in which case, buffalo.
It's a #buffalo #calf - they are reddish brown when small.
They look like zebras.
They are #zebras.
#secretary-bird is right.
It certainly could be 😃
This #bird is a #ground-hornbill.
giraffe? where?
Can't ID with certainty - they look like medium sized antelopes.
Fairy with a sting, I suspect - a hunting wasp 😃
Probably dirt then.
#hartebeest. A topi would show conspicuous dark marks on shoulders and thighs.
Doesn't move, probably dirt on lens.
A big one, but far away 😃
It's some animal touching the camera, strongly enough to move it. Warthog? Baboon? Squirrel? several possibilities!
It's a good guess. When you see a wildebeest, there are often many others nearby 😃
#side-striped-jackal is correct.
Fruit of a sausage-tree.
This 'saddle mark' of scrambled stripes is a natural mutation we occasionally see in Serengeti zebras.
Good thinking 😃
But not too fast for ID: #impala
Looks like vegetation - it may be one of these cameras that's lying on the ground?
Surprise! It's a male #lion 😃
Left by elephant 😃
All #thomsons-gazelle except for the #elephant. However, the object at lower R looks like the horn of a female Grant's gazelle.
Looks more like hartebeest.
I think all zebras but some are far away.
They are zebras.
#wildebeest with a few zebra as well.
...and the tail. #warthog is right.
Interesting one! You're right it's not gazelle - could be bushbuck, other options being reedbuck or impala. Other opinions?
Definitely #buffalo
I think there's nothing here.
Looks like a #lion.
The leaves close to camera are what triggered this shot. Nothing here.
It's a #cheetah #cub
Red butterfly.
Looks like a #cheetah #cub on right.
#lion #cub.
On the left are zebra, not sure about the central ones.
Correct, the #reptile is a #striped-skink, quite often seen in this spot. Well spotted!
Yes, looks like a #lion.
I can't tell what the second animal is - it might be another jackal.
It could, but we can't see enough to be sure. I think no other photos have yet been tagged as rhino on that date.
Imagine giving birth to a baby with such long sharp horns. Ouch! All antelopes are born hornless. This is an adult male #thomsons-gazelle.
Not sure about what? The #zebra on the left?
Looks like it, how cool! There are nightjars in Serengeti which sit on the ground and fly up to catch insects in just this way.
Good guess - they do look like harriers, either Pallid or Montagu's (which in my experience is more common) 😃
From the way that bird perches, on long legs, it looks like a wattled starling - oxpeckers have very short legs and cling close to the host.
Looks like it to me 😃
Good #lion!
Raindrops, because of brightness and all moving down in same direction
Can't see any detail outside of that eyeshine. It has to be something with good binocular vision so maybe hyena or big cat.
Might be - something big like eland - not sure.
#wildebeest with some zebra among them in background. No buffalo.
I'd go with hyena. Tillydad what say you?
I suggest male impala, moving away...white tail, widely spaced horns.
LOL 😄
Yes, well done! This has now been reclassified as #golden-wolf, but old habits die hard...
Herbivores outnumber predators about 300 to 1 in Serengeti, so they're more likely to be herbivore eyes - maybe more impala, can't tell.
The car is a tourist car on a nearby road. Serengeti is a National Park so visitors do not shoot. The #zebra rolls to scratch its itches 😃
Not really - I just throw such dark images into Photoshop and lighten them up 😃
#warthog - what a formidable face!
There are 5 more #zebra in the background, and other light spots at left and top are from raindrops.
One #eland is visible L of centre but I can't identify the eyes.
All animals in the photo are zebras.
#hartebeest & #young
#buffalo, #giraffe, #zebra, #multi-species
It does not move - probably dirt on the camera lens.
Definitely #wildebeest - no other animal has that beard and mane.
Definitely #dikdik.
I think dikdik is correct.
They are all #wildebeest.
In foreground a female #grants-gazelle, under the dead tree is a dead branch.
This is a #lion. Here is a photo of a caracal in the same place: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG00131r6
The close animal is easily identified by its tail as a #wildebeest.
Not so; from size and shape we can say this is a large antelope, and the vertical dark stripes are unique to #wildebeest 😃
#giraffe is correct 😃
#hare is correct 😃
#bat-eared-fox is right 😃
We hope that you guessed #wildebeest?
The #slate shows that a new SD card was put in camera R11 on 1 July '14 at 1524hrs. Date/time stamp on photo incorrectly shows 3 hrs later.
Turn your computer on its side and all will be OK 😃 This camera has fallen on the ground, and there are no animals to see right now.
Bravo!
We can't know what you guessed. This is a #young #thomsons-gazelle.
They are #zebra. Up close they are stripey. At a distance they appear to be a light neutral gray.
The animal standing L of centre is a zebra.
At least some of these are wildebeest.
I agree, #grants-gazelle.
It's a #bird - #helmeted-guineafowl 😃
Antelope - possibly reedbuck.
Looks like just wood and bark.
Dust.
#baboon with #young
Same old #secretary-bird, we see them quite often here.
The back story...cheetahs really don't like hyenas. Possibly the cheetah had been eating something and the hyena came to investigate/steal.
Cool! I'm glad you check...some might just look and say 'nothing here' 😃
Definitely #serval 😃
With that sort of tail, it is most likely #lion.
#insects illuminated by the flash.
Definitely #hartebeest, a steenbok is much smaller!
I guess wildebeest.
#giraffe - with legs & spots like that, what else could it be?
Looks green, like grass.
It looks like a rhino, doesn't it, with an oxpecker hovering over it! Can't be sure, but it is possible!
From its small size and the way the spots are aligned in rows on the back, this is a #serval 😃
Wonderful portrait of a male warthog!
It's a resting #lion. Maybe she is guarding the remains of a kill which the hyenas want.
One of those cases where we just have to guess. Zebra? Wildebeest? You decide! 😃
😉
Shape is like lion.
They have no horns and are shaped rather like donkeys...how about #zebra?
Small antelope - could be anything from dikdik to reedbuck.
I'd guess zebra here.
We guess. For example, frame 1 shows almost white skin with a dark stripe. Now what can that be? How about....a zebra?
Eland or possibly hartebeest. Too tall for lion, chest hair too short.
It's very likely feeding from the tree to which the camera is attached, but as you say, we can't be sure.
Those are all #wildebeest, probably >50.
I can't decide - they may also be zebra, or both species mixed.
Looks like a Tommy to me.
#cheetah and #spotted-hyena - unusual to catch them together.
Still a #guineafowl 😃
Mostly zebras.
#secretary-bird - the only raptor as tall as the camera! Note hooked bill, general gray color, and orange bare skin around eye.
#wildebeest. You'll get to know them really well soon 😃
It's greyish short hair rather than wrinkly skin, so #wildebeest.
#buffalo - dark hair, massive stout legs and hooves
#wildebeest, with a few zebra too (light grey)
Distant herd of zebra, more than 10.
I'm pretty sure these are #wildebeest.
Dark animals - possibly buffalo
It's a young #buffalo - when you think about it, no mom wants to give birth to something with horns, so horn bosses develop later in life 😃
If there are animals, there can't be no animals! Always guess - e.g. for a herd of dark animals, there are actually only 2 or 3 options 😃
He is a she, and female #thomsons-gazelle often have deformed horns. She does have 2, one sticks up, the other bends forward.
Very good guess, I expect you're right!
Possibly zebra, like those in the background.
I don't think we can be sure about this. From season & location, buffalo may be more likely.
Animal R of centre, not sure; female ostrich? Shadows, alas, can't be counted as reliable ID is impossible 😃
Yes, #topi with #thomsons-gazelle.
The blurry thing that moves must be v. close to be so unfocused. It is probably a small lizard on the camera. Dark objects in bkg are trees.
For those new to this game, this is an #aardvark.
About 7 #zebra.
Lightening it, I see 3 #zebra.
This #eland does indeed have an #oxpecker !!!
#reedbuck & #young
The thing in foreground is a plant.
There do seem to be 3 animals standing there, maybe gazelles?
Ears look too small. I'm wondering duiker? Compare: http://www.mugabasafaris.com/Animals/common_duiker.jpg
Probably Thomsons Gazelle
It might be!
#thomsons-gazelle is right 😃
#wildebeest is right, couldn't be anything else 😃
The beard shows it is a #wildebeest.
A little bigger.... #eland male 😃
Yes, #thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest and #young
#coqui-francolin
It's a plant.
#wildebeest face.
Not happy about w'hog. It moves the cat-head part (w'hog muzzle) independently of the cat-shoulders (w'hog upper head) - how does that work?
Looks more like a cat - short face, upcurved tail - cheetah?
#steenbok is correct 😃
Probably #wildebeest.
Many #buffalo, most sitting down.
Not zebra. Texture suggests either scales or textile - perhaps part of a researcher's clothing?
Well done! #little-bee-eater.
I wouldn't like to guess! 😃
They are wildebeest - note how the back slopes gently from shoulders to rump, while the neck makes a steep downward angle.
Never mind, you'll learn a lot here! 😃
It's a #secretary-bird, but sitting down so you can't see its long legs.
It looks more like a reedbuck, or possibly a steenbok.
Animals moving L to R are also #zebra.
They look more like zebras to me.
It is short - maybe the result of a lucky escape!
Nice close-up - I think she has her mouth open to pant rather than growl, her face looks relaxed 😃
The small white thing is a butterfly.
There are 3 #helmeted-guineafowl here, maybe you are referring to the middle one?
May be just resting - I've seen several photos like this.
I think you're right.
#hartebeest is right 😃
#porcupine is correct 😃
I agree, #serval
This is strange! Tail looks like that of a cheetah/leopard cub but I can't really understand what part the yellow thing is...penis?
Or maybe moth or other insect. It feels small for a bat.
Yes, young male #lion
They are ground-nesters but nest site is usually within 4m of a tree, shrub, mound etc., so...maybe!
I think the objects at L edge are all part of a plant - no animal here.
No, it's a couple of #oxpecker #birds! We've seen this before, sometimes they roost in a giraffe's groin!
Looks too small. Maybe steenbok.
#kori-bustard is right 😃
They are all #wildebeest, about 10 or 11.
We know 😃 #wildebeest - the dark striping on sides is diagnostic.
Very nice image - an evening shot with fill-in flash, these cameras are clever!
I agree with #spotted-hyena.
It's a zebra.
It's a plant. Please don't use # unless you are sure of ID, as it is used for sorting and searching 😃
Maybe that's the back of its left thigh, and it's raised that leg to scratch itself?
Yes it is - no horns, so not gazelle. Black tips to ears, black bars on rump, so not reedbuck or bushbuck. Therefore #impala!
Either playing guitar or more probably, grooming its own hind leg 😃
This large white rump-patch is very typical of #grants-gazelle - note how its top corners curl over the vertical dark bars that frame it.
Looks like a baboon.
Not baby - adult female #thomsons-gazelle.
#giraffe is right 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose is right. BEF has a darker tail and you would see bigger ears.
I wouldn't totally rule out serval, but the combination of large and small spots we see in 2 & 3 is more typical of cheetah.
This camera has fallen off its mount on a Sausage tree (Kigelia) and is looking up at its branches and its large fruits.
LOL...but also, some #crowned-plover #birds.
#bushbuck mother & #young. Note dark and light banding on upper forelegs, white crescent at base of throat.
Also #wildebeest
#wildebeest is right.
Or butterfly?
I think it's a Coqui Francolin.
It can be useful to know that the 3 parallel dark marks in ear distinguish a bushbuck's ear from that of any other animal here.
Fruits of sausage tree (Kigelia).
#lion! A caracal does not have this long slender tail, and of course it is much smaller. Image ASG00131r6 shows a caracal in same place.
Close animals are also #wildebeest.
#superb-starling is right.
#cheetah it is.
Agree #lion.
Jackals can be very bold and very good at keeping out of trouble! Might be a second lion at L edge?
This is quite a low camera, often we don't see so much of a jackal's back.
They are wildebeest, not buffalo.
Yes, #side-striped-jackal.
I think it's a young warthog.
I agree, tommy.
Male #thomsons-gazelle. A Grant would be taller and if male, its horns would diverge more.
Flying bird is not a kori. It looks more like a hawk.
Probably a harrier, a kind of #raptor.
#rhino is right, well spotted! Place, date, time and even mud patterns match Image ASG001l7v8
Could be. I think this is a Silverbird.
I think nose and ears of serval.
#dikdik.
Yes probably.
Agree #jackals.
Yes, it appears behind the shoulder of the closer zebra.
#lion is indeed wearing a #collar
Here's one, perhaps same dikdik but different night, which shows the colour more clearly: Image ASG001j890
#aardwolf is correct.
Well done, #dikdik is correct 😃
The one that looks very small is actually an adult female, judging from her horns. Little fawns have no horns.
Actually a female #grants-gazelle. A female tommy's horns are never so long, a male's never so thin 😃
A #slate photographed when new SD card is installed, confirming date, time and camera ID.
Where? The animal is a #wildebeest, but I can't see evidence of a snare.
#topi is right 😃
Correct - though technically it's an antelope, not a deer.
Something so bristly is probably a #warthog scratching an itch on the camera box 😃
#reedbuck is right 😃
I think so!
Giraffe heads are spotted, but this is uniform brown with black front - it is a #topi.
Note that this photo has now been assigned to collections of zebras and hyenas because of incorrect tags. But...you can edit them out 😃
This is the flower-spike of a plant that commonly grows around these cameras. Please only use # where you are certain about ID 😃
#buffalo with that little 'beard' 😃
Not as big as a vulture - probably a cape rook.
As stated below, this is a wildebeest, as are the animals in the background. Study the ID guide and please only use # where ID is certain 😃
You're very welcome! And learning fast 😃
Yes it's a #dikdik 😃
This is a #wildebeest.
What I see is almost all of the foreground zebra, 'stretched' by perspective, and only the forelegs of the one beyond it.
#oxpeckers are correct.
The 2 small things coming in from left are #birds, probably crowned plovers. If hard=hare, yes they are mostly active at night.
#young #grants-gazelle; note dark chevron on nose, leaf-shaped black mark through eye, white rump-patch curling over top of black bar.
Looks like #coqui-francolin
I would guess hartebeest or possibly topi, from structure of tail.
#serval - other spotted cats have smaller ears in relation to head.
Looks like 3 adult #baboons and 1#young.
#white-tailed-mongoose.
The #bird pair are #crowned-plovers.
#grey-backed-fiscal shrike.
Definitely has spots too, so... #spotted-hyena 😃
I'd say B + C 😃
Correct as usual 😃
Possibly wildebeest beyond the #spotted-hyena, not sure.
#cheetah #cub is correct 😃
Don't see any kill, just 2 lyin' lion.
#thomsons-gazelle airborne 😃
It's a #superb-starling
All I can see is grass - camera lying on ground 😃
Perhaps wildebeest.
Tree?
Thomsons gazelles yes, and the 3 on L look to me like zebras.
#impala - richer reddish color than h'beest, also note the color change on its flank.
#grants-gazelle is correct.
#interaction - they are definitely courting!
#wildebeest - much more common!
Also the grey neck and rump, with brown body, is typical of dikdik. That is what I use with a view like this.
Can't improve on that, sorry!
My pleasure! We've had all of the cat species at this camera, except perhaps wildcat who is rarely photographed anywhere.
Me too 😃
Classic #buffalo and not all that young. In profile, a buffalo's nose points forward and a wildebeest's points vertically down
Yes - thick bill of a sparrow-like #bird-other 😃
Looks like he's eating elephant dung, but I think he's eating plants close to it 😃
#caracal !! The long hair tuft on ear is unique.
I'm not sure! Your other options would be bushbuck and tommy...maybe impala. This isn't a view I'm used to 😃
Yes, maybe even 3 or 4.
#lion is correct
They look like elephant.
Could be wildebeest.
The front of this camera box fell open!
I'm guessing buffalo. Maybe the neck of an old bull.
Could be serval. I'm not 100% sure.
...Trunk.
#giraffe & #guineafowl
Those horns say #topi to me 😃
Possibly an egg-eater snake, say the experts. A harmless snake that lives, surprisingly, on eggs 😃
Am seeking expert opinion. It's always exciting to open a camera box and see who's living in it. In AZ I get black-widows and vicious wasps!
#bird-other, #white-bellied-bustard. It's in all 3 pics, I can see its head in no. 1
Looks like warthog.
Wow, he's moving! Sometimes they bounce like this during territorial chases.
Thanks! This one's too easy though...I'm looking for those that don't offer so many ID clues 😉
We've all come a long way! I'm building some reference collections, that's why I'm dragging up some old stuff and occasionally retagging it.
#superb-starling
#spotted-hyena 😃
Young #hartebeest I think...tail ears and nose wrong for reedbuck
#zebra #nose
It's very unusual to see cattle in the Park. These are #buffalo.
They are.
What are we guessing? If you mean the small moving dot, could be a gazelle, could even be a kori, take your pick!
#eland #nose
#thomsons-gazelle eye
#buffalo #nose
#hippo #nose
#wildebeest #nose
This #bird-other is one of the #weaver species - the flying one is carrying grass to build into its nest.
You don't tend to see them in August (dry season) - looks more like a plant.
'Horning' vegetation or ground - an aggressive sign, perhaps aimed at the 'rival' approaching from R.
'Helmet' of a #guineafowl 😃
They are angled forward in line with the neck as the serval focuses on some movement in the grass. That is how they locate their prey.
Agree tommies, at least 5.
Definitely #lion 😃
The coat texture and the form of the nose suggest #reedbuck to me.
I'm not seeing any bird here. However there is the head and neck of a #serval cat at far L 😃
Butterfly genus Acraea I believe 😃
Light spot top R is a flying insect. Looks like something brown sitting in centre background but too vague to tell if it's even an animal.
The long black tail gives you a clue... #wildebeest
You can do it! What is REALLY big and flaps its huge ears like that?
If you mean the small pale spot L of centre, no. May be insect or leaf. There are no rodents there that emerge from holes in daylight
Always think first, 'could it be the same as the other animals in picture?' This is the ear of a #buffalo 😃
You don't often get buffalo out on those open plains with wildebeest - I'd say all those are #wildebeest.
I think it has to be #wildebeest 😃
#eland is right!
But look at the S-shaped horns and the pattern of black and white on rump... #impala male.
#thomsons-gazelle !
You are SO good at this 😃
I think the ear is the most plausible suggestion so far 😃
I still think #human hand - tried lightening it and can sort of see the joints of the fingers.
Definitely a reedbuck or other medium antelope.
There are fireflies, mostly in marshy areas and their light isn't very bright.
Rubber-stamped 😃
Yes, well done! Also the little short tail is different from the reedbuck's bigger tail. #steenbok are only a little bigger than dikdik!
If it is an eye, it must be something very small as I can't see any body. Perhaps nightjar, mouse or spider 😃
#grants-gazelle - pale color, long horns.
Elephant dung 😃
Yes, I think that's a #reedbuck.
#bird-other 😃
Correct, #zebra beyond the #wildebeest.
How about base of neck of a Grant's?
Not sure about giraffe. Might be a topi or hartebeest.
Flying insects tend to leave weird zigzag shapes like this.
Difficult; may be lion?
Waterbuck is right. A hint about size: cameras are set about .5 to 1 meter above ground. So small animals like fox can never fill the frame.
#baboon #young
What better for Mothers' Day!
😃 We endeavour to give satisfaction
#spotted-hyena following a scent trail. A lion would be longer and its back isn't rounded like this.
#secretary-bird confirmed 😃
#crowned-plover is right.
Yes, looks like serval.
You are absolutely right! I was in a hurry and didn't lighten the photo. #topi it is.
No, they are about 4 #wildebeest.
If it's October, most adult female #wildebeest will be 5-6 months pregnant, and young will be born around January.
Yes, wing of our mystery #bird-other 😃
It looks like an oxpecker, a #bird which climbs around on large mammals and eats their parasites. They sometimes land on #impala.
May be Magpie Shrike
Probably bees.
#giraffe
#dikdik. Brown color with grey rump is distinctive. A pair of them is often seen at this location, but we very rarely see duiker anywhere.
Looks like #warthog.
I see another tommy, I think.
#impala. It does not have the Grant's extensive white rump patch, and the long hairs of its tail are white.
#wildebeest at sunrise 😃
Grants is smaller with white legs and conspicuous white rump patch. This is hartebeest.
I think the size is more like hyena than jackal. It actually fits a striped hyena, but I'd need more pics b4 going there!
#young #wildebeest - also has mane, dark color, striping, etc.
#lion #cubs
Both are eland 😃
Not many birds are this tall... #kori-bustard
The #elephant holds the shrivelled fruit of sausage-tree (Kigelia).
Possibly black-backed jackal?
Can't tell what, maybe birds?
Statistically they are more likely to be a herbivore 😃
#spotted-hyena with #grants-gazelle.
All the animals here are #zebra.
I can't do better than that. #buffalo pile 😃
I agree with #crowned-plover, and hmm... #bird-other 😃
Maybe white-headed buffalo-weaver - a lot of species have big white wing patches!
They are really common but people on safari don't see them so much because they are more active at night.
#dikdik works for me.
I prefer #lion too 😃
Black eye identifies #ring-necked-dove, rarely do we see it so close 😃
They are a lot of #wildebeest
Not sure...might be that sitting-down Secretary we had a few days ago.
Thanks, nice one!
Thanks! Have a look at the collection. I only want one or two of each species, so it's convenient for reference.
Now known as #golden-wolf.
Female waterbuck
#waterbuck #tail
#lion #tail
#thomsons-gazelle #tail #butt
waterbuck #tail #butt
#grants-gazelle #tail #butt
#tail
#hartebeest #tail
#caracal #tail
#caracal #kill
#wildebeest #tail
cheetah #tail. I'm digging up some old images to add to my collection called "Tails and rears"
#lion tail
#wildebeest tail
Me too 😦
May have found some small prey - they stamp and kick with their feet to flush it and to kill it.
I prefer #reedbuck too.
I believe this is #elephant. When lightened they show the right wrinkles, and they move in a more elephantine way 😃
Looks like some sort of greeting or group-bonding ritual.
Wow, that is an unusual sighting here.
But, it is a shrike and not a corvid - long tail is the only similarity.
One of the smaller bustards, perhaps White-bellied.
Hartebeest have L-shaped horns, so this is #topi.
Yes, that #eland tail is quite distinctive
@maricksu, you are becoming so expert....I think I can take the day off 😃
I think it could be lion.
Some of these photos blow me away!
I think the dark blobs are trees or bushes 😃
Giraffes browse on trees and bushes, so when you see one bending down thus, you can bet she's found a baby tree hidden in the grass 😃
Can't even be sure it's a bird...might be insect 😃
Sorry, no! Too small.
Do you think the wildebeest would be standing so calmly with a lion in their midst? More likely is a wildebeest calf 😃
This is a male #thomsons-gazelle 😃
This is the muzzle of a #wildebeest, so they have no reason for concern 😃 I'd never noticed the white lips, don't think they all have this.
It's some kind of dirt, though slugs would be unlikely in July.
#hartebeest - what else could it be?
It could be a variety of things - probably a grass head 😦
I think the camera has fallen down and we are seeing grass.
Looks like he is spray-tagging this tree 😃
It's very hard to ID birds from such small images. Maybe rufous-tailed weaver, maybe gray-headed sparrow, or something else! 😃
Giraffe mothers often park their young together in a "creche" in some open space, while they browse. Maybe that's what we see here.
Well done, you get a gold star 😃
Don't see it. There are some round discs caused by airborne dust etc.
Maybe one of the wheatears, but I'm guessing.
Lovely image!
#superb-starling and #wildebeest
Does anyone else think mom looks like a male?
#gazelles, probably tommies.
I agree that's a wildebeest leg.
However, this offers a nice comparison of body shape - e.g. note the level back of #buffalo and sloping back of #wildebeest.
I think this is an #aardvark.
If you can't figure it out, it's usually a warthog 😃
Maybe camera malfunction, but if it's a real and underexposed photo, that could be the moon.
At least 3 young males, correct.
#lion is right 😃
Wildebeest is one possibility.
#topi is correct, the color pattern of the legs proves it.
Definitely 2 #dikdik. Mystery spot may be a bird.
I would say #eland. They look so much more muscular than hartebeest.
Probably is another #thomsons-gazelle 😃
I'd say Grant's gazelles. Hartebeest would not show such bright white.
The thing moving fast from R to L is a #human driven Toyota Land-cruiser. Pls only use # when sure of ID.
#hare is right - very short tail, black above white, is unique.
Maybe - medium sized hawk or some such.
Well done, and here there aren't oribi to confuse you 😃
#spotted-hyena. Aardwolf is much more nocturnal and has a relatively bigger tail & ears.
Large size and wrinkled texture should give you an idea - #elephant
Good guess! Definitely #gazelle. The little black bar across top of muzzle right at edge of frame, suggests Grant's - tommy doesn't have it.
Impala would not be in open treeless plains. This horn form, very thin but as long as head, is unique to female #grants-gazelle.
#hartebeest is correct - there should be no doubt here. Note lion-like colour, horn shape at top L, and the little dorsal hair crest on tail
I think no animals visible, just bushes.
#elephant 😃 - a small one
It's a #warthog. Just "mark with a #hashtag" the animal's name if you are certain of its ID.
#crowned-lapwing or #crowned-plover
#cheetah #cub is correct.
Maybe insect? seems to be no body attached.
#butterfly quite close to camera.
Yes, the big grey animals are #elephant and the smaller ones are #zebra.
#serval playing with camera!
#baboon x2. A big male walking towards us along tree shadow, and a smaller one coming in from R.
Awesome you guys!!!
#lion for sure.
Me too! They definitely own this bush 😃
A wet night in Serengeti. This is how raindrops look on our cameras. No animals present as far as I can tell.
My opinion is that it's an #impala, from the white on upper lip, chin and under throat, but feel free to shoot me down.
#zebra & #bird-other
#hare
#dikdik x 2
This came up earlier today - Not sure what we are seeing there.
It's the leg of a #giraffe.
Looks so smooth...how about a large bird like vulture or kori, with its head down...think we've been here before, anyone remember?
The one behind... could be!
Fortunately this was an easy one, yes? Smooth, rounded, with short tail and fat legs... #hippo
Isolated muzzles like this are tricky! Tell us why it's an eland 😃
Looks like one.
If Chanting-goshawk, its tarsi would be twice as long. All details better fit a black-winged (black-shouldered) kite.
Part of the face of a #warthog 😃
NO WATER BUFFALO HERE! This is a young African buffalo. All horned animals are born hornless, and the horns change shape as they grow.
A mother's responsible for her kids, but all adults in family may help protect them. Those on R are adults & big young, drinking in a pool.
#dikdik is right.
There does seem to be a smallish animal but I can't ID.
Well done - unmistakably rhino. They are active day and night, but probably prefer night - it's cooler for a big animal feeding in open.
The two rather distant beasties on R look like wildebeest, and the fuzzy vertical thing at far R is a plant stem.
Topi is right, good!
Analysis of close animal's coat suggests hair not wrinkles, so all are #buffalo.
I think thats the best guess.
A tall one, to be above the horizon, and a raptor with a hooked beak... #secretary-bird.
I like that. And anyway it's dumb to wear khaki when you are driving around in a white land-rover 😃
All gnu - when they sit down in a bunch like this, it's an exclusive club and other spp don't participate 😃
Imagine that its ears are facing out to the sides like yours, and you view its head from L side, seeing front of L ear & back of R one 😃
Good, #buffalo is right.
This color & texture is typical of #wildebeest - usually with some black stripes (there's one at R
2 tommies I think.
#aardwolf - striped h would show more of a mane along its back, I think.
Might be a black-headed heron, but as you say, not v clear.
Not sure! If I had to guess, I might go for resting gazelles. But not altogether happy with that.
Definitely #wildebeest, spots are due to dappled shade of tree.
I agree with all of that 😃
Look at the horns! #hartebeest
#buffalo, as are the 2 in distance
#wildebeest. The closest one is a calf still with straight horns, but has a full wildebeest tail 😃
Let's hope it's just mud. Scars often result in an offset of the stripes, which we don't see here.
Female #ostrich perhaps reacting to male out of frame - running away & drooping wings. No cheetah!
My least favorite thing to see in the torchlight when walking in Serengeti at night 😉
Sometimes both species share the same space. 2 #grants-gazelle here - 2nd is just above tail of central male #thomsons-gazelle, mom of kid?
Yes, looks like #guineafowl.
Don't be sorry, be glad we agree! 😃
It does look like a white stork...maybe the date is wrong?
Correct!
Looks like #serval. Well spotted!
It's possible.
May just be about to scratch his neck with hind hoof 😃
Could be - or wildebeest!
It's what they do. She fills belly, treks back to den (up to 50 miles commute!), converting meat to milk en route, nurses cubs, repeats. 😃
Looks like lactating + belly full of meat.
Could be. It doesn't move so not sure.
Wildebeest
Looks like a Grant's.
They often raise trunk to sniff the breeze, higher above the ground.
I'll guess buffalo ear 😃
No, insect or other airborne small thing.
#warthog is right
#buffalo calf walking
#guineafowl & #thomsons-gazelle
#magpie-shrike
Definitely a lark, one of several species that live there.
Yes, it's just come from a #kill. They do get very bloody 😃
These are zebra - I lightened it and could see the stripes.
Your guess remains your secret - hope it was #ostrich?
Correct, closest one is a tommy and all the others are Grants.
#bird-other !
I wouldn't rule out a jackal, serval or gazelle. But not elephant, giraffe or buffalo 😃
Looks like gazelle neck, so - no cheetah in vicinity!
One of those Vogue fashion shoots...
Dust. Grass is too green to burn.
Probably wildebeest.
Probably more creepy #wildebeest 😃
#spotted-hyena - ya got it!
Yes - very small #buffalo!
Well spotted! Dikdik is more probable.
More likely a #lion.
Quite common, seldom seen because nocturnal. Kingdon reports territory size 1-2 sq km where termites (their main food) are abundant
Agree #buffalo. Flies are part of the package 😃
These are #warthog, a giveaway is how they run with tails erect. I confess I have sometimes mistaken them for lions even in the field!
No, this is surely food. A pregnant cheetah still has to be able to hunt and chase, but this one can barely stand!!
Such a distinctive silhouette, isn't it?
Wow, nice one!
Correct, the texture is unmistakable. Imagine how much skin cream it could consume!
It looks too smooth...possibly a giraffe leg, quite close to camera.
Well done, this is the #golden-wolf, formerly #golden-jackal. In Serengeti their preferred habitat is open short-grass plains like this.
Frame 1 is quite a nice op-art design!
Insect or wind-blown leaf.
This big rounded smooth body with all those little pores or spots can only be a #hippo 😃
Could be a baby, but no certainty here.
Yes, it's a kind of lens flare.
I lean towards topi because it looks so dark, but not 100% sure.
Eyes too high above ground for genet. This appears to be your 237th #spotted-hyena 😃
Spotted hyena. Striped has a bigger bushier tail.
Might also be a kori bustard.
#serval. Big ears give distinctive shape to head; spots on back are often elongated and arranged in rows.
Puzzling. It moves R to L and rises at the same time - if horn/ear of grazer, where's the neck? I need a new brain.
Medium-small, sociable, open-country; my educated guess is either starlings or one of the larger weavers.
Happy zooming! 😃
Just for fun: #wildebeest = Afrikaans for 'wild beast' or 'wild cattle'. Gnu from Khoikoi: 't'gnu' or San: '!nu' - it's the sound they make.
Objects in this Kigelia africana (sausage tree) are its fruits, which look like big grey salami weighing 5-10kg (don't camp under one 😃 )
Friend is a #crowned-plover a.k.a. #crowned-lapwing. So you're stalking the tommy, and the darn bird flies up, "KREE-KREE-KREE!" - no lunch.
Too. Close... The animal in foreground is hard to figure out, maybe just a tommy in deep shadow? Those in R mid distance are tommies.
Hard one. I suspect reedbucks. Other views?
In daytime a single hyena is no threat to a healthy adult gazelle, as long as the gazelle stays > 30m away, which these ones are.
From its ears, spot pattern and long tail, I'd call that a #cheetah 😃
#insect. It's fuzzy cos it's v. close to camera. Flying birds are usually more clearly focused and often appear in >1 frame.
I think it could be.
Don't you think this looks too big for a BEF? It looks more the size and texture of an aardvark, but then, what's the black 'tail' - shadow?
We'll excuse you, even a lion biologist wouldn't be sure 😃
#lion is right!
Yes #hartebeest - looks like 2 adult, 2 young.
Very likely a #superb-starling.
Looks like #lion.
I agree #thomsons-gazelle
Grant's muzzle is mostly white at the end, so I'd say #thomson's-gazelle.
#elephant - you can see the tip of a tusk in 3.
It's a #warthog.
I think #bushbuck is right.
We think zebras at right, and that's a plant at left.
It's a #thomsons-gazelle, note face markings and black side stripe - compare with ASG001i1iu. We very rarely see duiker here.
Amazing! Note how a small cub is all black, and at this stage it's kept in a burrow, so mama must be transferring it to a new den.
I think the camera is being handled by staff.
Not a horn but a plant 😃
The one with head up, R of tree, definitely zebra. Others could be either zebra or gnu.
Zebras
I agree #warthog.
After a lot of study I conclude that this is an odd #warthog that lacks the usual mane but still has bristles on side and rump.
#elephant - we see the head of the left one and the rear of the right one.
bird poop or other dirt on lens.
The #insects are flying termites, which emerge in a nuptial swarm when the rains begin.
Not dead, just resting 😃 In July, the driest month, these plains are barren. When they are green, Nov-May, they are packed with animals.
Identifiable if lightened - #wildebeest.
This is a #spotted-hyena.
Yes indeed! Migratory herd of gnus and zebras.
#hyena is right. In 1 it's turned its head on one side so you can see its ear, eye and long dark muzzle.
Good guess - about 7 #wildebeest.
Definitely #gazelle but can't ID the species. I suspect Grant's.
Yes and yes. Interesting photo!
From the long bristles I'd guess warthog.
We're not in Scotland 😃 the beasties are more #elephant, the 'black face' is shadow behind ear.
#hartebeest is right, from color and size there isn't much else he could be.
#grants-gazelle is right - a mature male.
That is a weird #thomsons-gazelle! The females' horns are quite often deformed and are probably not very functional.
Correct - I've a feeling you've seen #impala before, somewhere 😉
Yes, well spotted!
#butterfly #insect
To me it looks more like an insect.
Color is odd, but texture is more like a vervet than a baboon.
#magpie-shrike #bird is right 😃
Yes, #insect.
Sunrise, not that it matters 😃 They always launch just before dawn.
#spotted-hyena is right 😃
That many cars, they'll be looking at one of the big cats 😃
I think it is a #mongoose, can't really make it into anything else 😃
#bat-eared-fox - if you want to tag it thus, join the words with hyphens or underscores, otherwise it goes in the "bat" bin 😃
There might - but it's anyone's guess what it is!
This is a #serval - very distinctive ears. You wouldn't see a genet out in daytime. Please delete the # on genet 😃
#lilac-breasted-roller
I don't see a hyena, but there could be another hippo at far left facing us.
#reedbuck is correct 😃
My best idea: bill of a Grey Hornbill, common local bird, perched on or close to camera checking it out. Google Image search: Tockus nasutus
I don't think a buffalo horn could move this way.
#spotted-hyena. https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0001hai
Good clear night portrait.
#wildebeest is right, and 2 more on left.
Classic LBJ - probably a lark.
Yes, #egyptian-goose
Then it probably is #buffalo. I was fooled by the paleness of its underparts, but it is built like a buffalo.
Topi yes, but looks like settling down or getting up rather than leaping.
#side-striped-jackal nice view.
Possibly jackal.
May be crowned lapwing.
#spotted-hyena.
They are #spotted-hyenas. They do sometimes hunt zebras particularly if small foals are present, but prefer not to hunt during a sunny day.
How about...more impala? They can be in quite large herds.
Think bigger...#elephant tail 😃 Compare with ASG000u11p
Zebras.
They are all plants.
Just more creepy #wildebeest 😃
Possibly eland.
#lion. In 1 & 2 we see its paw, and in 3 part of its back.
A herd of light neutral grey animals, all more or less the same size, is always zebra.
With those bristles it can't be a bird, so it has to be part of a zebra 😃
It's all we ever see of it - tail of #bird-other that frequently perches on camera.
They are zebra behind the Thomson's.
Wildebeest - when grazing, they look slightly like a capital A.
Looks like young or female waterbuck.
Think it's not an animal.
#elephant is right, looks like a leg.
That's a big chunky leg, could be buffalo.
Can't see an animal, alas!
Odd pic of a #giraffe reaching down to ground. We see her neck and mane, her right horn and ear.
Hope you guessed #hartebeest?
#hare hopping away. Its tail is black above, its feet are pale and you can see its L ear.
What is the point of #guess? We don't know what you guessed, and no-one wants to search for someone's guess 😃 These are zebras.
YeeHah!! Good find!
When I lighten it, looks like a reedbuck mother and young.
From open habitat, size, shape and colour I would guess it's the shoulder of a grazing Thomson's gazelle.
I don't. An ostrich would move more slowly across the scene, this flashes by - maybe a small bird close to camera.
Very hard. I think I see zebras and gazelles.
We tag it (I hope) just for flames or still-smoking burnt areas, which make it easy to pinpoint when fires happened.
I see nothing there.
That's correct.
Definitely #leopard, well spotted 😃
They must be fairly small, maybe the heads of birds such as guineafowl.
It's smaller and greener than the European species, but that one also visits Serengeti on migration.
Head and shoulders of female #lion wearing radio #collar. Lions are the only collared animals you are likely to see in Serengeti.
Only one large animal has black stripes on brown - #wildebeest
Fine example of an adult female.
a.k.a. #oxpecker 😃
Sorry, can't ID this 😦
Too bad! It's still not clear where the other side of the car track is, hopefully the driver was not cornering on his left wheels 😃
#bird is a Little Bee-eater - they typically perch thus and scan for a flying insect, then swoop to catch it, and return to perch.
#dikdik
Won't be a bat in daytime. Could be an insect.
#topi is correct.
...impala females are hornless, Grant females always have horns - about as long as a male tommy's but thinner.
#impala are rich orange-brown and have 3 black lines on rump. Grants is pale pink-tan and has a big white rectangle on rump...
#white-bellied-bustard is right!
The #bird is a species of weaver, can't tell which.
#lion it is!
They may be eland.
With such a flat top, I suspect it's a vehicle.
Looks like a dragonfly.
Very laid-back #lion!
It's a #wildebeest, there are several there.
Looks like one #zebra chasing the other.
#buffalo is correct 😃
Long coarse bristly mane = #warthog.
Looks like a Dwarf #mongoose.
I think they are tommies.
#vervet
Looks bigger than the #zebra so may be #eland.
Definitely #zebra, that's all we need to know!
Could be dung.
Small #baboon drinking at bottom, big male on log in centre.
Could be other #thomsons-gazelle.
#thomsons-gazelle looks good
#wildebeest - note hooked horns, slender legs, long-haired tail.
Not many species have such long hair. My guess is a wildebeest's beard
And in foreground these are #impala.
Always tell us what you think they are - in this case #thomsons-gazelle with mostly #zebra in background.
It is neither, being covered with short hair. Most likely an #eland, the part where the shoulder joins the neck.
I think insect.
Oops, my dark monitor didn't show the animal! Agree #elephant
A plant.
Antelope ears - something hornless - maybe female reedbuck.
Good - a big old bull.
In R foreground, a male #impala.
I see some maybe-gazelles far R and a butterfly R of centre, that's all.
Gnu is true!
Nzuri sana! Utafiti means curiosity (i.e. research) and simba you can probably guess 😃
Rear end of a medium to large antelope - wildebeest?
Maybe zebra?
Shape, size and color suggest a black-maned male lion walking in from R.
Yes, at least 2 #thomsons-gazelle here.
#thomsons-gazelle has flies, you can see them move.
#hartebeest. Note how the horns make a right-angle bend; those of topi curve smoothly back, diverging slightly.
#spotted-hyena confirmed
From shape - flattish backs, drooping heads - I'd say zebra.
#grants-gazelle is right, well done, you got that distinctive rump patch and big horns.
Likely a #bird such as guineafowl.
Any small antelope seen on this camera is highly likely to be #dikdik, there seems to be a resident pair. Duiker are rarer here.
#human
Agree #lion with #collar
#thomsons-gazelle. Grant may have black stripe too, but they are bigger and the white rump patch larger, curving forward past tail-base.
#aardwolf is correct 😃
It is probably a spotted hyena.
Those are #zebra. Surprisingly, at a distance zebras appear to be a light neutral grey, so people often mistake them for elephants 😃
They are indeed elephants.
Can't really see what it is. The dark one in shadow looks like warthog.
Can't make it into an animal, so I think it's wood.
Tail far L definitely #wildebeest, other animals probably are too.
#warthog is right 😃
Sunlit animal far R is a #zebra.
Crowned lapwing or, less likely, bronze-winged courser - can't see the head well enough.
The orange things look like #insects, butterflies.
#hippo. The pinkish color should be a clue.
The thing lying in foreground may be a branch or fallen fruit, it does not move.
These are at least 2 #buffalo. All the little discs are dust particles.
I think #lion.
#wildebeest is correct
No, nothing here.
Human hand?
I'd guess elephant.
I agree birds.
This photo is so unfocused we can't tell what's there. Could be just an empty grassland scene.
At least you can say #thomsons-gazelle is present, and the white object is probably another tommy.
I just see one animal, belonging to the eye - might be wildebeest, or not 😃
He's a young male #impala.
Think bigger... #wildebeest. The black vertical stripes on dark brown coat are diagnostic 😃
As far as I can see, all 3 are #buffalo 😃
The pale animals beyond the #thomsons-gazelle herd may be zebras.
They are insects, but the animal is a female #impala. Note absence of horns, black-tipped ears, orange-brown color with lighter side stripe.
#cheetah #night
#warthog - that ear shape is distinctive.
Vegetation I think.
Zebra
Maybe it is a #buffalo, like the 3 grazing to R.
#elephant is right.
Yes, neck and horn of a third #buffalo.
If you mean the close object at bottom, it's an Achyranthes flower 😃
Maybe small bird passing thru.
Agree #buffalo.
Well done. The #wildebeest stripes are distinctive.
Not a lion but a termite mound. All the animals I can see appear to be zebra.
#baboon is correct
At least two.
Too big. Maybe buffalo or hippo.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver on ground I think, can't see the one on right.
#bat-eared-fox. Aardwolf is bigger and conspicuously striped.
All those that I can see are #grants-gazelle.
Grass, no wildcat.
Silverbird - a kind of flycatcher.
May be Egyptian Goose.
I'd agree banded #mongoose.
Correct, #elephant trunk.
The black-spotted white panel on brown wing identifies it as a #kori-bustard.
Certainly could be hartebeest.
#gazelle, probably tommies but 2wee as you say 😃
#eland, complete with #oxpeckers
On safari too - we strain eyes at mound-cheetahs, stump-lions and rock-rhinos then BAM! the real thing is snoozing in middle of the road 😃
Very likely a buffalo closest to camera providing the flies, 10 more buff further back, and across the drainage line look like wildebeest.
I suspect it's a termite mound, but we'd need another photo from that camera to confirm 😃
Animal R of tree could be buffalo, and the white slab at L could be another. The white drop-like things are indeed raindrops falling.
Exactly. This is a Serengeti ecosystem endemic, but commonly caught by our cameras.
Tail's right, shame about the legs...dark patch on thigh, black band below it, yellow lower legs, are all #topi features.
Yes, that's a #serval, they do seem to enjoy the cameras. As if they needed behavioral enrichment in Serengeti! 😃
There you go 😃 #thomsons-gazelle
4 zebras...but I now see you have photoshop 😃
It's a naturally eroded bare patch crossed by a car tyre track. The staff who download the photos travel by car 😃
Less than 50 though - so you would just score 11-50 #zebra, no need to be more accurate.
Hippos are big and smooth. This is probably a medium antelope like a reedbuck or bushbuck.
If you mean this side of the water, I can see nothing but grass. No zorilla 😦
R.I.P., whatever it was...I'm not certain about bird, can't ID the prey at all.
I would say wildebeest with a few zebra.
I do, I do! For once, an absolutely un-ambiguous animal 😃 This shows all the eland's key features nicely.
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If you have any way to lighten it, you'll see >11 #wildebeest here. A quick way to do this (on desktop/laptop) is described in next comment
Nope! Someone else will catch it, never fear.
May be normal and we see it from an odd angle. Horns start diverging more, halfway up, then the tips curve back.
Unusual grass-eye-view of a tommy. Little plant, be afraid!
Looks like a plant close to camera.
Dust or rain - probably rain, given the greenness of grass.
Beautiful portrait!
#buffalo. Wildebeest would show a pale beard under neck, and definite dark stripes on the neck.
That's unusual! I wonder what the story is here.
Not sure what I'm seeing here. Possibly a hare?
#baboon
#buffalo is correct.
I believe so, just sitting down in the shade!
Red billed #oxpecker
It is very rare for an animal to die just where our cameras are looking. These #lions are just sleeping.
The left-hand one's head remains rock steady, so the standing #wildebeest may just be grazing on grass.
Your options are reedbuck or bushbuck, and I think I would vote for reedbuck 😃
The upper part looks spotty, so perhaps a hyena?
It's the neck, brisket & shoulder of a short-haired ungulate - head down and facing left - maybe hartebeest, only other option is Grant.
Eyes are below bottom of frame in all pics - head is very close to camera.
I think that's a good guess!
Correct - using those big ears to locate insect prey in the dark.
Two #zebra
Ribbed horn, coat and ear all uniform tan...young hartebeest?
#eland - bushbuck smaller and absent from open plains. Long skinny tail + black tassel is good clue, also neck hair, black marked forelegs.
Most likely more #wildebeest.
It's walking L to R and I see no tail. Warthog?
Light color - zebras ??
It looks too small for waterbuck but that said, not sure what it is! Reedbuck? In foreground, a fine #grants-gazelle.
Looks like just grass 😦
In back, that appears to be a #dikdik, and in foreground #helmeted-guineafowl. But we often see impala here too.
Yes, these #birds are #coqui-francolin
#bird
Technically there are - it's a loose category for any Bovidae who aren't cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, or goats. So gazelles r antelopes 😃
...so why wouldn't that be a #kori-bustard?
Help me understand...looks like white breast with brown wing 'shoulders' each side and grey faintly barred neck bent backwards over back...
It looks like a stick, irregular hard and angular, and it moves in 3 different planes...but what could be moving it? Baffled 😦
But the belly of the standing one looks more like Hartebeest...not sure.
#hartebeest is right.
Cameras are set about 1/2m above ground so it would be a short cow 😉 This is a #warthog face.
Looks like a good guess 😃
....and compare with https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000dh7a which shows eland.
Hard one. Turn it around and imagine that this is forequarters of a wildebeest with head down, the long hair is its mane...does that work?
#buffalo. Some old bulls seem to have very little hair on large areas of body.
#crooked #tusk - right one curves forward as usual, left one curves back.
...compare with https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG0003uyy which shows hartebeest...
Eland bulls normally show a black medial stripe along belly, stouter legs and a longer tail. #hartebeest might be a better ID...
If the time stamp is correct, this is really strange for them to be out so late.
...but after looking at a few steenbok photos, I think your ID is correct 😃
Just to be difficult 😉 .... this has small ears for a steenbok, and a pointed nose, and what might be a reddish fuzzy crest on forehead.
#lion looks right, well spotted!
#bird. Giraffe never look like this.
Yes, both are #young
#warthog face - rubbing against camera.
#hippo is correct.
Probably zebra, like the closer grey animals L of centre.
Camera box has fallen open. Through the 'window' you see trunk and foreleg of elephant.
If you don't know how to zoom, it's described here: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG0000x0t
Sooty chat not found in study area. Apparent white is reflection on glossy plumage of #cape-rook 😃
Texture looks more like a tommy to me.
Thanks - so #buffalo it is.
LOL! They DO exist!
Lions do not wear them voluntarily - they have to be knocked out first. But they quickly get used to it and it seems not to affect behavior.
From its large size, short pale coat and stout muscular build, it has to be #eland.
I am not sure what is there, or even if it's animals. If lions, you probably would not see them, the vegetation is tall.
awww!
Grey-brown with darker vertical stripes can only be #wildebeest. The shadows of ear and horn in 1 support that.
Can't see any.
Big, but has a lot of short hair so not hippo or elephant. Maybe one of the larger antelopes, or buffalo.
Probably a dust particle or insect, illuminated by flash.
Lion balls are smaller, rounder, and further back-just below tail. This is a #wildebeest.
My guess, and it's just a guess, is buffalo. The shape looks wrong for waterbuck and I'd expect at least some white on muzzle and neck.
#baboons is correct.
Lovely photo!
Yep. You're getting good at this!
Vegetation close to camera.
Super picture!
And much thinner than those of the young male at right.
This small #bird appears to be a #quail.
Tusks begin growing in very early in life, with sharp tips. The adult in 1 shows the broken stump of what was once a big tusk.
A recumbent #buffalo.
#wildebeest #interacting
That's what we are here for! We think #side-striped-jackal.
A #young #buffalo. Yes, buffalo are supposed to be black, but young ones are browner, and overexposure of flash can also do strange things!
Well done - not an easy one!
No. It could be a reedbuck, or perhaps a bushbuck.
The hartebeest you see in 1 moves behind a grass clump in 2, and a second h'beest appears from R. In 3, both are behind grass clumps.
#hartebeest is right, well spotted 😃
Also a rounded body, level with horizon. Hare isn't that big, it'll be something like a Grant or a hartebeest calf.
They are #wildebeest.
#vervet is correct, they quite often appear on this camera.
It's a tommy.
#warthog - note how it runs with its slender tail held erect.
Very nice #closeup portrait.
I agree - #elephant.
Hairless and pudgy looking - a #hippo!
Correct, these are young male #impala. Note also the characteristic body colours.
Most are tommies.
About normal for a #guineafowl
Not sure, maybe hyenas.
All #wildebeest
#wildebeest, >11.
From the backswept horns I say #topi.
The animals are #buffalo, one sitting in foreground, one standing behind it, another sitting behind that, so 3 or even 4 in photo.
It's possible. The eye belongs to a #hippo 😃
Correct - that tail at the far right in 1 is definitely #lion.
Certainly very young!
banded #mongoose
Looks like a second one lying down. The females in a herd often give birth around the same time.
Maybe, is all I can say!
I see only one distant pair of unidentifiable eyes.
Correct, #guineafowl.
Looks like a francolin.
They are zebra.
Likely zebra & wildebeest.
Not sure - may just be moving grass.
#buffalo is right.
Impala horns have a shallow S curve, these just curve back - #grants-gazelle male. There are tommies here too.
Wildebeest close R & mid distance, mixed wildebeest & zebra in bkg.
Well...looks kinda green to me, so let's just call it a leaf, "nothing here" - and I'm not going to worry about those dots on the horizon 😃
I think the hyena is an eagle or vulture?
Believe it or not, it contains at least 5 wildebeest and a zebra 😃
Yawn is often used as a threat gesture - "look at my weapons!"
Oops, sorry I missed that!
The slightly dished profile between nose and horns is typical of #thomsons-gazelle.
They are #zebra. At a distance you often can't see the pattern, just a grey tone.
wildebeest in background.
#zebra are much more often seen with #wildebeest, as here, than buffalo.
You have a #wildebeest in foreground. The way to ID the others is to lighten the photo. They are about 10 more wildebeest.
Remember no-one but you knows what your loose idea is. Anyway these are #buffalo, about 5 of them.
So it does. The camera has fallen and is lying on the ground.
It seems to be a refraction/diffraction artifact thingy that you get when the sun shines directly into the lens. Wiggly lens flare!
Dikdik is never seen in open plains - this is a #thomsons-gazelle.
More rocks.
Yes, the mother #elephant may be nudging her #young to stand up.
Looks like Thomson's.
I think this is a serval.
#reedbuck, much bigger than steenbok & dikdik.
It is a #hippo.
Absolutely right - its colour scheme is unique.
#spotted-hyena. They are a lot more common here than in Gorongosa, right? 😃
Very clearly a #topi with that combination of horn shape, body colour and size.
Very cool. You can't hide those lion eyes...
Big dark ungulate, seems to have some faint striping, so I guess wildebeest.
A roller would have brilliant blue and black wings. This is a #butterfly.
They have a big splash of white on the rump, and the one in profile view has big backswept horns, so #grants-gazelle.
Spots at top R, rather than stripes - hind leg and tail of a #giraffe 😃
I see it as a medium-sized antelope with its head down grazing - reedbuck, gazelle or impala.
It's a #hartebeest.
#elephant. Note how the thick sparse hairs grow only from the dorsal and ventral sides to form a flat fly-swatter 😃
Also light & dark bands on inner foreleg, and slight dark collar - #bushbuck is right.
No, and the shape is wrong - this is a #jackal.
Really looks like elephant below the tallest tree on L.
I agree, probably black-headed heron.
We are looking at the ear and mane of a male #lion.
Not easy - I'd guess topi from colour.
#spotted-hyena, wouldn't know if pregnant, prob wildebeest in back.
#wildebeest eyeballs.
#wildebeest - they look dark and humped, with lighter backs.
Yes, all are #wildebeest.
Animal on R is #wildebeest, they are often seen with #zebra.
#white-tailed-mongoose - first time I have seen those two together!
Dull brown coat with black stripes is enough to ID as #wildebeest.
Mostly zebras - nothing else looks light grey - and some tommies.
#bird tail is more likely.
We've no way of knowing what you guessed - my guess is zebra - but who knows?!
If all you can see is lower legs and a flowing tail, you are looking at the tallest animal of all - #giraffe 😃
The foreleg and trunk of an #elephant with two straight white tusks...see it now? And maybe a plant reflecting brightly at bottom right.
"A herd of #elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world" - Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
Dust - each particle reflecting light as a hazy disc.
Tommy in the background?
Awesome! It took me a while to find the second, sitting under bush at R. I hope the dikdiks who live here were well hidden!
I agree #guineafowl
YES!! The elusive #zorilla !
I'll agree with that!
#hartebeest #young is correct
Foreground animal is #warthog of course! 😃
Not a hyena. It looks more like a warthog.
Smooth red-brown coat with black lower legs - presence of external gonads - all indicate #topi
in frame 2, silhouetted between tail and trees, you can see how small giraffe poop is - about the size of grapes.
Be glad that's all she lost! Perhaps she had a lucky escape from hyenas as a kid.
Yes, it conveys a sense of space and freedom 😃
It's hard to interpret but most likely an impala grazing, the black marks being the tips of its ears.
I agree, probably a #young #topi.
That's what it is, on the back of a Land-rover.
#lion female
Side profile of #wildebeest facing L; from top, we see tip of one horn, boss of horn, then part of forehead.
Rare view of a #wildebeest eye!
Yes - the black on his face, and a growth or abcess on back of head, doesn't look good.
Not a new animal, #eland is correct. Their horns are quite variable - sometimes parallel, sometimes diverging.
We can't know what you guessed, but Zebra is the right answer.
Looks like the camera is being taken out of its box for servicing.
Zebra is the only option, unless they are cars.
Good eyes tillydad!
wildebeest again 😃
Lightening this pic shows at least 5 #wildebeest, and the rest probably are the same.
#waterbuck is right. Hornless females also include: reedbuck, impala, bushbuck, dikdik, duiker, steenbok.
#mongoose - #egyptian-mongoose a.k.a. #great-grey-mongoose
Adult female #thomsons-gazelle. Their small horns are often crooked or deformed - in this case, meeting at their tips.
#egyptian-goose it is. We seem to be seeing them more often this season - perhaps they have a nest near this camera.
This is very borderline...they seem to have sloping backs so might be hartebeest, not sure.
Silhouettes look like zebra.
Could be a sitting wildebeest, or a number of other things!
It could well be a vulture.
#wildebeest - I can see his dark face and light beard. I think there are 2.
Probably a tommy.
Your main choices here would be spotted hyena or male lion. Stripes are tree shadows. Aardwolf is nocturnal.
Because of their dingy darkness I think they are buffalo. Zebra or eland would show more contrast.
The tail is that of a #wildebeest, with that very long black hair it's very different from any other animal.
Dust devils do occur (when plains are drier) but I think these moving shadows are artifacts from a flying insect close to camera.
#helmeted-guineafowl
Truly weird picture...I think all animals are #wildebeest, at least 8. From R: one head down, one head up facing R, one head down facing L
Yes, >11 #wildebeest anyway.
Young male 2-3 yrs with trace of mane, already showing the bigger head and neck of a male.
Think the gazelles are Tommies. The dark guy is a warthog.
Yes, two #spotted-hyena.
Your imagination is the limit! Beats me.
There's a good shot of one (at my request!) on the Mongoose ID page, second photo. If I click on that pic I can see the whole body and tail.
I've never heard of a melanistic one - it's just backlit.
Looks like topi but I can't tell what the small things near it are.
Another zebra.
Maybe more #wildebeest?
#cheetah cub confirmed, but I wouldn't call it mongoose-like; it has a blunt little kitty head. Spots and blond mane on back are diagnostic.
Helmeted #guineafowl
No, it is an #ostrich. Female with her back to us and head down, L of centre, male at R.
And #wildebeest is right!
Dark color and sloping back - #wildebeest.
Maybe. Would need more pics to prove or disprove this 😃
The button is called "GUESS!" Lightening this pic, I see a #spotted-hyena left and right and perhaps a rodent in middle.
Believe us, this is a zebra ear. Genets are nocturnal and their tails are fuzzy.
When the sun is low, its light has a redder hue.
#wildebeest herd
Wet green grass doesn't burn 😃 This is something small and close to camera, possibly an ear but more likely a leaf.
May be side-striped jackal.
Striped yes, but not hyenas - 4 #zebra 😃
Buffalo often have their resident cloud of flies 😃
#hippo is correct, all you see is its ear and its bulging eye.
Looks like cat whiskers, that's all I can say!
#zebra #wildebeest
I see 2 zebras and a line of trees.
Can't tell what. The thing close to camera at R is of course a #wildebeest.
#bird tail and wingtip.
Closest animals are #topi. Not sure about the others!
It may have done, we can't tell. There are many pics showing various animals in front of this open camera.
#thomsons-gazelle - smaller than lion, different shape and pelage.
Because they are zebras.
Dark brown with black vertical stripes is characteristic of #wildebeest.
I think it's partly that the camera is overexposing to compensate for the shade. And partly that this is an #eland.
More likely Spotted Hyena, based on probabilities.
#thomsons-gazelle is correct.
Big herd of zebra.
No, I think all zebras.
Not big enough for vulture but not sure what it is.
Leaf or dirt on lens.
No, just grass. We almost never see actual snakes 😃
Bottom L - maybe wood or buffalo dung?
Baffled too. It seems shiny on top, maybe a bird part?
White spot looks like a moth caught in the flash.
Planes move more steadily, I think this is an insect.
I only get #zebras and #wildebeest in this pic.
Looks like a tommy.
I'll guess impala!
#warthog. Note tail is long and thin, hippo has short thick tail. Also hippo is far bigger and rarely seen out of water by day.
They are #egyptian-geese on the ground, but can't tell what is flying.
Maybe you're better at spotting them 😃 At least one camera faces the main road through Serengeti, but I think that was true last season too
Correct, that's a #wildebeest beard.
We may have 2 #spotted-hyena here, the standing one greeting another lying on its side. I'd expect more blood at a kill scene 😃
Unusual to get a #reedbuck portrait like this!
I can't think what else it could be but veg.
Hard to see - maybe small bird?
This: https://daily.zooniverse.org/
Looks like the Grey Hornbill.
The camera is mounted on a tall tree, and the shadow shows its forked trunk 😃
I agree, we had one recently like this where you could see other elephant parts in bkg.
It could be several things! I read it as the neck and ear-tip of a grazing animal such as reedbuck.
They are #zebras - horse-like silhouette.
It's a face, you can see long eyelashes and the base of an ear. Maybe a gazelle.
They are #wildebeest, 2 in foreground and presumably more beyond.
#guineafowl is correct.
Most likely bees.
Big & black, sturdy legs: #buffalo 😃
Hmm, what could it be? How about... #thomsons-gazelle? Note level of its back relative to horizon - same size as the other tommies. 😃
Just make your best guess. You can see this is a large tan ungulate with short tail and no markings, so #hartebeest is your best option
Tricky! I guess wildebeest just because they look the same size as zebs and more often associate with them than buffalo do. Tillydad?
I think it's another #hippo.
Definitely 2.
Best we can do - I don't know either. Looks like there are 2 close together.
Interesting. I wonder if they actually did notice it - but as you say, a cheetah alone is no threat to an adult gnu.
Something reflecting the flash. Maybe insects.
No, these are brown and guineafowl are dark grey. These are #francolin.
#lion is right.
Well done, back of a #lion ear.
They look like wildebeest.
Maybe a tommy but can't be sure.
Orange and blue #bird in foreground is #superb-starling, not sure about the brown trio.
#lion it is.
It certainly could be! Other folks with pale legs include Grant's gazelle and Hartebeest, but I don't think it's big enough for H-beest.
It's actually the ear and the big wart under the eye 😃
I think #spotted-hyena...see the spots?
A fine #grants-gazelle.
Yes, they look like swifts.
It could be. I can't tell if they are both from same camera but I see no contradictory evidence.
right.
Maybe airborne dust lit by flash?
#insect - a butterfly.
Again...looks like vegetation!
A #helmeted-guineafowl picking through elephant dung in search of seeds and insects.
Looks like just veg.
I think veg.
hmm, I can't get anything out of this, sorry!
#warthog. What you see is his bristly eyebrow, eye & facial 'wart' on L, and upcurved tusk on R, and he's scratching himself on camera box.
Could be...but not enough info to be sure it isn't a #hartebeest like those in back.
A male, but without the thick ossicones ('horns') and body proportions of maturity, so I'd say #young.
I think rain.
Good one! Probably the blue-headed tree 'agama', Acanthocercus.
I can't see an animal here, even when I lighten all 3 - are u sure?
Can't see much detail. She's adult, is all I can say.
You're welcome, but you don't seem to need much! Have you a lot of experience with African animals? Your ID ability is remarkable.
Lovely! You've got 6 there, so probably parents and 4 young.
It is probably an insect sitting on lens. In 3 we see a leg.
Search for #hare and you'll see quite a lot of sightings.
You're right about the #spotted-hyena. I don't know about the 'tail' though. It wouldn't be a vervet. It is downy, and focused. Plant stem?
Striped horses, a.k.a. #zebra 😃 There are no domestic horses in Serengeti. None.
I agree with your reasoning.
#caracal is right 😃
This grey-brown bristly ear belongs to a #warthog.
It's got more spots than most lions, I think #spotted-hyena 😃
#impala is right, well spotted 😃
Looks like it - well done.
Next step is to turn around and spray it 😃
Ah, thanks, you are always so thorough 😃
I can only find one other chameleon sighting, 3 yrs ago. They are common in Serengeti but so hard to find!
They march from L to R, so #wildebeest rather than trees 😃
None of us can say with certainty what this is, so there will be a wide spread of guessed species 😃
It can be whatever you want it to be!
Could be scratching an itch, on the camera box or its supporting tree.
Weird-shaped bristly things are often a #warthog rubbing its face on the camera box 😃
#zebra is correct.
#grants-gazelle - many don't have black marks on side of body.
#thomsons-gazelle. Note horns diverge slightly and tips curl forward. Also it is small, its back is below horizon. Now compare ASG001ofg3.
Yellow-billed #oxpecker
I would say #thomsons-gazelle. A Grant would be taller relative to camera, with its back above the horizon.
So do I, but I would call this a #leopard 😃
Rare sighting! a #chameleon hanging from a twig, about to descend to ground.
Yes, #reedbuck.
Looks like it, and the one left of centre is another calf.
I see these as #elephants, at least three of them. The 'ostrich neck' may be a trunk.
#topi is right
This is the butt of a #wildebeest, and at least 3 others graze in background.
There are no hummingbirds outside of N and S America. This is a #lilac-breasted-roller. We prefer you just use # when certain of ID 😃
When lightened, the red just looks like highlights in its chin hair.
Good example 😃
This kind of big rounded ear with the 3 dark bars belongs to a #bushbuck, also the horn is thicker than a steenbok's
#dikdik. A pair of them lives at this site and are very often seen near that bush.
Possibly insects.
#kori-bustard and #hartebeest. Kori has a thicker, shorter neck than ostrich, and narrower body.
#dikdik - much more commonly seen than duiker here. Note grey color of back end.
My guess is hyenas or possibly warthogs.
Distinctive head of a #helmeted-guineafowl.
More likely an antelope - maybe hartebeest.
#reedbuck male.
No, #bird is a Sturnid - one of the glossy starlings, can't tell from this photo which species.
Can't see any animal, just beautiful Themeda grass.
All #wildebeest here, about 6 visible.
Yes, #cape-rook
Hey, good find!
I see no injury. The hair of the black stripes is longer, coarser and glossier than the brown background coat, hence the 'wet' look.
It is a #secretary-bird, looks mature to me.
Can't honestly tell if the #bird is a guineafowl or a francolin. Also seems to be #fire in the distance.
All #zebras. The #birds are #oxpeckers - I've never heard of swallows perching on animals in Africa 😃
#spotted-hyena is correct.
It's the tail of a #bird. Hashtags are a search tool here, so please don't use them unless you're sure of ID 😃
It could be, and it is.
#bat-eared-fox is right - dark crest & tip to tail are distinctive.
#marabou stork
Ha, I catch you out far less often than you catch me, and less often than elephants have twins 😃
If I had to choose an animal I'd say sidestriped jackal.
Or chewing bufflegum 😃
They do twin, but twins are less than 1% of births in populations studied. Newborn weighs 200lb, but that's less than 3% of mother's mass.
It is a #bird preening itself, one of the small bustards - probably white-bellied
I'd guess a large antelope, this is its chest and base of neck, probably a hartebeest.
Dark face, pale beard, horizontal hooked horns, black horse-like tail - all visible proof of #wildebeest.
Could be secretary but I can see no detail.
Yes indeed! The animals are #eland, for those who are new here.
Not likely - they don't twin, and the left calf is several months older than the other 😃
I think it's the cat's nose, very close to the lens as it sniffs the camera.
I think so too, possibly a young one. Cute little beast!
#hare touching down at the end of a leap.
Could be blob of mud, seems attached to mane rather than to side of neck.
Correct, a young male.
I don't think so, it has more of a falcon shape.
First a reedbuck wouldn't be so tall, and second it would have a broad fuzzy tail, not a little skinny one like this animal.
Well spotted @fernfire, it is a third #giraffe.
Uh-oh, body-shaming among carnivores - as if hyenas didn't have enough insults to cope with!
Close, but actually #hartebeest. When lightened it shows a tan body and a whitish rump.
Yes #oxpeckers, what a lot!
Wow, you're good! I believe they are.
Hard one, might be warthog?
Well, just enough to tell me that it's a #waterbuck - dark shaggy coat with some white on back of thighs.
Could well be a swallow, yes.
#wildebeest. No zebra stripes, and a waterbuck would have a white ring around nose.
Correct, a #striped-skink, it seems to live there.
#hare is right.
It shouldn't happen, but sometimes it does.
I would say #reedbuck. Dikdik are smaller and would show grey haunches and neck
I think it's the neck and crest of a #kori-bustard exiting right.
#dikdik. Similar size, but is brown with grey on hindquarters and neck.
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I wonder if it could be an elephant....?
Another of your impossible pics! Shape is wrong for hippo, could be buffalo, eland, something like that 😃
That does look like a lion tail, but I see no hare - it wouldn't be there, with a lion so close!
But, at least you can see the one on the left is a #wildebeest so perhaps the others are also.
Hmm...it's a brightly lit object that casts a long thin shadow...how about a trunk reaching towards camera?
I think this #insect is a hunting-wasp.
Looks like an #oxpecker.
I think we'd see a bird in more than one frame...perhaps insect?
I'll agree with #hyena, the shape is right.
#baboons are correct.
A log, a zebra, and something unidentifiable at top corner!
Yes, probably #thomsons-gazelle.
Antelope ear, I think #hartebeest.
If anything bad was going down, those other two zebras wouldn't be peacefully grazing 😉
Yes, texture looks like #lion.
I think so. Hi, haven't seen you for a while 😃
All these animals are #zebra.
If so, the antelopes would not be so nonchalent! It's a gazelle. In background you have 2 #impala as well as some tommies.
I suppose it could be a young one.
yep. I think most of the antelopes give birth while sitting down - that way, it's not so obvious to predatory eyes 😃
At least three.
But what about that slender pale leg in 1? I think we are looking at the shoulders & dewlap of a big male #eland.
I'm not sure about hyena, but I have no better idea.
Yes, I think you're right.
#white-bellied-bustard.
Looks like waterbuck.
#bird-other I'm afraid! 😃
correct, and #kori-bustard in foreground.
Definitely #thomsons-gazelle.
Wow, that is hard. I've no idea.
It is. I have been collecting the different animals that visit this site and I have every cat except wildcat!
I think we are looking at its neck and throat - gnu has more long hair there. Maybe hartebeest.
#buffalo is correct. A rhino would not show a pendulous scrotum like that.
My guess is eland.
It could be almost anything. I think we see a part-open mouth on R with a row of upper incisors - therefore, not any horned animal.
Secretaries have long legs and these don't. The 2 on ground are #egyptian-goose and the flying #bird looks like a corvid, maybe Cape rook?
Unusual combo, but your ID is spot-on!
Some of these close ups are really tricky 😃 But by studying everybody's puzzle pictures, as I do, one slowly learns.
#wildebeest & #hartebeest
It does look like a kiddy, yes
Probably a tommy
#kori-bustard it is
The big dark animal L of centre is a #topi.
#cheetah #cubs is right.
#elephant trunk.
Or more #zebra?
You could suggest what it is! This is a #wildebeest, distinguished by stripes and dark color.
It is the wheel of a vehicle. Not sure why we can only see one, but perhaps the other is just obscured by angle of view.
This appears to be a front end, of a #lion walking R.
Yes #buffalo. He is facing R and you see his eye at bottom and tip of L horn at top.
Definitely hippo skin 😃
No stripes, it's a #bat-eared-fox
That is probably correct.
More likely we are seeing extreme close-ups of the lion's nose, mouth etc.
#spotted-hyena is right.
Mine would be buffalo, but it's very unclear 😃
Wish I could see more of its head! Everything but the ears indicate #reedbuck so I will go with that.
#warthog with babies is right.
Yes, #duiker - well done. They look short and compact compared to most other antelopes, and the dark facial blaze is distinctive.
Thanks for doing that 😃
Yes, looks like a young one. Horsey people like to call them 'foals' 😃
Not necessarily. Pregnancy can be hard to detect in comparison with a big meal 😃
Correct, and the ringed tail is a give-away!
#serval it is 😃
The thing on right looks like a flower moving with the wind.
#grants-gazelle - well done TerezaK 😃
I would say #reedbuck. The dark spot under ear is distinctive.
They are hippos, yes.
The good news is, you don't have to! Only actual animals or parts of them are counted.
This is one of the best aardvark portraits I've seen here.
Good guess say I.
Mostly zebra 😃
Probably Achyranthes flower spike.
If you mean the 4-5 animals at R, they are #zebra
I would say #spotted-hyena.
Had a warm dinner 😃
Something small on camera, perhaps insect.
Achyranthes flower spike.
Definitely a #zebra on left, perhaps others are too.
#aardvark. Note the long nose and ears, humped back and big tail.
It's a female #thomsons-gazelle. Note the face markings.
The color-balance of this flash is biased to yellow and red - the red stuff could be just mud or dung.
#lappet-faced-vulture. The distant flying #bird does not look like a vulture.
Normally they rest standing up. If they feel particularly secure, they may sit down like this, but normally keep head up.
#lion #male and female. The female (bottom) is fairly old, judging from her ears.
Yes #hartebeest, what else could they be?
That looks right!
I see 1 but never mind - where there is one there are usually more!
Not sure where you see a cheetah! If one is visible, there usually won't be tommies within about 100m 😃
#wildebeest and tommies, no worries!
#topi. Note red-brown body color, ribbed horns, no obvious dewlap - all differences from eland.
Maybe elephant shaking tree, stick falls out.
Can't see any animal, just moving vegetation.
All appear to be #zebra.
Tail of scruffy bird.
Gazelles, probably Thomson's.
It's a tiresome plant called Achyranthes which, if you brush against it, leaves barbed hitch-hiker seeds all over you 😃
Looks good to me.
Either a reedbuck or a bushbuck.
Yes well spotted! This would be a Black-headed Heron, which commonly feeds in grasslands.
He's a male cub about 1.5yrs old, starting to show longer hair on his neck.
Yes, #crowned-plover
#superb-starling - Hildebrandt's lacks the bright coloration and white vent.
#impala is right.
Visible details indicate #buffalo calf, which would match what we see in background.
He's a she! Here's a young male, note different profile of belly and neck: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG00148ts
Most likely another zebra but can see no detail.
It's very close to camera and small, seems to be furry, but what small climbing mammal might be out on open plains? a wandering monkey?
Thanks for that link...too funny 😄
Absolutely! 😃
Excellent portrait.
Yes, that's all we can do. Don't know what you guessed, but I'd guess warthog. Or Topi!
However, frame 2 clearly shows black spots in fur at base of ear, so it is a #serval.
About 5,500'ASL. After a night of rain, low cloud layers often hang over the grasslands until mid-morning.
Must be insects - weird!
Is #leopard 😃
Probably a swallow.
Looks like 2 Tommies.
I see it as a hand holding or reaching for the camera, with white daylight shining between the fingers.
Just old guy jowls 😃
#crowned-plover, a.k.a. #crowned-lapwing
I think you have about 7 zebra on horizon, and closer to camera a male tommy resting on R.
They can't dislocate - they are firmly rooted but just growing in different directions.
In such open plains a #thomsons-gazelle is far more likely than impala/
Probably birds in distance, yes.
Impossible for it to be both 😃 The big guy on the L is an #eland. All the others are #wildebeest
#bird-other is as far as we can go with this 😃
Looks good for #elephant.
That's so cute, they do seem to be playing.
Not so hard...you can tell it's a fairly large antelope, so one of only 5 species. Only one of these has a tan face, the hartebeest. Done!
A sight to make termites tremble!
...of #wildebeest
#giraffe - better than possible!
Looks male to me but not very clear.
No, the tree is erect - the camera is lying in the grass, looking up at its metal housing screwed to the trunk 😃
#white-bellied-bustard. A young kori looks very like an adult kori, just smaller.
Yes, #mongoose - #egyptian-mongoose, a.k.a. #great-grey-mongoose. Nice view of it. Note long tail with tuft that becomes visible in 3.
See below.
Looks to me more like the dewlap of an eland.
The 'city lights' in bkg are probably wildebeest - most sitting down, a few standing.
What a brilliant image!
I agree, common #genet. It seems excited about something, with all its hair fluffed out like that.
Just got feedback - huge bill and light crown indicate immature Verreaux's Eagle (=Black Eagle), a very rare find!
Why we reject rhino is because horn is blurry, thus v close to camera, thus not v big. Also rhinos are seen rarely and (so far) not at rest.
My first thought was go-away-bird, about that size, could also be one of the medium sized goshawks.
Or a car, perhaps? There is a road running across this view.
From what I see, not sure that I could distinguish that from a zebra nose 😃 There is a zebra exiting R edge.
No, these are #eland. Note large size, long skinny tail with black tassel.
I can't see any animal.
#reedbuck looks good.
Looks male, and there would be no births in June anyway - Jan-Feb is the season.
A #wildebeest, like those beyond. You are looking over the top of his head from behind, right.
Hard to give a positive ID on this one, but I think it's the horn of a resting wildebeest.
It is surely a #warthog. There should be no conflict between the two species, but it may not be quite as close to the #zebra as it looks.
Not sure...to be so brightly lit, it must be fairly close, thus, rather small?
Yes, what you see is the detached front of the camera box as someone removes or replaces the camera.
Hehe - looking through these same "windows" on Serengeti year after year, I do get a sense of what is usually there and what changes 😃
All #lappet-faced-vulture. Looks like they were grounded and then the approaching storm just brought them enough wind to lift off.
#eagle for sure. Not certain that it's the usual Tawny, am seeking other opinions 😃
#secretary-bird.
He is sniffing the tree stump on which he stands, perhaps next he will scent mark it.
If you mean the lion colored rock in foreground about 1/4 the way from R to L, it's present in other pics from this site, e.g. ASG0012l7c.
Lion is a rock. Bird looks like a kestrel.
Hmm is right. Looks large and fat but too hairy for hippo; maybe buffalo?
Nice image!
My thought too, but I left this one for you 😛
Very unusual to catch this on remote camera!
#reedbuck is right.
Yes, those are zebra.
That's what it looks like. But if they are males they are very young, as horns are barely visible.
Note the little cuts in the ridges. This is a spare tyre mounted on the rear of a research vehicle 😃
Grants has a very white rump always bordered by a black bar. This is a #hartebeest.
I agree #lion male.
I agree, buffalo seems likely.
I agree with maricksu - Great Grey #mongoose / Egyptian / Ichneumon. You know your animals really well! 😃
Has a hard but very irregular edge - think it's a leaf.
I think it's something on the tree...vervet?
Beyond the #zebra are more zebra. At a distance their stripes blend to neutral grey.
Yes. And species is #impala.
Yes, #bird looks like a francolin.
Yes #grants with white rump & swept-back horns.
Yes, well below the tail-base. Believe me, I've sexed a lot of lions 😃
Bull #eland. Its head is down grazing, we see its tufted forehead at L, and we see its eye. Any better ideas?
Looks like the 'helmet' of a guineafowl.
Maybe bat-eared fox?
Ok, looking on a different device I see what may be hair. So maybe serval?
Your guess is as good as mine 🙂
Hmm, the back has a more smooth convex profile than rhino. I'd guess hippo, possibly buffalo.
The ear is dark with a light patch at base. Only zebra and serval might fit. I don't think it is either - may be woodpecker tail feather?
The background animals are mostly wildebeest, I think some zebra too, but I see no car.
There's a definite #zebra in background, so maybe the CU is also a zebra as you say.
Hard to figure out what this is! It shows the colors of a Lilac-breasted Roller, but if it is one, it is surely dead.
Yes, zebra traffic on horizon!
Probably warthog.
#grants-gazelle is right.
Looks a bit small and grizzled to be aardvark - possibly dikdik?
Looks like a lizard.
Flower-spike of Achyranthes plant.
#impala is right
Yes indeed - #black-backed-jackal
Or panting?
This #lion shows no evidence of maleness.
#warthog, possibly two of them, rubbing face against camera box.
Looks like a Tommy.
Don't know how you saw that, but yes! From shape and rump patch I would guess waterbuck.
Probably zebra, from form and color.
Since this #lion #cub has testicles (frame 2) it is probably full of meat rather than pregnant 😃
When no bushes/trees in sight, you can be fairly sure that it's not an impala. This is a male #grants-gazelle.
It certainly does look like a bee-eater, though I won't commit to a species!
I do this on iPad sometimes and it's not bad for zooming - the usual way, putting two fingers together on image and then sliding them apart.
Even when lightened it is borderline, but I would say shape and color tones are more like eland.
I agree, #spotted-hyena
Probably #thomsons-gazelle, like the animals in background. It looks odd because of the shadows of tree branches.
Spots, not stripes! #spotted-hyena
#hartebeest is right
They straddle like this to drink (not likely here) or to feed on small plants close to ground.
It's a #warthog
Looks like a #wildebeest tail.
Could be a topi, not sure.
Definitely 4 #giraffe, might be as many as 6.
Yes, it's a termite mound. Even seasoned field researchers mistake them for animals sometimes 😃
#hare is right!
#grants-gazelle female. The very thin horns, dark leaf-shaped bars thru eyes, dark bar across nose, are all useful features.
"Couple" seems misleading as impalas are either one or many, but then, a major purpose of English is to mislead 😃
NO WAY!!!
Animal on the right? It looks like a zebra.
Zebras don't have beards like this. I think it's a #buffalo.
#coqui-francolin is correct.
well done 😃
lens flare
I think it has to be a zebra because it is striped and short-coated, but not sure what part I'm seeing in 2 - ear??
#spotted-hyena looks right.
looks like a #lion's tail.
Something is there but could it also be a warthog?
People have asked if the color of eyeshine is useful for ID, and here's an example of why it isn't 😃
Yes, occasionally they get 'truncated' by wire snares, but they are amazingly good at doing without. This one looks healthy.
I do believe it IS a #rhino! Well done, this is unusual 😃
I guess the #bird could be a cape rook, can't think of anything else that would fit.
Cheetah with 2 cubs, as per comments below.
They are 2 #buffalo running.
It's just sleeping off a big meal. A female would choose a very secluded place, like a rock crevice or dense thicket, to give birth.
#hartebeest is correct - it really couldn't be anything else, could it? 😃
If you mean the thing that bobs up and down - it could be a 'tree agama' lizard, or it could be a small bird. I can't be sure which it is.
Correct - tan color with paler 'tights' is distinctive.
It is an #aardwolf. Striped hyena has a lot more dark under throat, and more stripes on body.
This is a beauty!
#warthog is right!
Can't see an animal.
#bat-eared-fox - small size and the tail has a thick black crest.
I'd guess springhare, but can't make +ve ID.
I can't do any better 😃
Looks to me like topi with young.
#insect - butterfly
Correct - nothing else has a mane like that.
It's not unusual, particularly in female and young Grant's. Best ID cues are the tail & rump patch.
#hippo is right.
Tail of a #bird
An enigmatic blur.
beautiful portrait!
I humbly suggest that these are #grants-gazelle despite the dark stripe - note how the white curls over the top of the black rump bar.
Not such a large #bird species, maybe starlings or buffalo-weavers.
Yes, an adult #topi and three #young.
Seems to be chewing on an acacia branch.
#hartebeest is right. They often stand long periods under shady trees, like the one to whose trunk this camera is attached.
Could be right, we often see them here.
a #male #lion
Probably insect.
There's almost no wind so I don't think it's a plant being blown - maybe a bird.
I agree...looks small for a lion, but who knows?
The #bird is probably a francolin.
Small #bird, perhaps a capped wheatear. In 2 it is just landing on R slope of mound, in 3 it has closed its wings.
#black-backed-jackal.
#civet is an interesting and rather unusual sighting here.
#aardvark is right!
I would have guessed zebra in distance, but hard to be certain.
I say #impala...with the eye of faith and some photoshoppery, I can see the lines on its butt, the dark ankle spots and impala-shaped horns.
Yes, hard one...hartebeest is another option.
Yes it sure is!
I think you just see the movement of the #jackal's paws. Animals in bkg are of course #topi.
It doesn't look good, but I can't tell what caused it.
#reedbuck.
Looks like a little #elephant lying down.
Looks like a Cape Rook (Corvus capensis)
Could be a small bird.
Right, and it would be hard to find a clearer photo of a #dikdik!
And no, he isn't pregnant...this demonstrates well the effect that a big meal can have on the shape of a big cat 😃
I say #reedbuck. We've no real sightings of oribi in study area, and in 4 yrs living there I never saw one - they live further north.
Can't tell much about color in this photo, but markings and head are good for #bushbuck.
That buff is totally muddy!
#aardwolf. You know you can edit your own posts? 😃
It may all be the bird's bill! Looks like one of the smaller hornbills.
Probably more buffalo.
could be a serval.
All #wildebeest I think.
#secretary-bird, with those legs!
Could be a cat, maybe cheetah?
Yes. These are not very recent estimates, but only ~16,000 eland in ecosystem; compare ~1,300,000 gnu, ~200,000 zebra, ~400,000 tommy
#topi close to camera, the others are #hartebeest, and you do occasionally see them together.
#impala is correct.
Yes, #lion with radio #collar
She looks like a large cub/subadult and is just sniffing around in the grass.
It is a #lion, female or cub.
I see no gender specific features on the R lion. It could be a female, or a male.
Yes, #topi
#spotted-hyena. Striped would show more visible striping on legs and longer hair on back.
Lyin', hence the name... I can't see any cub, balingsnas, just his male equipment 😃
Definitely a #white-headed-vulture and two scavenging eagles, possibly Tawny.
The thing in distance is a #black-backed-jackal.
Try a #helmeted-guineafowl 😃
Monkey or baboon?
#impala is right - she has those black ear tips.
I agree, def #topi
Yes, #serval - the longitudinal rows of spots and the big ears are good clues
Puzzled too. I can't make this into a dikdik, and habitat is wrong. I'm wondering about a bustard, but can't explain the 'ear'.
I haven't a clue! Tip of an elephant's trunk might be another option?
Probably a lark, but very hard to ID small brown birds from these photos.
Impalas prefer bush and woodland - in open grass plains this is more likely a Thomsons gazelle.
I think there's nothing.
One of the weaver birds - from all-yellow crown it could be Speke's weaver.
Def #aardvark.
#reedbuck is more likely - we hardly ever get duiker here. Compare with ASG001jcir.
Close things are brightly lit, this isn't, therefore grass 😃
Umm, your hyena looks too small and sleek - might be another #thomsons-gazelle.
#buffalo looks good. Their backs are horizontal, where gnus slope.
They do, when they think no-one is looking 😉
#topi - reddish body color, blue-grey patch on forelimb.
#bird-other, could be a lark.
Interesting guess! Mongoose also possible. Really not sure.
I can only see moving vegetation.
#thomsons-gazelle from size & color.
Or steenbok?
Yes! #bird is a #crowned-lapwing / plover
Yes, #buffalo.
#helmeted-guineafowl, cool photo!
May be an insect on the lens.
Spots look right for #cheetah.
We're seeing the back and ear of probably a medium-small antelope, all we can do is guess - I'd go for thomsons gazelle.
#jackal, probably side-striped.
Nice clear #hare portrait!
#wildebeest beyond the #zebra.
I'd guess warthog. Others?
...and it seems to have raised a paw (small-spotted patch at L) to obscure its muzzle.
Head is facing left, seen in profile and from slightly below. Big black spot like rabbit-head is on its cheek. Eye is at 10 o'clock to that.
#serval here has much bigger ears and shorter tail cf. cheetah. Shoulder height 60 cm Serval, 80cm cheetah. Cheetah mass is about 5 x serval
Why not leopard? I see what appears to be an eye and a rounded ear at top, not like serval ear. 'Muzzle' is spotted like a leopard's paw.
I agree #hartebeest. Only other antelope whose horns might look like that is impala, which would show more facial markings.
Might be scratching itself with a hind foot, or less likely turning head sideways to gnaw on something unseen?
LOL 😉
Looks like blood - #spotted-hyena had a hot dinner.
It's unlikely - but without more pics we can't be sure. This is an unusual species, a #duiker.
That's cool!
Might be, but might be a lot of other things! #bird will have to do.
#thomsons-gazelle.
Stripes visible in 1, very full black tail in 3, I say #wildebeest.
#topi.
Yes, we get a lot of those.
It's all veg blowing in the wind.
Yes well done, the head shape is distinctive.
Battling where? I see some gnus grazing and several zebras beyond them, moving R to L.
So, if the animal itself isn't in the frame, we don't count it.
They appear to be #buffalo.
Probably - not certain.
Yes - the most minimalist photo of 2 elephants that I have ever seen 😃
Could be - or aardwolf. When lightened it looks stripy, but that could be artifact.
#kori-bustard - shame about the hair...
But the tail has a white tip, which narrows down the search... #side-striped-jackal. Frame 2 shows it best.
Yes, this #cheetah is possibly scent-marking.
I think #spotted-hyena, yes.
Possibly buffalo, but let's see what my illustrious colleagues think!
I think Coqui Francolin pair, male on right.
#wildebeest correct.
Not hyena, not wildebeest, I like warthog too. Somehow it doesn't seem "big enough" for buffalo which was another option.
A #bird likes to perch on this camera - this is the tip of its tail 😃
Good ID. For those who aren't sure - look at the dorsal crest and white spots on red-brown sides. Only bushbuck has this set of features.
nope, #dikdik 😃 Note the grey tones on rump and neck. You are much, much more likely to see dikdik than duiker here.
They are some kind of small #bird.
neck of grazing #wildebeest
#broken-horn is a #grants-gazelle, distant herd is #zebra.
#human - pop-top of a tour van.
Looks like wildebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle male. When close to camera in flat plains, Tommies' backs are generally below horizon, Grants are well above.
It is a #serval.
Fine #mane on this guy.
Correct. Particularly in S of study area we sometimes see adjacent herds of these species
The hartebeest here is Coke's (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokei). A.b.lelwel ranges from Chad into Kenya but doesn't reach Serengeti ecosystem.
#collar
#crowned-plover #bird and #thomsons-gazelle
Well done 😃
Wildcat has more triangular ears. Could be young hyena perhaps?
Or as we say in the trade, #grants-gazelle #courtship #interaction
They all have amazing eyelashes, but they aren't normally easy to see!
Hint - It's not necessary to post every animal here, just pics which are puzzling or unusual or of special interest to everyone
I was just thinking, how well you know your animals 😃 this is a little hard - #wildebeest calf - note stiff upright mane.
#lion with #collar is right.
Even without seeing spot pattern, the long legs and slumped back are characteristic of #cheetah.
#spotted-hyena is right
An ear. Probably of a gazelle.
Nice portrait here.
I agree #spider
Yes, it's got a bone.
Way too big for genet...that pointy crown between ears makes it a #spotted-hyena 😃
Classic male #impala. There is another impala, sunlit at far left.
well...not an elephant or a porcupine or a lot of other things! Medium-small shorthaired antelope such as tommy or about 5 other options 😃
Well done - so #lion looks like a possibility. Wish we had real time-stamps.
Not a giraffe - it looks like our usual view of giraffe but camera is on ground. Also a giraffe would show spots & pale ankles.
They are big beasts, 125-165 lb or about 55-75 kg.
I think it may be the face of a tommy, but really not sure.
Elegantly stated! It appears to be a #reedbuck.
yes #elephant, well spotted. It flaps its ears in 3.
See discussion below.
Very possibly!
Greeting #interaction - mutual crotch sniffing.
Doesn't look like rhino but not clear what they are!
Easy! #wildebeest.
#dikdik - note pointed muzzle, white eye-ring. If u search 'duiker', only 6 of 92 are correct! ASG000xzi2, ASG000dysp are good duiker pics.
You are much more likely to see #dikdik than duiker. Common duiker has not such a pointed muzzle and has black stripe up center of face
#secretary-bird - there's nothing like it!
I think #warthog.
Topi or possibly hartebeest.
Definitely #wildebeest - brown with black stripes.
It could be so many things. Probably part of an insect or bird.
#elephant is correct
I agree #spotted-hyena
No, that was a long time ago 😃
#wildebeest - profile of face in foreground, big herd in distance.
But enough to recognize a #serval 😃 Note the very contrasting black n white marks on back of ear.
Technically maybe, but we normally use it for less common interactions such as fighting, mating, playing, grooming.
My guess is a big herd of #buffalo, just from the variability in size and the location. Also there would be no wildebeest here in August.
Duikers are pretty rare here. So when you see a small antelope, think first 'dikdik' and then 'steenbok' before trying 'common duiker'.
This is the female of course, and it seems to be her signal that she's 'receptive' to the amazing stuff the male is doing (off camera) 😃
I think they could be wildebeest.
Yes indeed. Reddish body, dark gray shoulders and hips, yellow socks, black face and short backswept horns are all good topi ID features.
Bulging belly of a #wildebeest
#raptor, could be a Greater Kestrel. Frame 2 is an epic shot! Maybe this is one of the birds whose tail is in so many pics.
#eland x 3, good reasoning. Note also the 'armbands' and white stripes, good eland features. You won't see cattle in wildlife herds here.
That's wonderful. At first I could only see that white tail-tip moving along!
That's a fine #male #lion.
OK, I think that flies better than my idea 😃
I think you are correct 😃
It could just be one gazelle, bent around to lick himself? From color & size I'd say male #thomsons-gazelle.
I wondered that, but couldn't recall seeing that much white on a BEF.
Great #bat-eared-fox portrait!
How cool is that? Good and unusual sighting!
#dikdik. Note the thin antelope legs and lack of tail, both differences from a mongoose.
#dikdik. They live around this camera and are often seen in this view.
Definitely #male #lion.
#gazelle, from ear structure - my guess is Grant's gazelle, from height of animal.
#lion pride
I'll offer my reasons: wildebeest often run strung out in long line like that. Also closest animal on R when lightened shows gnu-like color.
Thing on right looks like an eagle #owl, can't ID the distant eye.
#buffalo - looks like a female, her neck is slimmer than a male's and her horns lack the male's thick bosses (bases).
The latter, I think.
4 #buffalo, at different distances from camera, are grazing from L to R. No elephants 😃
From the apparent coarseness of the hair I'd say yes.
Yes - #tawny-eagle with a #rodent #kill no less!
Only the side-striped has the white tip. This is a #black-backed-jackal.
Hard to tell...could be one of the larks.
Also an #oxpecker #bird in frames 1 & 2.
#black-headed-heron
I love it when we each come up with the same answer at the same time...adds to our credibility 😃
These are #white-bellied-bustards. A kori is a larger bird with a thick neck. It looks like this: ASG0002jrf
Definitely #thomsons-gazelle from tail # rump.
Yes, for once we could actually be seeing a hunt! Cheetah is definitely doing the stalking walk.
I think the rains were early that year. The white and red flowers are both, I think, small species of wild Hibiscus.
I would be tempted to say serval - it's a hard one!
I couldn't be certain of species from this rear view. It's not SSJ but Golden is also a possibility in this location.
Surely wildebeest, from shape of nose and hair density?
ok, thought i was seeing white belly, but it's grass.
Bustard, maybe a young white-bellied bustard. Only crane you could possibly see here is the crowned crane, a very distinctive bird.
Yes doves #bird
Young, but bigger than baby.
The antelope isn't a lot bigger than baboon - possibly impala.
Looks like male-male #mounting.
Tail of a #vervet monkey, like those you can see in frame 3.
I would say young #reedbuck, based on ear configuration and the black spot under ear.
Tail and wing of a #bird perched on camera.
#topi x 2
I'm not sure that I see an animal here, just grass.
#aardvark nice pic.
Awww thanks!
Agree #wildebeest, not grungy enough for buffalo which is your only other choice.
I like eland, ingenious solution.
Leg is another #grants-gazelle. Kori would have wing and tail overlapping beyond the leg 🙂
#topi correct.
Agree #wildebeest.
I think the 'warthogs' are also zebra but further away, so 7 zebra altogether.
But much smaller. This is a #white-bellied-bustard.-
#grants-gazelle portrait
Not that I can see.
#dikdik as seen here has grey haunches and rump. A steenbok is colored tan and white.
Nubian #vulture x2
#jackal
It's a #thomsons-gazelle, yes.
Impossible to tell what those dots are I see one moving thing running L which could be a gazelle.
Might be the top of a kori bustard's head, with that little crest they have.
#wildebeest #fight
It's a #butterfly above the #thomsons-gazelles.
The huge size and tasselled tail are pretty distinctive for eland.
A tommy has more of a bushy black tail, and its back would not be so high above horizon. This is the larger #grants-gazelle.
That is weird! It may be using L hoof to scratch inner R leg.
...mature hyenas' spots fade and body color becomes browner. And the 'dark marks' here are shadows of branches overhead.
Maybe this helps: If this were a wild dog, its ears would be oval and twice as big, that is the main difference. As for similar colors...
#thomsons-gazelle is right. What a close-up!
a #mongoose - #white-tailed-mongoose
Looks smaller, more like Black-bellied Bustard but hard to tell.
Ha, who knows? I don't!
The closest one on R is a #wildebeest, I expect the rest are too but can't tell.
Yes, that's an #eland. They have a kind of rectangular shape like a domestic cow.
They like to scratch against the camera housing 😃
Pretty!
Could also be a skink (lizard), we often see them on this log.
I agree with Alinna.
#white-tailed-mongoose #mongoose - rear view, tail fluffed. Here's a zorilla, at about same distance from camera, to compare: ASG0018pj3
Part fluffy and part smooth, so I think it's a young male lion.
Always check for previous comments 😃 It is a hyena.
#spotted-hyena but looks mature colour.
#hartebeest. Eland would have a thick black band on inner forelimb, and a 'dewlap' fold of skin below neck
#dikdik is right - blend of greyish and tan, small size, bush habitat.
@tillydad, something to ponder - this is a normal adult Serengeti serval, does it seem to you that the Gorongosa population has longer legs?
The one on the left could be a baby, yes.
I don't think we've ever had an #elephant die on camera, but the #young ones often lie down like this in the shade to rest 😃
#leopard is right.
Great picture!
Similar. In E.Africa we call them bustards. This is the biggest species, #kori-bustard, has shaggy grey neck feathers and a small crest.
Looks like, with those ears, but it's quite far from camera so it's bigger - it's an #aardvark !
A trick of the light, not a marking. On these open plains, no bushbuck (imagine!), small antelopes this size are mostly #thomsons-gazelle
Only a #lion has a tail like that! - long with a small black tuft.
#dikdik it is - greyish haunches and neck, white eye-ring, pointy nose are all good ID features.
Good - I think #bushbuck is right, its colours look too varied to be a reedbuck which is the only other beastie that might look like that.
We don't let you 😄 - Here's why: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb - So just guess.
#ground-hornbill
#cheetah looks correct
#impala and #giraffe are correct
Wonderful #portrait!
Hi @kosmala, we've been telling people to just classify these as 'nothing here' - do you want them tagged?
There are two of them - a second one entering stage left.
Hard to tell. I'd say #wildebeest.
A Tanzanian lawnmower cutting grass, so you'll get fewer "nothing here" pictures of waving grass.
Yes, a #human sighting.
The three largest silhouettes are #zebra, not sure about the rest.
#topi is right - horns and leg markings are distinctive.
#wildebeest - dark color, mane on shoulders, long horselike tail.
A pipit, or maybe a lark, but can't see detail.
I see no animal here.
From its ability to hover during 3 frames, I think the #raptor is a kestrel or black-winged kite, but not sure about the bird on ground.
I'd say 1 Grant (closest) and 7 tommies.
Possibly zebra but in this case, your guess is as good as mine!
#thomsons-gazelle, from size.
Thanks for the correction! 😃
I think just flowers.
Koris are as big as tommies! These are #crowned-lapwings.
They look like cars to me - rectangular, don't change shape.
#lion, female.
#aardvark
#side-striped-jackal, note white tail tip. BEF has mostly dark tail, big dark ears and 'raccoon' mask.
Bending down to scratch his neck with his right hind foot.
I'm not sure either. #bird is all I can say!
That's correct!
Classic example of how we can interpret the same image in different ways 😃
Large tan animal with paler rump = #hartebeest
#spotted-hyena is right, though it looks healthy with no sign of mange 😃
It's something very close to camera lens, or sitting on it - maybe an insect?
Terrific composition! Note the black mid-belly stripe of the foreground eland, a useful ID feature.
We call them dust-devils - small temporary whirlwinds during the heat of the day.
Cameras are set about 1m above ground and a guinea can't reach that high - this is a #kori-bustard
No, and you may notice they are a different subspecies (defassa) from those in Gorongosa. These have white patch instead of ring on rump.
I agree with you, #hyena
Could also be a belly full of meat - they normally look like this after a good meal!
With its very short glossy coat and its dewlap, this looks more like a domestic cow to me.
Just grass I think.
Possibly vulture.
#zebra. See the stripes over the eye?
#ostrich is right.
You can just tag it as #human and #slate. It marks the start of a new memory card and shows the camera ID and the date and time.
Fruits of sausage tree
Just guess, for example, cheetah!
May be impala.
and #zebra
Not gazelle. I think this is a #topi, scratching face with rear hoof.
Maybe the shoulder of a Grant's Gazelle?
Dinner looks like a wildebeest head and neck.
#dikdik is right
#aardwolf - nice sighting!
#bird has a long tail, I would guess Magpie Shrike.
we don't have a brownpig category, these are #warthog - probably the only kind of pig you'll see here 😃
At centre going R, could be a car, as a road runs thru this view.
Most are #hartebeest - about 12 - then maybe 3 wildebeest at L and a #thomson's gazelle at R.
#thomsons-gazelle. (I try to tag and label animals to help other users learn 😃)
I think all are Grant's - all have big white bums.
Correct, mature male #grants-gazelle
Your guess is your secret, but this is a #grants-gazelle.
More #wildebeest in distance.
weaver-bird nest
#side-striped-jackal mostly eats insects and small stuff, so is no threat to adult #grants-gazelle - but may eat her new fawn or placenta.
Maybe back end of a hare?
Then you give it your best guess. These look like #gazelle but can't be sure which, so just choose a species, e.g. #thomsons-gazelle.
#white-bellied-bustard - greyish tones, white on face, long legs and neck.
No spots! 😃 I thought Side-striped because of greyish tones and pale side stripe, but can't swear to it. Like ASG001leow but diff date.
Wild dogs are really rare here and have a sort of blotchy camo pattern of black, tan and white, always with distal half of tail white.
Looks like the 'Yellow Peril' - the old #cheetah research car. If so, I've driven it, and it's a heap of ..... 😃
Hard to know. Could even be an owl.
Impala would have black-tipped ear so I suggest hartebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle based on tail at L.
He's supposed to display slate with date and camera ID at start of each new memory card. He forgot the slate so is using a CD case!
I would guess impala.
That's the box, screwed to tree, that protects the camera. Someone is probably servicing camera, which is lying on the ground.
Muzzle of #wildebeest
#zebra is right
That little crooked horn suggests an adult female #thomsons-gazelle, since babies have no horns.
#giraffe. Nothing else is so tall!!
Not roller. Maybe starling?
looks normal to me.
Yes, #wildebeest.
Looks like the further male is trying to herd the female.
Triangular ears more likely jackal or serval.
An #oxpecker
looks like a rock.
They're young - 8 months old and still all legs 😃
Of course it's a #warthog!
Applying Occam's razor, it is probably also a buffalo, as they tend to go in herds.
#wildebeest (dark color, horselike tail) but hartebeest are the same size.
Resting. Young ones quite often lie down.
Why not lion?
Yes, those two moving things could be big birds, like secretary or bustard.
I think it's a #bird.
Deformed horns are common in female Tommies.
Welcome to Serengeti! The hartebeest here spend a LOT of time standing in front of cameras, so you'll get plenty of belly views like this.
Interesting! And unusual bushbuck portrait.
Serengeti has at least 6 different mongoose species, 4 diurnal and 2 nocturnal. This is the one we most often see at night.
Red Bishop, perhaps.
It does seem to be attached to, yet stand out from, his leg as he walks, like dart. Not a flower - no desert rose or similar in SNP.
#reedbuck looks right. They often have the dark 'shins' on forelimbs.
I think you have 3 #spotted-hyena in foreground and 1 further away.
The L animal is surely a #dikdik - preorbital gland, crest on forehead. I would therefore assume that the R animal is the same.
When considering the crazy things wildebeest do, "why?" is often not a very fruitful question 😃 Your guess is as good as mine 😃
Yes, all are zebras. You'd be surprised how often people mistake zebras for elephants!
Truck - no trains as yet in Serengeti!
#wildebeest, at least 3 visible.
The herd running through the brush are #wildebeest, but at R and closer to us are some #guineafowl too.
#spotted-hyena - ears wrong shape for lion
#elephant leg
That looks right.
#reedbuck
Yes, and near it seem to be 2 zebras.
Sisige you're brilliant! I can see it now. I think I should retire 😃
#secretary-bird anyway. Probably young.
More likely lactating and full of meat!
Agree zebras, because they are white/grey rather than tan.
Could be, or else gazelles - hard to tell!
#secretary-bird - it has to be about a metre tall, which kites are not.
klallman got it - #wildebeest. (Unless it's the infamous pygmy rhino 😛)
I think he is, can't tell what it is. Great!
#reedbuck - beware of using single ID features. Impala would also have black at eartips, groin and heels, and 2-tone-tan on flanks.
I think #thomsons-gazelle female, from its facial marks and very thin horns.
Hard one. Might be a gnu mane, but might also be a warthog, I suspect that in Sep a warthog is more likely.
yes, a light artifact.
Cool!
er...that's a #zebra ear! Note also another zebra R of centre.
Just a sausage tree with its sausage-like fruits.
#tawny-eagle would be my call.
I hope you do! #grants-gazelle
It's a dust spot. No animals here.
Mother Earth does - the camera is on its side and we are looking at grass 😃
This looks like a Silverbird, Empidornis semipartitus, a flycatcher. Olive thrush is more of a highland/forest bird.
Maybe lion's shoulder.
It marks the start of a new memory card, giving date, camera identifier, and time.
...but if you search on SSS for 'golden jackal' you will find plenty of photos of them. They are the ones with no distinctive markings
...but has recently been reclassified as African Golden Wolf (Canis anthus). This is more common on open plains S of the study area...
To clarify...yes Side-striped, but Serengeti is home to 2 other 'jackals', the Black-backed and what's trad been called Golden Jackal...
Eland makes more sense I agree. I just never saw one rolling!
Hi there! Yes the head-up run is typical of a territorial bull.
#elephant is right
Couldn't swear to it but I think most are.
Yes and yes.
The shape looks like wildebeest but it'd be strange to see one there in June.
Possibly #bird such as guineafowl or spurfowl
Maybe buffalo.
Animal that tall has to be a #giraffe.
#gazelle, perhaps Grant's.
possibly elephants?
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver
I think buffalo.
In those ID photos, the first shows a male, the second a group of young, the third is a female. However, this is not explained.
Von der Decken's #hornbill.
All I see is bushes & trees.
Could be females too, as both sexes are horned.
#hyena is right.
Curious. Looks to me like a lion rolling on its back. Thoughts?
#white_bellied_bustard
Yes, there's a road in the background of this view.
Could well be more lions.
Trees imitating ostriches - the trees grow along a watercourse.
Tail of #bird perched on camera.
I can see 5 there - I think #thomsons-gazelle, yes.
Hard to say. I'd guess topi.
#lion #male
At least 5 #buffalo visible here.
#thomsons-gazelle with horns this size is mature.
Baby is resting. Everyone else is seeing how many elephants can stand in the shade of one tree.
I've seen several pics in which it changes position. I think it is just chilling, as young eles tend to do.
Good eyes Jinx, it sure is a #spotted-hyena.
Sorry, can't see it...what does it look like?
It's an Ipomoea, maybe I. jaegeri, which perversely blooms during this dry month when all around is brown.
Medium-large hairy mammal - outside of gnu/zebra season - so could be lion, buffalo, various other options
Tail of #bird sitting on camera
I can't see any animal attached - might be flash reflecting off an insect or other UFO.
Looks like #lion to me.
Yes #hippo
#thomsons-gazelle is right!
#coqui_francolin, also common here; a bit smaller than GBS, note the grey barred breast and orange head+neck.
It's just how she walks - always looks odd when reduced to 3 frames. For those who aren't sure, this is an adult female #grants-gazelle.
It is a #hare.
It is a #guineafowl bird.
lol! Might be buffalo, but I am rather baffled!
Has to be #aardvark, but tail is curious, looks like it was bitten off, e.g. didn't dig fast enough to escape the lion 😃
I think they are mating. When they fight they jump or fly at each other and slash with their feet.
In light of another sequence that just came up, it seems more likely to be a mongoose! Perhaps the Dwarf species.
#thomsons-gazelle is correct. Grant's are paler and have a more extensive white rump patch which you can usually see even in side view.
Looks like it!
No, they are #hartebeest. You will see many, as they spend long periods standing under some camera trees! Note distinctive tail.
Yes, they are #impala
Definitely #wildebeest. Their profile when grazing is unmistakable.
I agree with you Tillydad - looks like the tommy is trying to face down the jackal.
Very nice clear photo!
Wing or tail feathers of a #bird perched on the camera box.
From the structure of the ear it's a #wildebeest.
I think #lion is right. She's rubbing her face on the camera box!
From the general shape and large ears I would have thought #steenbok.
It's vegetation. Leopards are much bigger.
Through the Force, things you will see... 😃
#wildebeest privates
The animals are #wildebeest.
The animals L and R of the centre are #buffalo and it's safe to assume the others are too.
#topi they are 😃
The #human is noting that on 20 Sep '14 a new memory card was installed. G031 may be the camera number.
The #butterfly is a Red-tip (Colotis sp., perhaps C. antevippe).
#crowned_lapwing
Likely just dirt. This isn't a crime scene 😃
Just walking.
People, there are NO HORSES IN SERENGETI! (Except zebras) 😃
Could be a human doing something to the camera, but not a fox.
#waterbuck. No donkeys in Serengeti.
Pregnancy is not easy to detect in lions, compared to the effect of a belly full of meat. Anyway, in frame 3 you can see this lion's testes.
The option is that you guess 😃 Here your choice is between Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, I'd go with tommies.
Possibly waterbuck?
Yes indeed. Adult female.
Looks like rear end of a #thomsons-gazelle. Also some cute little scarlet wild hibiscus.
Difficult! Possibly a wildebeest? mostly its face & beard?
Yes, good one!!
The only other possibility is hare - looking at the tail, and the apparent rufous color of forelimb - thoughts??
Yes it is. #reptile #skink
Could it possibly be an immature Bateleur? It has shaggy head/neck and I'd expect Tawny to have more tail.
Looks like #wildebeest. 'wild_guess' tag isn't necessary as we can't know what you guessed, and scientists won't be searching for guesses 😃
Hard to say, but I vote for cheetah, probably a cub.
Even cheetah researchers get them confused!
Where do you see it?
#dikdik. Note the grey areas on neck & haunches, relatively small ears, big dark white-ringed eyes.
Can't imagine where you are talking about 😛, but it is a luxury to have such diversity here, and such image quality too.
Thanks @balingsnas 😃
#bushbuck. Note: big ears with 3 reddish bars inside, dark blaze on face, black and white markings on legs, all differences from steenbok.
When classifying, if you see no animals, just hit the "no animals present" button and move on. No need to post blanks here.
Please use # sparingly, just for animals whose ID you're certain about. It's meant to be a search aid. I can't positively ID these eyes.
I think what you're seeing is just a bare spot with bird droppings. The camera has been dislodged so it points at ground.
No need to post it if there are no animals 😃
Wildebeest is correct.
I would say #hartebeest. A topi would show a lot more black on upper limbs.
I would say #gazelle, possibly Grant's.
I agree, looks #young.
I agree with #hyena.
We can't know what you guessed - maybe wildebeest but I can't be sure.
#eland is right. Nothing else that you'll see here has those thin white stripes.
The antenna on top marks it as a research car - looking for radio-collared animals. Probably lion project.
Don't know what you guessed - could be almost anything, but appears to have horns! Maybe a Grant's gazelle?
We can't know what you guessed, but what I see looks like the rear end of an #elephant.
We can't know what your wildguess is, but it's a female #lion.
It's a #mongoose.
Classic #topi. Reddish body with darker face & hips & shoulders, yellow socks, horns curved not bent.
My guess is waterbuck
This tail is curiously straight. Only possibilities I can think of are secretary bird, or grass slashing tool!
Frame 1 may be an aardwolf, it appears to have a thick black band below base of neck.
#hyena looks right.
Rich tan colour, "tidemark" along flanks, black-tipped ears, make this an #impala. W'buck is bigger, greyer, shaggier.
There's no need to # every picture, unless it's of particular interest or if you have a query about it 😃
Blurbuck - it can be whatever you want it to be 😃 Probably something reedbuck-sized.
It looks more complex than a single gnu. Might be two males with their heads down, sparring?
I agree #caracal.
Grey-breasted is the species we normally see here - it's a northern TZ endemic.
#serval is right.
Took me a while to figure out, but it's the head of a grazing mammal facing right, ear at top, looks like female #waterbuck.
Civet unlikely and very nocturnal - I'd guess the back of a bird, not sure which.
Looks like a tree shadow to me - perhaps the tree to which the camera is attached. This is why we don't use shadows for ID! 😃
When I lightened #2 it looked more like wildebeest - but hard to be sure.
Looks like a tommy but I can't see enough detail.
Serengeti's white-bearded gnus are Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus, which typically appear to have light back and dark belly.
I think both paws belong to one lion, rolling over!
Hard to see, it doesn't move.
#wattled-starling - they often 'use' gnu & zebra in the same way that cattle egrets do.
#reedbuck. If you Search for 'bushbuck' here, you'll see how they look on these cameras - rounded back, dark collar usually visible.
With those slender tusks and big tits I'd call her female 😃 The thingy at the middle of her belly is part of the ear of the next ele.
#reedbuck is right, well done.
It could not be anything else but a fine male #giraffe! Frame 3.
Really can't tell, except wildebeest would be unlikely in this area in September.
I think #grants-gazelle because black side stripe is faint and rump patch more like Grant's
The nests are made by weaver-birds, sorry I can't see enough detail to give you species. Not buffalo-w because they use sticks not grass.
LOL!
Female #grants-gazelle (or granticorn)
Oh yes they are! They often sleep belly-up, especially after a meal.
...wildebeest only show 2 eyes if looking straight at you, otherwise one. Carnivores usually show 2 or nothing. (I'm simplifying here!)
All the animals' eyes reflect light. These are most likely 8-9 other wildebeest. Note that most are single eyes like that of the front gnu..
There is something harmless, perhaps warthogs. If lions, the giraffe would be staring straight at them or running away!
most likely spotted hyena - scruffy hair, traces of spots.
#impala is right - could be adult F though.
#reedbuck is right. You'll see more reedbuck here than in Gorongosa, and very few bushbuck (relief!!)
The antelopes and geese are all #thomsons-gazelle 😃
Not tall enough for that 😃 It's a #hartebeest. Serengeti cameras are fairly consistently 1m above ground.
#jackal ears (frame 3)
This is almost certainly a #warthog. They have long sparse bristles on face and often rub their head against the camera boxes.
In the field, this uncertainty seldom arises because mama is always nearby - except rarely when you find a predator eating the calf 😃
Pity about the oryx, we used to see them quite regularly in the eastern plains in 1970's, then they 'faded away'.
In frame 1 is an acacia twig, the person is probably clearing the area around the camera.
I assume your ID was #lion, but from this view I couldn't confidently assign gender 😃
Leopards or leopard + kill.
Steenbok has bigger ears. Reedbuck, bigger animal with bushy tail. Duiker, would also show more tail and rarely seen. I think #dikdik.
Bigger, I think - perhaps lion.
Whatever you guessed is probably as good as anyone else's!
#vulture is right
yes, looks like it.
'snow' is falling rain, yellow-eyed beast might be hartebeest or reedbuck.
I'm embarrassed that I can't tell which! I think hartebeest has a darker tail tip, so this may be topi. Anyone know?
Not certain! Looks like the horn of a young animal such as a buffalo.
That's right! The stripes are denser on the neck.
This is a herd of #impala.
Clinging to its flank is a roosting #oxpecker bird - unusual shot!
The baboon is facing camera, about to take a selfie. The shiny ear at R is its right ear. The fuzzy ear at L is its tail!
Looks to me like a grass slasher, a simple hand tool that the techs use to cut tall grass around the camera tree.
Tricky! We're looking at the dewlap of an #eland, plus its muzzle as you say.
What if I told you...it's running L to R, so the bushy 'tail' is the neck of a #wildebeest, with white beard below, black mane above!
An unusually good clear picture of a #white-tailed-mongoose. Zorilla is smaller and black-and-white very like a skunk.
You're good at this!
#white-tailed-mongoose - you're looking at its gray back and white bushy tail. You won't see baboons after dark in Serengeti.
#baboon infant riding on mama's back!
I think she is just interacting with grass 😃 The dark thing to R of centre is a more distant buffalo.
Very clear #reedbuck - I wish the southern reedbuck would pose so nicely 😃
one #wildebeest is sitting, the other is standing closer to camera
#superb-starling is right - blue & orange with white eye.
Curious! I think the guineas are mobbing the #raptor, which looks like a tawny eagle.
I think leopard because no primate curls its tail up like that. Maybe 2, because I don't think the paw higher up belongs to same animal.
Typical old bull #buffalo, they often look threadbare but he's plump enough.
#thomsons-gazelle, 8 or 9 in this pic.
Yes, maybe baboon.
Yes, #marabou
European #white-stork
#young #buffalo.
Can't be sure but I think it's a jackal.
Black-backed #jackal. Note dark stripe on side.
yes, cutting grass around camera.
No, #hartebeest. Same color but different shape. They very often stand close to camera in daytime.
#hippo !
Yes #dikdik. They are small like duikers but much commoner here, and have very pointy faces and big eyes.
Most likely more wildebeest.
I think wildebeest would be the best guess.
Correct, #lion - right ear and cheek and eye as it sniffs the camera,
I agree, buffalo.
I think it's looking at more #wildebeest
Agree #wildebeest - I just saw another mud-caked one, perhaps the same indiv.
It's a #wildebeest - note the tail - and it may just have some mud caked on its flanks. They don't wallow, but sometimes fall down.
#white-bellied-bustard - a kori stands about as tall as a tommy!
#eland. You won't see oryx here - and they would have a lot of black and white on face.
From size and texture, it could be a lion cub.
No-one can tell what you guessed, but this is a #wildebeest
Well spotted - yes, #dikdik
No, just resting.
#buffalo. Horns are on top of head, not on nose. Rhino is pretty rare here.
But we can get a clue from this - brown short coat with vertical black stripes fits only one large species here - #wildebeest
Yes, we often get #baboons on this camera
Here's what a BEF looks like: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG001ggds
Not BEF, this is a blackbacked #jackal. Its ears are big but paler and more triangular than in BEF. BEF also shorter & has black face mask
Actually young zebs quite often lie to rest like this, especially when group is stationary for a while.
It's another buffalo, so I think not.
Grizzled texture is like BBJackal but too shiny. Has to be at least 1m tall. Does not compute. Brain crash. Reboot... 😃
On a size basis I'd say reedbuck more likely.
Shape and size fit #eagle-owl #owl
Might be another hartebeest grazing, or something else - can't tell.
Could be dust rather than water - so many particles.
rlb66 is correct, as usual 😃
I dunno, it looks very close and thus rather small, might even be a grass head?
#lion flies - peculiar flattened hippoboscids which travel around on lions and suck their blood.
The white light looks like a moth, but I can't see any other animal.
Yes, that's a tail.
2 #spotted-hyena here.
I don't see an animal, think it's vegetation.
It's a male #eland
No, it's a #lion
Its apparent shininess is peculiar. So far I agree with bird.
That's fine - any kind of animal you can classify is good 😃
It's a consorting #lion pair, male closely following female, who is flicking her tail.
It's a #topi
I don't see any animal here.
Yes, adult #topi on L, and some #young.
It means that on 1st May 2014 at 09:41, camera P09 started a new memory card.
#impala looks good to me.
#Hyena is correct
I can't answer that, but it'a a #buffalo - the only large black cow-like animal.
#zebras
Wildebeest & zebra
Their shape and the way they fly in a flock and drop into tall grass together, makes me think guinea-fowl.
No animal here. If you mean the light disk, it's a dust speck lit by the flash. Moon was dark on this date (if correct).
That's a #thomsons-gazelle sitting in the shade.
It's rather random on this site, but if you vary the last letter or 2 of the URL you sometimes can find at least pics taken on the same day.
Yes topi.
Well spotted, but I think alive. My take is that all these animals are tommies - earlier and later photos show tommies gathered here.
Looks like head of a #hartebeest. Impala unlikely in such open country.
It looks a lot more like a #helmeted-guineafowl head 😃
No animal there
#buffalo. The horns are completely distinctive.
With that rather scruffy brownish coat, most probably a #spotted-hyena.
With that long black horse-like tail, it can only be a #wildebeest
This large, powerful male is an #eland
May be a Thomson's Gazelle, but hard to be sure.
If you mean dead, no - just wildebeest calves resting in the shade with their mamas.
Yes looks like wildebeest.
Probably more zebra.
And my comment about tags just refers to these Talk pages. When classifying, do as tillydad says!
No lo sé también. Posiblemente es un león?
Really hard to see. May be zebras.
#dikdik - the most common small antelope here. Just use tags when you are certain of ID, as now this pic will show in 'duiker' searches
All the animals' eyes reflect light. This is a Thomson's Gazelle.
Mostly zebras but some wildebeest too.
#eland bull.
Definitely #warthog. Bushpig don't live in this open grassland habitat.
No nyala at all in Tanzania! If he were an adult male nyala, he'd be darker and have a belly fringe. Note the eland's unique tasseled tail.
Victor, you'll see this one in Gorongosa too.
Looking at facial markings, I think you have all Grant's here. The young one in foreground just has a strong black side stripe, as some do.
I agree #eland - body shape is clear, but only when lightened to the limits.
That's a reasonable guess.
Nor can I. Maybe wildebeest.
If you want more animals than grass, take a look at Wildcam Gorongosa - a lot of us are having fun there until SSS posts new pix here.
However, your effort is valuable because you are so much better than any machine, at seeing if animals are there or not, so be patient 😃
An alternative suggestion is eland, based on bulky body and horn shape (after lightening in photoshop)
Buffalo generally don't frequent such exposed plains, or travel so widely spaced apart - my intuition says #wildebeest.
it's that bird's tail again.
looks like zebra.
Yes, probably.
Yes
Tail of bird perching on camera. We get a lot of this.
May be a white butterfly.
I'd guess wildebeest calf.
Reedbuck has black spot below base of ear, and black "trident" mark in ear is typical of gazelles. I'd say this is a tommy.
#grants-gazelle is right. They are bigger and have less black on the sides, and more white on the bum, than Tommies
#bird-other. Probably a raptor, too dark to ID.
The small brown spotted thing in centre looks like a bird walking away, possibly a coqui francolin.
It might be the 'boss', or base, of a grazing buffalo's horn. That's the only thing I can think of, that is shiny and laminated.
I'd say they are trees & bushes, I see no movement there.
Yes, a courting male Tommy approaches female with that head-high posture.
Well spotted, I took ages to see it right there on the stump! #Superb-starling.
Herd of bushes! It's Nov, late dry season, and the wildebeest don't return from the north until that brown grass is replaced by green.
I'd guess a larger animal, maybe topi.
Think it's all plants.
#bird, perhaps guinea fowl
This is the flank of an animal with short sleek hair and a clear border between tan and white. Perhaps Grant's gazelle.
Just wood.
#eland - large size, black stripe along midline of belly.
Probably flash on vegetation close to camera, not fire.
Could be the shadow of a grass-colored bird - hard to say.
That combo of size, color & stripes can only be #wildebeest.
To be so bright it must be v. close, therefore small - a grass blade. Change the last letter of URL and you'll see it in many other pix.
No. TV watchers expect blood and drama everywhere, but the chances of seeing a cat and a zebra in the same frame are very, very small.
#wildebeest - that tail is very distinctive.
Tree stump I think. Not an animal.
Yes, and some zebra too - the light ones L of centre.
I'd guess buffalo.
#Wildebeest. Giraffes are spotted and much taller - when this close to the camera, you would not see bellies, just legs.
Think about what the camera might be attached to 😃
Grass blown by wind.
Blank - nothing here
There are a few pale things on L that don't move - might be zebra but most people will say "nothing here".
Among dead wood on R? Could be a small bird.
This blank. Nothing here.
Probably more zebras but hard to see.
Termite mound. It's always here.
All about same size and some are light, some are darker. Light are zebras, dark are wildebeest. >11 of each. No extra button needed!
Grey-breasted #francolin (aka spurfowl)
This one is very clear - big animal with black 'garters' on forelimbs can only be #eland
That's OK. Because they look mainly grey I would score them as zebras, 11-50.
No animals.
All #thomsons-gazelles here
At night the cameras just record a single capture, and sometimes there are indeed no animals.
Rolling and scratching its back.
#Thomsons-gazelle
Wildebeest looks good.
grass head blown by wind. No human.
trees
You'll see lots of grass, no need to tag it or its height.
I think Thomson's because a) it's small, its back would be below horizon and b) because its horn tips curve forwards - Grant's go backwards
maybe zebras.
or head? Buffalo? all we can do is guess.
Zebras L of centre for sure - the way they stand head to tail and flick tails to keep flies away. Please just use hashtag when sure of ID.
I see no giraffe but more than 20 buffalo.
If you mean the dark thing near centre, it's a termite mound.
2 #hartebeest. Eland has a thick black tassel at the end of tail, hartebeest has a crest of black hair along the dorsal side of the tail.
#hartebeest. If you're not sure, please don't hashtag.
#wildebeest.
yes, #spotted-hyena
Yes, zebra.
Love it! Bird is a yellow-billed #oxpecker.
it's a zebra.
Actually an #eland. The tail is shorter with a bigger tassel than a lion's, and the front legs show the typical black 'garters'
I think it's a wildebeest...elbow?
Yes, #baboons.
4 in foreground are #grants-gazelles - big size (their backs are above horizon), big horns, etc. Herd in bkg is mixed, some tommies there.
No, the arrangement of hair on tail and the position of penile sheath are more typical of #hartebeest
There are at least 9 wildebeest this side of the first tree-line, probably more beyond but they can't be resolved.
Correct, 2 in foreground and 2 distant.
They are at least 5 zebras.
Grants is a good guess, as there are other Grants nearby. I see no jeep, the moving objects near horizon are more gazelles.
Probably a bird, like another starling gliding in to land outside the frame.
Might be an ear with a notch in it, shape suggests hyena ear.
No zebra foal, probably just vegetation.
No these are lions resting, at least 5 or 6.
or bird on camera?
#buffalo.
It would be a flying car! Might be things hanging from tree - caterpillars? see also ASG0019gol and ASG0019gom, same night.
? indeed. They may be impalas. Or something else. Hard to tell!
Not lion - his 'junk' would be just below his tail. This is a large ungulate, probably wildebeest.
Agree not birdlike. Not balloon but could be fixed-wing aircraft.
#wildebeest. Note the dark stripes on neck and shoulder.
might be hippo! Hard one.
Never seen a twister in Serengeti or elsewhere in TZ, apart from little dust devils...might be one of those?
Nor can I - just have to guess.
correct, young male #impala
Definitely #spotted-hyena
I'd say nothing there.
Looks like a dirty lens. If it's March, it's not fire.
#thomsons-gazelle i believe
It's a stick!
You have to guess, even if you haven't a clue, because an animal is definitely present. E.g. see below.
Hard one. I'm more inclined to see it as an eland. It's bigger than gnu, it has stout stocky legs, I think buffalo would show more bristles.
You will see thousands of these...no need to tag them 😃
Yes, looks like a tommy.
Looks like overexposure & a dirty lens
or eagle, or vulture...can't tell.
Maybe. Most have given birth by then but some are late.
No rocks in front of cameras. Hippo?
#spotted-hyena - less obviously spotted than cheetah.
Frame 1 shows the tusk, wart, ear and bristles of a #warthog.
yes #elephant
yes all #zebra
Maybe, but I can't tell what view I'm looking at.
#hartebeest because of kinky horns and no dark markings.
Both are family Cercopithecidae, but langurs (only found in Asia) are subfam Colobinae; vervets (only in Africa) are subfam Cercopithicinae
#wildebeest yes, though I think all 3 in the picture are adults at different distances from camera.
All I can say is that they are gazelles.
Also note the dark bar across muzzle - a Grant feature.
Weird photo! This is a female #grants-gazelle. Her horns, are thin but longer than her ears - in tommies always shorter.
It's a warthog - walking in 1 & 2 then in 3 it stops & raises its head and you see the whitish bristles below its face.
Nothing moves at all so I think you could safely say 'no animal'. Camera may be lying on ground or other static situation.
#hartebeest. Giraffe has spotty legs and its chest would be above the camera frame. Gazelle chest would be at bottom of frame or lower.
Yes #wildebeest, well done - not much to go on there, except the shape of horns.
correct, a zebra.
Yes, looks like 2 #zebras fighting. And the bird is a #crowned-lapwing.
#warthogs correct.
Maybe an insect on camera lens. Not vegetation, as other pics from same morning don't show it.
It is the hind foot of a giraffe walking L to R, accompanied by lots of flies.
#impala - in frame 1 you can see the white fringes of the tail.
#aardwolf yes, nice one!
That usually requires the presence of another 😃
#elephant but fairly big.
#hartebeest. ASG001d1u7 shows them more clearly. They often stand in front of certain cameras for hours like this.
From the extensive white on rump and thighs, these are #hartebeest.
ASG001epw4 (earlier) and ASG001epw6 (later) show #wildebeest, so it's reasonable to assume this is gnu too.
It's a #wildebeest 'cos of the stripes - how do I get my million? 😃
#grants-gazelle is right
Cutting down grass around the camera, to reduce fire hazard and excessive photos of waving grass!
I wish! There are probably more #buffalo in this photo than the entire Serengeti rhino population.
2 zebras walking. Hunting, chasing and other carnage are really rare events in our photos!
tillydad, nice that there are still elephants in 2023...I wish!! Actually, SNP is one of the few areas in TZ where eles are increasing 😃
That species isn't found here. Still looks like francolin/spurfowl.
Not an animal. It looks just the same on different days.
I think I have to agree with rlb66xyz below, who is pretty much infallible... lion.
Big tan animal with black tassel on tail = #eland
#buffalo - #young one at centre, adult female at R, and a third one further back.
Well spotted - #serval
Fit what? we can't tell what your ID was. This appears to be an #eland.
could be a plant?
At least 3 #wildebeest
Thin horns longer than ears = female #grants-gazelle
They don't often give birth at night. Also, from its horns it looks more like a male - just resting.
Hairs wouldn't look segmented like that. It's the seed-head of a grass, maybe Cynodon sp.
More likely dust. Rain looks like white drops or streaks.
wildebeest herd
termite mound
#wildebeest #young
of #eland
You're right! Biggish dark herd animals is about all you can say, my guess is buffalo, but gnu or zeb are also possible.
I see impalas but no ostrich.
Hard to see it clearly but I'd say aardwolf. Pls don't use hashtags unless sure of your ID.
I don't think there can be any consensus here. It could also be a hartebeest, or even a Grant's gazelle.
Hey well spotted! That's a hard one.
Try #wildebeest - dull grey-brown color, long black mane.
Looks more like an #insect with 4 wings, perhaps a flying termite.
About 8 #wildebeest
tail of #bird
look at the horns...#wildebeest
#bird tail. There are birds that love to perch on these cameras, particularly (I suspect) those that are mounted on posts not treetrunks.
Correct, also total lack of horns. Gazelle females would have horns, reedbuck and bushbuck females are hornless but wouldn't be in herd.
#human (Homo vehiculans). A road runs through this view.
Yes, the slate is photo'd when a new SD card is put in the camera. It should show date and camera ID.
#dikdik is correct
maybe just an artifact.
Also from this rear view, BEF's ears and feet and most of tail would look black.
yes, lion
I think it's the ear of a tommy sitting behind the grass. Try changing the last letter of the URL and you may see what I mean.
Rear end of #spotted-hyena exiting left.
correct, well done
Might also be a hartebeest. You don't often see giraffe's muzzle in these pics, usually legs.
all #wildebeest
#white-tailed-mongoose. Sometimes you can find answers if you read the previous comments.
tail of bird perching on camera
es un ñu (#wildebeest) - mira a su cola.
#young #waterbuck - i agree, looks rather like a donkey
don't see anything but grass.
I do. They are zebra, with possibly some gazelles sitting over on R side.
Probably more #impala.
Really good #aardwolf portrait
I'd guess steenbok. Other opinions??
This is probably the tail of a #bird perching on the camera
I think wildebeest.
As they're pale and clumped I'd guess zebras. Cattle here always show a mix of different body colours.
Since you've got one #wildebeest there, I'd guess the others are too, but +ve ID impossible.
#wildebeest. There are not many species you see in such numbers - hartebeest usually in small groups or alone.
I would say yes and yes.
#wildebeest, the horse-like tail is distinctive.
#wildebeest yes, and I think some zebra too.
Two lions here but can't see enough to sex either one.
Can't be sure. Looks like a shoulder and part of neck, of short-haired brown animal. Reedbuck also possible.
I'd say nothing here.
Probably wildebeest beard.
All look like zebs to me.
They are walking. No chase!
black stripe, black tail... #thomsons-gazelle
#warthog ear and tusk
No animal visible to me.
#wildebeest on the move
Big with no beard, no distinguishing marks on legs - my best guess is hartebeest
Probably gazelles but too far for ID
Car on road
well done, horn shape and tail are both fairly distinctive for #topi
Not clear. cheetah?
#impala tail
I see Grant's gazelles and zebras.
#human recording start date of a new SD card for this camera on the #slate.
They are all #impala
I can't make this into any animal. I wonder if it's the shadow of a bird passing over the grass?
#eland - ID'd by lightening the photo.
It's another zebra.
Yes flies, and hairy animal which is prob. hyena but maybe lion
#bird #other #wattled-starling
Here's why there's no such button: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000009/discussions/DSG000127t. Anyway, it's a #warthog.
It is a BEF and its tail has a thick black dorsal crest.
There is a way, read the instructions.
The light lines are lens flare artefacts, the moving one perhaps reflecting something moved by the wind.
Can't really tell what it is. Not fuzzy enough for lion ear. It's something that doesn't alarm those grazing zebs.
Not unusual, they can be widely scattered.
Dead branch.
doesn't move, may not be animal.
just gnus.
It's a branch of that fallen tree. And what antelopes wear are "horns" not antlers - surprisingly, they are cow family, not deer family.
I'd vote whitebellied (just to be ornery) 😉
Agree #elephant
Might not. Vegetation.
#impala - note the black tipped ears
I wondered hoopoes too, but not sure. #bird-other
I agree, I think it's a flower or grass head mounted on a stem which moves with it in the wind.
Has to be something human or human equipment.
Elephants are larger with thicker legs, big ears and no horns. This is a #buffalo 😃
yes
Can't see any. The grass is sparse and not tall, so they would be very obvious if there.
#serval looks good to me
He's a tech for the project and he's just replaced the memory card in this camera at that date and time.
Prob tail of #bird perching on camera
They prey mostly on insects on or under ground, locating them with those bat ears.
Ear and throat look more like #buffalo to me
I see no animals except possible giraffe left of centre on horizon...but doesn't move.
Yes, well done. From its spotty leg I'd say #young #lion.
Tillydad, why not a Grant?
vegetation
Gotta be male with all that head fuzz.
#wildebeest. You can magnify using Command + (for Mac) or something similar for darksiders, maybe Ctrl +
Long horselike tail is a give-away - #wildebeest
think all are zebra.
On left is #spotted-hyena, can't ID the one on R.
Can't tell what you guessed, but this looks like buffalo.
Don't think so.
see comments below
Only #wildebeest in this picture, with a calf sitting in centre. Nothing unusual here.
#buffalo looks right.
Could be large young. There are two - one looks out of burrow in 3.
#thomsons-gazelle because of thick black sidestripe and black tail
#buffalo flicking his tail over his rump
The blob in centre is in fact a dung pile, visible in many photos around that time.
#dikdik. You can see the large black preorbital gland (in front of eye).
#wildebeest, and read why we don't have such a tag: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb
or drinking from a puddle?
He's in fine shape, like a lean athlete. Most zoo lions are somewhat obese.
Particularly late in the rains, like April, we get wonderful blooms of yellow or orange daisy-like flowers there
Yes! Gorgeous dawn colours.
Probably a grass stem close to camera
Can't really say what it is doing.
If u mean the light streak above gazelles, that is a patch of clear sky showing thru clouds at dusk.
Looks like it. and the one close to camera is #young, you can tell from the fuzzy hair.
sorry, no jaguars in Africa....#leopard
lion #young is right, a cub of 3-4 months, see comments below.
This is a #hartebeest self-grooming. An eland would show a dark band on each foreleg in this view.
Similar - a Coqui francolin, female.
It can be hard! Maybe 6 or 7 in view.
Great clouds in this shot
looks like mix of gnu & zebra. Zebra sometimes do lie down to rest, yes, but usually on their sides.
The way it twists its tail, must be a fast manoeuvering little bird such as a swallow or martin...not sure of species though.
rlb66xyz - it's mostly a behaviour of passerines and a few small to medium non-passerines - don't recall seeing it in Serengeti.
Zebra yes, 8+ wildebeest in bkg yes, lions no - may be dead wood or small termite mound.
Of #warthog
I've never seen or heard of vultures 'anting', have you?
From height and shape I'd guess Grants Gazelle.
probably vulture.
More likely tommy because of small size.
The eyes in the dark are just other wildebeest.
There are no weasels here. Check the ID photos for mongoose. These are Great Grey or Egyptian mongooses.
Black-backed #jackal can be quite orange, except for their grey grizzled back.
#waterbuck female or young.
I see it as a Magpie Shrike entering frame from R, trailing its feet and long tail. This is a common woodland #bird #other.
It's a sitting wildebeest.
Could well be baboons and they do sometimes associate with Impala.
Don't see one. The walking gnu is adult.
Group of zebras moving through, one rolling in dust.
Probably tommies but positive ID impossible.
From its short neat coat and clear spots I'd call this #serval.
We so often see the tail of this bird...has anyone found pics of it flying at the camera before landing there?
#thomsons-gazelle - if you lighten pic, you can see black side-stripe of the one at R edge.
Definitely #hippo
i agree
He is a she - female tommies often have deformed horns.
#young #wildebeest in which the mane is still erect and the tail not as full and dark as in adult.
Looks like a white-backed #vulture
Definitely #serval from small size and spot pattern.
It's a #lion
#aardwolf
Of gazelles? Not in Serengeti.
#elephant tail! It is sort of paddle-like at the end with all the hairs growing around the edge of it.
Not dikdik. Looks to me like baby gazelle, poss tommy. But hard to tell.
Or francolin...not much helmet there.
That's not found in SNP - these are #wattled-starlings. They often forage with wildebeest & zebras.
#aardwolf is right
#hartebeest - the front one is young, still growing its horns, the 'kinked' shape is only seen in adults.
#impala is right, well done
We can't tell what your ID was, but this is a side-striped #jackal (white tail tip is distinctive)
Zebras - more often confused with elephants than you'd expect 😃
Might just be dung.
Very tiny for a w'buck! This is a #dikdik 😃
These are #thomsons-gazelle. Please only hashtag if you are sure of ID - now this will go in the impala bin and confuse people.
Female #black-bellied-bustard. Ostriches when this size are much fuzzier and never alone.
Back of ear.
#warthog is correct
#waterbuck. bushbuck smaller with less white on rear.
This black tail fringed with white looks like #duiker to me.
Might be Eurasian swallow on migration, they commonly accompany the big herds and feast off the abundant flies.
If it were a gazelle I think we'd see horns. Ears...are we seeing both ears aligned? I vote reedbuck
#black-backed-jackal, has bigger ears than other jackal species
Gazelles - species uncertain.
yes see below
yes, so this is #human
That was my best guess but it's really puzzling.
Possibly lion...there seem to be whisker spots in 2.
Buffalo weavers don't ride buffalo 😦 This is an oxpecker.
Looks like a big hunting-wasp with red tipped abdomen, flying left 😃 There are such wasps there.
car, you can see it moving L to R
horns = ears
butterfly
young elephant?
Topi would be redder and has conspicuous dark grey patches on hips, and yellow 'socks'.
Staff member cutting vegetation around the camera.
#vulture is correct
Only striped ones. This is a #wildebeest
looks like #reedbuck
It wouldn't be a serious fight, they are yearlings.
Flies - some of them move as you play the frames.
They are just walking. Most calves are born by end of Feb anyway.
#springhare, see below
#warthog - greyer, shorter than lion but his mane is almost convincing!
Lovely pic of a male about 2 or 2.5 yrs old.
#buffalo - has longer slimmer legs and darker colour than rhino.
They could be, and indeed, they are! Well done.
Well...the mechanics are tricky, yes...but tusk much closer to lens than ear, so its movement is amplified. Perhaps 😄
They're common residents out there, nesting in burrows and surviving the long dry season. I'm surprised we don't see them more often in pix
I'm thinking #warthog nuzzling the camera...tusk on L, ear on R with a 'wart' below it.
#serval - a genet would not look so big, and its heavily ringed tail would still show despite overexposure.
#aardwolf looks right
Those plovers are more often seen by water than in arid plains. I suggest Capped Wheatear.
Starling, perhaps Superb.
#human cutting grass
2 #buffalo in this picture
Looks like the head of a female #thomsons-gazelle
Wasp or other insect. No hummingbirds in Africa!
#civet
It does look more like hartebeest than eland, for sure.
butterfly?
You might be right - something pale that moves - but v late for a newborn, most are born by end of Feb.
#selfie !!
#genet. Cheetahs are bigger.
I think these are horns of a male tommy.
141Dial34, you're confusing the Hare description with this #springhare, which you'll find under Rodents.
Surely that's a #lion ear???
Bird looks like a wattled starling, which often perches on gnu & zebra.
1 looks like male lion, not sure what is going on in 2 & 3.
Waterbuck horns are ridged and curve forwards...this is an #eland.
Think it's just grass.
Southern #ground-hornbill, young.
#serval because small, spotted, short tail, big ears.
BEF would have big black ears, dark legs and grey body. This is a #springhare.
And the black side-stripe of tommy is always bordered by white below, but not so in Grant.
yes but...the horns of that female Grant are longer than those of female tommy and thinner than those of male tommy. And she is way bigger.
mixed wildebeest & zebras.
Zebras rarely die in front of cameras, but they (especially young ones) do often rest lying on their side.
I don't have a quick answer either. This camera is mounted very low, could they be guineafowl?
Oww, looks like it has been caught in a wire-noose snare (commonly used to trap meat animals).
#hartebeest. Lion would have no visible genitals on belly, eland has a dark stripe along centre of belly.
I think there are wildebeest too, sitting down at R - but not easy to tell.
In most pics the tail looks more slender, but when excited they can puff it out like this.
A topi would look darker, black on the front of face. This is a young #hartebeest
Good one, it's unusual for us to get 2 carnivore species in same photo. This is a nice view of black-backed jackal.
So do I.
A #warthog's tusk as it rubs its bristly face on the camera box.
Hypolimnas misippus - male above, female below, a very dimorphic species whose female mimics the toxic African Monarch.
#porcupine
Maybe eland. Lion not so tall and would have fuzzier hair on belly.
#warthog with very short mane.
We can say it's smallish, gazelle size, but no trace of black so not Impala nor gazelle, so probably reedbuck.
I think #wildebeest #young. It's taller n darker than w'hog and in 1 you can see its little spike horns.
Let's keep it polite please. IMO the ear shape and hair texture are a better fit for lion.
Thing at right looks like hartebeest.
It could - about the right size anyway.
I think they are just resting..."friends" often rest their head on each other's back, or stand head to tail, or even form triads as here.
Really good genet - look and learn, everyone.
Not secretary nor other bird, I think, but could possibly be insect.
Neither...they look like bustards, prob. Whitebellied.
#eland. Longer tail distinguishes it from hartebeest.
Zebras on horizon, more gazelles closer.
#warthog. In 1 you can see a tusk, mane and little thin tail.
Long ears short tail...#hare hare.
Close, but I think hartebeest. Topi would look darker and have more backswept horns.
Lesser kestrels, migrants from Europe. They prey mostly on insects.
Male roars while chasing intruding males or herding females. Incredibly loud sound, see if you can find a recording!
And the S-curved horns, Impala is the only one of our animals with horns shaped thus.
Not eland. Buffalo is my best guess but its legs look so thick.
Yes wounded probably by another hippo.
Yes #wildebeest.
I was thinking eland. So, we are all over the place on this one!
Def not hyena, it has to be a cheetah or serval...I think serval.
Are we sure it's a lion? Are those dark spots on belly or JPEG artifacts? and body shape looks more like male leopard to me - just saying 😃
Look in Discussion Boards/Help/FAQs, the third item down, Sizes of animals - might help.
Has to be #impala with that tail.
Probably #reedbuck
From shape and height it's an smallish antelope ear but rounded not pointed like gazelle, so your choices are reedbuck bushbuck or impala.
#steenbok - much more common in open grassland, lighter color than duiker with more white.
It is a dikdik. Steenbok would have less angular butt and show some white on legs.
#zebras. Backlit they look dark.
Cutting the grass so you get less "nothing" pics 😃
I suggest wildebeest calf - small horns, pointy ears, beginning of mane on shoulders.
So nice!
Very close to lens...maybe spider?
Eland really are big, bigger than gnu or zeb but not as massive as buffalo. But I think all the non-zebras here are gnu (wildebeest).
#white-tailed-mongoose...small size, white tail.
Probably #hartebeest
#eland - note tassel tail and lack of dark patches on hips and shoulders.
I think it's the rear view of #baboon showing its bare butt & tail at edge of frame.
What a gr8 capture!
It could, but I don't think we can ID for sure.
50 minutes later there is still an eagle feeding in the same spot: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG001as67
I'm guessing that the eagle is catching swarming termites on the ground (they often do) and the Lesser Kestrels are catching them in the air
#hartebeest is right. Arm is too thin for a lion.
Cool! I think most are superb starlings.
#white-tailed-mongoose is what it is.
Maybe, as no visible horns, but the one standing is male.
Definitely. Which cat, is a little harder! My guess is cheetah.
#impala is right. 3-tone body color scheme and black spot at groin are clues.
Why? Large size, oxlike build, straightish backswept horns, black garters on forelegs, dewlap under neck, etc.
The one in back is a reedbuck I think, in which case the one close to camera is surely not a serval.
I see no snake, just a stick. 'Rodent' might be springhare but can't be sure.
I see the tree moving with wind...no wildcat.
#serval, from small size and the way the spots on back join together in rows.
Note black spot below ear...#reedbuck
Hard to tell from tiny image but fam. Pieridae, maybe Colotis euippe or danae or antevippae.
Looks swollen, ouch.
Looks like elephant trunk
From the profile I think they're wildebeest.
Birds soaring and on ground could be white storks.
Young what? I see an adult #gray-breasted-spurfowl
Could be a territorial male Impala chasing a rival.
I agree Bonnie. They are so vast, mysterious, wise-looking and it is so amazing that we still share their planet.
I suggest buffalo ear.
Wildebeest unlikely here in dry season. I suggest hartebeest.
More likely zebra
How are we to know your guess? Looks like #buffalo
No, they are fairly used to cars by now.
Can't tell
or hartebeest?
#aardvark, good
You get used to it 😃
#Dikdik. Duikers v seldom seen.
It is a marsh owl
Dust in the air
#tawny-eagle
Good call, #buffalo
Surely this is a #leopard?
Lens dirty or encrusted with cat pee?
Google is our friend 😉 I had to look it up.
Possibly...could be a number of different things, impossible to be sure.
Take a look at #thomsons-gazelle - much commoner, has that dished face and light muzzle with dark stripe from eye to mouth.
Agree tricky!
I'll buy that.
#grey-breasted more prevalent in this area. White malar stripes, orange throat & red base to bill are distinctive.
Among ungulates females in estrus show increased tendency to mount other females. May serve as long-dist signal to male that female's ready.
Yes. Maybe ostrich.
Grants would show much more white, esp. on rump. These are impala.
Small size, tight little tail, hair forming peak between pointy ears, very slender legs, not much white visible...like that.
#eland balls
Truly a puzzle. It's the muzzle, mouth and chin of sth sniffing the camera. Doesn't look hairy enough for cat. Maybe some kind of antelope?
With the black spot below ear, I say #reedbuck.
No, too low. It looks like a #buffalo.
#spotted-hyena. Jackal is much smaller & looks like fox.
Soaring raptor is all we can say. Red kite not seen in Sgti.
Maybe warthog with less mane than usual. Butt looks like w'hog.
White #stork is right
Those topi are just trotting past the camera. Hunted animals gallop flat out! Hunts are much rarer than u imagine.
Very nice!
#aardvark is a good call.
...and the size, and that little dewlap and especially that tail...this is #eland.
ASG001bh24 shows lions covered in flies in same site 2 hrs earlier. Typically if they find a shady site by 0930 they'll stay most of day.
I vote #steenbok because of slender build, large ear, very white underparts, light tan upperparts.
But looks too low for a big spotted cat.
There is no light, until the animal's movement triggers the flash. At that time the animal may be moving in any direction.
Wildebeest should not be here at this time of year with the grass so dry. I suggest #hartebeest
Definitely #lion
Very small for hyena. Maybe jackal.
good - spots look right for #serval
Horn looks like buffalo. Smaller moving animal in centre maybe gazelle.
#Wildebeest L of tree, maybe more grazing further away.
I think 2 reedbuck
possibly hyenas
mostly zebra, a wildebeest and a ?gazelle.
#Wildebeest
#Wildebeest #young is right
looks like wildebeest leg.
#Wildebeest - you are not likely to see such large herds of any other animal, except zebra.
En Africa no hay chupacabra! Maybe impala or gazelle, can anyone tell?
yup, termite mound, it's always there 😃
prob hartebeest...eland usually shows a dark stripe along middle of belly
#tawny-eagle, funny to see it run like this
I'd say #warthog with #grants-gazelle beyond it.
male #thomsons-gazelle - Grants is bigger
Most are #zebra, at least 10, and maybe one hartebeest near R of zebra group.
2 #zebras standing head-to-tail as they often do. You see the nose of one, tail of the other.
#Wildebeest is right. You can see its beard and front leg. Second wildebeest in distance.
I'd guess tommies.
Looks like mostly #thomsons-gazelle
Most herbivore species are tolerant. You have at least 11 zeb there.
I only see a tree shadow...anyway we don't score shadows.
correct, young male #eland. Spooky photo!
I think #hartebeest
yes - pipit or lark, can't tell.
Maybe but I can't think which bird. Might be a white butterfly.
#topi is right, distinctive horn shape
Nice - the less common #side-striped-jackal, distinguished by white tail tip.
Do this: choose Zebra from list, enter # & activity, hit Identify. Now choose Wildebeest from list, enter # & activity, hit Identify, Finish
#Spotted-hyena is right
A small #bustard species, maybe white-bellied.
#impala young male. note black marks at hind ankles, dark ear tips, backswept horns. Rbk horns curl forwards.
Not a fox, too small, but still looks like a small mammal. Maybe mongoose?
Nose of another #buffalo
Great! I hadn't seen a vervet there before.
#wildebeest - the dark stripes are characteristic.
no, #black-backed-jackal
many zebra there too.
no, it's a male eland doing an equipment check.
Cool - that's a rare sighting. Maybe a spitting cobra.
mixed wildebeest & zebra
Grazing
maybe #warthog
well done
#young #wildebeest is right.
no, they are seeds of grass, probably a Sporobolus species.
could be a tommy.
Nice find!
A w'hog' back only comes to bottom of frame and bristles more sparse. My guess is #wildebeest,
Agree hare running R to L.
I see no claw, but in 3 is the rump, tail and heel of a sitting animal that could be #hartebeest. Close one is too tall for lion too.
Hi bellas granny! This looks like a #white-bellied-bustard
#spotted-hyena is a good guess. With the eye of faith I can even see some spots!
Dorsal crest and rounded ear are more typical of #bushbuck.
Looks like 1 #mongoose
Very clear #white-tailed-mongoose
We can't know what u guessed, but with those puny little horns it has to be female #thomsons-gazelle.
Size is a good cue. Heads at camera height= #thomsons-gazelle. grants are taller.
Small #bird
No, it's hard. Call it a Thomsons gazelle and you will probably be close to the truth.
Nope, read the discussions. You have to give it your best guess. This is tail of #bird sitting on camera.
#impalas on L. Can't make out the thing on R.
I think #aardwolf.
Sweet! It's a #dikdik leaping to see over the tall grass.
European white stork. The only crane in Sgti is the crowned crane.
#bird-other, and on horizon just a tree.
I think nothing there. The lump in middle is a termite mound.
Well done misty...no mistake about that one!
Very cool
#warthog. Ear at top, then bulge of eye, then big wart below the eye!
curious sequence! I think it's the same giraffe, raising a hind foot to scratch foreleg.
Looks like lion.
Adult #topi
See below - #waterbuck
Nothing moving but grass. Your reptiles prob rocks or elephant dung.
L of bushes = #grants-gazelle. R of bushes not sure, maybe same. In your face = #thomsons-gazelle I think.
You're right! My guess is warthog.
#topi - if you lighten it you can see the black marks on those legs
The thing above camera in 1 looks like a landing bird's tail. Your cheetahs could possibly be gazelles...other opinions?
Not so hard...Large size, brown, horselike tail = #wildebeest
#eland and #zebra
#grants-gazelle would be my call too, based on the amount of white on rump.
yep, #elephant
Yes you can! Look at the rosette pattern of its spots - unique to #leopard.
#eland is right. Good call
You'll get a lot of hartebeest close to camera, standing in the shade of the camera tree!
Centre animal swishing a black horse-like tail - diagnostic for wildebeest.
😉 good to see ya back!
I think, hope, it's just a vertical branch. Comms towers in the area are all on hills I believe.
No. Fire looks redder and flash would pick up some smoke.
More likely insect such as dragonfly or grasshopper.
I favor lion. Hyena is your only other option.
Herd animal, smallish, poss gazelles?
plant
We can't know what your best guess was...mine is "no animals here".
I think mongoose, yes.
Looks like ear of #lion female to me
Sceptical at first but I agree with #leopard, You can even see the bunch of white whiskers on its nose.
Nice one! Very smooth & hairless...zeb butt has horiz stripes...dark hair beyond/below...could be part of an upswept horn, as in buffalo?
Humm, my intrepidity is out of practice...Think they are wite-headed buffalo weavers.
I don't see it. The thing at lower left is just a sun artifact.
That's all i see. "No animals here"
#wildebeest ~8 or more
Looks like butterfly.
There are going to be a lot of "nothings". Just check the 'no animals here' box and no need to tag.
All I see here is 1 #buffalo walking from L to R. The small thing in front of buffalo, as usual, is its head.
The horn shape of the further one is distinctive. Can't go back but a majority will likely classify #wildebeest, & majority wins!
Little white pointy ears = gazelle. Most of head below frame = #thomsons-gazelle (Grants are taller)
Very nice! From feathered legs and probabilities i would guess tawny eagle.
You must be a scientist! 😃
I don't know. I've only worked with lions.
#reedbuck is right
They have more rounded ears than the striped hyena, and this is a #spotted-hyena
Yes, wildebeest
#warthog for sure
#topi & #thomsons-gazelle is right.
definitely #hartebeest
Camera. Looks like they are off road and approaching something photogenic that's sitting under this tree!
The spots in frame 1 of present sequence appear to be muzzle spots, where the whiskers grow - the spots we use to ID lions.
Yes, #serval
All zebra, about 10 in picture.
Hartebeest yes - but no deer in Serengeti! Deer-like beasts here are antelopes, closer related to cows than deer.
I agree, wildebeest.
Yes, 2 #warthogs beyond the close zebra.
Your pig is a #warthog, your brown balls probably elephant dung. African porcupines are huge, as big as a warthog, black and white in color.
Looks like #lion. Short body hair, no spots.
dsiepman, if you see animals always try to guess. Doesn't matter if wrong. Here, blond beard and long black tail are clues,
#thomsons-gazelle but can't really say if young or adult.
My best guess is #buffalo
Hartebeest calves - none of the bovids are born with horns, for obvious reasons. Small horns visible on the L calf.
brown body black face = #wildebeest
#buffalo x 4 at least. I'm totally convinced.
Looks too big for w'hog - prob buffalo.
Try #elephant
Weell done, you're right - lightening the photos, I can see #topi. What looked like a long tail is really a short tail close to camera 😃
But it's still a #grants-gazelle. They do vary in the extent of their black markings.
Better not to tag unless you are certain. This is a #male #lion. Civet is smaller, nocturnal, and not in open plains.
wildebeest surely, with that luxuriant tail.
#wildebeest x 3
I think it's just a fold where limb meets body.
If you read people's previous comments below, you may get a clue!
Yes - not unusual in female tommies.
We're not in SA...these are #thomsons-gazelle.
Misanthropic! These are hard-working members of the hot-air balloon crew, folding up a balloon after landing near this camera.
The smallest one (beyond the rump of the foreground female) may be young.
Wildebeest males often do thrash young acacia trees with their horns, not sure why, maybe he has been doing this.
Yes - females have very weak horns and they sometimes break.
I see no lions. I do see two wildebeest calves, running after their mamas.
Dikdik has a much more pointy snout, no black muzzle and a big black mark in front of eye. This is a #reedbuck. See ASG000bxqj for dikdik.
The 'baby vervet' is a crowned lapwing or similar sized bird.
Do try to learn to distinguish the sexes of tommies. Females only ever have little spike horns about as long as their ears. This is a male.
I can't see any.
Its legs. This is a #secretary-bird, and they are tall. We are looking up its posterior - its underparts are mostly black.
The 4 tommies we can clearly see are all males; and it's not unusual for them to feed near Grants.
That looks like a lion, but I'm not convinced that it is. I think it's another hyena. If lion, the hyena wouldn't approach it like that.
No. He has male horns - very different from female horns.
Nor can I!
She is lactating - may be pregnant, may have just given birth. Nursing mums show brown stains round nipples, not clearly visible here.
I think all we can say is that she has had cubs in the past - the prominent black nipples show that.
I don't think so, but it is bizarre! For once, I am stuck - anyone got ideas (about the thing in frame 2)?
Resting. Chances of anything dying in front of camera are vanishingly small unless it's a kill. Then you'd have carnivores!
Puzzling - not gazelle or impala, bigger than dikdik, poss reedbuck male fawn?
Here the tommies look smaller than they really are, they are in a dip as well as further away. Tommy back is about as high as a zebra belly
Looks as though just standing next to the sitting ones. When they mount, the mounted individual is standing too.
That's right, and you will probably see more aardwolf than striped h.
Yes, most cameras are attached to trees and these are leaf shadows on tommy's back.
Looks male - thick neck, testes apparently present.
Gender can be hard to determine from photos, as females have fake penises! This could just be a big meal.
Some are born one-tusked or tuskless; in other cases, tusks break off.
Judging by size of facial warts and presence of penis, I doubt it!
Deformed horns are common in females - this is a young male, and their horns are usually symmetrical and strong.
I would interpret this as a Grant's calf (note tiny horns) sitting down while its mama (longer thin horns) feeds in foreground
Believe me, it can 😃
Often they raise their nose to sniff the air, as wind travels faster high up than it does close to ground.
I agree #hartebeest
aww thanks (blush)
That one is pregnant, but as far as I know they don't bear twins.
Not noticeably.
If it's not reversed, it could be 2 different eland, with #guineafowl in frame 3.
Definitely male #thomsons-gazelle
Actually it's one of the commonest subspecies of Toyota touristicus 😃
Not with such a luxuriant tail - #wildebeest.
R of centre is a #zebra and to his R could be tommy - hard to see.
Greyish with long sparse bristles, looks like warthog scratching self on camera box.
All we can tell from this photo is that there were 3 #spotted-hyena.
probably a francolin.
There are 3 eyes on L when I lighten it, but their configuration suggests 3 diff individuals.
Yes, Martial eagle - one of a series of this eagle eating prey on this stump.
It is a young male #impala. Because length and twist are added at the base of horns as they grow, horn shape changes through life.
That's what I do. In a herd you can have several standing, feeding, moving, resting - click em all.
Can't ID those eyes but they are too far apart for one animal, could be as many as 3.
could only be giraffe.
#grants-gazelle females interacting - maybe the one in the shade is telling the other, 'no room here!'
If male, you'd see cheek hair in #3 for sure.
I only see the 2 jackals and waving plants.
Ha, last time I said zebra, this time they look like gnu, so it's a hard call!
Hard, yes. We can tell it's not a very big animal, with rather scruffy pelt and a suggestion of spots down low, so I guess #spotted-hyena.
I think you got it right SarahJenny. And the camera is tilted sideways, maybe from eles playing with it!
Looks like it - but she has probably turned her head to use her carnassial cheek-teeth, like scissors, to shear through some tough tissue
The centre ele has tusks but the R one doesn't. Thus, the centre one may be older but further away. Twins are VERY rare!
Yeah, those things hurt. They can puncture 12 ply tyres!
But that 'little information' includes 40 yrs familiarity with Serengeti and knowing what's likely to walk thru that landscape 😃
In frame 3 you can see a little helmet spike moving ahead of the body, making it a #guineafowl !
#grants-gazelle, yes
Looks like a #francolin.
#wildebeest. Note: dull brown color, tail like horse, beard below neck, stripes on body.
I think #male #lion is right.
Not the moon, as it was a thin crescent on that date. Probably a dust speck illuminated by flash, we often see that.
F horns are v. thin, as here. M horns get about twice as thick, and eventually twice as long. Even young M horns are thicker than this.
Can't tell. Could just be sniffing, as this is a place where hyenas often come to rest.
Wrong shape for guinea, wings & tails too long and flexible. But I'm not sure what they are!
Yes I think so. If we're looking at its belly in 3, it's too big to be serval.
I wouldn't expect them to fight, as both females. Left one appears to be eating, right one may be giving way to her. Who knows!
Tricky! Hoofed animals flick their tails, but won't keep them up for 3 frames. But a #spotted-hyena holds its tail up when excited.
Probably gnu, yes.
Giraffe yes, but the other guy is a zebra 😃
Looks normal - just brightly lit compared to shadowed ones in front.
Hope the new season will be posted b4 year's end. Meanwhile you could browse some of the collections and check out other people's IDs.
#vervet not.baboon
#young #buffalo is right.
#warthogs is right
Looks like lappet-faced #vulture
It's 3 more #buffalo
They eat a lot of trees. How much damage depends on how much space they have - in Serengeti, they've a lot of woodland!
#wildebeest and #young is correct.
Baby to left of tree, and a larger one (probably not adult) behind the tree.
what did u guess? 3 #wildebeest.
Yes. If you think about it, they must start with no horns, so this is a stage in developing the mature horn style. The 'kink' comes later.
For starters - if you look in Discussion Boards/Science/Birds, you will find some collections of photos of birds seen in SSS.
I can't tell what those standing at L are, but I'd guess more impalas.
Can't be sure. My guess is cape rooks.
Springhare is very nocturnal. Also it has big bushy tail and very small forelegs. This is #dikdik.
Neck, not tail!!
Could be...but it's 2 #buffalo.
No, look at the tail - has to be #wildebeest.
Possibly.
It's another warthog.
I think it is another secretary.
Can't tell! Looks eagle size.
Could be 2 young males fighting - using their heads & necks as clubs.
Yes, there are a few! Believe it or not, the Lion Project collars only 1 female at a time, per pride, in its study area.
Not deer, antelope (cow family!) - #thomsons-gazelle
With that tail? no way. Please don't tag unless you are sure of your ID. This is a #warthog.
Maybe - I can't figure it out.
Road grader. No farming in Tanzania national parks.
all #wildebeest, at least 14 in picture
There's a #young #wildebeest standing behind a big wildebeest, altogether 5 present, that's all we can say. Births take place in Dec-Jan.
Yoy got the right family. They are #cape-rook
They are #reedbuck. Bushbuck are redder, usually with a grey 'collar' on neck and some white spots on body, and black & white marks on legs.
#thomson's-gazelle
Looks like #eagle, no horns. There are several eagle pics from May 14, which we've ID'd as a Martial eagle.
It's a #wildebeest.
#spotted-hyena, striped only by tree shadows. Striped hyenas are VERY rarely seen on SSS and mostly at night.
#warthog. It's out unusually late in evening.
Buffalo is right.
Yes it looks small.
see below. We seldom get daylight pics of BEF.
LBJ. Maybe pipit, or lark.
#wildebeest, yes
No.
More #buffalo!
You bet. Lots of grasshoppers and other insects flee the fire and the birds have a feast!
You'll see a lot of them...they are #wildebeest, adult and young, at least 7.
8 trees 😦
I see no dikdik, just an #impala exiting R. Warm two-tone tan color and black heel spots are diagnostic.
Who knows. But nice close-up!
No, they don't harm babies...all just running
Ha, lucky you! You got a #springhare - kind of nocturnal rodent that hops like kangaroo.
Nor me. Medium/small antelope, could be a tommy.
It's a francolin or spurfowl - can't see which species. Bustards are bigger with long neck & legs.
Thanks rlb66xyz for keeping me honest...#hartebeest !
Reedbuck normally aren't seen in loads. Note the black-tipped ears and horizontal division between dark and light tan, on these #impala.
This #spotted-hyena has long neck hair too, more rounded ears than Striped, and is MUCH more commonly sighted.
The mongooses are bipedal with beaks. #bird, can't see what kind.
#hartebeest IMO. The belly is too high, and the arm too thin, for a lion.
Could be the butt end of a lion.
The animal obscured by zebra is another zebra. The animal at left of these zebras is a female #grants-gazelle.
#cheetah is right
#grey-breasted-spurfowl / francolin
Well spotted!
I'd guess hartebeest but can't be certain.
correct - and of course, zebra at far R.
With those very skinny horns, can only be female #grants-gazelle.
Guess it could be Crimson-tip, Colotis hetaera, but there are several that look similar.
No - #buffalo, at least 2. Looking at the rhino tag group, most sightings there are buffalo, elephant or warthog! But rhino CAN occur.
Looks like horse but isn't - there are none there, except the striped ones. This is a topi.
You don't need to tag fires.
This was 14 mo. ago. Much of SNP burns Jun-Sep and then it rains Nov-May. There's already been a new cycle of fires, and rains have begun.
#serval for sure
#buffalo young
Def #serval with that short tail.
Young zebs like this one often look brown.
The eyes look like a fairly small animal, but no detail is visible. A lion would surely appear paler.
With that tail, it couldn't be anything else.
They do have amazing eyes, and it is perfectly OK to appreciate them 😃
or sniffing it. #female #lion
Unlikely, 'cos very open country. They are more tommies.
Big animal nearly 2m high (how do I know? camera is 1m high, half of animal is above horizon) = #eland
#warthog - combo of bristly back and thin whip-like tail in frame 3
#secretary-bird - light upper body, black 'britches'.
correct - big, pale, no black markings on legs
The strong black stripe on its side is your best clue - #thomsons-gazelle. There are 2 in this pic.
Very unlikely to see aardvark in daylight, also they are bigger. These are #guineafowl.
Look at that long horsey tail - #wildebeest!
but horns very distinct, showing these are #hartebeest.
When you post pics here, we don't know what your wild guesses were!
They often seem to scratch their faces on the camera box.
I think it's just grass.
They are separate closed or open rings rather than a spiral.
I can't know what you guessed, but hope it was #wildebeest.
The 3 animals on R are #wildebeest. At a distance, their backs look light.
Eland has a long tail with a tassel at end. "Crested' tail like this is typical of #hartebeest and topi. This is hartebeest.
I don't see elephants. The animals in R bkg are zebras - which, surprisingly, are often mistaken for elephants.
Yes - like other members of cow family, #wildebeest sits down forelegs first.
Umm...embarrassing for a lion researcher, but I can't be absolutely certain! I would say #lion because of stout build.
#oxpecker
These are #reedbuck
#zebra for sure.
Nothing odd. When a new SD card is put in a camera, the tech records the date and the camera number.
Based on size & color this is #hartebeest
#cheetah - they are bigger. You are looking probably at its shoulder, whereas only the face of a serval reaches cameras height.
It's a #hippo, and eating grass not birds.
In a car with a pop-top? It's a standard tourist rig. There are many pix of balloons landing here, so maybe part of that crew.
Yes, they often lie down. No elephants were harmed to make this photo!
Just try to guess what they are. Each pic is classified by many people, so if the results are very variable, the experts will review it.
The light spot is just grass, and i think there are several more impala over there, so there wouldn't be a lion.
Not sure what we have here, it might be elephants.
If you look in the collections you can find many more in this sequence.
correct - also, spotted is far more common.
Smallish (cameras are mounted 1 metre high) and has a thick black stripe along its side = #thomsons-gazelle (a bovid, not a deer)
I'd say #elephant
Yes, it's one of the biggest spp here except for hippo, rhino & ele. Level horizontal back & solid dark color distinguish it from gnu.
I was too, until I lightened it. It's a #thomsons-gazelle with head down and rump to camera.
Shape, size and color are wrong for dikdik. I think #reedbuck is a better fit.
#grey-backed-fiscal - a kind of shrike.
Difficult. They appear to be #wildebeest.
You're correct.
I don't see any...these are all #impala
Anything weird and bristly close to camera is often a #warthog.
I see only 2. From the head, the horns sweep down and then their tips curve back up again.
yes, he is following her, perhaps with romantic intent.
There is - see, it is big, has a long beard, and some stripes. Not many animals with that combo. It's a #wildebeest.
The beard gives you a clue - not many except #wildebeest have them. The two animals in bkg are also wildebeest.
Looks like distant fire. Check this image from a few days later: ASG001690m
impala or gazelle, can't see clearly.
#hippo - way too big for w'hog.
No horses in Serengeti. This is a #wildebeest.
#hartlaubs-bustard
The 'hippo' is a female ostrich.
It's close to sunset, and you do occasionally see porcupines by day.
#giraffe is the only one with such long legs.
absolutely #elephant
#bushbuck is right.
it looks like the front hoof being picked up for the next step.
Think it's a #wildebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle - was that your guess?
The dewlap, the black patches on forelimbs and the black tasseled tail are all distinctive marks of #eland. Study those ID pix!
Yes. About this time in the morning they start to get airborne on rising thermals.
Chec the ID fotos, u'll find it thar.
#cape-rook
No - see below
It's a #wildebeest
2 #elephant - one moving, the other standing R of centre.
What did u guess - #warthog?
#martial-eagle
Most eagles aren't this tall - may be secretary?
Wow!
Umm, look at the color - blue! This is a lilac-breasted roller.
These are buffalo. Watch the one coming from R. Its back from shoulder to rump is quite level, while gnu slopes down from shoulder to rump.
Definitely.
The leg markings are your clue.
Lappet-faced #vulture
Looks like #tawny-eagle
Looks like just one - may be preening itself!
Can't tell if it's an animal at all, but it's not a gnu - by May, gnu calves are big & dark like the one sitting L of centre tree.
looks like young #wildebeest
Crowned is a forest species, would be very unlikely here on the plains.
Short trunks usually mean a past encounter with a snare.
hard to say - it's behind a twig, could be part of another hyena?
probably grant's.
#eland is right
looks like it
#honey-badger.
Seems to have feathered head and neck, so #eagle.
Use what you can see; size, color, hair texture, shape, markings. In this case, 3 #hartebeest
Right. Also, if it were a Grant you wouldn't be looking over its back - they are that much bigger.
They are born hornless, start with straight spikes that start to develop their curve towards end of 1st year.
Standing and swinging its trunk. In background, a little ele is lying down and fidgeting.
Can't tell if leg injured but his horns are broken!
Walking or standing - exposure low n slow, so it's blurred.
#hartebeest scratching itself
#elephants. They actually aren't born full sized!
yes, it would be a tommy.
So what's your guess? Mine is warthog.
I knew you'd figure it out, rlb66xyz!
Looks more like #buffalo
no, rhino is not so tall - #elephant. GES, recommend you don't tag them unless you are really sure of your ID!
also known as #bushbuck - note horns, this is a male.
I vote for tail of white-tailed mongoose.
No, rear end of #wildebeest - warthog would not be out so late at night.
Night flash photo, so top left is part of background beyond the animal. However, I can't tell what the animal is!
Most likely grey-breasted spurfowl. That and coqui francolin are the only ones common in the study area, and it isn't coqui.
#impala horn.
BEF has big black ears. This looks more like a #mongoose.
no, #wildebeest
No, #grants-gazelle
These are #eland. Gnus have a much less obtrusive penis sheath.
These are #hartebeest - looks like a young one far L approaching an adult.
#grants-gazelle surely?
Only flightless bird you will see here is ostrich!
I think Grant's is right.
5 x #thomsons-gazelle
This seems to be our second sighting of this cat. No tortoise, it is investigating a tree stump.
Not eland but #hartebeest
probably #thomsons-gazelle
#impala butt
One of the small #bustard species
Why rhino? doesn't resemble any animal I can think of. Human?
Looks like our old friend the #hartebeest
I think Grants too.
Probably #hartebeest. Large animal, hair on neck is very short and smooth.
May be a blacksmith plover.
Yes #hartebeest - eland should show a black ventral stripe as in ASG0012y6u.
There are 2 zebras on R, can't tell what is mystery animal at L but since no stripes, may be gnu. Stick is a stick.
Looks more like hyena.
#Wildebeest for sure
Might be small bird.
It is a way of resting their necks, but also each zebra's tail keeps away flies from the other's face.
Yes.
Agree steinbuck / steenbok
It really is a bird's feathers.
My take is zebra and hartebeest back L, and warthog centre.
Hard to tell - maybe impala.
#aardvark - yes, very unusual!
Not sure either. Possibly part of human? We'd need to see other pics from about that time.
Far L may be gazelles but others are #hartebeest.
Sure it's not civet, but has anyone an idea?
Yes, but the hartebeest is an #eland. Look at its tail!
It wouldn't be very preg in May, they conceive in Apr, but still could be wildebeest.
So massive, has to be #elephant
With so much white on tail, must be #impala
Shape is very like gnu but if it was, you would likely see an ear - buffalo horns are wider. And I agree with Brit about flies. So, #buffalo
could be rufous-tailed-weaver.
The camera is mounted about 1m high so in a flat landscape, animals shorter than 1m are below horizon, and taller ones are above it.
raindrops
Under tree is probably also a guineafowl.
Nevertheless, something with contrasting black and white markings could well be...zebra?
#Jackal, possibly side-striped.
Possibly hyena? Color resembles gnu but time of year is wrong for them.
Either is possible, and I wouldn't rule out wildebeest too.
May be baboon. There is more of it here, 2 min later: ASG0017e2y
looks like #serval
looks like #spotted-hyena, see also ASG00148yq about 1hr later.
warthog seems likely.
Probably #hartebeest, see ASG0012rcf an hour later.
More likely wind, or some unseen animal rubbing self on tree.
Highly unlikely to see a civet out on the plains at midday, they are nocturnal & secretive. This is #spotted-hyena.
It's a spurfowl or francolin, can't see any details.
Hard to tell...more likely would be bustard or perhaps secretary bird.
well done, hartebeest they are.
The round grey thing at left? Could be, it's about the right size, but hard to make a positive ID.
#gazelle, can't be sure which kind.
No - #buffalo, there are at least 4 in this shot.
probably
#cheetah - hyenas are not so clearly spotted.
Correct, could be black-winged kite
Not jackal, the ears and eyes are wrong. This appears to be a young #warthog.
#bird is probably our familiar black-winged-kite.
#zebra for sure - sorry Brittany, the stripes are real stripes and the zebra is wrinklier than usual! View is of chest and forelegs.
I think it has to be #buffalo. There shouldn't be gnus in such dry grass.
Looks like #wildebeest
based on size & texture, probably tommy.
probably a tommy.
okaaay - #guineafowl!
Looks like a mangy tommy, the horn fits too.
The birds are too small for vultures, may be doves.
These are young male #impala
It IS an #impala.
Yes, and thus she exposes a lot of bare skin which can easily lose heat. Female ostriches also pose like this to courting males ("I'm hot!")
helmeted #guineafowl - it's on the list. You're just seeing its head.
#bushbuck seen from rear.
probably #hyena.
It's round like hippo but has too much tail, so I think #buffalo.
There have been quite a lot of pics of mother & young this season. Otherwise, as you say, servals are solitary.
I see it as the left foreleg of a buff who is sitting with folded legs and leaning R. (But I really like the land walrus!)
Good! The forward-curving horns are right for #reedbuck.
Could just be closed. Their eyes can be quite hard to see.
Except, these are #eland. Note black stripe on belly, black marks around hooves - hartebeest don't have that.
Looks like one of the smaller bustards.
Yes, a #black-winged-kite
Looks right.
#thomsons-gazelle would be a good guess.
You don't need to tag fire, scorched etc, there are so many of these.
Appears to be a Von der Decken's #hornbill
#thomsons-gazelle, you can clearly see side stripe on the R one.
Ears are wrong for any hyena, and look at those two diagonal stripes! I'm sure it is #civet, well done jdemers!
Yes!!!
We rarely see more than one hare. Vervets? Birds? Can't be sure!
Yes, but no need to tag it. It will be in every photo from this camera.
Maybe, but color is more like vervet.
#impala in rain
Kori is much bigger, this looks like a plover.
#impala looks good.
That small brown thing looks more like a gnu calf.
Nice view of #lappet-faced-vulture
Looks like eland to me
Zebras do sometimes lie down, esp young ones. Looks like one standing, others sitting. Light distant beasts are zebra.
#serval definitely
Not an animal
looks more like #serval
#ostrich say I
Ah, now I see it! Brilliant guys! I think I can retire...
Correct...wrinkled skin is distinctive
Compare it with same view, different time - nothing changes, so no animal.
#wildebeest, I think.
Yes - tommies are females and young; the grant R of centre is a young male - still a lot taller than tommies.
Very hard even when lightened. I'd guess zebra from shape, about 9 or 10.
With difficulty. They aren't so good at picking grass but can still browse from bushes at head height. And half a trunk is better than none!
Female Granti - butt & horns are distinctive; the side stripe is present in some grants but not many, just to confuse you 😃
#oxpecker bird on the buffalo.
If you compare with another pic of tree, say ASG0014bdt, there seems to be a leopard standing on branch just R of centre of tree.
But definitely #wildebeest tail at R, so they are very probably all wildebeest.
I'd guess baboon.
Nice one Brittany!
#dikdik! It looks bigger than it is, but the gray rump and the crest of hair between ears are distinctive.
#dwarf-mongoose
It looks too short-haired for hyena, I would guess cheetah.
Ouch, that looks like a lucky escape. It might recover, hard to judge, but if it limps it may be targeted again.
Could be as many as 4 #elephants here.
#secretarybird head probably with those spatulate feathers.
#owl is right, maybe Marsh owl.
#black-winged-kite
#ostrich is right, and small #bird could be a plover.
Remember, cameras are about 1 metre above ground so this would be a large mouse! My guess is #spotted-hyena.
But they are #buffalo.
Honest mistake...I've heard of unscrupulous tour-guides who try to convince their tourists that a warthog is a baby rhino!
#wildebeest, looks #young
If all frames are black, I'd say nothing there. If there seems to be movement, it's something.
On left is #zebra. On R may be impala.
No punishment! There may be many pictures of the same view, all slightly different.
Too tall for lion, and gazelles would definitely watch one. Maybe hartebeest?
He does have little spike horns and he's a #young #wildebeest!
Yes - unusual!
Looks like #martial-eagle, but I can't tell what its prey might be, and I don't see the mongooses - just tommies
tail of #bird !
Yes, #lappet-faced-vulture, still resident on the plains in dry season when most other spp have left.
Could be camera overexposing for being in the shade. But (very rarely) light coloration does occur - google "white wildebeest"
Yeah that's so nice!
Looks like it! I guess that can happen.
It looks sorta friendly. Broken horn is a male and the other is a female so they wouldn't be fighting.
#serval looks right
correct!
Just swollen with big macho muscles I think. Likely a male with a big rack to carry around.
Shape is wrong, also impala and gazelles should show some trace of black. I think #reedbuck.
Maybe Grant in front, all Tommys behind.
Definitely #wildebeest
Beak of #kori-bustard
yes, can't be sure - there are a few wandering around who have been "truncated" by poachers' wire snares.
Definitely
Definitely #impala. Also, all Grant's have horns, impala females don't.
no, much smaller - probably #crowned-lapwing
#topi is correct
Might be gray-backed-fiscal but that is a fairly intrepid guess !
yes, and a #topi further away.
Call it nothing. Night photo yet not of an animal close to lens, so it's a glitch or a very dirty-lens photo.
One of the lapwings/plovers - Black-winged or maybe Crowned, can't see the details.
I agree #grants-gazelle
Only one possibility...the tallest of them all! #giraffe
bigger....#lion
I don't see eyes - on far left, looks like grass heads.
Yes, their whole back is iridescent blue.
little black bushy tail = #thomsons-gazelle
There shouldn't be actual dogs here. This looks like #spotted-hyena.
Can't see one!
no deer in Africa...may be a #wildebeest
yes #hartebeest tail, tricky one!
Civets are the size of a medium dog...these are small birds, perhaps superb starlings.
A warthog would not be out so late at night, and would show more hair. Might be young elephant lying on side - another guess!
#thomsons-gazelle is right
Yes #serval - because of black and white markings behind ears.
If tommy, it ought to have horns, but none visible. Maybe reedbuck?
About to spray the camera, I think!
No, just lighting artifacts, which we often see on this camera in early mornings.
Thanks for sharing it!
yes #zebra - I just see 2.
We very rarely see zorilla. This is a #white-tailed-mongoose
Probably #grants-gazelle in foreground and #superb-starlings further away.
The flies are often an ID aid, when you can only see a small part of the buffalo. No other animal consistently has so many flies!
Since camera points skyward and is being moved, I suspect this is #human.
No, it's the gnarly horns of a #buffalo.
If you mean the vegetation, yes. These are both #eland.
Gotta be #lion. There are so many pics of lions sleeping under this bush.
I'm guessing #jackal because a serval would have more black behind its ears.
The front one is definitely #wildebeest, look at the tail. I think the others are too.
Hyena is more likely.
Elephants are quite big. This is a warthog.
All look like zebra to me.
Identifiable as large & hairless with short thick legs - #hippo fits well.
I like that! Appears to be a #buffalo component,
#buffalo - at least 2 and possibly 4 in photo.
Probably #buffalo
Yes, #aardvark.
No...dikdik head is lower than camera height. Maybe a tommy?
Yes, about 4 months old.
Part of a plant in foreground.
True. It looks like a family on the move, so maybe hurrying to a shrubbier place to spend the day!
Tentatively #white-bellied-bustard
Well spotted - #hartebeest kinky horns are distinctive.
Seems impossibly low for another's tail, and absent from other frames...could be shadow of tail??
Yes! #serval x 2
All #buffalo, and they are listed.
#waterbuck
It is still the tail of #bat-eared-fox. Hippos are quite large.
They are #zebras - about 8 total.
You're correct. For those who are still learning gazelles - Grant's female in foreground, then male. I like the perspective in this picture!
Looks like it - #grants-gazelle
Daytime - Maybe hand of researcher, or someone preventing camera seeing what should not be seen...
#black-headed-heron #bird
#grants-gazelle - lots of white on rear.
They are quite often active in daylight, esp early and late.
It looked like a threat. Re earlier comments about grant horns...these are all females.
you nailed it!
Sisige, grant females have much bigger horns than tommy females - slender but about a foot long, and quite functional for self-defence.
Or this is the big 'grant' that they applied for?
Looks like #wildebeest, horns are out of frame.
#lion is really the only animal that color that you'll see resting under a bush.
but head is clearly #wildebeest
Several possibilities - I'd guess zebra
#gazelle, species uncertain
looks like #lion.
I wonder if that's the tail-tip of another, close to camera. Could be a mother & young together.
I like it!
mine is #warthog
Routine grass fire. Fortunately the camera survived!
It's out of focus dust. Real moon looks about half that size.
Genet? There's a hint of a ringed tail hanging down.
Head shape looks like #jackal.
Hard one - could be impala, hartebeest, several other possibilities. Not elephant - too low.
It's interspecific - 3 tommies, 1 grant.
#secretarybird is right
I think they are more gnus. One on R has a big black face.
Mature, and no sign of maleness there.
#secretarybird x 2
Must be. I can't see it at all 😉
Here's another jackal picture that might help: ASG00168xf Dark mark about 1/4 way from tail base to tip is quite distinctive for BBJ.
#hippo looks right
This is a #thomsons-gazelle, dark marks are tree shadows.
Civet would definitely show striping along back and have a different shaped tail. This looks like a #black-backed-jackal.
More likely #thomsons-gazelle in tree shadow.
#grants-gazelle is right - the white curling forward over black bar on rump is distinctive.
Elephants aren't hairy like this.
The moving thing is just grass, so anyone moving it is out of frame.
#wildebeest elbow I would say
Looks like #serval.
I'm not intrepid enough for this one. LBJ!
#dwarf-mongoose definitely
leaves!
Foreground is Ring-necked or Mourning dove, can't see eye to distinguish. Background isn't dove but I can't ID.
Either that or topi.
#thomsons-gazelle is a good guess.
The well-known #bird-other !
You generally don't see belly of giraffe, just legs. Maybe buffalo.
But no horns! Surely an #impala female.
#warthog.
I think they are all #grants-gazelle.
Yes, 2 playing in branches.
I see no animal.
Tommy is correct.
Just resting - young ones often lie on side thus.
These are Gazelles, wea. Hard to explain why - Eland are "bigger", shaped more like a cow. I think these are Grant's, maybe Tommies too.
Yes, tommy at far right. It's not unusual, but they eat different foods and don't seem to interact.
Happens most years, not as terrible as it looks - unless you're a grasshopper or stick insect!
Another tommy maybe
#buffalo correct - also, note the more cow-like tail than wildebeest who has a horse-like tail.
well, sometimes a zebra 'rides' another zebra... 😃
#spotted-hyena more likely. I just can't imagine seeing a striped h in daytime sitting under a tree like this, they are usually in a den.
#hartebeest looks right.
#wildebeest is right, may even be adult.
#waterbuck is right, well done.
I think I can see the black stripes of #thomsons-gazelle, but not 100% sure.
No, in June, E. Rollers have returned to Europe! These are #superb-starling, metallic blue with orange below, and often seen in these photos
Yes, iPad is not good for night photos. On computer you can make lighter, see the details in the darkness.
Swarms (bees, termites) are usually not seen in dry season, and not so dense. This is a #dust-devil, picking up ash from the recent fire.
#interacting - jumping on another, out of frame!
This is a #young #baboon - in 1 you see its head at right, its bare butt & bent-down tail at left. Jackal has big triangular ears like fox.
Yes #lion
Right on lens and static - caterpillar, or dirt.
#thomsons-Gazelle
You did exactly right - made a guess based on what you could see. It is indeed a #warthog's rump.
You will see many, don't need to post or tag them. There are thousands.
All #thomsons-gazelle, maybe 9 total.
It is a tommy, but standing and maybe scratching self with a hind foot.
Genet is small, like a cat, and has no horns. These look like #topi.
prob female Hartlaub's
#guineafowl, which form large flocks esp in dry season.
Can'r tell - maybe buffalo?
Waiting for the champagne breakfast 😛
#impala - time to review the ID guide!
In fact it is a raptor (Accipitriformes), just with longer legs than others.
I agree, bat
#impala is a good fit, and habitat is right (trees & bushes).
Small and solitary, though, is unusual. Warthog?
No idea! Researcher opening the camera box?
Years of practice! 😃
These are #impala in classic impala habitat, but the little guy closer on R is a #dikdik.
For this open plains habitat, smallish size and warm color, best guess is #thomsons-gazelle.
Young often rest like this. No animals were harmed to make this photo!
#baboon. Can't fix res, but for zoom read this: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG0000x0t
But the stripes are distinctive - this is a #wildebeest
Steppe would have a bigger gape, extending beyond rear edge of eye, so this is #tawny-eagle.
So far, that I can see #nothing!
Definitely seeing her reflection in the lens!
I think cats use the cameras as scent-marking posts, and check them out each time to see who else has been in the area.
I get, altogether, 4 #hartebeest, 2 #thomsons-gazelle, 3 #buffalo and a #grey-breasted-spurfowl #bird.
Fire. Sky is lighter at sunset.
I think it's #topi. Eland has similar black patches, but compare e.g.. ASG001817w and it's a good match.
Good guess. Either that or topi. I find it hard to tell, if mum isn't visible!
That is neat - must be a second serval checking the camera, as nothing else would be so close to a serval.
Definitely. Funny!
Exactly! This #crowned-lapwing / plover is the one most commonly seen in SSS photos.
I can't prove my ID - it's based partly on size - impala would be taller - and on habitat - too open for impala.
#eland leg. Topi would be more yellow below the black. Also see 10 mins earlier, ASG00182mw
Yes, he could well be doing that.
#wildebeest yes. You can see its black face, pale beard, and striped neck & shoulders.
Also, impala rarely seen away from bushy areas.
About 1 metre, like this #thomsons-gazelle. More info here: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000xe1
But it is a #secretarybird.
Right again...the well-named #superb-starling
Size, color & texture look like #wildebeest
Looks like #marsh-owl
Drooping a wing - hurt or just hot.
Likely a female #thomsons-gazelle
Looks hairier than a heron, too small for any antelope (to be that blurry it has to be very close). Maybe tail of baboon?
#elephant.
#hyena makes more sense!
Ah, no wonder you know your animals. I've done many safaris in Kenya. but not so many these days. Karibu TZ!
Looks blocky like a car but can't be sure. Foreground animal appears to be a tommy.
The 'tail' in 3 is likely the bristly lower lip. Ele is probably pulling grass, blurred in dim light, as there's no waterhole there
yes #guineafowl
Well done sisige! I'll buy #thomsons-gazelle. When I look at ASG0014cqj it's obvious. Duh!
#white-bellied-bustards
Ah yes, #white-headed-buffalo-weaver.
Funny!
We see them sometimes, but usually after 10am. In early morning, this camera gives interesting lens-flare effects.
all #buffalo
Hard one! Projections in 1 look like feathers. Either crest of Secretary with head v close to camera, or less likely, part of fem ostrich.
Use what you can see here. It's solid gray, no marks, lower than camera lens, coarse hair on back...that narrows it down to... #warthog.
I think so, yes. Only other option is hare but I think hare ear is more rounded at tip, eye would be closer to base of ear. Good call!
From its roundness and pink tints, I think so.
Likely the flank of another #hartebeest, closer to the camera.
This adult's in no danger. The rare predations by baboons are usually on baby gazelles etc who hide by crouching motionless in the grass.
Might be a babbler.
It's unusual though. You more often see a baboon troop and an impala herd peacefully feeding together. btw, that's an #impala in back.
#superb-starling - white vent feathers
Beautiful light and 'soft focus' (probably from cheetah pee all over the lens!) - a calendar photo!
Good one, it isn't often you get to press the "51+" button.
spotted-hyena
But horns v distinctive - female #grants-gazelle
Let's not...might be back of serval ear but who knows.
#aardvark - Good guess say I.
from color & size, looks like #impala
Could be, or baboon? it's a bit brown for a vervet.
#thomsons-gazelle grazing. The black part is the stripe on its side.
Sorry...no horses in Serengeti NP, nor in most of E Africa. It's a zebra looking over another's back. Closer dark lump is a termite mound.
Antelope-type body, crest of dark hair along neck & shoulders - #young #wildebeest
There are 4 #birds, may be plovers, or sandgrouse.
#thomsons-gazelle resting.
No obvious black sidestripe, lots of white on rear, therefore #grants-gazelle x 3 and #hartebeest
what's your guess? mine is #wildebeest, female groin and teats. 1/2 hr earlier the area was full of them: ASG00123oa
Don't know what you stabbed...my guess is #spotted-hyena
It's normal. This is a young male #thomsons-gazelle.
You didn't share your guess. Wildebeest is one possibility.
Carnivore. Not lion or spotted cat. slightly scruffy with hint of long hair on neck - #spotted-hyena? Many hyena pix here later in morning.
Then your only other option is #grants-gazelle.
Male #thomsons-gazelle sitting down.
#warthog, and the others are of course #impala.
Zebra in bkg too.
Yes, it is! Mongoose? Not sure at all.
I'd guess #thomsons-gazelle.
Ear shape is v similar to the hartebeest in 3. Might be young h-beest, or a tommy - I can't be sure which.
Not confidently. I'd guess tommy.
#balloon mate! They launch just b4 sunrise and fly about an hour, so timing is right.
Yes, it's a whole new game when they get so close to the cameras! What will we do with these amazing skills when S-S is finished?
#superb-starling - a trash bird there, but they still blow me away!
Yes it's something - elephant dung!
Couldn't see it...or anything moving. Where?
At least 3 in picture, not counting shadow. Always check for extra legs!
#ostrich !
Looks like #warthog
Honey-badgers are silvery-grey on back, and don't have hands. This is a #baboon.
Usually if it's this close and you can see the horizon over its back, as here, it's a #thomsons-gazelle. If it's taller, it's a Grant.
If it was there, you'd be sure! Nothing here.
This is the elusive #wildebeest.
Note large size, humped shoulder, fringes of hair above and below neck, vertical white stripes. Bushbuck have none of these. This is #eland.
Size, shape and color are useful clues. I see 1 #warthog grazing and 5 #guineafowl passing by.
The acacia thorn is probably 3-4" long, so animal is a bit small for elephant. It may be #eland.
Hartlaub's bustard.
Surely it's easier to see the stripey thing as the out-of-focus ridged horn of a tommy who is very close to camera?
yes #young
Note fringe of black hairs overlapping edge of ear from back. Jackals don't show this - it's a #serval. We need a guide to ears and noses!
Tail of #bird perched on camera
Long ears with dark tips visible on front and back - surely #impala?
There's only one kind of warthog. They do look #young.
But color is totally wrong. These are #young #hartebeest.
Nice male #thomsons-gazelle #portrait
It occurs in many photos, hours apart, so it's grass or other vegetation.
It's elephant dung.
They Dolittle but stand in the shade 😃
Er... the bird is INSIDE the half-open camera box - that makes it a pretty small passerine!
I don't think so. If you compare with ASG0016gio, taken 5h earlier, there is no difference.
Big, no spots, so it's a #lion!
It has to be serval or cheetah. Serval has greenish-yellow eye and #cheetah has orange eye, see 2, so that gets my vote!
Misty, tell me why these are cows. They look so much like #buffalo with #young! 😉
Nice #portrait.
Might be a lioness bending down to sniff below camera. I only say this because object in bottom R looks like back of a lion ear.
Sometimes they rest the trunk on a tusk, like this. Imagine having a 300-pound nose, it would start to pull on your face after a while...
Resting #wildebeest.
Limb - of tree or partly-eaten large animal.
The hard line between buff and white is typical of #grants-gazelle.
#reedbuck ?
#male #lion is right.
Looks like #spotted-hyena
You'll only see impala where there are trees and bushes. Here's a #grants-gazelle between two #hartebeest.
Looks like a very new baby #hartebeest.
yes, stripes and irregular hair texture make it a gnu.
Plant
Probably #thomsons-gazelle
Well, there is a long-winged short-tailed bird perched on the camera box, maybe a blackwinged kite but who knows!
Correct, 4-5 months old. The horns start out straight, then become curved (. ) before getting their final shape.
No - refer to ID guide. This is a #kori-bustard.
That's very typical of #serval.
It's a road grader.
No - short cat face and long ears make it a #serval.
That's how it is, five months into dry season.
No, young ones often rest lying down.
To get somewhere else quickly.
Ear shape fits warthog better!
male #bushbuck
#hartebeest, yes, and more distant tommies.
correct - horn shape is distinctive.
Correct. A resident pair lives around this camera.
#crowned-lapwing, a.k.a. #crowned-plover. I assume you got the #giraffe too?
definitely #baboon
I agree. As elegant as a butterfly's wing, if you disregard what it's attached to... 😉
Absolutely - there's nothing like it!
Car yes, but the animals are bigger than car - #elephants, probably at least 30. I wouldn't expect to see wildebeest here in Oct.
#thomsons-gazelle - strong black side-stripe visible
Just grass. I can think of no green herps that you'd see in Serengeti grasslands.
Same old - gnu & gnu
#yellow-billed-oxpecker on #eland
It's what they do. A big male like this has about an 18-foot reach!
Nope. We force you to guess. Here you have biggish dark grazing animals, #buffalo would be a reasonable guess.
#impala. You can even see the little black tufts on 'heels', which only impalas have.
Its blurriness confused me - I thought small thing close and unfocused, but could also be gnu moving very fast.
Corrrect
Possibly blackwinged-lapwing?
Teaser...baboon? I can't be sure.
Striped has longer hair on neck and back so I'd vote spotted h, but again just a guess.
I don't think so. More likely a hyena.
Unmistakable topi on far R, and I think another sitting to L of the foreground h-beest. Mixed groups of these species are not unusual.
More like jackal than BEF, but very puzzling because neither is tall enough to be photographed from this angle - unless it's someone's prey?
#elephant, probably adult.
Yes there is. You guess. Actually there's enough here (ear, small deformed horn) to ID as female #thomsons-gazelle.
yes it is.
Correct. We classify them as 'human' and tag them #cows, as you have done.
New juicy green shoots often appear soon after a burn.
These are #dikdik, who are often seen in this particular view.
Muzzle and horn of an ungulate, probably buffalo.
Can't see any animal bodies there. They may be eyes, or just flying insects lit by flash.
Can't see one.
...it's a sinister-looking bush 😦
Ho hum, just another #aardvark!
A #tawny-eagle.
Dark colour & humped shoulders = #wildebeest. In 1 you can also see the long flowing black tail of far left animal.
This appears to be a #warthog - unusual to see one out after dark, but it's only just after dark.
Always guess and call it something. See discussion: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb.
Cameras are about 1m up, attached to a tree. Cheetah fur and spots are as shown. Young cheetahs are more fuzzy, especially on neck and back.
Smoke from fire. Fog sometimes seen on cold mornings after rain, usually Dec-Apr.
May just be because sun is behind it. There supposedly are dark zebras, you can find them with Google.
#eland. In 3 you can see that its head is high up, has slight twist to horns, and a tuft of hair below its neck.
I'd say #cheetah. We're seeing its shoulder, and a serval can only just reach its face up to the camera.
Good eyes!
In 3 it looks more like #hartebeest.
That is also possible !
hyena?
Why not? April & May is a beautiful time to visit, not many people around, and wildflowers can be amazing.
Probably #serval
Not an easy distinction. Size is more useful - a Tommy's head is about level with lens, Grant's are a lot taller.
Yes, we get a lot of these artifacts on this camera at dawn.
It's in the act of sitting down to rest - folding its fore-legs first, to be followed by hind-legs.
No grouse here! #kori-bustard.
Correct, a very nice view of one. Often we only see part of it. Note bushy white tail and black legs - unique combo.
I think something much smaller and very close to the camera, like a small bird
Too far for reliable ID. Leopards are generally solitary. These could just as well be buffalo.
Well done...it bothered me that a zebra would be mugging the camera with no others visible.
It does look strange.
I'd guess #spotted-hyena, mainly cos ear looks hairless and lion ears are usually more fuzzy.
Take a break 😃
#spotted-hyena - dark because it's wet or muddy.
How about...pink nose, nostril and spotty muzzle of a lion (or other cat) sniffing camera?
#spotted-hyena is what I see.
Who knows? Maybe gnus, can't tell.
#young & tender!
I see no animals. Maybe your lion is a pile of dung.
#impala, I think.
#baboon for sure.
Big raptor, maybe tawny eagle.
There's a car and possibly part of a person, so #human
dragonfly
When you get that feeling it's best to stay well clear of the bushes 😃
The one on right of pair is a minor, note the straight vertical horns.
#ring-necked-dove
Looks like #young #cheetah to me.
I can't see any. There are a #buffalo mother and #young in background.
No, too big and wrong shape - #buffalo
No, they look more like gazelles.
Looks more like cheetah.
This #bird is a #ring-necked-dove.
#buffalo - at least 3 here. Well spotted!
#wildebeest. ASG0018fn1 and ASG0018fn3 imply they were around for much of that morning.
You're welcome! It's an enjoyable challenge for me to ID some of the weird shots you all find, and to revisit the wonderful Serengeti.
L may be cape-rook, R probably vulture.
Only #wildebeest has this kind of beard - we can be absolutely sure. I see at least 2 in this pic.
#young #buffalo is correct
#black-backed-jackal for sure.
Correct. #Hartebeest often spend long periods resting in front of certain cameras.
Yes it is - #guineafowl are about the size of chickens.
Female #thomsons-gazelle often do.
Can't really tell.
3 #eland on R for sure, 2 more zebras in centre, can't see what the further ones are.
Just tree.
Leaves.
Can't tell what the little guys are, maybe small birds. The big guy is either a baboon or a warthog, can't be sure.
In a lion, the bridge of nose would not be convex like this, and there would be rows of black whisker spots at side. This is a #gazelle
looks like #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
Size & shape=big raptor. Fully feathered head & neck=eagle. Can't tell u more, but in dry season, best bet is #tawny-eagle.
Definitely #serval.
Yes, banded #mongoose
In April, there usually is - it's one of the wettest months.
Height, texture, no horns, form of front leg...oh, and I followed lions around Serengeti for a lot of years, so this view is familiar! 😃
#female #lion, facing away. In 1 you get her flank and elbow and tip of ear. In 3, thigh and base of tail. It puzzled me for a while, too!
This is a young male #grants-gazelle. The female coming into frame 3 may be his mother. The Thomson's gazelle has a heavier black stripe.
Deep Inner Cleansing.
Don't see one. Serengeti termites don't build tall chimneys. The tall black thing is a dead tree.
One #wildebeest for sure, maybe another 4 with heads down.
tail of #bat-eared-fox.
But locusts would show hind legs, and we never see locust swarms in Serengeti. This is undoubtedly a mating swarm of termites. Honest!
No interaction - that's typical.
Outstanding!
#topi or possibly hartebeest - I can't tell which, can anyone?
Looks like #martial-eagle
Too big. Looks more like #thomsons-gazelle.
#banded-mongoose. In the background are #impala.
I think you're right, doesn't fit anything else.
If that's a hyena at L, it is unlikely to tackle a zebra alone, and the zebras don't look concerned.
I get 2
Yes, #crowned-lapwing
The lump? Could be its hip bone.
It's night-time and something very close to camera, but I can't tell what. Ear? Fold of skin? Have fun and give it your wildest guess 😄
#thomsons-gazelle. I've noticed recently that when very close up, you can see whiskers above their eyes.
Can't ID from this, sorry
Reedbuck looks correct.
Probably #tawny-eagle.
I'd say #nothing here.
About 7 #thomsons-gazelles and 2....buffalo or sth else?
So do i! Seems to be very close and has some short hair...in cases like this you just have to guess, or hope someone finds another pic of it
It is indeed a #white-tailed-mongoose, not often do we see the front view!
I was guessing serval, because so low...what do others think?
camera malfunction.
#thomsons-gazelle - imagine it's facing you and grazing below frame, so you see its back and side-stripe. HB is shorter!
Yes - there are at least 5 bustards on the Serengeti list!
correct...#white-bellied-bustard
#thomsons-gazelle. What is the point of #waytooclose?
I agree #spotted-hyena, from head-down posture and brownish color with dark muzzle.
In such open grassland, more likely #grants-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle. It could almost have been impala, but then in 3 it flicks that little dark tail - impala's tail would show white.
Not too close - you have color, leg form, tail form. #buffalo
#sunrise!
Does look like a little trunk, doesn't it? 😃
Yes, looks like #side-striped-jackal
Definitely, with young. Black spot below ear is diagnostic.
Yes indeed. You can see the mum's bum, which confirms it.
Most likely a #bird but can't tell which.
Much too big, and you almost never see striped hyena. This is a #wildebeest.
He's not really; was coming towards camera, then turned slightly to right of picture.
They often kick a food-plant with front foot while pulling it with trunk, to uproot it more easily.
From its stout, ridged horns you can tell it's a young male #thomsons-gazelle. Dikdiks would never be in this open grassland habitat.
This is a much smaller bird, probably an African Hoopoe.
#bird #other. Could be a roller, or a small hawk.
Wing, of #black-winged-kite
Well spotted. All I can say is 'probably'.
#hippo is right
ha ha
Correct, #lion
Yes, tommy.
Head of another zebra, halfway up left side.
might just be an illuminated moth passing.
Probably fighting another male. Boys will be boys.
Sometimes - yet still, some lions specialize in hunting buffalo and get very good at it. Solitary males are the easiest targets.
In all my years in Serengeti I only saw them a handful of times. They aren't very common and keep a very low profile!
The big blocky animals L of tree look like eland, those to R may be Grants.
He may be scratching his face on a stick.
A fine example of #bird #other 😃
Like most of the horse family, they are fond of rolling on the ground to scratch their backs. Nothing to do with the gnu who is passing by.
Wildebeest rubbing its head or horns on the ground or on a small bush. The bulls often do this.
Also a cheetah is not so tall!
and Grant's gaz in foreground.
In photo 1 are two #thomsons-gazelle. In photos 2 & 3, one gazelle walks away. Nie ma tu lew!
I don't see anything, except that tree stump which so many animals like to climb on.
Neither. When a group is resting, the young ones up to ~5yrs often lie on their sides thus.
Could be, but I can't tell.
Not running for their lives, as one just stops still in 3.
It's very likely, but we can't be certain.
#impalas, yes.
A rare chance to see the camera housing. Guess the researchers forgot to bring the slate 😃
That columnar leg, and the strange pattern of hair growth on tail, can only be #elephant.
hmmm...I'd say tommy.
This site has everything!!
Looks more like #thomsons-gazelle, behind the rocks, not on them.
I think so. Only other possibility is reedbuck.
and several zebras and at least one Grant's gazelle.
#african-grey-hornbill
Yes. Good one!
Not from such a small view - unless you can ID it from the spot pattern!
We would see more of the body of a waterbuck...this is something small like a #thomsons-gazelle.
#zebra is right.
It's #wildebeest, but it's hard to explain why. Maybe it's how it makes a sharp curve and then straightens out at the tip.
Grass is burning. Relax, it happens all the time.
This is the muzzle of an #Impala.
The long brown and black horse-like tail is distinctive. This is a #Wildebeest.
The closer one is #buffalo and the eyes appear to be another buffalo.
You're right.
I would score this as 3 #wildebeest
OK, I'll buy that! Thanks hayvel.
We are told to ID them as human and hashtag #cow or #cows. They don't live in the park but Maasai sometimes sneak them in, in dry season.
We do sometimes get jackal ears, but they have longer hair inside. I think #thomsons-gazelle is right.
#red-billed-hornbill
#grey-breasted-spurfowl, common visitor at this site.
Probably young, but some older males also get reduced manes.
#waterbuck, yes
Doesn't look right for reedbuck. Its legs are so big with knobbly "knees". I think it's a #baby #eland - they're often here at night.
It's just grass heads blowing in wind. You wouldn't see an aardwolf in the middle of the day, anyway.
Yes it could be a bony old impala.
Well, it isn't something you see every day! You seem to have the tail of a #pangolin, unless someone has a better idea.
You may find a lot of burned views and fire pictures. It's not necessary to tag them. Our focus is identifying the animals.
Definitely #warthog.
It's going to make a nest.
May be #Grants-gazelle because of size, though it looks like a tommy.
You're looking at its tail and hind leg. The weird stuff is dust close to camera, illuminated and out of focus.
Could be hyena
Yes indeed.
I think it's a bent-over flower spike moving with the wind.
Appears to be a #magpie-shrike
Three - a rather dim one in centre!
I honestly can't tell, but I suspect it may be a male lion. Maybe someone can find other pics from that time & place?
Rueppell's griffon #vulture
I think #warthog, scratching itself on the camera box.
Not literally - they don't twin as far as I know. There will be another mother outside the frame.
#termite swarm - short bodies, 2 pairs of long similar wings. I've never seen locusts swarm there.
Lion?
A young ele lying down. One of the standing eles may be 'dusting' itself with dry dirt, that may account for brown streaks in 1.
Difficult. Looks a bit like wildebeest but unlikely here in Aug. Or ostrich?
But not Water; those are only found in Asia. Here we have African or Cape buffalo.
Yes - and note the mis-aligned stripes on his belly, which may be the result of an old wound that he somehow survived.
Wow, never saw that before. But it's still twilight.
Rear of a female #ostrich
Definitely #human - 1 is hand reaching for camera.
Think it's just leaves.
I'd say they are more #impala.
Forehead and horns of male #thomsons-gazelle.
Looks like a youngster playing with stick.
Lion would be bigger, longer bodied and would surely show a tail.
It's a baby elephant lying down, its rear to the camera, another ele in foreground.
Looks like #side-striped-jackal with that white tail tip - the scarcest of the 3 Serengeti species.
I agree with #zebras here, but I think the previous one was something else.
Probably Coqui Francolin.
I think #buffalo, from their shape and movement. Wildebeest would be unlikely in this area between May and Nov.
Not shaggy enough for H2Obuck - I'd say gnu too.
#waterbuck is right - the texture too is distinctive, they have longer hair than most antelope.
Looks like another #eland.
And pssst...the R one is a grant 😃
By severely lightening it I can see the white rump markings of a #grants-gazelle.
According to Tanzania mammal expert Charles Foley: "Definitely #mongoose, probably Slender, but can't rule out Banded or Egyptian...
The only guy with a long skinny tail like that is a #warthog, so the "horn" is his tusk.
Tail of a #secretary-bird
#Martial-eagle - it's appeared here in several pics but usually eating with head down. Note yellow eye, and slight crest on back of head.
Of course they are zebra. AowlanCrystal and I have eyes that can penetrate the gloom and see their stripes 😃
I was about to scoff, but it DOES look like a mongoose. Now, if camera is 1m high and most mongooses are shorter, how did it get up there?
Looks like a young male following two females. Males have stouter 'horns' (if you can't see the Other Parts).
Nice wings for flying, and an ostrich would be taller than horizon. This is #lappet-faced-vulture.
#buffalo - see ASG0013n3r a few mins earlier.
Guy on right is buffalo too. If he were gnu, he would show some pale patches, especially beard.
Vertical, so it's a dust-devil
Its lack of distinction is distinctive!!
of #impala
My guess is #warthog. I think a jackal would show more obvious ears.
One clue is the cloud of flies around it. This is probably the muzzle of a #buffalo.
Thus the tommy's back is less than 1m high, grant's back is over 1m, and hartebeest is way taller.
Size comparison - hartebeest, M tommy, F grant. On such a flat plain, anything level with horizon is at camera's-eye level, about 1m high.
Think it's dust or bug. With these wide-angle cameras, the moon would actually look about this size: o . (Am I an unromantic pedant?)
yes, that might even be a mother ele' & calf.
I think it's just a log. Ele is using front foot together with trunk to kick loose the food plant it's pulling up.
Certainly #elephant.
just grass!
Re-setting the camera
More likely reedbuck.
I wonder if that's another one standing up and sniffing at the camera?
Seems to be just the one tommy, bending around to groom itself.
That's a plant, and the antelope is a #grants-gazelle.
Yes - I believe I can even see its white tail moving.
Looks like it at first glance, because of light color. But, the guys in background do appear to be #buffalo.
Bonnie, you don't need to hashtag EVERY animal you find - just ID them in the classification window, and tag only pix of special interest.
She does look rather skinny. Flies are a normal part of the environment and she doesn't really have so many.
Yes, #black-backed-jackals and #wildebeest.
Yes, they seem to be.
You won't see cattle at night. These are #buffalo
Rain
That's right.
It is - we often see them on this camera.
I rarely see aggression between different herbivore species. Buffalo will only attack what they see as a potential threat.
To fill the frame, it has to be a much larger animal, with a smooth coat and black stripes...#zebra.
Ha, that's nice. The tiny head is a #topi - dark + swept-back horns.
I can't think which part of a serval it would be. How about the back of the elusive Zorilla?
Could be a steinbuck, looks low to the ground and sleek and glossy, unlike bushbuck. What do you think?
This is a messed-up camera, you can't really tell what it is photographing.
Could also be a dove, roller or shrike. We just can't tell.
They are common in Serengeti grasslands but I guess not common enough to make the list. ID as dikdik or whatever, and tag as #steinbuck.
It's a #baboon walking past the camera. In 3 you can see its arched tail.
You're right, but it does happen. They mostly ignore each other.
All animals' eyes reflect flash...can't be sure what these are.
Smaller and neater - #steinbuck.
Thanks sandwood!
They are intermittently active during the night, but one of their hunting peaks is around dawn, so this one could be scanning for breakfast.
Hartebeest yes, pregnant probably.
Yes! well done.
Heh heh! You never see a skinny zebra, but this one is extreme.
#vultures
I think an eland would be higher, but I'm not sure what we are seeing here. Could be the horn of young hartebeest, or an ear of ...?
If I really lighten it a lot, I see individual spots of different sizes, as typical of cheetah.
#cape-rook and #spotted-hyena
Can't see enough detail for ID, alas.
#bird-other is all I can say.
Correct on both counts.
What a beauty 😃
#cheetah.
Or possibly part of a big cat's paw as it messes with the camera?
This is a puzzle! It looks big for a warthog, they don't have beards and shouldn't be out b4 dawn. Gnu shouldn't be there in August. Ideas?
Yes. But what's unnatural about pregnancy?
How about a fire?
It is a very scruffy #male #lion
No, it's an Achyranthes flower spike. The animal is a #spotted-hyena as you probably know.
No it is a #jackal, probably Golden. Look at a picture of a BEF and you'll see the differences.
I see a large ungulate with a tasseled tail, probably eland.
Correct! Hard to see that black bird against a black plain.
You're right, it's very #young.
But we can guess. Big animal, short neat hair, tan or brown, narrows it down to lion, hartebeest, eland or wildebeest. Take your pick.
Mum & #young - happy Mothers Day!
That long muzzle belongs to a #hartebeest.
#Wildebeest. Even without lightening it, you can see how its ears stick up, higher than its eyes. Buffalo ears usually droop down.
#cheetah. The profile is distinctive ('bulging forehead') also the black tear-marks from eye to chin.
Looks to me like a #spurfowl.
This is a #hartebeest. Its horns are relatively smaller than impala's and more sharply bent, and it is much bigger.
Amazing to capture that!!!
Think so. Looks like a fanning ear.
It's sure to be an animal, at least the rounded part ar R. Looks v smooth, hippo? or....?
You've amazing eyes, I would have missed that for sure. It's a #coqui-francolin. Odd to see it among the gazelle legs!
I thought gnu at first, but they shouldn't be there in July. Possibly a warthog? Hope they drag it more into the frame!
Certainly could be.
Very good guess! See also the thin tail in 3.
Yes, not much to go on. Probably a cat, large or small.
Not very, because of the large size and hairy dewlap below its neck - #eland
Yes, a #bat-eared-fox.
#grey-breasted-spurfowl is right.
It's the flank of a tommy.
The brown objects under this bull buffalo's neck are its folded front legs.
Probably approaching a female.
No-one's darting gazelles. This is a typical V-shaped pair of acacia thorns.
Good #portrait.
Probably a #bird flying past, very close.
All elephants have a temporal or 'musth' gland, and it secretes fluid most of the time. Judging from slender tusks this is a female.
Um...do we really need branchbombs?
Looks right for that.
I see the 'something' as a #hartebeest facing us with head turned to L.
Your guess is as good as mine. I'd eliminate ele, hippo, giraffe, warthog, mongoose and birds on texture and time, but anything else goes!
She doesn't know about the camera until the instant it flashes, so was probably just running by on some other mission.
Female #ostrich feeding. Head down at left, tail at right.
Nor I. I suspect it might be a serval messing with camera.
Yes, particularly if they've been feeding nearby and there aren't many trees to choose from.
#vulture dormitory!
Wow! Good one. Look at the tufts on those ears!
Totally #lion - big black triangle on back of tan ear.
Only one thing with that segmented wrinkled look - #elephant trunk.
Blackbellied/Hartlaub's Bustard
Could be a small hawk, like black-winged kite.
You rarely see impalas feeding in open plains like that - I'd guess grants-gazelle but can't be sure.
I'd guess reedbuck.
girlziggy, why are you hash-tagging all these dates? The photos are all date-stamped anyway. Just curious! You obviously like lions 😃
A wind eddy picking up dust and ash.
probably an old buffalo, with tattered ear visible in 1.
#hartebeest - in open plains you rarely see impala, they prefer bush country.
rain
#kori-bustard. From a distance, an ostrich is more round-bodied with very long thin neck, can look like a small bush.
From the size of the cat, and the way its tail curls, and the number of rings, I'm sure this is cheetah.
Could be black-winged-kite.
Has to be #eland.
Yes! They look like carnivore teeth.
Cheetahs and lions are not friends; as the further animal is obviously cheetah, the close one is too.
Yes they always wear baggies! In 3 you can even see tip of a tusk top R of centre.
Arm of an animal, perhaps Serval, playing with camera.
birds look like #vultures.
It has such a hard edge though - not furry - how about a horn tip, e.g. buffalo?
Maybe. They are unusually still for zebra.
Yes, #thomsons-gazelle. They are early and frequent visitors to burnt areas, going for the new green shoots that soon become visible.
There are 3 #superb-starlings in this sequence.
Or nesting material? - it's hard to see an animal in that object.
Looks about the size of a vervet, but unusual to see one on such open burned plains.
Is that likely? They are all #hartebeest and the banding is the ridged base of a hartebeest horn.
It's a smaller bustard, Hartlaub's or Black-bellied - I still find it hard to distinguish them.
#Buffalo. Maasai cows never wander around at night, even when trespassing in park. They are always penned in some kind of corral.
or eye of warthog? a puzzle!
Not wildebeest nor ostrich. Looks like the tail of something, but can't think what.
Looks good for reedbuck.
Thanks for finding that #grants-gazelle, - the pics are 40 mins apart, but there likely wouldn't be many other options out there in August.
I'd go with nightjar too, also note the very reflective eye which a bat wouldn't show.
Ideas anyone? It looks about impala/grant size but the dark areas don't make sense unless they are shadows.
Interesting to get so much rain in mid August (middle of dry season), but I've known it to happen.
Did you know you can age a lion from its nose? It's all pink till about 4 yrs, then becomes mottled, all black by 9 or so. This guy: 6-7yrs.
Note how its tail goes up as it runs!
I'd say a bit bigger than mongoose, but I can't figure it out either - sorry!
Looks like big raptor, unfeathered tarsi so prob. #vulture, whitish rump suggests white-backed vulture.
Once again, No Horses in Serengeti! It's a zebra and as long asi it's >30 yds from predators it doesn't have much to fear.
#serval - note the short blunt cat face. Genet, which isn't a cat, has a longer muzzle like a mongoose.
Termite mound, yes.
May be a #rain shower.
This one's a #cape-rook
Ha, a classic #multispecies photo!
I think mongooses
Me neither. I lean towards lion but it might also be hartebeest.
Yes, it is.
Partly perspective, but he is indeed well endowed.
Considering how rare rhinos are, v. unlikely. My guess is elephant.
Makes me wonder what amazing things may be happening behind the hartebeests who so often block our view 😃
Either that or a young baboon - that tuft looks more like baboon than vervet, but who knows.
At night they sleep underneath like this. In the daytime, they are all over, often on head and neck where they can easily cling to mane.
No - baby eles are always with big ones. I only see zebras in this pic. But even in the field, it's easy to make that mistake!
Easily confused but serval ears are usually closer together, more rounded tips, some black hairs round edges - see ASG000cqol
#human hand reaching for camera.
But you have a #grants-gazelle in fg and probably >11 #thomsons-gazelle in bkg.
with #bird roosting in her groin - an #oxpecker.
Pale tan animals scattered over short green grass are generally #thomsons-gazelle.
These very distinctive ears belong to a #serval.
Appears to be a #warthog.
Size, color, and the gradual fade from tan to white, make this a #hartebeest
Yes, could be a flower...or a tattered scrap of flesh dangling from the talons of a perched raptor...really hard to say.
3 seems to show a dark hairy mouth and part of dark resting animal. I suggest #buffalo. There shouldn't be wildebeest in October.
It isn't easy to tell when carnivores are pregnant. Bulging bellies are usually full of meat! Note bloody face in this pic.
Looks like a leaf.
The only horse here is the striped one. Dark brown gal is a #wildebeest or gnu. Please refer to the ID guide.
The thing in top of central tree has to be a #bird - no idea what.
Prob immature #black-winged-kite.
My best guess is a crowned lapwing with head bent down to preen itself.
Appears to be Ali.
Wing tips - something with short tail and long wings, perhaps kite.
It's the smallest of c. 6 spp in Serengeti. V social, in large packs, diurnal thus easily seen. Usually reddish brown, eats insects.
Great #portrait !
Nor can I! Could it be a bird's beak?
But it IS his ear - seen edge-ways, as he turns his head away.
(Is an elephone what we old-timers used for "trunk calls"?😃) The #elephant calf lying is about 3-4 yrs, they often do lie down like this.
I think bottom R is an artifact from lens flare or similar.
I nearly said buffalo, but sandwood, I think you're right, as you usually are!
Ears and crown look slightly pointed so I'd say #spotted-hyena. Lion would have more rounded ears.
Large animal with all-dark blunt muzzle would only be buffalo or gnu. Since gnus have left study area by July, this should be #buffalo.
Black face, pale ear, square nose - all tell us that this is #wildebeest.
Most likely a bird, but can't ID.
They are #Thomsons-gazelle, a small antelope with thick black stripe on flank. Refer to the ID guide. Also ears of a 7th at lower left.
I think just coincidence - the shrike happens to be going in same direction. I've never seen ostriches mobbed.
Probably vervet.
Our old favorite, the #helmeted-guineafowl.
Ah, I see...There's much variation; most have these 'ragged' spots and a few have polygons - but never as clear as in reticulated giraffe.
No need to post it, then! 😃
Def #bat-eared-fox. Note: dark ears, legs, and end of tail; short face. Rounded back 'cos sniffing ground.
With warts and tusks? surely #warthog !
No, this is a #black-backed-jackal.
Yes. This series is full of grass fires. They're no big deal, except for grasshoppers. Larger animals can walk away, around or thru them.
Too small...it's a #warthog
Tail and markings normal for the Maasai giraffe found in Serengeti...perhaps you're more familiar with a different subspecies?
Looks normal for a female. Their horns have a slight twist, like the male's, but are thinner. They may splay apart, or not.
#black-backed-jackal. BEF would show darker ear edges and face mask.
Could be a ground-hornbill, but that is only a suggestion!
Don't think so - you can see its feet as it strides, sandgrouse waddle on very short legs. May be #coqui-francolin.
#dikdik is right, haunches are def gray and tail v short.
Definitely an antelope, might also be a steinbuck, opinions?
My guess is #spotted-hyena, because of how the hair on neck points forward to the ears at R.
She's a #grants-gazelle.
Leaf is more likely
They do look like #wildebeest running R to L in 1 & 2, the thing in 3 may be a bird? hard to make it into a gnu!
These are #wildebeest.
Is smoke.
Southern #ground-hornbill
This may be part of a balloon landing sequence - ground crew bundling up the balloon.
It appears to be a grazing #thomsons-gazelle. The 'stripes' are the shadows of tree branches.
Uniform dark brown on back and wings, large head, resident on plains in dry season (RGV & WBV tend to follow the gnus).
Alinna, the dark 'collar' is distinctive for female bushbuck. Also, a reedbuck would have a big black spot below base of ear.
So, you just have to guess! Large with no obvious marks, so could be hartebeest.
#lappet-faced-vulture
Impossible to tell. Based on probabilities, I'd say tommy.
#jackal, yes
Bull eland typically has a hairy head.
These are 5 #eland. If you can drag a dark image onto your desktop and lighten it, you can often see more detail.
Hard to say - reedbuck probably.
These are #buffalo
#SERVAL
Honestly everyone, there are NO HORSES in Serengeti (except zebras!)
Rump is definitive, stripe is optional.
Looks like it - but perhaps young bulls play-fighting, they aren't mature tuskers.
Could be mother & young
A small proportion of zebras have their stripes scrambled in this 'saddle' area.
Maybe part of another honey-badger - not many other species want to get so close to one!
#Dwarf-mongoose
Think it's Side-striped - stripe on side, relatively small ears.
Well done, you know your birds!
tip of #elephant trunk
It's a #young one, that's why.
Looks like #lion
Indeed! That's the first male tommy with deformed horns I can remember seeing, and I've seen a lot. It's much more common in females.
Unlike most of the other behavior categories such as feeding or resting, excretion is only momentary, so photo data wouldn't be very useful.
#aardwolf say I too.
Probably a dust-devil.
Their horns sometimes break during serious fights.
Nice - but your buffalo are #wildebeest!
Camera is lying on ground looking up, and the moving thing might be part of a human.
#Leopard - see the rosettes of spots at lower part of tail.
There are pink headed agamas but this isn't one. I suspect an insect on lens.
Interestingly, females often browse down and males browse up. They don't eat much grass, but herbs & low bushes among the grass.
This is so rare to see, let alone photograph. Sometimes lions seem to kill non-food animals just for the hell of it - because they can!
looks like hyena
no, #white-tailed-mongoose.
Yes - definite interaction!
No - looks like rear view of an #elephant fanning its ears.
Yes #topi - note reddish color, dark band on each leg with yellowish socks below.
#lion - because of short hair, fuzzy ears, whiskers above eyes, 'eyebrow' above eye at L. Probably #female.
Great puzzle and team effort 😃
Yes. Interestingly oxpeckers almost never visit elephants, perhaps because it is too easy for an ele to swat one with its trunk.
When it's green in the study area, the grass is too long for tommies' preference, and they all move out to the short-grass plains to S & E.
Ah, now I think I get it. Armpit of a #serval standing up and playing with camera. They do have those big black marks on inside of forelegs.
Good guess.
Also grants are bigger and their horns are different. Here is a female Grant on L and male tommies centre & right.
July is dry season and it's hard to find any green places. But in burnt land they can more easily find new green shoots.
Bones or stones.
Has to be part of a zebra, but hard to interpret! - No...FAIL...see above!
Hmm, maybe the front of the casing has come loose. That tommy wouldn't be there if a human was opening the box.
Probably vulture on ground - in air, could be another.
Yes indeed
yup - good.
or maybe raindrops?
Censor at work - some naughty stuff going on here. (just kidding!) Corrupted image file probably.
In the sense that they're all trying to share the shade of the same tree, yes.
PERFECT #portrait !
#impala - shows the 3 black stripes on rear which lead some safari guides to call them "one-eleven" or "mcdonalds"
Well spotted! #golden-jackal.
My guess is topi. It isn't Hartebeest, Wildebeest, buffalo, giraffe, or any of the smaller guys, and I don't think it's zebra.
#springhare #rodent
#Aardwolf. StripedH is stripier, and darker underneath, and has more mane on its back.
Cool! May be mother and young playing.
#dikdik. There's a pair who are often seen in this location.
#Steinbuck adult.
They are more zebras.
I think tail - maybe baboon.
#bird #other - perhaps grey-backed fiscal.
A camera that's fallen down or been blocked by vegetation.
Or could be a prelude to sex?
I agree, perhaps blackbellied bustard
Ha, you beat me to it - you are very sharp!
The lioness CAN lie down with the lamb. But you have to keep her supplied with fresh lambs 😛
Possibly giraffe - when lightened the animal's head is quite high above horizon.
Smallish antelope, could be reedbuck.
They are both #grants-gazelle. The close one is too white and too low to be hartebeest
Seems bigger and with more tail...i would say #cheetah.
Bird, maybe coqui francolin.
If you guessed #warthog you were right!
They look like #buffalo.
Looks like #hartebeest
Lightening it, we see two hind legs with a long black tail behind them - seems to be #wildebeest although at this time of year that is odd.
How about horn and ear of #buffalo?
Looks like more tommies to left and possibly a giraffe in centre.
Gnu
no, they don't twin.
I think it's a zebra's ears.
WHV has a lot of white in the wings, so I would consider this more likely a #lappet-faced-vulture. Hooded V is the only other possibility.
mecurtin got it - tommy horns.
looks like rear half of a #wildebeest, facing right.
no, #crowned-lapwing.
Probably spotted-hyena
Looks like it, yes.
Warthogs' food is almost entirely grass and they don't hunt. The birds are spurfowl, not guineafowl.
Definitely warthog, coming towards camera, with mane erect.
Looks like one of the lapwings, maybe black-winged. Not nearly as big as a bustard.
Correct! We don't often see them in these photos.
There are very dark giraffes with spots almost black...but I see them more in Manyara than Serengeti.
Correct. Jackal would show a longer muzzle.
Looks like a lion.
They are indeed.
Fires are common in dry season, many are lit by park staff. They are no threat to larger animals, though plenty of insects get toasted.
I know! But others might be curious too.
They are topi calves.
This is much bigger than dikdik. It may be a young hartebeest.
Nor do i 😦
The trunk gives it away!
could be flying insect?
Horns look like topi.
I think it's grass
More likely hyena.
Also, don't expect to see warthogs at night - they sleep in burrows.
Could also be dust.
If you mean the 'horn' on the right, that's a flower-spike.
Perhaps buffalo lying down.
I can see that as a warthog.
Unusual that it doesn't move at all...
Looks like francolin/spurfowl.
Looks like back end of small bird.
I'd say cheetah. Other opinions?
You'll see a lot of fires. Don't panic.
One to check the camera, others to help slash the grass or push the Land-rover when it gets stuck in a remote location. Buddies are useful!
Usually the brown ones are younger. Their coats are fuzzier and pick up the dirt more...or, they may just be browner.
#thomsons-gazelles
#warthog, yes?
Young cheetahs of both sexes have slight 'manes'.
Actually a #black-headed-heron
Muzzle of #grants-gazelle - note the striping on face - and bird is likely #crowned-lapwing
Yes, its horns are v small.
Looks like a #wildebeest passing camera.
It appears to be a #grants gazelle.
You'll never see dikdiks in open plains, and never more than 3 in a group. These are #thomsons-gazelles.
probably warthogs.
Front of camera case being removed (by researcher, we hope!)
yes, another guinea.
#Side-striped-jackal. Usual white tail-tip not obvious here. Golden would not have side stripe. BBJ would be more rufous below stripe
Insufficient reference pictures to be certain but proportions appear correct.
Poking their heads into gory carcases, and wallowing in muddy pools to keep cool, doesn't favor an elegant coiffure 😃
May be blinking with its nictitating membrane.
#mongoose looks right
You've got 2 #buffalo in background, and in L foreground you may have the neck and horn-tip of a third one, grazing.
Fauna - #bird-other - looks like rear view of a spurfowl foraging.
I would guess #reedbuck, as a bushbuck would surely show some white spots.
Good - unusual to catch one flying!
Yes, in profile it looks more like #hyena - good call.
I agree - elephants
#ostrich
All prob. #thomsons-gazelle
We check them as #human and we tag them #cows.
Giraffe is walking, not running, and the animal walking behind her is a #baboon.
nor can i - maybe kites?
It's a bunch of wildebeest legs standing behind his appendage.
Right ear and eye of grazing #hippo.
Mammal prob. hartebeest. Glossina, the tsetse fly, only frequents bush and woodland, will not cross open plains, so you'd not find any here.
And, reedbuck commonly has dark front 'shins' unlike any other small antelopes on the list.
Yes, we have a lot of photos of a martial eagle eating its kill on this stump - prob part of that sequence.
Uh, no trains in Serengeti (yet!) - this is a #human truck.
#zebra, yes!
Ha, that animal shadow extends way up into the tree canopy's shadow, so it may be a giraffe!
A mongoose so close to the camera would be below the field of view. This might be a young warthog grazing,
Everyone, that's a beautiful clear pic of a serval, which shows well its size and shape and spot pattern.
I agree with #lion
I'd say a #thomsons-gazelle, male.
Butterfly.
Could be the eternal reproductive drive 😃
Excellent deduction. I would go for the topi 'cos it's darker.
That is pretty unusual to see, esp. at night. Usually they rest standing up. Good one!
#side-striped-jackal is right!
Correct - #hippo left eye & ear
Hardly looks bright enough for eyeshine. It's highly unlikely that a caracal would climb so high!
Easy! Small animal with pointy ears, grey-brown color, and tuft of hair on top of head....#dikdik !
Yes. Horns look right. They are born hornless and their horns are still mostly straight by end of year 1. This one is 4-5 mo old.
Why not?
Who knows?! It's after dark so maybe it shows a dust cloud raised by some passing beast - I'd call it nothing.
#eland - it has more of a tassel on its tail than hartebeest.
It's a #grants-gazelle. See how its back is above the skyline, and the tommy's is below? Also, no black side stripe between tan and white.
They've no reason to. They feed on rather different diets, so they don't compete.
It's a #young #hartebeest, that's why the horns look strange.
i don't see any bustard. There's a tiny moving thing at left near the termite hill, but it's no bigger than a plover. Kori is BIG!
Buffalo is correct.
just weeds i think.
maybe eland?
As cameras are about 1m high, a serval's back wouldn't fill so much of frame. Also serval spots tend to merge into stripes esp. on shoulder.
Umm, that's hard - I'd have guessed impala, because they show such white bellies & it's rare to see 3 rbk in a picture. But I may be wrong.
Or dust.
Correct. That's a #black-backed-jackal and the tommy is taking off.
Closest is #Grants-gazelle (no black racing stripe) and the others are tommies
impossible to tell - I'd call it nothing.
Looking at how its horns slump down, I am fairly convinced this is a buffalo, and so are the other animals visible.
young baboon is correct.
#Spotted-hyena not striped.
small #bird-other
Muzzle of gazelle very close to camera - maybe tommy.
For a male tommy, that would be highly unusual 😃
#warthog kneeling to graze.
Technically, a horn - the African antelopes are more related to cows than to deer!
These are all #grants-gazelle. Impalas are more orange, and would not be found in treeless plains.
Seems likely.
#francolin, perhaps female coqui.
I guess so.
Near horizon, L of centre, are #zebras.
Buffalos and cows don't fraternize. This is a brown-looking buffalo.
#Cheetah - fur is too short and neat for hyena
Could it be the neck of a kori bustard? perhaps from behind, with the 'whiskers' being drooping crest feathers?
Highly unlikely. They are small and nocturnal. I'm guessing part of a bird, maybe the dark crest and pale cheek of a kori bustard. Ideas??
It's a #bird-other!
Eland unlikely, topi more likely.
yes, #aardwolf
We really can't tell what they are.
My guess is Tommy, because very pale neck and chest, and there appears to be a dark side stripe (could be shadow though).
Definitely a #serval tail.
It's hard from photos - all u can do is lighten the photo & see what's around the eyes, or guess based on apparent height and group size.
#wildebeest grazing - most heads down but you can see one head with horns in 3, at R.
#warthogs
He's using a slasher to cut grass in front of the camera
Well spotted!!
In this case...grey, smooth, with some long bristles, and fairly low down...I'd guess warthog.
where??
I think #spotted-hyena. They do exist in daytime too, and sometimes rest in the shade of camera-trees.
Part of a bird.
I'd say #dwarf-mongoose
Could just have a bellyful of meat. Hard to tell.
How 'bout the muzzle of a wildebeest who is sitting in front of camera and looking back?
Male approaching female, perhaps to see if she will stop long enough to mate.
he are mowing the grass
Bullbars on a car
#impala I think.
If u guessed #wildebeest ur right. V. distinctive silhouette.
Too big for pigs or gnus. Too pale for buffalo. Lacks the black marks of eland. Therefore they have to be #cows (& bulls!)
They look glossy black, so might be cape rooks.
Good call. That's a tricky one!
#hyena, and did you notice the spurfowl standing in the grass?
#vervet is correct
Because it's so high, I'd guess giraffe tail.
They are #cows indeed, you can classify them as 'human' and send them to 'Discuss' with a #cow hashtag. That's what we are told to do.
#springhare - a hopping rodent about rabbit size, with long bushy tail.
Sable is absent from Serengeti. This is a #wildebeest #young c. 4 months old.
Civet would never be in open plains, and in daylight. Too big for mongoose. Might be a tommy sitting down.
#eland. You're looking back past its neck and foreleg to its hindlegs. Large size, light color and the folds of skin below neck are typical.
All are #thomsons-gazelles and you're right that one is #young.
#serval. Genet would have more and bigger spots, and it wouldn't stand so tall relative to camera.
You'll almost never see waterbuck in open plains habitat like this. They need shade, or they may die of heatstroke.
No. The fat short tail and pinkish coloration are typical of #hippo.
look like zebras.
Sometimes tusks break off, sometimes elephants are born with one or no tusks.
Raising their heads to look at each other. Perhaps one came too close - they usually don't feed v close together.
Gazelle, prob. tommy
And yes, at least 5 #topi and 4 #hartebeest visible.
They really have no reason to avoid each other unless they are serious food competitors. There's safety in numbers.
Yeah, I'd guess zebra too.
I'm not seeing an animal here. Wind blown vegetation?
What's your guess? Mine is #buffalo
No kangaroos in Africa. #impala
I think #buffalo
Close, but easy to see what they are - #thomsons-gazelle.
Same tribe but much bigger - #eland
#buffalo - rounded back, dark color. Rhino has longer body, concave back, thicker legs, usually gray.
probably warthog
Enjoy them while they last. An elephant is killed every 15 minutes in Tanzania.
#baboons
Buffalo yes, not water-buffalo (they live in Asia)
#spotted-hyena for sure
Yes!
looks like another 2 ostriches, about 1/3 of the way in from left.
#lion male
I wasn't sure either, but that is compelling proof that there are indeed blond hyenas!
#hyena I'm afraid!
easy - black bushy tail on smallish animal is #thomsons-gazelle.
It looks like the wingtip of a bird that's sitting on the camera. I can't see it as a secretary, maybe a kite?
Maasai live to E of the Park, and sometimes sneak their cattle over the border in dry season, to graze until someone tells them to go away.
All you need to do is guess. Zebra stripes in 1&2 are good enough for me. I agree the fuzzy thing is prob. its ear.
Impala would be redder on back and wouldn't get darker lower down...I'd say it's a #grants-gazelle
could also be an impala?
Most often when animals run they aren't being chased by predator - they're spooked, or chasing one another, eg males trying to herd females
It's vaguely spotted, may be #hyena
#banded-mongooses
#bird tail
they gazelles is fo sure
Seems to be black-winged kite, a smallish hawk.
All you can say is 'nothing here'
Perhaps white-crowned shrike or white-headed buffalo weaver - not sure.
look like impalas
These are zebras, look at long faces and lack of horns. >11.
Often during the day, hyenas lie in waterholes partly submerged to keep cool. Then when they come out, they look like this. Wet n muddy!
Its tallness is rather distinctive! #giraffe.
yes, #lappet-faced-vulture
Probably serval
#wildebeest at least 6
It has to be wet or muddy hair of something. Wildebeest is a fair guess but no way to be certain.
Good guess. I'd say #thomsons-gazelle.
I work a lot at computer and keep the SS page open to see what comes up! #Spotted-hyena looks good. BTW hashtags go at start, not at end.
But horn has rings on it, which gnu hasn't, also gnus normally not there in October; poss #hartebeest.
Looks like cheetah.
looks like black-winged (=black-shouldered) kite.
#thomson's gazelle I think
Hartebeest?
#cheetahs
looks like #kori-bustard
They are active both by day and by night.
Hard to tell - looks scruffy like a hyena.
I don't see it. Just a branch or antelope leg lying at left.
It's a pair of #birds - prob. Von der Decken's Hornbills.
I'd have called this one an #aardwolf.
#crowned-lapwing / plover
I'd call it buffalo
I see 2 young eles playing. One lies on its L side, the other is as you say 'piling on' or climbing over it.
#cows. Record as "human" but label with a #cows hashtag, as there is no 'cow' category.
Just take a stab at it - your best guess. Hartebeest?
Part of a gnu-sized animal, seems to be the 'armpit'.
Correct. Topi is a 'safe' distance from lion (about 30m or more) and can study the enemy at his leisure.
The front of the camera housing being removed or replaced by a fieldworker.
Yes, they lift off just b4 sunrise and land about an hour later.
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=13a41310c8994ff8a08d606959996be6 This shows the situation in May. SS study area is in centre of map.
Quite a lot! I was there in early Aug and saw many burnt patches, as well as huge areas still unburnt. Google is your friend (contd...)
I'm guessing grass stems, blown about by wind.
#springhare
Good call, S.
My, you have good eyes! I think I would have missed that.
Yes, #impala - the dark-tipped ears and the subtle facial marks are clues.
It's another lion, yes, but looks adult when I lighten it.
leaves
Rains often start in November and continue thru May, occasionally with a hiatus in Dec or Jan, and max rain in Mar-Apr.
I get a hartebeest at L and a Pierid butterfly at R, don't see a bird.
Probably. Diurnal grass mice are common and often caught.
Already learning how to do hartebeest selfies!
Happens every year, and it often burns. No big deal.
Yes. You will see a lot of fire pictures.
I see #guineafowl, with little pointy heads.
rlb66xyz, you're right again! I'm back on the big screen now.
Looks animal, maybe warthog? Hard one.
Such long columnar legs - can only be #elephant.
Possibly male Grant's gazelle. Impala would be unlikely in open plains. Birds are #cape-rooks
#white-bellied-bustard, yes.
I don't see it. The light spot at L of canopy may be a flashlit dust speck, or the eye of a small creature among those thin twigs.
#wildebeest rumps
looks like #baboon
Lion ears are fuzzier, with a big black mark across their backs. This is #spotted-hyena
Could be elephant, with tusk tip visible in 1, and ear in 2 & 3.
Size J is right - nice capture.
My take is that it's a neck and lower jaw very close to camera, with a suggestion of rows of teeth in 1. In which case, #hyena.
It's > 1m tall so it's gotta be a secretary.
Wildebeest on the move.
You can't hide those #lion eyes...
The only tail with that pattern of hair growth is attached to an #elephant!
Yup. Clearly shows the rows of black 'whisker spots' which we lion biologists use to ID individuals.
Could be, I can't say that it isn't!
Might be a serval, but insufficient data to be sure. Civet very seldom seen by day.
LOL (licks our lens!) - this is a #jackal
A pair of #dikdik
#buffalo. Its back is level, with a slight angle at the hip bone, whereas rhino has a concave back and a more rounded bum, like a horse
Yes, #martial-eagle - good!
Yes, #reedbuck. Also note the dark front 'shins' - most of them show this.
Yikes! How unusual is that - to get 2 servals together! Good one.
Black-winged(/shouldered) kite.
yes, probably a tommy.
3 birds - two spurfowl just L of centre, one looking like a rock but it isn't, and a probable starling perched at L
Civets are almost entirely nocturnal, and bigger. This appears to be a #grey-breasted-spurfowl, with its head outside R frame.
#serval, yes!
no, it's a dikdik, just partly shaded perhaps.
Hard to tell. Its actions look more like a raptor.
#wildebeest - you can even see the horns and mane on the young one at far left.
Could be palm of a #human hand reaching for the camera.
Funny! To get stereo vision, herons have to look beneath their bill, so it's definitely staring at the lens. #black-headed-heron.
#wildebeest is my guess.
Grass blades, or the Mark of Zorro!
Looks like adult #grey-breasted-spurfowl - the commonest francolin/spurfowl in this area.
Nowadays apparently called #black-winged-kite to distinguish it from the Australian BSK. I hate it when names change!
Looks like neck & chin...gnu has longer hair there...poss buffalo?
you're pulling my leg 😃 - fly or bee!
#bird-other, I'm afraid!
I'd guess an ear! e.g. serval or other cat
Greyish color and slight striping suggests wildebeest.
With those strong facial markings & gray neck, #white-bellied-bustard is a better fit.
#Magpie-shrike is right. EGPE is a forest bird and you'd only see it in far west of SNP, outside this study area.
#young #hartebeest. They look dorky - eland are so much more handsome.
An event rarely photographed, if it's what you think it is 😛
Yes there is
Posture suggests ratel, though I would expect its back to look lighter.
dust-devil
Yes...there are some photos of a Martial Eagle with prey here, might be part of that sequence.
in 3, yes.
maybe gazelle.Not much else is out there in October.
Look like foxes, but they are #golden-jackal
nope, gazelles - dikdik only in bush country.
Judging from the shape of their backs, they may be 2 buffalo.
The close sitting one may be rolling to scratch itself
many tommy females have warped horns.
looks like #cape-rook
Right size & shape for a tommy, but not a lot to go on.
Yes, possibly a dwarf mongoose.
Maybe a grassland pipit.
Yes, #reedbuck because of small forward curved horns, black spot below ear, lack of facial markings.
Anyone's guess! I'd say not gazelle or buffalo, it's out of season for gnus, so maybe the tip of a hartebeest horn.
#white-stork fits well.
Cape rook?
That's the most likely suspect, in this habitat.
Could it be a zebra's nose (in 3)?
That was my feeling too (but wasn't going to stick my neck out !)
Good close-up!
I'd say not a dikdik - habitat wrong, and animal's back is almost black. It does resemble civet, but seems too small. Maybe mongoose?
Correct - #black-backed-jackal
The black #bird is a #Cape-Rook, a corvid.
Not I!
Tommies probably.
Maybe scratching head with hind foot
I think there's nothing. At base of horn is a ridge which spirals loosely around horn. On forehead there's a tuft of long hair.
Think it's a female lion walking away.
Yes! Black-backed.
#golden-jackal
#birds - these are sandgrouse.
Plants, I think.
looks like black-winged kite
I agree about the trace of mane, and it has antelope legs, but deeper torso than gazelle or impala. I'm wondering if it's a wildebeest calf?
white-crowned shrike
Hard one. I think jackal.
Proportions of face - big ears well separated - eyes close to nose - peak on head - black 'collar' stripe - all these fit aardwolf.
How about a #warthog facing you with head turned slightly left, tail up, eye to L of tail, white whiskers further down. Possible?
Yes - this site must be Small Cat Central!
#Black-winged-kite - probably the most commonly seen hawk on the plains.
#Serval
Ooh, good one! Note the big mane of hair on the back and the very stripey legs.
It's really getting "ticked off"!
Dark collar, white spots on chest and limbs and body, all say #bushbuck. Reedbuck is a very uniform tan with almost no markings.
Yes, lightening it in PS, you're obviously right - ele trunk.
Ele ear looks good!
Interesting to get a night bird that isn't owl. Seems to be #spotted-thicknee (or dikkop)
My guess is black-winged-kite with nest material. Def not secretary.
Unless we are just seeing an ear?
Don't ask me! 😛
Seems to be licking its nose, to keep it moist and sensitive.
Looks as though wings are backlit blue, maybe a #roller?
It is.
Looks like back end of a Tommy?
Looks like topi.
Warthog?
Okay guys, I GOOFED - but thanks to sisige (whom my ipad keeps trying to correct to 'disingenuous'!!) for being charitable 😃
Horns are a useful cue too. Both m and f Grants have much longer horns than Tommie's. This one is female.
Correct, and could even be a big one.
Leaf?
Cameras aren't placed high enough to see over an eland's back. This is a #gazelle.
Neck movements (head leading and body catching up) show it's walking - when bird is running, the neck is held back in a permanent S bend.
It certainly could!
The faint striping suggests #wildebeest
Could be a grey breasted spur fowl.
With #young
Eye and upper 'wart' of #warthog
Young #bushbuck. Ear is different from reedbuck or dikdik.
Bigger - elephant
2 #hartebeest
Maybe more zebras.
yes - Grants I think.
They are cows.
GJ is very like mini-coyote, even sounds like one. Mostly seen in open plains, while BBJ and SSJ are mostly in woodlands.
Both are #spotted-hyena.
Most likely baboons.
#Reedbuck
The lying animal looks like gazelle.
Golden jackal
Gazelles, most likely tommies.
But if yellow thing in 3 is an eye, it absolutely isn't a vervet because their eyes are black. I'm wondering, some kind of bird?
Cameras are mounted about 1 m up, and #Thomson-gazelle is ~65 cm high at shoulder, so when they are very close you only see their backs.
That's why you're here, to discover the hidden secrets of Serengeti! Animal is #hartebeest
Actually no, the dark pointed object is an #oxpecker #bird asleep in the groin of what looks like a female giraffe !!!
Maybe tail of large bird like kori bustard, exiting frame left
They don't bait cameras. Boxes probably contain batteries etc for servicing the cameras. I see no lion.
#thomson's gazelle
Twisty stick, alas, still there next afternoon: ASG0015uio
Controlled burns are a management tool which helps maintain the balance of grass and bushland in Serengeti.
Pareidolia, I fear.
Possibly #mongoose but hard to see.
#grants-gazelle I think.
#wildebeest, at least 3
It's still a #white-tailed-mongoose.
Most cameras are 1m off ground, and so is the belly of this animal, so it's bigger than gazelle. It's a #hartebeest.
Large tan antelope with dark belly stripe = #eland. Baby sitting below.
This could be a lovely abstract painting. I like the wink in 3.
That could work!
Yes. The black spot below ear is a useful ID feature.
Often green shoots appear soon after a fire and are easy for gazelles to harvest - another reason for controlled burns.
It has white head and belly, which eliminates almost every passerine bird in SNP, then the red rump which is v unusual too.
#serval for sure.
Probably rufous-tailed weaver.
Leaf.
Looks way too young for that - just resting
about 3 #wildebeest.
You won't see humans and wild animals together in these photos. All these are #wildebeest.
Could be a good site, just needs the grass to be cut!
All I see is vegetation.
The striped animals on left are zebras, the much larger animals centre to right are #eland. Refer to ID guide.
Looks like a #hartlaubs-bustard
Likely a young one lying down - they often do. They usually foal during rains, Nov-Feb.
#eland - note cow-like body and dewlap (hanging flap of skin) under neck.
Yes - tommy muzzle
Absolutely.
Dikdik is never in such open habitat, only in bush country - this is a female #thomsons-gazelle.
Branch or tree-stump, appears in all pictures from this camera.
In a group of animals, consider first that it may be same kind! It's a hartebeest, walking away down into a depression, so it looks smaller.
Yes - no horns.
For reasons given below, no.
It's the tail of a bird perched on the camera housing.
The birds are #ground-hornbills
It's not so unusual. But different diets often cause separation - tommies prefer short grass shoots, grants prefer herbs over grass.
or reedbuck?
#eland x 2
more likely lion or wildebeest
Difficult, but photoshoppery shows these to be 2 #buffalo
Maybe Thomson's gazelle
Large, dark, narrow legs...try #buffalo
The muzzle is a #hartebeest.
In such cases, it is usually a warthog or a #guineafowl...in this case, the latter,
Gazelle - Thomsons?
Dark backs, white legs = #marabou
Gazelles, prob. Thomsons
Gazelle, prob thomsons.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver, nice capture!
#martial-eagle, not often seen on these cameras.
More likely #serval, looks like he is actually spray-marking the camera!
Many fires are controlled burns started by park staff, usually early in dry season to prevent more destructive fires later on.
This here ear is a #serval
#lion female or cub
Definitely hard. I say bushbuck's a good guess; it would help if we could see earlier or later pics, but the numbering is still scrambled.
They are indeed cows - not Friesian but Maasai zebus!
Flying bird is grey-backed fiscal, not sure about others.
I think this is grey-breasted spurfowl. Welcome back :}
Could be old lion scratches.
Bull eland, like this one, have a tuft of hair there.
Good one - we don't see a lot of these.
Elephant trunk is my guess.
looks like Tommies but I really can't be sure.
look like #cape-rooks
Oh they often do. They offer professional nose-picking and ear-cleaning services! 😃
yes, that little black spot betw thigh and flank clinches it, only impala has that.
I've seen a LOT of pics of these flowers lately!
They are female Grants.
Agreed.
This is a #black-headed-heron. Ostriches are much bigger.
If camera is at typical height, a serval's rump would be below field of view, but cheetah/leopard would be about the right height for this.
But the taper is strange. Could also be cheetah tail seen in perspective, with tailbase much closer to camera than tip. Who knows.
WBV has all-white lower back, different shaped head, and you wouldn't see the feathered leggings in #2.
#secretary-bird. If camera is 1m high and there's no convenient perch, this bird is at least 1m tall.
For sure! It is shown in the ID guide.
Not from this small amount of face. If you could see more of head, males have longer hair on cheeks, throat and top of head.
#white-bellied-bustard x 3
They're normal - often get rather crusty from mud wallowing.
Not unusual in female tommies - their little horns are often warped.
#grey-backed-fiscal...roger that.
I agree with tawny eagle.
Guineafowl are bigger and look very different. These are flowers.
BEF would show more black. I see this as a mongoose.
neck of #wildebeest
correct, good call!
Usually on serval the spots on back are more aligned in rows. This may be a cheetah.
#spotted-hyena, a young one with clearer spots and grayer background than you see in older animals.
Wow, that is amazing! I would support black serval, based on the ears, but I never heard of one in Serengeti, more often seen in highlands.
By golly, they ARE cows!
If it's crazy weird and doesn't fit anything it's probably a #warthog, as in this case!
Swishing tail quite high up - for once, I haven't a clue, but I said eland.
I wouldn't swear that I'm right, and picture quality is poor, but jackals definitely don't have any black behind their ears, and servals do.
Rufus-tailed weaver?
I suggest serval, cos of black fringe and cos jackal is less likely than serval to come so close to camera.
#white-tailed-mongoose is nocturnal.
Maybe hand of a scientist handling camera?
Spotted.
I'd say impala grazing.
One's tired and lying down.
It looks like a foal and its mum, so 1 & 3 are unlikely - hard to tell what is going on.
She's young and just has very small tusks. Tusk removal in Serengeti tends to be illegal, and fatal.
You're right, 2 dikdik here, and those could be impalas in background.
#wildebeest, very overexposed because close to flash. In lower left you can see a horn & ear, above that is its foreleg and rounded flank.
One definite zebra on R, the others in distance will be either zebra or wildebeest - your guess is as good as mine!
Yes, you can still see the umbilical cord in 3.
A mother wildebeest and her baby are standing in the shade.
Not odd...they are cutting the grass in front of camera, because if it grows tall, its motion causes many blank photos.
It's an #eland, like the one on R
1 definite #wildebeest, others probably are too.
#wildebeest - 2 in foreground and many more beyond.
#warthog - short, grey, skinny tail.
#reedbuck. The previous picture ASG000yvyt shows its head.
Could only be hippo - big, fat, v short tail
Helmeted #guineafowl. Their heads are indeed reminiscent of kasuari/cassowaries, but they are smaller and not closely related.
This is an #eland
Correct. Seems to be scratching self on camera!
I would say #wattled-starlings. Like cattle-egrets they follow or perch on grazing animals to catch the insects that the animals disturb.
Yes, one of the Red-tips (Colotis sp.)
agree with #hartebeest
The bird is much smaller than a bustard, maybe a crowned lapwing.
no, #serval
Can't really see what it's getting. The bird here is a #cape-rook, a kind of crow.
#guineafowl x 2 - the previous pic, ASG00112k0, shows them more clearly.
More likely a wildebeest sitting down. You can see a suggestion of horns above the eye.
Not at night. Looks like an #aardvark
Looks to me like a white-bellied bustard.
Head of #guineafowl !
#reedbuck. Impala would have black ear-tips, and would not have such a black nose.
Correct, his black heel-tufts show clearly.
There are >11 #buffalo in frame and <50 - that's all you need!
all are gnus
Looks like about 5 zeb on left and the rest gnus - but hard to tell, as you say.
Hard to say, as image is so fuzzy. They could be eyes.
#giraffe x 2
Too small. A minute earlier, this camera shows a #reedbuck, so this is probably the same one - see ASG0010155
Correct - mostly gnus.
These are Impalas
Most likely wildebeest.
Running. The animal is a zebra.
Thomson's gazelle - see thick black sidestripe and black tail
You've got the tip of a bird's wing, it's perching on the camera.
#wildebeest is correct, in fact there are 2 visible if u lighten the pic.
When a researcher replaces the SD card in a camera, s/he photographs a slate with date, time and camera number.
May be sun flare, because you can see to horizon at each edge, but it can indeed be misty there on a cold morning after heavy rain.
#hartebeest - they stand in front of some cameras for hours.
Try #wildebeest
just an earthling from the Hippopotami!
Probably a stick - nesting material
Just bushes I think.
#wildebeest - see ASG0011qav
Could just be a bright dust particle close to camera.
It is a hard one! This is an #elephant
and a third one just behind L edge of tree canopy! Always check that tree carefully.
Hard one. My best guess is 2 wildebeest and 11+ zebra.
#hartebeest - see 2 mins later ASG000ziqv
As it seems to be moving in a coordinated way with the other baboons, I would guess big male #baboon
Those in the near distance are also zebra
Female impala. Impala because warm brown 3-tone pattern, white fringed tail, black tips to ears. Female because no horns.
Wildebeest & wildebeest. Though zebras also look like horses.
Another zebra
Warthog - adult male, judging from size of upper 'warts'
A hartebeest scratching itself with left hind leg
A little-known Serengeti animal called Wildebeest or Gnu. Have you tried the tutorial yet? 😃
Large & uniformly dark = #buffalo
It's a Tanzanian lawnmower or 'slasher' - a long metal blade with a bent end, very effective and good exercise too!
#warthogs correct
#lion x 4 at least
Actually a #leopard, distinguished by stouter limbs and lack of black "tear-drop" lines on face.
Correct, and colour too, e.g. Topi would have a black face.
Yes, most likely option.
I'd say subadult #male #lion
Yes there seem to be resident #dikdik at this site.
#white-bellied-bustard it is.
You could try a black-winged kite - my best guess.
#lappet-faced-vulture a.k.a. Nubian.
Hard...cheetah & serval would not show such strong muzzle spots.In leopard they are often joined horizontally. That leaves lion. Or not?
Could all be the same female, #1 showing just her chin.
Small size and unmarked head suggest coqui francolin.
another #elephant
Stripes on mama, light tan calf with dark face - gotta be wildebeest!
Could not be anything else!
#warthog for sure.
#dove, probably ring-necked.
Good guess - not a baboon. But I felt #impala might be more likely in that brushy habitat, and I found him here 5 mins later: ASG000z81p
I'd say Ring-necked #dove
Raptor or vulture, too far to tell.
helmeted #guineafowl
They're mowing the grass around the camera with slasher tools. This protects cameras from fire & reduces blanks caused by moving grass.
Serengeti never freezes - sometimes you get a brief buildup of hail, but it soon melts. This shows dewdrops reflecting the flash.
It IS a #kori-bustard!
This baboon looks unmarked to me...or do you mean, did someone classify it yet?
yes, previous seq 3mins earlier shows hyena approaching the rock. ASG0011k0v
yes, and one in the R foreground too!
more likely insect, but not sure what.
Like chickens - mostly they walk, but flying is useful for escaping from predators! They always roost in trees.
Buffalo is right, good call.
Another kongoni (hartebeest)
If you're asking about the beasts to R of eland, they are wildebeest.
Yes. Some of the plains mushrooms are quite good!
tail of bird perching on camera - perhaps small hawk like kestrel.
Big animal with body at camera level, grey-brown color, short neat hair, some striping...all points to #wildebeest.
Yes - now called black-winged kite.
And you can only see them at all because the grass was cut. Look how tall it is in background!
#oxpecker bird
No peacocks in Serengeti! This is a helmeted #guineafowl
Two #white-bellied-bustards
That's another wildebeest+calf.
They're somewhat rounded, but not as big and round as those of Grevy. And striping is v different. Google a lot of pix of each, you'll see!
Zebra would have stripey leg and not such a luxuriant tail - this is wildebeest. See also ASG0011cfi
Looks like golf, but in fact they're cutting grass with hand slashers - energetic but surprisingly effective.
yes indeed
Looks like #hartebeest, perhaps even partybeest?
Wow, that's one of the best yet!
try #giraffe 'knee'!
No-brainer, guys. Burchells/Common is the ONLY zebra on the Serengeti menu. Nearest Grevys are in N Kenya!!!
Sorry, no Grevys here - it's Common=Burchell's=Plains zebra
Lappet-faced or Nubian #vulture
Male #kori-bustard, advertising his territory. In full display, he puffs his neck and under-tail feathers out and tail almost touches head.
could be vulture - Nubian?
looks like gnu beard
looks more like Thomson's to me
They are known as zebras 😃
#impalas
Could be either.
Can't tell.
most likely another guineafowl
Could be sparring, yes
#eland, correct
young topi taking a rest.
There are several pics b4 and after, but in all cases too bright. Too small for wbk, wrong shape for dikdik, my guess is young bushbuck.
About 6 #zebra.
Coqui francolin probably the best guess.
Hartebeest. It can't be gnu, with those ridges on its horn.
The bird in 2 has dark throat, could be Barn (Eurasian) Swallow
Hard to tell. Maybe redbilled buffalo-weavers?
Correct. Elanus caeruleus has apparently been renamed Black-Winged to distinguish it from Australia's Black-shouldered kite, E.axilllaris
Looks like 'chimney' of a termite mound.
Mysterious - do Scientists have any idea? Looks man made.
So nice! Probably listening intently to a doomed mouse rustling in the grass 😃
This big long legged grey & black bird is definitely a #secretary-bird landing and walking right.
A bird-other
Yes #vulture, carrying a twig to its nest too.
Another big wildebeest, sitting. It would never be so close to a predator in plain view!
Nope, #spotted-hyena
Yes, #jackal
Can only be cheetah, 'cos serval spots are usually aligned in rows along back and don't have the little in-between spots seen here.
They r naturally pink on face & neck, also have reddish skin secretion, so prob not blood.
Could be white headed buffalo weaver.
Yes, they look like they are doing something dodgy. Could the guy on R be carrying meat?
mowing the grass!
hare looks good.
They are elephants, fanning their ears.
Judging from the pics before and after, this is a greybreasted spurfowl
Confirmed. They are probably quite widespread but small and secretive so we don't see them very often.
This is food for sure. Cubs small enough to be carried would be black.
Fischer's is the only lovebird seen in Serengeti, sometimes in large flocks. Nice to get one on camera!
The previous two pics show #zebra, so I suspect these are too.
Yes, looks like a swarm on the move.
I see only grass.
Good one, looks like a kestrel.
Nice find. There are only 'black' rhinos in Tanzania.
Yes - shows nicely that not everything with a black side-stripe is a tommy. The way the white extends above tail & forwards is diagnostic.
This is how a heron looks at the camera. Its best binocular overlap is in a zone beneath its head.
Masquerading as helmeted #guineafowl. The convergent similarity between the heads of both species has struck me too!
Nest.
Reedbuck or bushbuck? Reedbuck would show more of a white belly, so my guess is #bushbuck.
Probably a rock. It's still there 2 weeks later.
Same reason you follow a road or path. If you follow the guy in front you are less likely to fall in a hole, break a leg and die in pain.
I agree. You really know your birds!
Most mammals' eyes have a reflective layer or tapetum behind the retina, and here the wildebeest's eye is reflecting the camera's flash.
Dust stirred up by the #elephant whose tusks can just be seen at top left.
So call it a #wildebeest ! A minute later the whole animal is captured: ASG000n5b1
If it were male you would almost certainly see a scrotum, so probably female.
From the slender tusks I would guess female.
yes, #ostrich
I see what you mean, it's beautiful, but it seems to be just vegetation 😦
How cool is that? I've never even seen a baby steinbuck!
Maybe just practical...friendly zebras often rest thus, each one's tail whisking flies from the other's face. Signs of love r more blatant:)
Good view of #black-backed-jackal - one of 3 species found here.
Vegetation or crud on lens. Also, a #vervet monkey.
yes, #secretary-bird
yes, #white-tailed-mongoose
I'd say she's grooming her boyfriend's tail 😃
#black-shouldered-kite
No radio-collar would be so tight, also it'd have a gizmo pod at bottom, and no-one's studying zebra. Probably an injury from a wire snare.
I support baby topi too; the dark marks appear after several months. Also, the previous sequence ASG000pm88 shows whom the calf's following!
It's always there - it's a rock 😦
Lion is correct
My best guess was #dikdik, being small and with that kind of butt, and presto! here she is in ASG000xzge
Never heard them called hens before...yes, 2 more at right.
In ASG000ru7q 2 cheetahs are resting, one gets up. In ASG000ru7r, 2nd one gets up. In ASG000ru7s, 2nd one walks away. No blood, bad luck.
Can't see. Could be just getting up to go somewhere.
Interesting - probably a paper-wasp, its wings distorted by shutter action.
A rare view of a hartebeest eye! We are more used to seeing its belly 😃
I don't think so, in daytime. It could be a spotted hyena, and view angle makes ear look pointed
He just doesn't get it, does he, how unphotogenic he is!
Unfocused means very close to camera, so they are insects.
It's a bird small enough to perch on a camera box - rules out bustards and guineas - poss kestrel or even woodpecker with that spotting.
sorry, just a #hippo
Too big for dikdik. 4 mins later there is a tommy there, so this is probably a tommy's butt.
#warthog I think. This camera points upwards so u see part of its muzzle from below.
#Elephant for sure. "Blood vessels" r wrinkles. Camera would not be able 2 see under hippo's belly like this because its legs r too short
Of course they are edible, I've eaten lots. I guess they are sort of beefy. Like goats, they are much tastier young than old.
Classic dust devil. There is tree movement close to its path.
#side-striped-jackal - white tail tip is distinctive
#bushbuck
#white-stork, yes
#hippo it is indeed!
#jackal, yes.
#lion #female
Could it be an eagle-owl?
#Side-striped-Jackal
If it was closer to a road there would be 50 land-cruisers there too - it's crazy at that time of year 😃
Yes, that's a grass fire
Cameras are mounted about 3' or 1m above ground. So a nearby animal below the horizon is going to be < 1m high. This can be useful to know.
Probably black-shouldered kite
You're right, young impala.
#hare - a springhare is more kangaroo-like with shorter ears.
Sorry MissC, no jaguars in Africa, but leopards look quite like them. The "Identify" menu shows most of the large mammals you will see.
#white-stork
Hardly, but we can cheat by looking at the next sequence 😃 ASG000zcff
Might be a small lizard such as a gecko, which appears in next sequence ASG0010d8w
Yes, one of the kestrels - can't tell which.
Possibly spotted eagle owl but too bleached to be sure.
Awesome!
#black-shouldered-kite - pygmy doesn't have the black shoulder and is much smaller.
#Lappet-Faced-Vulture aka #Nubian-vulture
They #zebra indeed.
#grey-breasted-spurfowl looks good
Just a....part of a researcher!
Wow! Very nice #serval
Elephants have internal t's. Also look at the legs - not like elephant. This is #buffalo
#nubian-vulture
all grass
Definitely a cat anyway
definitely #white-stork
Cheetah. Genet would be more regularly ringed and close to ground level.
looks good for #steinbuck /steenbok
prob. tail of lilac-breasted roller #bird
looks like Hartlaubs b.
with testicles?? #male #lion c 3 yr old
#reedbuck probably
#buffalo - dark they are indeed.
If it was BEF or serval you'd see some black on ears, so I'd say black-backed #jackal.
yup
Tusk is normal, but she's chewing a branch.
fur looks more like baboon
yes, reedbuck
#mongoose
Yes, #spotted-hyena
nice view of one.
Reason is that most cameras point at grassland, and most herons are fisherfolk. BHH, however, preys on mice & insects. Nice sequence here!
#lappet-faced-vulture aka #nubian-vulture
But it has no striping at all..i would think #reedbuck more likely. There are no other pix of it to help us.
#aardwolf surely?
insects...no hummingbirds in Africa!
You're right, they usually don't service gnus. I suspect these are wattled starllngs which commonly perch on gnu & zeb.
Yes, all buffalo. I don't think the male in back would have a calf, that's just shadow.
Not big enough for kori. My guess is a windblown plant.
#young #hartebeest
Cool, a #marsh-owl - one hardly ever sees them except when driving offroad thru the plains.
ASG000z68g suggests #lion
Nothing here
Mix of wildebeest & zebra in distance. Animals just beyond close zebra are wildebeest running.
can't tell. 'Other'.
#steinbuck
#black-bellied-bustard
Maybe insect on camera.
or just had a big meal!
It appears in many pix back to ASG000zwfh. Appears to be a Tawny or Steppe #Eagle
Sometimes they get caught in wire-noose snares, poor things.
Cant tell, but it may well be another reedbuck sitting down.
or play? these are topi calves so nothing very serious happening here!
I'd give it a 'nothing here'.
Babies. Ha, if you're a small predator, you don't take on a warthog!
#duiker. They have curiously short necks compared to, say, a dikdik or a reedbuck.
#Duiker, well done. Nothing else has that prominent face stripe.
Or startled by the camera. Maybe it's marked with big cat pee, and the gnu just got a whiff of it!
It's only in frame 1 and unfocused, so something small, alive and close. May be insect flying by.
Yes, great! Maybe he is leaving some fragrance on the camera or tree 😃
But a whole lot faster than the hand slashers!
#reedbuck, as seen more clearly in subsequent pix. Dikdik would be smaller and greyer.
#reedbuck #young
Ring-necked or mourning #dove
Interesting. Not a legal activity in the park, but obviously productive!
here the time stamp is 6 hrs ahead of local time.
The time stamp on photo is 5:55pm same day, so the time stamp is c. 5 hours ahead of local time. Scientists, is that true for all cameras?
Common or bush #duiker - rather unusual!
Probably a wasp, judging from profile in 3 - but for our purposes, 'nothing here'!
With that many, could be a swarm - perhaps hanging on the tree where the camera is mounted.
#Black-headed-heron. Cute how it looks at the camera by raising its bill - herons' best binocular vision is directly under their bill.
Nothing there 😦
#grants-gazelle #young
Can't see it. where?
#eland and yellow-billed #oxpecker
One of the francolins, poss grey breasted spur fowl.
#buffalo look good to me
Super view!
#buffalo, see ASG000nub5
#elephant. See how hair just grows out of top and bottom of ele tail, eland has a more 3D tuft
Shaped more like #spotted-hyena, see also ASG000smys a few mins later.
#aardwolf.
Side-striped j.
Hmmmm...what could have dark & white stripes? This young #zebra is browner and fuzzier than an adult.
Yes, #lion
#waterbuck female
Maybe flying insect such as wasp or bee.
It's small and close to lens, maybe tail of a lizard or mouse, or leg of an insect.
This ear's a #lion female
#white-tailed-mongoose - a very common night creature, much more often photo'd than zorilla.
The tail on a wildebeest is really distinctive with that long black hair, like a horse tail - but no horses here!
Yes, gnus and zebs together
Serval is right. Note how many of the spots are in rows - you wouldn't see that on a cheetah.
#white-bellied-bustard, prob. adult
Yes, more gnus
Just another plant stem - Achyranthes aspera.
Definitely #serval
Might even be an old snare wound from a wire noose snare.
Agree hartebeest
This is a #bushbuck
Yes, couldn't be anything else...in its medium size and lack of markings, except for dark 'shins'.
The gray grizzled but unspotted back shows that this is a #black-backed-jackal.
Yes, #white-stork from Europe
Shooting stars are rain. Probably Verreaux's eagle owl with those dark rings round facial disc.
Basically a scientist has taken down the camera and is resetting it, so there are many junk pictures.
Group of resting #wildebeest, I think at least 7 but <11.
Zoom discussed here: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG00004j4. You have a #giraffe.
Bird tail
#eland ! In this sequence, a little earlier, you see its tail - ASG000oayh
definitely eland
Yes, lappet-faced or #nubian-vulture
Definitely buffalo
Fighting
Probably tail of a #lilac-breasted-roller #bird
Tail of unidentified #bird
#nubian-vulture a.k.a. Lappet-faced v.
Definitely tail of secretary bird.
wbk has coarser texture, is big so you'd only see over its back if sitting - yet no other pics of it. Open habitat is wrong for wbk too..
yes hippo
More likely a hawk or falcon from its shape, but can't tell which sp.
Legs too thin, and eland stripes usually limited to body. This is a #hartebeest, see also ASG0010q39 3 mins earlier.
Good!
Yes - the very shaggy pelt could be nothing else.
prob. #thomsons-gazelle
#eland bum
#hartebeest - tail of one, horns of another
Pix b4 & after are zebra so this must be too...maybe an ear?
nope, females are similar to males. These are #white-bellied-bustard.
Yes and yes. Often happens. As I write, most of the Serengeti woodlands have burned - most fires started by parks management.
A common fallacy. See ASG000njaw minutes later - #buffalo
That long tail hair at edge of 3 is your clue... #wildebeest
Why not a wildebeest? Upper part of tail is brown with black side fringes, black hair becomes much longer towards end of tail
Troops or groups, yes...8-50 individuals depending on habitat.
Yes, classic lion. Not much else lies paws-up like that.
yes indeed. About 20 collared females live in the area covered by the camera grid.
Especially on parts of neck it does seem to point forward, yes.
May be #guineafowl, foraging with heads down, as the next sequence ASG000ow2n shows 2 guineas closer to camera.
I was among those herds last week...it's truly awesome. Hope you get a chance to see them.
#impala is best guess.
Based on its relatively small ears and, as u say, brown back, I'd go for #side-striped-jackal
Definitely H20buck
Horns are often deformed in female tommies. It's as though they are evolutionarily in the process of losing them.
#Gazelle, but can't resolve which species.
On a BEF the black tip runs into a dark crest dorsally along the tail, which we don't see here. My guess is jackal, but hard call.
Definitely dikdik
Preorbital gland (dark mark in front of eye) shows it's dikdik. Reedbuck has postorbital gland - black spot behind eye.
Looks good to me!
That kind of tail & colour are a better fit for #hartebeest.
Can't see anything but a distant herd of probably-elephants under tree.
Insect or dust close to lens
prob. aardvark
Corncrake wouldn't show so much neck or tail, and shouldn't be in this location in July. Probably female Coqui Francolin.
#Mongoose, probably great gray.
Has to be either that or a spotted hyena. Even this lion biologist isn't sure! My guess, from what I see here, is hyena.
Yes, see also ASG000omsx
#buffalo. Eles, rhinos and hippos don't have pendulous balls like that. Muddy skin is common.
The herd is of zebras, and the animal on L looks lower and longer. May be a zebra running to catch up, but it does look like a male lion!
I agree #wildebeest. It stands in front of camera for looong time, then next image is a gnu moving away.
No, #dikdik. Bushbuck would be larger, redder, usually with some white spots on body.
Not honeybadger, too big. The pics b4 and after show hyena, and this appears to have spots on legs, so it may be a weird view of hyena too.
zebra seconded!
sure has a #wildebeest tail - ASG000plne
large raptor but can't see which.
prob. serval
straightish parallel horns are tommy - grants diverge more.
looks static - veg. or shadow
more zebras
Its blurriness compared to the clouds is a clue that this is a small object v close to lens...dirt or veg...it's in many pix. Sorry!
I'd agree #warthog
#elephant looks good, see also ASG000qbf7
#hyena - see ASG000pqev
yep. Also, buffalos are more of a dark monotone than wildebeest.
Yes those are leopard eyes. What a weird view of a leopard!!
Certainly could be the back of a white-tailed mongoose.
Close to camera and illuminated by flash.
Looks like a #thomsons-gazelle
Wow, that is a lucky one!
#impala - young male
I say #warthog. Frame 2 shows, from left, a tusk, a 'wart' and an eye turret. It may be scratching itself against the camera box or mount.
I agree #jackal
They are impala.
He's adult, with mature-looking horns.
It would be a very tiny lion! Looks like a flower or grass head.
BEF has big black ears - this is a jackal, appears to be Golden or poorly-marked Side-striped.
The thing moving from left to centre is a grant's gaz.
#White-tailed-mongoose
Probably slender. Dwarf does not have the black tail tip.
Not dikdik. More like reedbuck.
Leopards have rosettes on body but single spots on head and parts of limbs. This is a leopard. Also seen in ASG000r0qc
It doesn't move - think it's light effects from camera pointing at low sun.
prob. impala
Both #young #wildbeest
Looks like artifact - maybe flashlit dust mote.
Yes - little yellow heads. They are sweet birds, rather like a UK partridge.
More likely a calf or goat. Their mutts tend to be tan coloured.
Has to be a buffalo. Sadly, the beauty treatment never seems very effective...but it keeps them cool.
Yes - young #wildebeest, looks very small for that time of year.
koris are huge and usually project above the horizon. this is a #white-bellied-bustard.
interesting...what part of the park is that?
FYI, no self-respecting baboon would EVER be on the ground at night. Certain characters just don't work nights!
if u mean the tiny thing on left...no idea! i'd have ignored it.
male tommy chasing a female...bird was in the way!
#lion #cub
No, but some grants have black side stripes. I think the central animal is a tommy.
Could be dikdik but not certain.
yes #dikdik
Frequent in dry season. Annual burning in selected areas by park staff. Additional fires started by poachers.
Serval is right
I thinl it could be - well spotted!
#Thomsons-Gazelle
How 'bout a #magpie-shrike?
Weedwhacking the Serengeti - what a project!!
#wildebeest grazing with neck stripes & beard visible at R
It's there for about 2 hours. Maybe a caterpillar or other insect?
young #impala,good diagnosis
What's all this hesitation? Only wildebeest has a tail like that.
#eland are quite variable. I once knew one with a horn bent in a circle!
Can't see it.
Seems to be a wildebeest calf. Photos from previous 2 mins show wildebeest there. But not at all an obvious choice.
Yes, little ones often lie down.
The enigmatic and mysterious #spotted-hyena
What's abnormal? He's coming to renew the SD card or batteries in the camera, so you can have hours more of fun 😃
They are lion cubs, and lion cubs are spotty.
#crowned-plover or lapwing, yes
It is a leopard, walking away and sweeping its tail to one side. No doubt about that pattern.
yes lions
#lions
sure! see ASG000tchr hyenas, we get zebras, elands, lions, all kinds of stuff.
Yes, bowerbirds tend to be in Australia...
I know. Still, when you find 'something' running after a wildebeest, 99.9% of the time it's another wildebeest 😃
ASG000tchr and ASG000tcht show a group of hyenas investigating the rocks - no kill!
No animal here
They are #thomsons-gazelle
I only see an adult
I'm sure!
yes #spotted-hyena
Probably buffalo
Just wildebeest. You guys are SO eager for blood!!
and tusk!
Herd could also be buffs - hard to tell.
They often roll, or just rest lying on side.
Could also be a leopard. They love to climb trees like this.
All wildebeest - young have straight horns.
I lightened it and found all are #zebra
Lots of little spots - I agree cheetah.
Reaserchers photograph a slate when they put in a new SD card, so they know which camera and what date.
Ouch, yes
#hyena - look at rounded back & short black tail
#hartebeest for sure
Yes, has to be wildcat, but a strange colour!
#grey-breasted-spurfowl. Guineas have pointy heads.
Yes that heel looks unnaturally swollen. And oxpeckers aren't always little friends - they sometimes peck at wounds.
That's true. Gazelles.
young male #impala
Try #hare
Yes indeed! Lesser galago - amazing to catch it.
#Guineafowl
One of the smaller hornbills eg Gray
I think just a distant zebra.
The sequences b4 and after, though several hrs apart, show a Hartlaubs bustard. But I agree the size suggests Kori.
Yes, and the pink/white/black ears
#White-bellied-bustard
Likely grey-breasted-spurfowl
Bizarre, but I've seen this before - inguinal hernia or else just grossly swollen scrotum. Ouch!
Kori is about as big as a tommy - this is #white-bellied-bustard
yes! another lazy day in zebraland.
#wildebeest - dark color + long flowing tail
Gazelle. Topi would look overall darker.
Yes #bushbuck. Study the horns (only males have 'em) and the ears, which are quite distinctive.
Dikdiks typically come in pairs. And they are less than half the size of reedbuck. That gait with hind foot lifted high is v typical.
Elephant dung, methinks
Looks like #porcupine
rock or poop, not animal
Wow, you are good! I wasn't sure, but the experts confirmed #gabar-goshawk. I'm not used to seeing it come at me like this!
Yes, 3 h'beest and a presumed topi calf with the adult topis
Yes and yes
Bald #buffalo!
Prey looks like w'hog - in 2 you can see tusks.
Too small. #ground-hornbill - see ASG000pr0a few mins later.
#blackshouldered-kite is probably guarding its latest kill
I can't even see eyes.
Just grass...snakes are so rare to see.
#aardwolf is good.
#buffalo or manure heap!
Dark mark is v. close vegetation or dirt on lens
try #spotted-hyena - ASG000qso3 5 mins earlier
As they say, when in doubt it's a #wildebeest....see ASG000qmp6 2 mins earlier
One of the goshawks I think, but I've sent it to a bird expert to see if he can ID it. It's carrying prey, maybe a smaller bird.
In a very small % of zebras the stripes break down into a chaotic mottled pattern, usually in saddle area, as seen here
He's alive, that's the bottom line, and he could still inflict some damage with what's left!
Dorsal stripe. They all have it, but it doesn't show in a side view.
Resting so close to those zebras, it has to be another z.
#ground-hornbill - weird, huh?
Amazing capture of a #nightjar - night birds which catch insects on the wing. Many spp have bold white bars across wing primaries, seen here
Clue: Black and white stripes...
Yes, he's showing off his stuff in 3!
#gazelle - prob Grant's
#hyena photobomb!
All are #eland. Waterbuck is only in brushy places - in fact, if it had to spend a day in this treeless plain, it would DIE of heatstroke!
Probably Black-headed or Lesser Masked weavers. This camera is lying on the ground pointing up, so we see a lot of this colony!
If you haven't read it yet, see this: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb Animal is #hartebeest
#crowned-plover. Sandgrouse have v short legs like doves.
I agree with hayvel, agama #lizard - big guys who normally perch on rocks, as in R of picture.
yellow-billed #oxpecker on #buffalo
There's a #wildebeest there 1min earlier and during previous 15 min, so I assume this is one, yet it seems hornless! But nothing else fits.
Probably tail of a bird such as a roller, perched on the camera box.
That's awful! A hyenapotamus almost! Probably full of meat.
#wildebeest. Pics b4 & after show wildebeest too.
Good one. Sometimes you do see what appear to be matriarchal groups or multigenerational families.
No, something really small and really close, like an insect or a gecko crawling over the camera. Elephant parts always have more definition.
Ooohh!
Has to be #aardvark. There's really nothing else shaped like that, and we've seen them on this camera before.
#buffalo belly. Legs too slim for ele or rhino; penile tassel at far L is only seen on buffalo. He is rather threadbare, so looks wrinkly.
Yes, tommy. You can tell it's a small animal cos you're looking over its back. If it were waterbuck, you'd be looking at its belly or flank.
#koribustard
Lion for sure, well spotted! May just be resting. Go back to ASG000tdtn and work forward, you get them climbing into the rocks.
Why not? You deserve a #caracal. Look at ASG000mxe5, there's a tommy in the same plane, the cat is way smaller so can't be a lion.
prob smoke from grass #fire
This'll mess with your head - all are wildebeest! The elephant's head is hump of grazing gnu, and warthog's tusk is horn of another gnu!
Ha, best you can do! There are no other pix to help us. I'd go for one of the big cats.
Yes, it's a camera fault
Right. In fact their body profile, both when grazing or just standing, is highly distinctive at a great distance, try and learn it.
There is something indistinct there. Previous pic ASG000muj4 shows what seems to be #hippo.
#bushbuck because of dark patch at back of neck and white patch on R inner foreleg. Also coloring inside ear.
Tricky one. You can see 2 horn tips far L, big fringed ear lower centre... #buffalo! 8 mins later we see them leaving, ASG000oxpz
you're right!
Camera 'eye level' is c. 1 metre so this is big antelope - hartebeest or gnu - no dark shoulder patch so not topi. See ASG000nr3a for answer
These are #young #hartebeest with grant's gaz.
I like this view!
yup, #hyena
good - that dewlap is so distinctive
weed
No - I see 3 #topi and 1 #impala in there
It is!
tails & trunks
#hartebeest - it's big, also you don't usually find impala in open grassland with no bush.
Gazelle, prob Grants
#grants-gazelle young female - try comparing with other Grant's photos and you'll see that eye make-up.
Yes, all you can do is say 'nothing here'.
Never in daytime. Also, aardvark has a really thick tail like a kangaroo. This is a warthog.
Yes - one of the more frequent & distinctive birds.
Yes - some people get thrown by the side stripe, just accept that some Grants have it and others don't. Rump, tail and head are distinctive.
Yes, I think so.
yes, coqui #francolin
#buffalo. Rhino has a very concave back, while buffalo is almost a straight horizontal line.
#wildcat
Imagine that, all the way around you. When the Maasai came to this land where grass meets sky, they called it Siringet - a wide open space.
Unlikely. How about rear end of a grazing hare?
Yeah, it's amazing. They have very tough skin, but surely their mouths are somewhat sensitive. Perversely, tastiest bushes are thorny!
Both grants. Photo ASG000tump a minute earlier shows the head of close female. She has a dark stripe but all other features are granti.
Yes, #dikdik
Definitely a banded # mongoose
Might be, hard to see.
I think you're seeing things! Just veg.
Please, before you go further, follow the tutorial & look at pictures of the species on the list. Note that bison & sheep are not on list.
This is a #buffalo.
#spurfowl I think
That diddly little thing lower right looks like a classic Bird-Other to me. I don't see an animal L of tree, just grass heads.
Confirmed.
I guess baboon
Gazelle
Young #grants-gazelle
Stick
Different mums. They don't twin.
Yes #eland
If unsure, guess. If majority guess the same thing, then that's what it is. See previous pic ASG000n2tp #wildebeest
Could be old...also, this is dry season and not as lush as it can be
Hot air #balloon
They are all young, and sometimes several young do bunch together thus.
The gnu in 2 and 3 is the same. It runs behind some tall heads of red oat-grass, which look to you like a cat. A real lion wd be bigger!
1 Harte and many gazelle
Vegetation, it's in many pix in this series.
This is one of those cameras that points skywards, and takes millions of pics of the little twig at top 😦
Love it!!
It's like a hartebeest nursery group. Out of picture, a mom is probably explaining how to stand with your belly against the camera 😃
#grey-backed-fiscal
no way, it's a #dikdik. Note greyish rump & neck, preorbital gland and white eye-ring, pointed muzzle.
yes, impala
Think it's #spotted-hyena with indistinct spots, certain it's not striped.
#wildebeest - large, grey-brown 'brindled' coat, horse-like tail
It's a baby #hartebeest. Only Grant is at far R.
agree 2 hyenas
#marsh-owl
Way too scuzzy. #spotted-hyena.
#impala, yes
Brown with light rump makes it #hartebeest
Buffalo is right
Young #wildebeest, yes
That color & texture are typical of #wildebeest.
These are #grants-gazelle - so much white on legs & belly, and lacking the black marks that impala have on rear hocks.
Right.
#wildebeest with a couple of zebra.
Either that or topi, can't tell.
#cheetah as in ASG000sski
Yes #reedbuck
Yes it is young buff.
Agnother gnu.
Maybe buffalo head? Lots of flies!
Yes #warthog
Blackbacked #jackal
Something small and v close to camera to be so blurry. Not lion.
Awesome view from underneath!
Or eland - one passing by a minute earlier.
maybe just a leaf
Just wind. Only animal there is a gazelle, not known for shaking trees.
#wildebeest for sure
They do have a facial stripe thru eye.
#lion - see ASG000snvu
prob more gnus!
yes, could be claw marks. Lucky zeb!
I'm only seeing waving grass.
Head doesn't look right, but I can't make it into anything else.
They are wary birds and good at avoiding the traffic!
If u mean the thing at bottom right,could be bird but hard to say what
Dark line from eye to mouth makes this a #cheetah
Good one!
Dark thing on horizon that doesn't move? might just be bushes, can't tell
It's another tommy
Hyena is good.
Very hard call. There are only 3 pix, all in this position, all in same minute. I favor #lion but who knows? They get flies too.
It's deceptive. We went thru a lot of pix b4 & after, and decided she's a wildebeest.
Not easy. From smallish size and sparse spotting and alignment of many spots into rows, I'd say #serval.
Yes, good guess! - ASG000rtjk shows the cheetah
Hard to say. Could be a young one closely following a larger one.
Thing on left might be #aardvark
Next photo shows a wildebeest
Presumably cheetahs - see ASG000rti7 from 2 min earlier.
Prob. Elephant
Looks like immature male tommy
Yes #wildebeest
Anöther #impala
Gazelles and a maybe-topi
Yes, see 10 mins later - ASG000q1ca
#thomsons-gazelle female - see ASG000ouwa a minute earlier. A Tommy's back is lower than average camera level, a Grant is about camera level
It is not lightning, but lighting - on a grass stem close to camera. By day you'd see this - ASG000qhe3
If you were under this tree, would you look at the trunk (where camera is mounted) or out at the grass whence danger is more likely to come?
Yes. Young zebs have a fuzzier texture than adults, and tend to be browner.
Yes - ASG000nf5u
#lion - one close, another out in grass at L.
But definitely a #wildebeest
Just more zebra
Possibly topi
Looks like warthog
#butterfly. Giraffes are bigger.
Can't see any animal here
Shape of ears more like hyena.
Very close to camera so must be small, like rodent or lizard.
Believe it or not, #thomsons-gazelle - ASG000ow8k
Just possibly could be #buffalo
#fire indeed
#thomsons-gazelle - ASG000ngi0
Rain, wonderful rain!
No, it's part of a human preparing to unlock the camera
Seems to be some small critter crawling over camera, with some lens flare, but no idea who.
looks like little furry tail but don't know who.
er - these are #dikdik, could be ma and kid.
yes, yellow-billed #oxpecker
Gazelles
I'd guess dust devil.
Right, well done
prob more #impala
yes, #guineafowl
Hyenas are 1.5h earlier & 4h later so may not be aware of him. Lion soc org is spatially loose, chances are that he has pals off camera.
can't tell, poss. baboon
Best guess #impala
Probably #topi
A lot of gazelles and a hartebeest
To be so blurry, it must be very close to lens, thus very small. Perhaps insect.
two #elephant
#hartebeest - you almost never see impala in such open country, they prefer bushland.
Two #warthog - sorry!
Bohor Reedbuck live in loose small groups. Typically in daytime they rest near each other in tall grass, in places not seen by our cameras.
#hippo indeed
A young and an old one. The very clear spots of the young become less distinct with age, and body color becomes browner.
#elephant male
yes he is
Yes, #wildebeest
Adult female #waterbuck - the fuzziest of the antelopes
Good call- but I can find no ref to twinning. Examining pic, I see the LH one as an adult, a little further back than calf but still taller.
you're sighting from its butt along its left side and seeing just the curve of its horn.
Unlikely in June. Young zebras up to about half grown often rest lying down, even adults sometimes.
Looks like a shrike
Yes, #bushbuck
Great!
Gazelle, prob. Tommy
#impala - reddish color, black tipped ears
Distant dust-devil?
Nothing visible at all except that eye, or dust speck. Anything goes!
#cape-rook - a corvid common on plains
yes, hyena
Juveniles play-fighting....very small horns!
Yes - a dik-dik-dik!
Yes, H. Ichneumon - found in India too.
I suggest #great-grey-mongoose - one of the larger Serengeti species.
LOL
I made up 'eyebrows', not sure what you call them on a hippo. 'Eyepods'?
Another tommy at R edge
#elephant tusk
#zebras & insect?
#guineafowl head
Back of neck, top of head, two ears, two 'eyebrows', but L eye is just below frame.
#guineafowl, and distant zebras.
Insect
#wildebeest on the move. Maybe heading out to the plains at the first rains.
Part of a #wildebeest
Wow! You got a #leopard! In ASG000p3em it stands up, and subsequently turns around and hunkers down again.
#beauty !
All kinds of animals use the cameras as scent marking posts, so they must smell really exciting!
Yes! And a #buffalo
See http://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/category/camera-trapping/ - March 11 2013 blog 'Running In Place'. Box approx 3"x5"x6" is big enough.
This one's the lappet-faced-vulture
#grants-gazelle female actually
Hmm. Explain how its head is oriented, so we can't see body, ears, nose or horn tips, and why this couldn't be two #banded-mongoose instead?
Ya got me! Didn't look hairy enough for a bab tail, but in context it makes sense.
I know it's not a bustard 'cos they NEVER perch on trees. My best guess is a #grey-breasted-spurfowl
#wildebeest - see ASG000tc5d a minute later.
Yes #warthog - see ASG000ptud
Probably tail of a #leopard. There was leopard here 5 hrs earlier.
One of the small species, probably #white-bellied-bustard
Yes #vultures
Bat, moth or other UFO
Yes, #lions
#wildebeest - not obvious here, but previous pics show it better eg ASG000n5xb
#thomsons-gazelle - as in the photos immediately before and after. But yes, hard to ID from just an ear.
All I see is the #thomsons-gazelle.
All are #impala
more #wildebeest ?
#baboon !
#nothing
#buffalo for sure. Horns are swept back from eyes then curve up at their tips.
looks like #guineafowl head
Camera obscured by dirt or veg
Still a #hippo
#dikdik is better. See also next photo, ASG000pndu, showing dikdik with bushbuck.
This one is so hard. I vote #buffalo, because a rhino has a more concave back like a horse, and a hippo would be more rounded.
Our friendly #hartebeest
#wildebeest - see the yellowish beard and black tail?
Probably #thomsons-gazelle. You can see part of body too, black & tan. Next photo ASG000nsoy shows a tommy there.
Next sequence ASG000tx1p shows you more, but not much more.
That's right! Here's some fairly big ungulate (maybe topi size) dark face, no beard, already that narrows it down to 3 or 4 max.
All are #wildebeest
stands like #zebra
Scientist has just replaced the SD card, photographed the slate with date, time etc, and team is now preparing to move on to next camera
Think of young warthogs...animals with spiky bits like horns or tusks are born without them, mothers out there will be relieved to hear!
#zebra - profile of part of head with mane at top. Zebras also present in ASG000oc0b.
#wildebeest grazing
Can't ID, lark or pipit.
It isn't practical to record shadows. They are too variable.
If you lighten it you can see how big is the body attached to that tail!
Maybe insect on lens
#nothing - just grass in front of camera
Can't tell. Part of large animal.
Nor can I. My best guess = warthog
You can un-bate your breath. The guys in bkg are just #zebras
Chest of a #hartebeest. They very often stand in front of camera for hours. Cameras are about 1 metre above ground, helps u judge size.
The only horses you'll see in Serengeti NP are #zebras, which is what these are - about 8, some further away than others.
Yes, there's vegetation or dirt in front of this camera lens.
Also that rich reddish color makes them #impala
Probably #impala
You're right, it is a #dove. It appears in many pictures and changes position and eventually leaves.
#african-hoopoe - very nice capture!
Det är inte en elefant. Kameran har ett problem. It's not an elephant. This camera has a problem.
#hippo for sure.
yes, #lion
Yes...they are very variable
Don't think it's either, as 5 mins later it isn't there. Maybe distant herd eyes?
Det är Thomsons gaseller i bakgrunden
Right on
#hartebeest - eland would have a fringed or tufted dewlap
You might be on to something there. There were buffalo here 2 hrs earlier. Still puzzled though!
Possibly one of the smaller bustards.
Yes, the following and head movements are part of the courtship ritual
Something small sitting on the camera, maybe an insect or spider, is my guess. I like yours though 😃
Mix of zebra and wildebeest visible
#buffalo #calf, they are quite reddish when small.
Yes, they get broken. She's a dudess.
A #harrier - medium long winged hawk
Still #buffalo
#elephant - part of trunk
Right
#waterbuck in bkg
Looks like a #butterfly
They've got bands, yes
Full belly
It's the most likely suspect.
This camera seems to be permanently part-obscured by vegetation or whatever. So I'd give it a 'nothing'
In which case, this is a #black-shouldered-kite (or else its prey)
They do, but you get used to it. The Great Wildebeest Migration is usually accompanied by the much less publicized Great Fly Migration 😃
Most likely Tommies
It has a weird gleam in its eye!
huh?? She's just relaxing with her head on her friend's back. Count the legs!
Yes - if that is the cat, it makes no sense for bird to stay.
#dikdik - he's v small, and note thick dark line in front of eye (preorbital scent gland) - he may be scent-marking a grass stem.
#thomsons-gazelle male
#serval - see ASG000r835 taken 5min later
#cheetah tail - there was a cheetah hanging around this tree during previous hour
Beautiful sequence.
Ticks are my best guess. But in subsequent pics he seems to get rid of them, perhaps by scraping against the treetrunk.
Yes, #zebra
This casual association is often seen - it is suggested that in combination they are better able to detect their common enemies.
Nest material?
Too white for gnu. #thomsons-gazelle
It could be.
Yes! This is a sausage tree, Kigelia, and leopards like to lounge on their branches - even lions sometimes. Any sightings of cats here yet?
#impossible - eland usually has tuft or fringe of hair on dewlap but we can't see enough for ID here
LOL! It's amazing what happens after dark when the tourists are safely tucked in bed.
It's definitely animal, looks like part of a bird.
Monkey is a #hornbill #bird
a.k.a. #white-bellied-bustard
wildebeest
absolutely
probably #wildebeest
Yes. They have weird muzzles.
They often come to drink and bathe at suitable waterholes
Correct. Flash does make most animals look lighter.
two #wildebeest fighting, I think
mostly #wildebeest
#grey-breasted-spurfowl - chicken family
#lion - good guess
#wildebeest udder - elephant would have much more wrinkly texture.
A mix of wildebeest & zebras
yes, both
Puzzling. Looks almost like a car. Other animals seen here on same day include gnu & elephant
Birds seen on zebra and wildebeest are usually #wattled-starling. They just use the grazer as an observation platform to spy insects below
can only be #warthog
yes - sharp eyes!!
#reedbuck definitely
3 #thomsons-gazelle watch alertly as a spotted #hyena walks by. This is not unusual. They keep a 'safe' distance from hyena.
It turned slightly towards us, so snout looks shorter. You seldom see aardwolf in that posture, too. Here's another jackal: ASG0006aih
nothing that I can see. There's a game trail, and some dung.
#side-striped-jackals
no, #hyena
This is the seldom seen #side-striped-jackal
They are. There are a lot of photos of this colony!
#eland - see 6 mins earlier: ASG000smyp
It is #impala - blow it up to see his distinctive S-shaped horns
Yes, that is a sitting tommy
Those are #thomsons-gazelle in bkg.
why not #jackal ?
Do make use of the ID guide...this is a very clear view of female #impala. Grant is more light pinkish, big white oblong in butt.
flying insect probably, meteorite less probably
Spotted h.
Not wild dog, #aardwolf
Nothing
#buffalo for sure
#black-bellied-bustard male
3 #wildebeest & a #buffalo
#grants-gazelle all
These are #white-bellied-bustards
On #buffalo
#wildebeest calves
No, #wildebeest
Antelope, poss. Reedbuck
Nothing but trees I think
#bird x2, probably francolin
No idea. I would expect buffalo to show more bristles. Human would have made camera straight. Bird?
Yes, at that time of year could be white-eyed kestrel.
Classic #buffalo head in profile
#buffalo sitting down. They are the blackest of all the mammals here.
#wildebeest X 2
Yes, several
#buffalo horn bosses.
#wildebeest - see a minute earlier, ASG000qz97
5-6 months I'd guess. Looks like Mama's working on a new project too.
It is better to see animals that aren't there, than not to see those that are there 😃
A scientist took it down, so he could send you 3,000 more photos of waving grass.
#topi - with the eye of faith, you can see dark stripe down front of face, dark on upper forelimbs.
I suspect there are no bathrooms for about 50 miles. It does what it has to do.
#warthog with a fancy 'do
The former.
Yup
#giraffe, see next frame ASG000qp5q
Looking for a radio-collared lion, like the ones you see in the photos!
Yes - and in left foreground, probably #dikdik
Right. Rounded back, reddish tuft between ears, black preorbital gland are other clues you can see here.
white-bellied, perhaps?
#zebra correct.
definitely banded #mongoose
Female Black-bellied or Hartlaub's bustard
All #buffalo - normally you'll see all buffalo, or all wildebeest, seldom do they mix.
Of course!
Calf of #hartebeest or possibly #topi - they are v similar when small
yes, black-backed #jackal
#warthog - see this, 3 min later: ASG000rdy4
There are at least 6 tommies here, I can't see a mound-critter. Is it the moving head of the resting tommy, over the back of the R female?
2 #crowned-plover , one something-else and a tommy
This is the sky camera and it just takes a zillion pics of that little grass stem!
Most definitely. A male.
Amazing! #grey-backed-fiscal shrike
Can't tell. 2 mins earlier, zebra passed this camera
Could be, I can't be positive
looks like a fine big male with that thick neck
Might be another #secretary-bird
It took me a long time to even find it! Can't see well enough to be positive. May be rufous-tailed weaver.
yes, #wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle for sure.
#buffalo !
Looks like a baby reedbuck. Also appears in ASG000omt2
#dikdik for sure.
Yes - see photo from previous minute: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000p9xz
This is a good view of a #black-winged-plover / lapwing
Nice - I think that's all it could be. Bat-eared-fox would have more black on ears and legs.
Monkey is a #vervet
I just picked it up from living with them. Richard D Estes is the world expert on SNP gnu so his writings might mention it.
Only one - C. taurinus mearnsi. Diffs in facial markings are age-related. The sitting one here is about 2 yrs old.
Grant would show horns. Might be jackal.
#impossible
#wildebeest looks good
#impossible from this pic. Others in this sequence show buffalo.
Maybe flying insect
If it were a hunting lion, you would see 2 eyes, since their eyes face forwards. It's probably another zebra. Great action shot though!
Just a probability issue - civets are completely nocturnal and tend to avoid open habitat 😃
Superb!
We are thinking it's hyena.
They all have hairy faces. Spiral is interesting - haven't noticed b4.
#gazelle
nests
nothing here i think
Actually, the R one could be immature RGV too, they look very similar to WBV.
The work of elephants, not wind!
Standing in tall grass
sunrise & lens flare
That's another good reason for slashing the grass around the cameras. The cut area acts as a firebreak.
That caught my attention! What I see here is a female #ostrich grazing. Welcome to SnapshotSerengeti.
yawwwwnnn
Just the very slight noise the camera makes, attracts the #serval 's full attention by frame 3.
Aha! You are too good at this!
#oxpecker on #buffalo. They're picky whom they peck - mostly buffalo, giraffe, eland, hippo, rhino. Rarely gnu or zeb. Never elephant.
Extremely.
Slashing grass to reduce the number of 'nothing' photos caused by waving vegetation
Looks like rufous-tailed #weavers
Looks like tommy.
I think it's nothing
My guess too. In 1 it seems to have a bent over tail.
guess tommy
#ground-hornbill - unique wonderful bird
Massive greyish short-haired animal...think it has to be a shoulder...in 1 & 3 you get some sky at top R over its back or neck
What do you think about a big old bull eland? Color & shape & size are good.
Great #portrait
yes #buffalo
Too big for caracal, I'm not happy with lion - will have to ponder this one.
This is how some camera lenses become smeary or opaque!
Good call, I agree for same reasons
#white-bellied-bustards x 3
Good view of one
Both eat grass, both migrate to be in the best pasture at the right time, and both like a shady tree on a hot day. Love the zeb heads here!
Plants very close to camera!
#elephant - well done
Short, round body, long skinny tail = #warthog
At least 3 #zebra and a few tommies too
Mostly gazelles, prob topi too
Thanks Jihang. I've posted a request on the Interface Help board.
November, green grass, so fire unlikely. Somehow doesn't look like moon. Small flying creature with reflective eye? Such as dung-beetle?
Yes - defassa, as seen here, is the only one in Serengeti
#buffalo x 2
There's something small moving in lower R corner but I can't make it into anything I know. Vegetation?
I'll buy #aardvark - other option is pangolin, which is a little smaller - hard to judge scale here.
It could be this kind of posture - http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000s9qu Any Scientists around to advise us?
That head-high posture is typical of a high-testosterone male, maybe it is he doing the chasing!
Hippos don't tend to herd at night - they spread out. These are #wildebeest
#ostrich tail - more ostrich at R
Based on size, very thick legs, and hair texture, you got a male #lion there. See those wisps of mane at top?
Ears cocked, listening to small prey!
If it were kill, the other #impala wouldn't be there. They aren't big fans of funerals. Resting, but agree it's an odd position.
#white-bellied-bustard female - the blue-grey on neck is one clue. And it's the most likely bustard to see here.
Tommies have 2 birth seasons here, one about Dec-Jan and one about Jun-Jul, so this fits.
foreground one is of course a #warthog
Those on far L are #wildebeest so assume others are too
Looks like #grants-gazelle on R. Then a couple of ?zebra then gnus.
can't see any
Think its #wildebeest #calf, unless anyone has better idea. Has little spike horn, antelope type ear and blocky head,
#cheetah for sure. The single spots, slender legs and lack of white underside to tail
Neck and chin of big carnivore. Maybe cheetah?
It's a plant very close to the camera and its flash, so it's brightly lit and out of focus.
more likely dust motes. There are sometimes fireflies, but generally in swampy places.
Wow. Indeed, you got a #side-striped-jackal. First I've seen on SnapshotSerengeti. I've only seen them a handful of times in the wild.
a.k.a. #buffalo
don't see any animal
of....? I only see grass and maybe an unidentifiable bird
LOL - They are such clowns!
Fantastic to be eye to eye with a tommy. You can't do that on safari.
Studying Gnu Testament?
#thomsons-gazelle - not too creepy 😃
no, just the right size! SNP has no smaller antelopes than the #dikdik
#white-bellied-bustard - very cool birds
belly probably belongs to #hartebeest
Thanks for your patience! Cameras sensitive enough to catch motion of small critters are easily fooled by waving grass.
Yes, we see quite a few of these.
surely #wildebeest calf?
Looks like wildebeest tail.
Definitely small antelope, most likely #dikdik
#impala , yes
All #wildebeest !
You could confidently put #lion - 2 shows the clear boundary between mane and short body hair. There is no other animal like that.
2 & 3 look like a carnivore ear, not ungulate, and 1 isn't lion, so I support hyena
yes - long thick tail is unique
Ouch! Well done 😃
tawny shape lying = lion?
Looking at it again, maybe it's the muzzle of a wildebeest?
awww, nice to see!
I didn't, because I see no trace of mane or striping and its body is so light. Even topi would show some darker patches.
Can only be #thomsons-gazelle with that black bushy tail and strong black racing stripe
Legs way too thin. Probably #hartebeest
I'd call #thomsons-gazelle. Can't even explain why - this view is pretty similar for both. Jenny, you find some good puzzles!
Reedbuck looks good to me.
#eland - yes!
Achyranthes aspera or 'devil's horsewhip'. Grows under shade of trees and makes horrid barbed seeds which hitch rides on skin or clothes!
Yes. Born around Jan, so 5-6 mo old. Note the face is already dark, but they keep that tan forehead thru their 2nd year.
Hard one - I think #elephant, from shape & thickness of forelimbs, facing left
Right!
From size, curve of rump, reddish color, fullness of tail... #bushbuck is my best guess
LOL! Yes, a rare shot indeed
#Hartebeest, 'cos it's quite big and has pale butt and thighs, as if wearing light tights
Still #hartebeest
Not with that short cat-like face. #Serval
I've seen a few of these, think it's tail of lilac-breasted roller - you know, with the long streamers?
I love this
Nope, male #bushbuck. Reedbuck is fairly uniform tan and has forward curved horns. This has a lot of dark & light marks, straight horns, etc
I'd say so. They have to be good friends to rest like that. Nice shot!
too far to ID, sorry
Hawk, yes, but can't see much detail. There aren't many on plains in June. White-eyed kestrel? not sure
#Eland - very distinctive profile, rather ox-like with straight horns
looks like the infamous #gray-backed-fiscal
#hartebeest , yes
bird's beak?
can't ID
Yes, could be
Group bunched under tree are #zebra
Possibly #bat-eared-fox - I think you're right about nose & ear
guess topi or hartebeest
They don't move. Maybe flowers
They don't mix. Female #grants-gazelle - rump markings are distinctive, side stripe is variably present or absent.
Probably #elephant
mix of gnus and zebras but hard to count.
#Hippo
I couldn't be confident about this. Looks fuzzier than cheetah. A clearly-spotted hyena?
They're rocks, so zebra is your only species. If you had another sp, you'd score zebra, 3, standing, press Identify, then score the next sp.
Yes well done! The end of leopard tail is all white underneath, diff from cheetah where rings/spots are all the way round.
Slim gray neck, b&w stripes on head = #white-bellied-bustard
Or tail of bird perched on camera?
Cool...what a muddy one!
#topi , well done
That's right! Sometimes you see quite large herds.
I'm a dark and massive #buffalo
Good reasoning!
Shows nicely the forward curved horns.
Yeah, when I blow it up I can see what you mean. Gnu calf is probably correct.
Reddish, white stripes/spots on body, dark at base of neck, = #bushbuck female.
Grass head nodding in wind 😦
Correct - #lion
My idea is nothing here. Lump on L horizon is a termite mound.
5 #crowned-plovers and 1 #blackwinged-plover (foreground)
Great! Thanks 4 sharing
#Impala looks good 'cos of black tipped ears
He's not very small and could be an independent young male. And he could have lots of pals just out of frame.
Trees, grass & rocks
Backbone of prey
Think it's grass
Good try. All we can use here is how rounded the ears are. Reedbuck, oribi, all the others have pointy ears. So this is #bushbuck
On that date, it wouldn't have been as round. Probably a dust mote.
Large #bird preening, size of secretary or kori bustard, but not enough to go on.
Maybe - can't tell. In the foreground, of course, is #elephant .
Those long twisted horns are only on bushbuck and eland. From apparent size and shape of head, I'd call this a female #eland.
I think it's just a hartebeest 😦
Who nose? I guess #cheetah cos of mouth shape and hint of spots on short-haired chest. Also they scentmark cameras so tend to sniff closely.
Sure is - on a #buffalo
Agree - #giraffe - lightened in PS I can even see some spots!
May have to remain mystery. Not much out there in June that's large and b&w. I'm baffled. Unless black Cape Rook showing shiny reflections?
Yes, #white-bellied-bustard
super!
I'd give it a 'nothing'.
About 6 #thomsons-gazelle - 3 or 4 show the black side stripes if you look closely. Don't assume eyeshine = predators - usually it's not.
sorry, don't see anything but grass
If there's no animal, hit the 'nothing here' button.
more of the same... #thomsons-gazelle
correct - #thomsons-gazelle
nor I
dirty old #buffalo
Peculiar, but yes!
He's young so they haven't yet acquired their full spread and that elegant S-bend.
#harrier - either male Pallid or male Montague's, can't tell at that distance
Usually, more of the same - as in this case. #zebra
Bit larger.... #elephant
Yes. Sometimes they cover the plains from horizon to horizon.
Just judging by all the flies with it, I'd say buffalo nose, but no way to tell. Buffalo seem to get more flies than anyone else!
All the animals are #wildebeest, even the close horn. Hartebeest horns are ringed or ridged, this one is smooth.
Strange to catch one out at night.
Both are #topi 😃
#buffalo herd - all are dark. African cows have a mix of all colors in the herd - black, brown, white, spotty - & we seldom see any in SNP.
#cheetah, I think - serval are smaller, usually just their ears come up to camera level, and they usually have stripes on neck & shoulders.
#humans cutting grass and tending to camera. You can see blade of slasher in 3.
Fun! Tis a #baboon
Beauty!
I'll go with reedbuck
I'll raise you...2 #jackals
Lots of gnus - #wildebeest . Long black face is distinctive.
Ha, yes, #spotted-hyena
No kidding! Wildeballs.
The long neck, long hair on neck, the way his head sits on his neck - none of that says jackal to me. Wonder if this could be #aardwolf?
Small antelope, like tommy or steinbuck.
#topi is right!
Insect?
Just grass. You really wouldn't see a snake in knee high grass.
Well-known syndrome 😛
#buffalo - elephant can't get that low
More zebras with heads down grazing - I can see the stripes
#wildebeest , you betcha
How about #hippo? thick neck going down past ear to protruding eye
Nothing, I think.
This one is hard - played it many times, I see dark legs, white on bum, large size. That and the riverine habitat suggest #waterbuck to me
#dikdik - the little pointy crest between ears is a clue.
Could be the edge of a warthog's face but #impossible to know.
It's a #serval ! Nice.
Nothing here that I can see
Interesting capture. Not head, but wingtip of a #nightjar - nocturnal insect- hawking bird.
#oxpecker. How cool is that, to have someone pick your nose for you?
Yes #hartebeest - good call
Interesting view of a #hartebeest !
That's a clear #wildebeest
Probably #ground-hornbill. It shows its head half an hour later on same camera.
#buffalo - really crusty ratty old bulls!!
Most likely #warthog
black-backed #jackal
I think #wildebeest - beyond it, bottom L, looks like mane and back of another one.
#wildebeest titties
#cheetah more likely
#zebra about 3
#hartebeest correct
Wow indeed! Big Bird is #kori-bustard
All #zebras
no deer here, it's a #thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest - striping and beard are distinctive
Pretty sure this is #elephant, rhino would not have such long legs or belly so high.
They don't - it's just heading for the trees.
#zebra - about 4
Yes, #wildebeest - NO HORSES in Serengeti, except zebras!
#hartebeest - they are sort of lion coloured with pale long-johns. Also look for that little dark curvy tail, humped shoulders, slim neck.
Definitely #waterbuck - big, shaggy, dark coat, white rump
Or reedbuck? or impala? can't tell.
Yes, too bad! Looks like a big cat but really can't ID
#spotted-hyena - no confusion. Nothing else is spotty & scruffy. This is a young one so the spots are clear. Hyenas are often active by day.
Looks like all #zebras
just grass i think
I think just trees
Too big. Most of the cameras are mounted about a metre off the ground, so you wouldn't see a close-up mongoose. This is olive #baboon .
More likely Black-headed or Lesser Masked, but I can't see details.
These are 2 #zebra
Still #eland
No, it's at least 3 #wildebeest and perhaps another 8 visible only as eyeshine.
#wildebeest hide
About 4 #wildebeest
#wildebeest - they do look different at night. keep going!
Yes, #elephant
I favor #reedbuck. Oribi has more delicate build and, usually, a black tipped tail. Both have the black spot below ear base.
It's a #landrover -beest
prob #jackal. Only other option is serval but I think its ears would be closer together.
#secretary-bird collecting nesting material!
All are #wildebeest - they don't mix much with buffalo
#zebra - in photoshop I can see the stripes.
Truly stellar!
It's a big spotted cat - leopard or cheetah. Given the open short grass habitat, my money is on #cheetah
Quite common in female tommies. Evolutionarily they may be in the process of losing them.
They, too, are #wildebeest
Medium sized antelope.Totally blah brown face rules out all gazelles, bushbuck, and probably reedbuck. That leaves #impala - best guess!
#spotted-hyena - must be the LED model!
Normal, I think - perhaps it's just the lighting. They are pale, an adaptation for living in hot dry places - reflects radiant heat better.
Maybe. At that age it is very hard to distinguish topi from hartebeest - similar shape and color. Too bad mama isn't in the picture!
yes, #ground-hornbill
I think so, yes
#topi at left - we often get them in this scene. Also gazelles on horizon but can't ID
Tail style and body texture suggest #buffalo to me
Looks good.
Puzzling. That angular grey fuzzy shape might be the heel of a #wildebeest , and part of its horn moving at lower left?
Wow, that is really special!
It's an 'orange-tip' #butterfly
Yes #hartebeest - maybe 4 of them
Hard one. I can't make it into a civet, but I'm wondering #zorilla ? Other opinions?
#jackal. looks like a small grazing antelope, but the thick neck gives it away.
#dikdik x 2: head of one looking R, rear view in background.
Definitely #warthog
#buffalo #calf
Small passerine, lark or pipit, can't do better than that!
#Crowned-plover
They share the same habitat, but have different food prefs and ranging patterns. They mix but don't interbreed. Often seen in same picture.
Think it's a #bird. Camera is lying on its back, bird standing on it, we see the breast and bill of the bird from below. Other ideas?
It's a #bird - #grey-backed-fiscal - there's one on ground and one in a small bush
#thomsons-gazelle - about 5 in picture
I've seen a similar one, and think it's the tail of a #lilac-breasted-roller bird perching on the camera
Protruding nose and whiskers suggest big cat. Lack of beard suggests #cheetah.
#baboon - it's even got hands!
yes they are
#lion x 2
#hartebeest it is, the little hair crest along tail diistinguishes it from eland who has black tassel at end. Nothing else is that color.
Most of his horn is broken off, that's why he's so odd
Probably bird, I'm thinking tail of #roller
yes, cheek!
good old #hartebeest belly
Yes, I think so too
#Cheetah !
Yes, how great to get a daytime shot of #leopard !
Thanks, wilderzone!
They are indeed #baboons
yes, #black-backed-jackal
#white-bellied-bustard. Brown body, long blue-grey neck, and black & white stripes on face are main ID cues.
#wildebeest at least 4
Aardwolf has more of a mane. Serval has shorter face. This is #jackal
#secretary-bird - check it out!
#spotted-hyena , and they are utterly fascinating!
A grass head
Foreground a nondescript brown #white-backed-vulture preening, beyond it a #ruppells-griffon-vulture with white ruff & mottled wings.
Could be, or steinbuck; not dikdik or bushbuck; but I can't see enough of it for positive ID
#buffalo - all the horned animals chew cud, but posture & color & habitat r all buffaloid.
#hartebeest, one of our regulars!
Low-budget safari guides sometimes try to pass off w'hogs as baby rhinos 😃
Only thing I don't like about that answer is, I can't make out its horns.
Looks like #wildebeest on its side, head to L, hind legs to R, pale bum and tailbase facing us, black tail flicking to L. Could be birthing?
Holy ####! I will have to eat my words of yesterday. Well done!
Try #wildebeest , they have a very horselike tail. You aren't going to see horses in Serengeti, except the striped kind 😃
#hartebeest is correct. We've some who love to stand with belly in front of lens!
An ad for skin cream? Very, very wrinkly, must be #elephant
Elephant yes, but you're looking between its hind legs. Elephants have boobs on chest as in humans, and quite similar in shape.
#white-bellied-bustard - the commonest bustard in these photos.
yes!
or bird?
Couple of #zebras and some #gazelles
It has dark & light stripes. Either zebra belly or hot air balloon. I vote for #balloon !
I suspect lion but can't rule out hyena
About 10 #topi , I would say, and a lot of smaller gazelles
Big black barrel body + mud + belly tassel = #buffalo bull
There are about 6 #zebra there
More likely #spotted-hyena
May be #wildebeest thigh
Looks like wildebeest under the small tree but I see no ostrich.
Too low. Might be #thomsons-gazelle.
#wildebeest #calf is correct. This one is only 4-5 mo, horns still little spikes, tail hair short. No deer in Serengeti.
#buffalo. Clue - warthogs aren't out after dark.
On plains in July, most likely #grants-gazelle
Looks like it but can't tell what. If you view this on an ipad it's easy to zoom, but photos are lo-res so it doesn't help much.
Probably 2 #Thomsons-gazelle
More or less. In June, after end of rains, park staff deliberately set a lot of grass fires to prevent more destructive fires later on.
Nor can I. Might be guineafowl?
You got a pack of #banded-mongoose ! Congrats
Best guess is another wildebeest.
Yes. A number of people will give their opinions, and the computers will decide.
#wildebeest adult and young. Tails are quite distinctive.
Yes, and front legs too, you just can't see them.
If unsure, ask. With time you will learn to recognize all the animals from just a small part of the body. Yes, this is #hartebeest
yes, #buffalo
Female tommies often do have broken or deformed horns.
rear of a #wildebeest
That ear is not gnu. How about a #zebra - its ear and mane?
#topi - red-brown base of neck and part of foreleg showing black and yellow markings.
Possible #buffalo on R, can't ID eyes.
Former is #topi, others too far.
I can't be certain - not enough detail.
#weaver birds - maybe black-headed or lesser masked, most likely suspects.
Just running around. There's far less hunting than u would expect!
And #ruppells-griffon-vulture at L.
I say #topi because body has reddish hue while hip/thigh is dark gray. W'buck is shaggier and has white rump
Almost... #giraffe !
#spotted-hyena correct
Stripes are a clue... #zebra
or #dust kicked up by animal that triggered camera. Not much rain in Aug.
Looks like buffalo at centre, but doesn't move
#eland confirmed, with #calf
I don't think we ID shadows for that reason. Anyhow, best bet is that it's a tree, since that is what many cameras are bolted to 😃
herd of #wildebeest.
Could be. Not enough shadow detail here to say more.
#white-bellied-bustard confirmed
Yes, all are tommies.
For sure, at least 5.
#impossible say i
Can't tell. Have you noticed the weird back of the left zebra? Looks broken or deformed.
Why not a young/female tommy?
Not impala on open plains. Looks like mix of Grants and Tommies.
A bit older than that. For obvious reasons, they are born hornless, and this little guy has grown some spikes.
Beautiful - can't ya smell the rain?
Tail, but I need help here! It looks to be fairly smooth and thin with bristles at the tip. Young elephant?
#hartebeest #calf
Right. All of the horned ungulates, even those with bent or curved horns, start out with little straight spikes.
#spotted-hyena - nothing else has ears shaped like that.
Nodding grass stems is all I see
yup!
think its just plants
#warthog - low height, bristly, thin tail
#impala - dark tipped ears, among other clues
male #thomsons-gazelle
#crowned-plover
That's amazing! Don't think I ever saw duiker in SNP.
Sweet! I love the curl in its tail in 3
baboon is right
Yep.
Really hard to tell! Shape of tail suggests swallow family but beak too heavy. Can't help!
That's my guess too - nothing else would be so high.
#hartebeest - only other possibility for large tan animal is eland, but it has black marks on forelegs & usually thin white bands on body.
#white-tailed-mongoose is correct
#spotted-hyena !
They are two adult wildebeest.
As craftymonster suggested, she's probably just birthed a baby (out of frame) and is cleaning up remnants of placenta.
Not male. In Grants, females have quite significant horns,but never as thick as a male's horns.
The giraffe may be just settling down to rest, folding the forelegs first, then the hind legs.
It's quite common for zebra foals to sleep lying down.
Female #impala is right. They may look like deer but in fact there are no deer (Cervidae) in E Africa!
Wow, great!
#jackal for sure
yes #cheetah
#wildebeest #calf - orphan following the nearest moving object.
likely a wildebeest calf
#elephant x 5
#grants-gazelle - the tail could not be tommy, nor impala
#hippo - what else can it be?
Male is in his 3rd year, will have full mane by 4 or 5. Cubs are about 3 months. Lovely photo!
#vulture
#wildebeest 11-20 feeding - no question!
#kori-bustard most likely, Denhams is v. rare here.
#agama
#striped-skink Trachylepis striata
#agama - pink & blue male Agama mwanzae
#agama lizard
#impossible - too bleached out to ID
#impossible - eyeshine in bkg.
#white-stork and #marabou-stork ?
#impossible to be certain it's gnu
#impossible - eyes in bkg.
#cattle-egret
#impossible - horizon animals
Interesting to catch a #cheetah at night.
#impossible to ID the horizon gazelles
#impossible to get a good count here
#impossible to be sure that all the gazelles are Tommies.
#slashing - grazing activity here! And some cute blue nails.
#impossible - all the distant animals
#impossible - distant dots, assume they are gnus
#impossible - some of those dots could be zebra, I can't tell.
#impossible to really ID those 4 distant sets of eyes - one assumes they are more zebra.
#impossible - some of the more distant backs, can't ID
#impossible - I can't decide if these are gnu or buff. I lean towards gnu.
#impossible - the foreground 'eyeshine' could be small animal but can't tell. The buffalo in back are easy.
#impossible to ID these distant gazelles positively
#bird #white-stork
#impossible to ID the more distant gazelles
#impossible - the thing close to camera. I have seen it before so it may just be a branch, or an resting animal.
#pygmy-falcon - possibly
#impossible to give positive ID
#bird #cattle-egret
#impossible - animal closest to camera. Presume topi but cant ID.
#marabou yes
#impossible - the animals under tree at R
#bushbuck nice male
#bird #red-billed-buffalo-weaver
#Egyptian-vulture - sadly becoming quite rare in TZ, so a very unusual record.
#impossible - distant animals
#well-hung !
#bird #babbler
#dove probably ring-necked
#impossible - too vague to be sure
#impossible - animals on horizon
#impossible - second set of eyes at R, assume another hyena but cant tell
#impossible - about 12 animals in bkg could be gnu or zeb
#grey-breasted-spurfowl with #chicks
#injury - left gnu has swollen heel joint
#bird #white-headed-buffalo-weaver
#impossible - I would like to say aardwolf but who knows?
#cattle-egret #bird
#giraffe male with erection, shadow of another gir in lower left.
#impossible - 2 in distance, probably also tommies
#impossible - about 8 more gazelles in distance
#spotted-hyena - think but not certain
My ID was #lion but it could be something else
#impossible - beasts on horizon
#bird #white-bellied-bustard
add 1 #zebra
This is the Small Migration...
Neat dance steps!
#cattle-egret #buffalo
#impossible to be sure, as it is so bleached out - best guess is #reedbuck
#impossible - c. 18 animals in bkg, assume gnus but can't ID
#impossible - can't ID the 3 animals in bkg.
#impossible - eyeshine at R, can't ID
#impossible - the small animal with eyeshine at left. Can't ID
#impossible - too far to be certain which gazelles, Grants is just a guess
#bird #cattle-egret #wattled-starling
#impossible in bkg
#whitestork
#whitebelliedbustard
#bandedmongoose
I think #buffalo but not sure
#speckle-fronted-weaver
#hedgehog
#spottedhyena
Agree #corncrake - what a rare sighting, they are so hard to see!
#bird #cape-rook
#lion #cubs - there are 3 little cubs here
#white-bellied-bustard #bird
The distant animals look like #eland but not sure
#black-backed-jackal - showing clearly the 'two-toned' colour pattern.
NOT dikdik - #steenbok
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver #bird
#spotted-eagle-owl
#lappet-faced-vulture = #nubian vulture
#buffalo #closeup
#grey-breasted-spurfowl #bird
#black-bellied-bustard #bird
#side-striped-jackal - nice!
Not dikdik but #reedbuck? I need help here.
#buffalo #scratching
Agree #tawnyeagle
#gazelle-thomsons #yellow-throated-sandgrouse
#superb-starling best guess
#rufous-tailed-weaver
#spotted-eagle-owl - this has been photo'd several times in this rocky location.
no - #coqui-francolin
#yellow-throated-sandgrouse
#white-bellied-bustard - yes
#crowned plover aka #crowned-lapwing
#verreauxs-eagle-owl
#Verreaux's-eagle-owl
#crowned-plover most likely
#black-lored-babbler - guess
Probably #greater-kestrel aka #white-eyed-kestrel - good call!
#red-billed-buffalo-weaver probably
#grey-backed-fiscal-shrike
Interesting to see one still active at night!
#grey-breasted-spurfowl is the common spurfowl here
#bee ?
#barn-owl
#heuglins-courser - this is a REALLY unusual bird to see!!
How about #galago ?
#starling
#Lilac-breasted-roller
It is #superb-starling
#yellow-throated sandgrouse
Fischer's Sparrow-lark
Grey-breasted Spurfowl
#buttshot
#oxpecker #bird
#insects
Looks like wildebeest - the profile and darkness of head in 1.
No. 2 is likely a bat
Do we have a Very Famous Photographer here? 😉
This is a ratty old buffalo
Impala is my best guess
11 wildebeest here
greybreasted spurfowl
guess gnu
I like the butterfly! Hypolimnas misippus.
blackbellied bustard
flying bird may be grey-backed fiscal
dikdik? steinbok? oribi?
guess
birds are crowned plovers
bird is nubian vulture
could be other small antelope, cant tell
guess zeb
Could be young gnu but not sure
Can't positively ID, could be steinbok
Looks like an ungulate but cant ID
Think serval but maybe cheetah. Poor bugger must have got dazzled!
female with nose tag
white-bellied bustards
Oops, add 3 gnu stand rest
Not sure, need more rez.
Not sure this is a dikdik - resolution not good enough. It could be small cat, or BEF, or even a klipspringer. Gee, thought I was a hotshot!
Not bird but probably bat?
gazelle face? could be anything!
cant tell
not sure
maybe Blackwinged Plover
Noticed too late there is a bird in fg
Not quite right for lion but cant think what.
lion is a guess - really poor condition?
or other large dark beast
or warthogs
Or other bovid
Not a dikdik nor gazelle nor reedbuck; I think wildebeest calf?
Plus wildebeest 11-51 moving - forgot to enter
Some animal at L but no idea
dikdik or steinbok?
vulture, poss Nubian
numerous animals but too distant to ID
guess hartebeest but could be other antelope
guessing w'hog
Definitely male. Eland or other large ungulate whose dick is at camera level.
hare or similar sized animal
maybe grant
one hog right next to camera, 2 further back, 2 distant
Eyes at R are either cheetah or other big cat
either grant or impala
not sure of ID
Head at far R. Not certain
There's something close, at far left. Could be leopard, cheetah, bird, I dunno but check it out!
Not sure if dikdik
note balloon full of humans
not sure if tommy, gnu or other
who knows?
Might be something else?
Zebra not resting but dead!
Can't ID the animal
Can't really tell what they are
clearly buffalo when lightened
could be hartebeest or gazelle - not sure of scale.
when lightened, it's clearly tommy
gnu? zeb? not sure
Looks like cheetah but not sure. Spotty.
not sure about the grants, they could be sth else
Possibly gnus but hard 2 tell
Whitebellied bustard
I lightened it, its very blurry but could be hyena.
Eyes left - if you lighten with photoshop it looks like tommy, not jackal.
Not certain of ID. May not be gnu.
Think this has to be cheetah?
I called this a hartebeest but I suspect it's a domestic dog - no category for that.
I arbitrarily called it warthog but haven't a clue.
This is probably a #duiker but there is no category for that - I was forced to call it dikdik
could be serval!
Hi Ken!!
Or could it possibly be aardvark with head out of R frame? Not sure!
Not WBB, probably Black-bellied, Hartlaubs has 'cream stripe down foreneck' which i don't see here.
I agree, and short ears more like SSJ.
Not sure. It seems to have a pale chin and a dark throat.
Shows distinctive horn shape of #eland
#buffalo, legs too thin for rhino 😃
Baffled, can't help here!
YBO is correct 😃
Yes, #duiker looks good. Well done!
Bob, I admit our ID is somewhat subjective. Many people probably would call it reedbuck. To me it looks smaller and more delicate.
You would be unlikely to see a lone young ostrich, they have huge families!
AMAZING!!! We only have about 7 genuine photos tagged zorilla, and this is one of the best!
Yes I agree. Good spotting parsfan!
#Wildebeest and #zebra. From this perspective most of their backs are level with horizon; eles would project well above the horizon 😃
Foreground is a young #wildebeest, herds beyond look like wildebeest and zebra.
Texture looks like wildebeest.
Perhaps wildebeest or impala?
#elephant
see below
Under the tree, a #kori-bustard preening itself. I don't see anything else 😃
Correct, well done 😃
Aardwolf would show longer hair on neck and back, and different shaped ears. This is a #black-backed-jackal 😃
Could be a human hand 😃
Probably made by a rufous-tailed weaver, before the tree fell. Now it's vulnerable to every kind of predator, so perhaps abandoned.
Facing camera I think, foreleg in foreground.
Another #elephant. They don't really hang with anyone else!
#eland - black garters on forelegs, black tail tassel.
possibly hyena
We can't tell what you guessed, but these look like gazelles.
This kind of tail tuft, with a crest extending back up the tail, belongs to a #hartebeest
#thomsons-gazelle
Hornbills - perhaps Grey.
Beautiful!
#white-bellied-bustard
It's an #elephant 😃
Not sure...posture is quite like dikdik.
Could be eland
maybe more zebra?
It's probably gonna be something like hartebeest - not wrinkly like elephant, and hippos don't often come close to camera.
or buffalo?
Correct
I think hartebeest.
The long divergent horns of the L animal are typical of #grants-gazelle. Just L of treetrunk maybe tommy, because it has black tail.
Maybe Thomson's gazelle.
At least 3 #impala here, maybe 5 😃
Correct 😃
#buffalo
A small brown one. Can't give precise ID.
#reedbuck. The black spot below ear is a useful clue.
Correct
Possibly elephant gathering grass in trunk?
Correct 😃
Vegetation
maybe a plant?
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
Seems so unlikely, and yet it kinda looks like one...not sure!
Very fast though. Could also be a swallow.
#buffalo 😃
Yes probably H-beest
Agree #thomsons-gazelle
One large animal, perhaps eland?
This is a #jackal, looks like young Black-backed
#buffalo - their tails are thin like a cow’s, whereas wildebeest hava tails more like that of a horse.
#zebra 😃
#guineafowl
But no-one else has legs that go "all the way up" like this!
Based on the ear detail visible, I'd guess zebra - so close to the camera flash that the striping is blown out. Other thoughts?
#young #buffalo. Even if cattle were illegally present in the park, they would not be roaming freely and grazing at night 😃
Tricky, but it's a #wildebeest 😃
You might possibly have found the elusive striped hyena! M, what do you think? Aardwolf would have bigger ears?
Good call 😃
The dark structure is a sitting #wildebeest facing L, and the grey animals beyond are 4+ zebras 😃
Probably lactating, yes, and belly full from feeding.
A baboon's tail would not normally be carried horizontally like this. Vervet monkey is more likely 😃
I agree, looks more like young gnu than anything I can think of.
Pale bare areas on face are quite common in older animals. The species is susceptible to sarcoptic mange, don't know if that's true here.
I'm not sure here. Not BEF or jackal. Doesn't quite look like a spotted h.
With those large ears and lack of dark markings, I also think steenbok.
Agree, most likely aardwolf.
Actually #wildebeest; looks like one lying and one standing close to camera 😃
Hey, great capture!
Tricky, but I'd say #hartebeest is a better fit.
Sorry Amelia, I can make no sense of this at all! I don't think it's an elephant or even a mammal. Possibly a bird?
Agree probably 2 cubs here
I think it's a #young cheetah standing and playing with camera, and we see its chest & neck & right arm, not tail, but I could be wrong.
It could be lion, not sure. I don’t think T is with us any more, but no news for 6 mo.
Maybe harrier.
We don’t even know if it’s alone! If so, he’s a bull, for they sometimes do travel alone. Females, almost never.
Bird is a #capped-wheatear, who probably has a nest in a hole in the mound nearby.
correct 😃
It is - with those forward curving horns.
M, I agree with your ID. Also in 2, 'bags under eyes' typical of BB Jackal 😃
Agree BBJ, not sure what it's carrying!
def #hartebeest
Agree eland.
Maybe a medium sized raptor, harrier or blackwinged kite, but as M says, not enough detail.
Yes could be BEF - not certain.
Or Grants. can't be sure.
Awesome, people, excellent ID!
Beautiful "sculpting" of the muscles in that light.
Yes, I thought I remembered something like that from months ago 😃
Could even be a grass head 😃
Yes I think lion too.
Told ya!
From color & texture, wildebeest is a good guess.
Too small for giraffe and very close to camera. Maybe tail of small mammal, various possibilities!
It's something small right on the camera, like a lizard or small bird.
Agree #eland
They walk, run, dig, wallow, play, fight, sleep, but yes a lot of eating 😃
Agree zebra
I'm thinking Bat-eared Fox only because of the dark-crested tail (right hand animal). Can there be another animal behind the weaver nest?
Does look like an eye, but could be that of a young ele.
2 cars, one coming from each side. #human
Could well be a corvid. We have Cape Rooks.
Very good clear photo of male reedbuck 😃
Agree #leopard - size, spots, much thicker neck than cheetah. Good call, Mokka!
I would say white-tailed mongoose, its head out of R frame 😃
I only see the left one. Impossible to ID, maybe a lark 😃
Still puzzled 😃
I wonder if it could be a large bird - like a w-b-bustard or E goose?
Try #wildebeest 😃 Black face (at left of body) blending with black bkg makes it hard to interpret. Stripes & beard on neck are good clues.
Duiker don't like open grassland, but #thomsons-gazelle do. Fuzzy black tail, black stripe below light stripe on side, are all good clues.
Correct 😃
Correct 😃
Absolutely right 😃
Yup!
Short hair & long neck more like reedbuck yes, but too much tail? or else it's 2 individuals?
Black-bellied bustard.
Correct 😃
Flies & dust - welcome to Africa. Maybe there’s a buffalo nearby, shaking its head.
Beautiful!
Could also be a primate, e.g. baboon or vervet.
Help can often be found in previous comments - @maricksu (below) is usually right... 😃
Trying to get rid of those stripes! 😄
Could it be a very torn buffalo ear? one of those scruffy old bulls?
Yes, a #crowned-plover / #crowned-lapwing at L in shade.
Correct 😃
Thing close to camera is very close and furry, so maybe rodent such as squirrel?
Same as you M - no idea 😃
M, I agree completely 😃
All we can say is it's a large greyish animal with short hair. Maybe eland.
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
Probably a lion project car, as it has a mount for a radio-tracking antenna on its roofrack.
Not sure. Maybe one of the weavers.
Hard, but I think I agree with zebra.
Agree buffalo
Also, cattle would not normally be walking past cameras at night - herders keep them corralled at night.
They are 2 or 3 helmeted #guineafowl.
Nice perspective. You don't get this view of a lion, unless you are another lion 😃
Bird looks like a spurfowl.
Probably grey-breasted spurfowl.
Agree probably serval.
Hard to ID, perhaps a cisticola?
A bird that size would appear in more than one frame, so I’m guessing insect.
I'm seeing shiny metal and perhaps a keyhole - could be some kind of lock or other human artifact?
Hey, how about dung beetles? A large beetle rolling a ball of dung looks dark, and its eyes reflect the light. In Feb dung is abundant.
I can't think of any small mammal in SNP that is so dark. So that leaves birds, but still not sure what dark bird is on ground at night!
Correct. Both are quite young.
This is a male and he is advertising his territory, but no chick is visible.
It may be - perhaps sniffing a mark on the tree, then it will spray its own mark.
He is sitting facing away, not eating, just wiggling his tattered ears 😃
Maybe female Coqui Francolin.
Colour, texture and sparse irregular spots fit hyena.
Body shape suggests lion, but like you, I can't be sure.
Young male #impala
Nice one!
Looks like tail of a baboon.
It's a grass head like the one at lower left 😃
Looks like it 😃
You could legitimately say #wildebeest 51+ 😃
Delightful flying grass! 😃
Agree #wildebeest
Certainly could be the paw of another serval lying on its back!
#wildebeest with #young
Correct 😃
I'm not even sure it's an animal, but if it is, more likely warthog as there is only one 😃
They look to me like wildebeest.
It's a vehicle on a road.
One of the best that I've seen here!
I think hartebeest. If uncertain, please don't # 😃
Can't tell!
Could be either. Bottom line: no animal here 😃
This #young #wildebeest has a mane which still sticks up. No porcupine 😃
I’d say tommy, because it shows a black side stripe and black tail 😃
Nest is of Rufous-tailed Weaver, bird is #superb-starling. May be occupant.
Yes, you have a mix of Grants and tommies here.
The bigger species could, yes.
No cheetah. Just a hen #ostrich walking with drooping wings.
or butterfly?
#coqui-francolin - yellow-orange heads.
Frame 2 is quite striking, a nice capture 😃
Right, but conventional spelling is #wildebeest 😃
You are dead right! Black ear tips are a good clue 😃
When lightened, the shape of hind legs and long pale tail indicate cheetah!
Yes, most likely Eurasian/Barn Swallow because that is common in March and has dark throat.
Seems likely
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
Well spotted BB!
#superb-starling looks right
Wonderful portrait!
But is it even an antelope? Waterbuck has a big white ring around the muzzle. This is a #buffalo 😃
Correct, well spotted 😃
If newborn it would stay very, very close to mother.
#black-backed-jackal
Groooovy!
That's right 😃
European #white-stork - intent on an insect!
Who? What? Where? 😛
#wildebeest - the dark long hair on either side of the paler tail is diagnostic.
Not porcupine, something with a slightly bristly face sniffing the camera - e.g. cat or hyena - but can't ID.
I’d guess roller but not sure.
No doubt about this one 😃
This seems to have b&w stripes and very short hair, and there is a herd of zebras on horizon, so.....I suggest #zebra
#wildebeest - that long dark tail is unique.
That is certainly possible.
Comparing pics of both spp, I think this is #steenbok. It stands with rear legs more bent than a reedbuck's, causing its butt to stick out.
Maybe Grant’s gazelles?
Very probably.
Because of blurriness, this is something v. close to lens therefore v. small. Maybe insect or tiny lizard.
This is a small #raptor, classic hawk shape, maybe Montagu's Harrier. Kori is MUCH bigger and shows long neck and legs when flying.
Your 'giraffe' looks more like a hartebeest 😃
#dailyzoo Nice one!
From posture, size, shape of ear - I agree #dikdik
I can't even tell what order of mammals this belongs to! The only spots I see are JPEG artifacts.
Now that’s unusual! We almost never see more than one.
I’d expect wildebeest to show more tail. Maybe something like waterbuck?
It’s probably an insect on the camera lens 😃
Correct
And a #guineafowl in background 😃
Correct 😃
Probably #superb-starling
#black-headed-heron - preys on rodents and insects in grassland.
Wowwww! Amazing! #dailyzoo
The fg animal has big swatch of black on flank, and longer hair than impala - #thomsons-gazelle.
Could be just vegetation?
Someone with bristly face v close to camera. I think not enough bristles/whiskers for cat...buffalo perhaps?
#warthog from shape of ear.
Fairly small antelope, little spike horns, open plains = #thomsons-gazelle
But it has a little thin bill, not like a quelea. I'd go with Cisticola, maybe Stout C.
Correct 😃
Most if not all are wildebeest 😃
#abdims-stork confirmed 😃
Great Grey / Egyptian #mongoose 😃
It's sometimes helpful to read the previous comments 😃
Record as #human.
No, female Grants rear centre and fore right, others are tommies. Note different rears of R Grant and central Tommy 😃
Yes - Looks like Falco naumanni, Lesser Kestrel male.
Agree CB sandgrouse 😃
#francolin species.
Not sure either. It looks like a cat but I think bigger and longer tailed than caracal.
Baboons are diurnal so that's one of the few animals it couldn't be 😃 Maybe buffalo?
I think so too 😃
All or most are Thomson's gazelles.
Neck & breast of #kori-bustard #bird
My guess is #marabou - they are scavengers, and are arriving at a scene that a #vulture is leaving...
M, I'd say that's a good guess 😃
Bkg eyes most likely more wildebeest. Please only hashtag when certain of ID 😃
Correct 😃
Correct 😃
Looks more like gazelle.
A rather aberrant wildebeest!
Wow what a hunk!
We may imagine camera as a disembodied eye, but the shadows are from the twin-trunked tree that it is attached to 😃
Judy, that isn't a face 😄
Correct 😃
#white-bellied-bustard
As usual we don't know what you guessed, Claudio, but that is a giraffe 😃
It's weird! Baboon? but the ear (if it's an ear) is wrong.
Probably jackal.
Not serval, maybe jackal.
Or young adult lion with spotting? Not sure.
Not sure!
Cheetah in my opinion.
Yes dust - rain is more "directional" looking like white inverted drops
Agree lion most likely
Body-shape, scatter and location all point to #buffalo. Gnu are less likely to travel thru tall grass along river bank, buffalo don't care!
Yes, that is just how a male shakes after rain.
Agree #steenbok, because of big ears.
I think I agree but not # positive.
#spotted-hyena for sure.
Ditto
Can't ID from this!
Definitely #buffalo.
Agree #lion
Yes, that would be another cheetah following.
Yes - I'd guess ants.
Let's keep this 'Recent' section for objective discussion of photo ID please. 'Chat' is a more appropriate forum for what we love or hate 😃
Agree #serval, the funny little tail is another clue 😃
Nothing to add, maricksu - many of us have been tagging these as #slate, for the reasons you give, and I assume it's useful to do so.
Male #lion
While Slender is common in Serengeti, comparing its size with the guineafowl I vote for Egyptian.
I think no human would be out there at night! I suspect it's a spider, mantis, cricket or other arthropod, close to camera.
Has fully developed tail tuft but no sign of mane, so subadult 2-3 yrs is my guess.
I say the date, pasture type and selected food don't support wildebeest, but could be wrong. Maybe buffalo?
Correct 😀
No, but I'm not certain what it is. #bird-other
Also someone's rounded body at top R...wildebeest? buffalo?
Interesting view - shows the curvature very well 😃
I'd say dust - rain looks more uniformly white and shows motion blur, strangely, at bottom of drops
I think I agree with you Maricksu 😃
#mongooses #banded-mongoose
Looks like it, from size & shape.
#grants-gazelle looks good 😃
#reedbuck - photo from long ago, I'm just checking photos ID'd as oribi 😃 - didn't find any verified oribi posted here.
Right - so as it grazes, with head turned towards us, at L we see side view of horn and at R the front view.
Good guess! 😃
I'm guessing male #grants-gazelle. Colleagues, what say you?
No...that would be fuzzy rather than feathered. This is a #spurfowl.
#thomsons-gazelle
My guess is zebra.
Yes. Note how #buffalo muzzles point mostly forwards; in wildebeest they point mostly down.
#thomsons-gazelle with a #butterfly - one of the Orange-tips, Colotis sp.
Looks good for #impala 😃
well...maybe!
Correct 😃
Spotted hyena?
Here's a daytime photo of same scene, with that little bent tree: I think it has to be a (big) wildcat 😃
Image ASG001uvow
Undecided. To me, shape & long tail fits leopard, color and possibly size fits cat. We need more photos from this camera to judge scale!
Large, grey-brown, thin legs, long black horsy tail - there aren't many possibilities. In fact, just one. #wildebeest
Sorry folks, it has #cheetah spots and the tail is foreshortened by camera angle 😃
No, it's a #dikdik. A pair of them is regularly seen here.
Hypolimnas misippus, variously called Diadem, Danaid Eggfly or Mimic 😃
Plumage and behaviour support your hypothesis 😉
I'd go with reedbuck too 😃
Yes. If it were a spotted hyena we would surely see spots, but I think I see stripes e.g. on R side.
Tricky! From size and head shape and posture, I guess gazelle or reedbuck. Can we see horns as well as ears in #3?
Or a baby of another species?
Fascinating! How about a dirty lion lying on its R side. its back to us, we see its L hip and hind feet. Other ideas?
I agree looks like Northern, the tail and breast fit that better than the resident Capped wheatear.
Correct 😃
Yes #young, about 2 yrs
Def #elephant, c. 10 of them,
Either that or small birds, but I can't think of a bird that would look like that.
As several have heads down grazing, they're probably all gnus in a safe situation.
I wouldn't swear that this isn't a young BBJ. They often show less distinction between back and flank color than adults.
Maybe that IS their roost. They just spend the night on the ground in the grasslands 😃
You're quite right, that's an #eland. There's no reason for them to conflict, though I can't recall seeing both in a picture before 😃
I think no animal here, just leaves.
Agree, that's a ?? for sure. Too much fog or condensation!
Correct! 😃
Correct 😃
I'd guess a female tommy - because of that single little thin horn, and I think Grant would be taller.
That shape is typical of #spotted-hyena 😃
Maybe Lappet-faced #vulture.
Yes, looks like it 😃
A fine mature bull - grey of colour and very heavy around the neck and shoulders.
The "eyes" are in front of an acacia canopy, so either they are really eyes of (eg) bushbaby, or they are a brightly lit insect near camera.
Correct 😀
These are #impala 😀
Beige animal probably zebra but we can't be certain.
No need to tag unidentifiable, as most such images are identifiable. Probably #buffalo calf at L, as there are more buffalo beyond.
We prefer you remove the # from wildebeest if you're unsure. In fact they are #elephants, you can see the trunks of at least 2 silhouettes.u
But tell us what you guessed! The two left of centre are #eland and the tail at top left could also be eland.
The stripes indicate #zebra - I think 3 in this picture
Only one thing is possible here with smooth coat and black ear-tips - #impala. Another at left.
One of the small #bustard species.
Yeah...so what's going on? The red is almost like lens flare. One of those situations where we need to see b4 & after frames 😃
Great portrait of #spotted-hyena! (see what I did there?) 😃
That's hard to believe, because the grass is so green, it shouldn't burn at all - and the flame so red! But what else could it be?
Yes! That's a creche of young, so the oxpecker looks much bigger than you'd expect 😃
With such strong patterning on back and tail, might be black-bellied.
Could be. But I wouldn't entirely exclude lion 😃
This is how we clean the cameras 😃
There goes the neighborhood! Fortunately for the dikdiks, the zebra doesn't eat anything they depend on - he grazes, they browse on leaves.
Possibly. I can't tell what it is. A crowned plover would do that, but this doesn't look like one.
That could be an oldish one, from his fine horns and tattered ear.
Maybe...I can neither prove nor disprove that! 😃
They become adult at 1 yr but don't usually breed until 4, by which time horns are fully developed like this. So maybe 4 or more (a guess!)
Noted!
Great pic! That pale forehead shows this is a young adult, c. 2 yrs old.
Yes 😃
Agree spurfowl.
#white-crowned-shrike
Definitely #jackal 😃
Shape is good for #impala and there are several more at L which definitely look like impala - good call 😃
Yes, the closest animal is a young #grants-gazelle (has no horns yet), the other three are #thomsons-gazelle.
Or maybe the ear of a buffalo with some deep rips in it? I've seen a few ears like that in these photos.
You should tell us your guess, as we don't know! I suppose I would guess the dewlap of a bull eland, but I'm not 100%.
We are privileged to get such close views of eland here. When you try to approach them, they begin running when you're about 100m away 😃
Definitely #jackal, #black-backed-jackal - colors & shape wrong for BEF.
#wildebeest
😄 Probably the muzzle of a zebra, given that there's another in background.
That's normal in mature males. In some populations, like the extinct Barbary lion, the mane extended along the whole belly.
I think wildebeest, because of what appears to be a vertical part of its head below horn.
This #bird-other is a #black-headed-heron, its head out of R frame, Note how its neck moves but head stays rock steady - typical of herons.
Love the poetry! Just not sure she's an impala. Maybe a Grant's? Other views?
Yes, well done!
Nice shot!
Definitely #black-backed-jackal.
Correct. Though at least 3 present.
The ear shape is very distinctive, with a peak at top and a big rounded lobe at bottom - #spotted-hyena 😃 Mongooses are much smaller.
#thomsons-gazelle
Don't forget, an elephant can be as small as 1m high (newborn!). This is an #elephant 😃
Not vervet. Looks and moves more like bird, but can't think of bird with such a long tail. A shrike maybe?
Well done! Every kind of cat seems to check out this tree stump.
Not anything....#lion! With one raised paw in R corner. May be >1 lion, can't really tell 😃
In fact that pale ear with a thick dark band across it, is specific to #zebra - back of the ear. There are more, beyond the #wildebeest.
#guineafowl
#fighting and biting!
With so many nice clear little spots in frame 3, I'd say #cheetah 😃
Hard one! I wouldn't guess either rhino or warthog. Zebra?
See: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc 😃
Correct 😃
Dang, now I see that canine! (former lion biologist blushes). Well done guys 😃
Whose picture weren't you given, what's the cropped version, and how would we know why? BTW this could only be a #thomsons-gazelle 😃
I dunno - with all that shiny bling on it, might be a human opening the camera?
I think these are smallish animals like impala but can extract no details.
#zebra
#thomsons-gazelle in front, #zebra on horizon
#young #cheetah
And 2 #baboons R of centre 😃
May not be. This place is a waterhole which is drying up, and the buffs are wallowing in the mud, hence strange posture.
You're right 😃
Yes - what an interesting and unusual capture! They're pretty common on the shortgrass plains but seldom seen in SSS study area.
I see what you mean but can't easily interpret picture. We often do get monkeys here, could also be a dikdik behind tree.
I guess butterflies.
Anything is possible. But this is an #elephant.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! Looks like an impala, but possibly reedbuck.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! Grazing animal behind rock is an #impala.
Distant mammals are #zebra and probably #wildebeest 😃
Maybe what??? This is a #thomsons-gazelle.
#bird-other - quite a big one.
Nobody knows what you guess, unless you tell us! This is a #reedbuck male.
Meaning unclear. #zebra
#butterfly is Diadem or Eggfly, Hypolimnas misippus
Unfortunately we can't count shadows of animals outside the frame 😃
Maybe what? This is a #wildebeest.
Correct 😃
Doesn't look right for lion, nor hyena...but ear is like a cat. Maybe serval? Not sure
I'd call this #raptor an eagle.
These lack the spots & stripes of a genet, they are 2 #white-tailed-mongoose 😃
Unusual to see an #aardwolf in daylight!
#kori-bustard. Buzzards are raptors 😃
Always good to check these dark ones. On a laptop I use cursor to drag the image over a white part of the window & see that zebra.
Terrific picture! Look at the reflection of eyes in water. This is just before dawn (time stamp is 3h off) #dailyzoo
There is actually a #zebra here, the furthest left 'tree' is the silhouette of its mane 😃
Correct 😃
#raptor #eagle also see comments below 😃
I think the distant animals are zebra and wildebeest, and the tail is of a zebra.
Not sure...could also be smaller bird like weaver close to camera 😃
I think nothing, just grass heads moving against background.
I think #zebra would be a reasonable guess 😃
It's, uh, indulging in some personal hygiene 😃
Think it's just leaves close to camera.
Zebra is right. The clear stripes on neck and forelegs are the clincher. We prefer you only use # when you are sure of ID 😃
These are buffalo.
You got it! We can see the horn with large 'boss' suggesting a male, dark face with hint of paler cheeks - good guess 😃
Yes...I had to lighten it with photoshop. There's a big herd of #wildebeest with some #zebra too 😃
Right 😃
Maybe hartebeest.
But we can still ID it as #wildebeest 😃
Correct 😃
That's right!
#multispecies - nice one!
Probably fairly young, to have such nice clear spots 😃
Yes, it's not unusual.
Beautiful! A dik-dik-dik!
Good guess.I think they could be.
Maybe. I'd expect to see more white than black on a zebra though. Really not sure what this is (blush)
Genarally the cameras can't see over a wildebeest's back. Something smaller, maybe reedbuck?
I'm thinking impala - where the flank meets the thigh, that's the black and white mark at R. Tommy would show a thick black stripe there.
Small bird? Diurnal rodents not often seen here.
Duiker is a fairly unusual capture - I suspect more likely dikdik.
#crowned-plover aka #crowned-lapwing
Yes - prob tawny but photo not good enough to confirm 😃
#steenbok. I'd be really surprised to see oribi in the SSS study area, though they are common further N by the Mara River.
#Insects could be flying termites. Flying #bird is #black-winged-kite.
#buffalo - a #young one 😃
#wildebeest
Hard one - but I think I go with BEF. Aardwolf would show stronger stripes on body, paler legs.
No, it's a #warthog 😃
This is an #aardwolf 😃
Spoken like a true biologist 😃 The thing on the far right of the zebra may also be a zebra foal, a more likely target for the hyena.
Yes that's a #hartebeest 😃
However, it doesn't move at all, so is probably dirt or stationary insect on camera lens 😦
Beautiful! Wildebeest heaven - lots of green grass and the promise of rain to bring more 😃
#leopard - see below 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose
Yes - see discussion: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000007/discussions/DSG0001qbt
Definitely!
#eland
#thomsons-gazelle
This is one of the small bustards, maybe Black-bellied. Kori always has a jaunty little black crest and bulky neck feathers 😃
#leopard
What looks like a crested head is the bird's right wing! May be one of the kestrels.
Possibly a mongoose...or else a bird like a spurfowl - very ambiguous 😄
Well they aren't impala! I think they're dikdiks.
I'd call them #elephant. Look at the shape of the one on the left, facing left...see it now? 😃
#elephants correct - at least 13 here 😃
#butterfly is right, one of the Pieridae.
Yes - this is a resident #dikdik pair often seen here.
Correct 😃
Remember antelopes are not born with fully formed horns 😃 This is a #young #impala.
Perfect portrait showing all ID features 😃
She has about 6 #oxpecker #birds on her shoulder 😃
#warthog
Think #wildebeest is the only one here with pointy horns and a mane 😃
Another possibility: rhino. When lightened, shows 'water-mark' on lower part of body. Rhino also on this camera Feb 17 - Image ASG001wlym
Can't see as much plumage as I'd like, but the light-colored bill is right for RGV.
I think that's a great guess! The pattern looks good. M & T, opinions?
Not very, I expect - welcome back 😃
These are #white-bellied-bustards 😃
They are a herd of #wildebeest 😃
It is a flying piece of grass 😃
Curiously it seems hairy but doesn't move at all. I'd guess some insect sitting on the camera lens.
At L, a territorial male #wildebeest may be chasing rival.
#thomsons-gazelle and the #bird is #egyptian-goose
#wildebeest, about 10.
The #bird over the #wildebeest in frame 3 is a #white-stork. There is no "egyptian crane" 😃
There's nothing wrong with having independent confirmation! 😃
From horn shape & head height I'd say #thomsons-gazelle
Very unusual even to see this on safari. I've only seen small kori chicks twice in all my years.
Nor do I. I think you're free to interpret it as you wish 😃
Distinctive horns with big rounded boss, sweeping down & back then up at tips - #buffalo
#wildebeest adult and #young.
With that smooth dark reddish coat, it's a #topi.
Not sure if it's a secretary, but ele calves often do 'throw their weight around' and intimidate birds and other small things.
That's right. And they have no reason to quarrel.
Correct 😃
Yes, #banded-mongoose often stand up like this 😃
Definite WBB 😃
Yes indeed! I'm thinking this could be lion, with the stripes being folds in her skin. Other possibility would be wildebeest. Opinions?
#elephant, with crinkled ele-pants 😃
Correct
#warthog male with huuuuge tusks! Why male? Because 2 sets of 'warts' between ears and tusks. Females usually only have the upper ones.
It is, so there must be a #human here. A road runs across this scene, just below horizon.
#dikdik. Young impala would show the typical impala black marks & white tail, and would likely be with other impalas 😃
They are common but localized - they tend to gather at water, or at carcasses, so we don't catch many on these cameras.
#bird is a #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
Probably several hundred wildebeest.
Yes, looks like #baboons.
#crowned-plover they are 😃
Interesting. I wonder if the wildebeest is trying to protect a new calf that we can't see? It's the right time of year.
Agree #cheetah.
The former, I think.
Looks like it
Yes, #buffalo
Correct
Wildebeest chilling. Beard of 1st close, legs of 2nd at L, legs & belly of 3rd, 4th & 5th sitting, framed by 6th & 7th standing 😃
They'll all be males. Close one is sniffing tree & camera for scent-marks. Then he may spray it. Then, murky pics for a while...😃
Man. this migration stuff is hard work! 😃
#buffalo #young
#grey-breasted-spurfowl, a #bird like a quail or partridge.
#mongoose #white-tailed-mongoose - nice view!
Insects, perhaps bees.
Agree #buffalo
Very likely.
The thing in centre? It is a termite mound 😃
Probably hartebeest.
Likely dust. But elephants LOVE rain too!
Looks like #hartebeest tail 😃
Fuzzy ones are young, yes. March is warm, July coldest month - but not so cold as to make zebras grow long hair!
Could be Rufous-tailed Weaver.
Doesn't look like bird to me - maybe vegetation.
The pale brown forehead of the gnu in foreground indicates that it's in its 2nd year. Subsequently this turns black.
Correct - this is a favorite dikdik hangout 😃
Maybe a new animal for you - #springhare, a kind of #rodent like a bushy-tailed kangaroo rat on steroids 😃
#zebra
Mostly #wildebeest with a few #zebra
Hard to judge distance and scale! Your only other option is zebra, but I'm inclined towards elephant too 😃
#raptor for sure.
You got it!
You're probably right. Storks also circle in flocks, but if no green grass or fire, they likely wouldn't be there.
I agree with warthog, but the thing in tree doesn't look like a baboon. Maybe a big bird - eagle or eagle owl?
Insect close to camera, I think.
Good ID 😃
I only see grass here. Anyway, you would not see a monkey in Serengeti at night 😃
100% #rhino, well done!! 😃
That ear doesn't look like lion though...I think this is a warthog 😃
#abdims-stork - a wet season migrant, visiting from W Africa 😃
Good guess, #wildebeest is right 😃
Aren't they fun? Great picture here.
I agree, #hyena - well done!
In Serengeti, the bushbuck and reedbuck's closest relatives are the eland and waterbuck, respectively. Imagine that!
#reedbuck. Though superficially similar, the bushbuck's tribe split from the reedbuck's tribe very early in antelope evolution...10mya?
From the strong back streaking and yellow legs, I'd say #coqui-francolin.
Most of the cameras are attached to tree trunks. Trees make shade. Animals like shade!
I agree - a #young #elephant.
Correct 😃
My guess is elephant, from the texture. Others?
#spotted-hyena. Note the relatively short body with sloping back.
I've posted a lightened version of this photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidbygott/34393559515
It happens - she probably lost a fight with another baboon 😃
No, but it's the very unusual #striped-hyena! Pale tail and many stripes. Study the aardwolf collections and you may see the difference.
Aardwolf is smaller, lighter, with a few distinct bands on body. This is #spotted-hyena 😃
If you've already clicked "Finish", you can't go back; but others will probably get it right, so no worries 😃
I think we are seeing 2 spotted hyenas standing shoulder to shoulder. The other eyes in bkg may be more, can't tell.
It's wild and it's a cat, but species is #cheetah 😃 This is a #young one.
#aardwolf is correct
#thomsons-gazelle
Wish we could hear them roaring! 😃
Fantastic image. But something I REALLY don't want to see when walking through the bush at night 😃
#dailyzoo great action! 😃
Animals L of centre look like wildebeest, >10 😃
Dramatic view! Might be missing his R horn?
Yes, great portrait!
It looks grey above and orange below, if so it's a Silverbird, but in the shade it's hard to be sure 😃
Hopefully someone noticed this during the past 2 years 😃 Staff check the cameras several times a year.
A #human is driving a car along a road 😃
Or flies or bees - hard to tell.
Agree this #bird is a #crowned-plover
Agree #lion
I wonder if there's another, at centre of horizon?
Like!
Nice. They are so much more active at night than I ever imagined.
What a fun picture!
I think this view has a road running through, and that is a stationary truck.
Good portrait of #black-backed-jackal.
Correct
Correct
Rain!
Rutting male ready for action!
Regular Helmeted guineafowl - the horny crest on head distinguishes them from other Phasianidae. Skin of face and upper neck is sky-blue.
Yes - hard to guess what they are though! Maybe zebra but who knows.
Yes, #kori-bustard
Correct - often seen in this camera view
Yes - a big bull #eland with large dewlap (L) and the characteristic black 'garter' on forelimb (R)
Strange view! Probably 2 more eles further back.
Not being snarky here...how we think they look, and how they look on these photos, can be surprisingly different! Practice helps a lot.
#lion. Light color, lack of pattern, thin tail. It's worth looking thru collections of cat spp to familiarize self with ID features 😃
I think #wildebeest. Striped hyena sightings are exceedingly rare and usually at night 😃
Difficult to ID 😉
Helmeted #guineafowl confirmed. Yes, nice sequence!
correct
I almost said no, but you're right! 😃
#buffalo is right
#spotted-hyena
Yes - #thomsons-gazelle
Yes, #young #wildebeest 😃
Probably...if it's coming slightly towards us and to L, kori could show that much white. Otherwise I can't think what it could be.
Correct
Correct
#banded-mongoose
Correct, the #grants-gazelle horn shape is distinctive.
Looks like #interaction, one male #impala chasing another.
Correct 😃
#buffalo
Yes, maybe fighting
You didn't take long to get your gazelles sorted out 😃
Yes #white-tailed-mongoose. It's nocturnal. Note: long legs are darker than grey body, and tail is lighter - that's unique among mongooses.
#hippopotamus
Adult male #baboon. All dark brown, tail arched at base - vervet is paler grey and has tail longer than its body.
Looks like colorful alien life form but alas, it's just a plant 😃
Good one. And plenty of dinner in background 😃
I think you are right, it's #young - it moves - good spot 😃
I think not. IMO the male on L is too young to mate - a breeding male is bigger than a female and has massive neck & shoulders.
Nice!
😃 Spent time in Serengeti?
Wow, it's pouring rain in the distance. Happy gnus!
Shows well the "white tights" of this species.
Come now, only about 500 spp on SNP list! But those that we regularly see in these SSS photos are quite few.
Yes indeed!
Yes, what an odd pic! That's a big stealth #elephant hiding behind a small tree 😃
#serval
Correct 😃
One of the small bustards, I think female Black-bellied.
The back of its R ear?
Now that could be a white-crowned shrike.
Also 2nd adult beyond the 1st and facing R.
Maybe zebra, from shape of muzzle.
Correct 😃
Not enough data. Likely suspects include larger weaver spp or starling spp.
Not certain that it isn't a jackal 😃 BEF has very black legs, but still, they might be blown out by the flash.
Correct. If working on a computer, try click+drag image over a white window on desktop - sometimes helps to see what's there 😃
Yes, with that streaky belly, looks like spurfowl.
Could be swarm of bees.
I'd guess wildebeest 😃
Well spotted, welcome back S!
#wildebeest - female I think 😃
Looks to me more like a wasp than a grasshopper but not sure. There are solitary locust species in SNP, but no swarms.
Yes - a pair has a tiny range, so the local residents are commonly seen in this view.
I wonder if it could be a kori? The wing feather in centre shows barring, which SB doesn't have.
Excellent! #dailyzoo
Looks like it. Shows you how tall the grass can get here!
Yup. The black spot below base of ear is diagnostic.
Good interpretation. Looks like someone spray-marked this camera 😃
Nice view of a #side-striped-jackal, distinguished here by white tail tip.
They are wet-season migrants from W Africa and come in huge flocks to feast on Serengeti's grassland insects.
OK, great!
Yes, well done 😃
Correct 😃
Right - the common one here is #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
That's right, #abdims-stork.
Well done - you know your animals 😃
Nice one!
Maybe a warthog.
A bull #buffalo is entering from R.
#thomsons-gazelle
Distant herd = #zebra
#wildebeest. A cow's tail tassel starts much lower down, around the anatomical equivalent of its heel.
From the white markings on belly and underwing this is a #lappet-faced-vulture a.k.a. #nubian-vulture 😃
#impala. No need to keep tagging testes, they are present in half the population 😃
Little lost #baby #wildebeest. It is greyish with a dark face and dark mane 😃
My best guess is wildebeest.
It's a rock 😃
Correct - the 'two-tone' body color is distinctive.
Not with such big horns. Young male #impala 😃
Veg or termite structure 😃
There are 3 #hartebeest L of tree, a possible impala at R edge of photo, and the twin eyes may be another impala.
#wildebeest. If a warthog stood in front of a camera you could see over its back 😃
Good #wildebeest portrait!
#topi
of #wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle - the heavy black side stripe is distinctive.
Striking photo of #elephant "scenting" with raised trunk.
That's right - a lovely clear view of #aardwolf.
We are getting some really stunning photos this season - nice to see that better quality of image again.
Get well soon TD, meanwhile we'll watch the class 😃
#black-backed-jackal - nice shot.
Here you can see this in context: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/wildcam-gorongosa/talk/91/305252
#dailyzoo - That is about the best aardvark photo we've had!
Agree #thomsons-gazelle
With those ears, it's #serval. The ears are rotated backwards.
Possibly wildebeest
#buffalo
eland or maybe cow.
Pregnant in March is unlikely, but possible I suppose. Movement looks like breathing.
Yes, 2 #spotted-hyenas
Known glitch, see https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000007/discussions/DSG0001qbt
Known glitch, see https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000007/discussions/DSG0001qbt
These are at least 3 adult #wildebeest and 2 or 3 calves.
All the animals are wildebeest. The 'ostrich' may be vegetation.
Jackals are too small to hunt #zebra 😃 This is more likely a zebra foal but hard to see clearly
Correct.
Far R is female #grants-gazelle, other 2 are #thomsons-gazelle.
#thomsons-gazelle
Could be a spotted hyena.
Ostriches are a lot bigger. This #bird is a female Black-bellied or Hartlaub's #bustard 😃
This is actually how raindrops look on these cameras - they are travelling down, not up, despite looks.
Looks right for waterbuck - strange picture!
Could be a smaller bird, like a starling.
Looks like it.
#dailyzoo
wowwww! the colours....
Wow! I think that is the best wildcat I've seen here.
Yes, I can see the cord too 😃
Superb Starling is the common one here on the plains.
Yes, looks like a fight - with a #wildebeest referee!
Yellow with a black face, so this #bird is a #weaver; perhaps Vitelline but can't be sure.
Great photo!
I think quite a small antelope, maybe even dikdik - there's usually a pair resident at this site.
Yup.
That's a nice find! The calf is probably about 3 months old by May.
Actually #grants-gazelles, despite black sidestripe. Note how the white rump-patch curls over top of black bar
Yes I think so.
That's my guess too.
Yes - only #elephant has those pillar legs 😃
That's right! I get about 13 #elephants.
Could just be the wind moving the grass.
Over-saturated maybe, but hippos really are quite pink on the lower parts of their head and body 😃
If they see them often, yes. I've sometimes had lions resting in the shade UNDER my land-rover!
Everything I can see looks like #wildebeest.
But what is it?! I'm guessing impala.
Could be dust. The time stamp is wrong, but if date is right, fire is very unusual in February.
Agree #aardwolf.
These look like #wildebeest.
Probably feeding, but I can't ID this #bird.
Possibly something smaller, like a Rufous-tailed Weaver. But not sure.
Somebody's clothes? If it is animal, I think Eland is the best fit, the shoulder/neck of a bull.
Unusually clear & close photo of one, great! #dailyzoo
Correct 😃
Nice. The #young one and all the others are #buffalo.
Here we see a #wildebeest beard and parts of 2 #zebra 😃
#buffalo. They are big & usually look a uniform dark grey at night 😃
Hint - distant zebra often look pale grey or almost white - often in herds and all about the same size - nothing else fits that.
I see it - I think it's one of a line of wildebeest moving L to R at edge of woods.
Nice sighting!
I think it's just leaves moving in breeze - no animals 😦
..."please" just doesn't fit in 140 characters. Thanks for all you do 😃
Sorry mandellina! My colleague is Finnish but her English is amazing. Sometimes we may seem brusque if we're in a hurry. And sometimes the..
Wildebeest sitting in foreground, more + zebras in bkg.
Previous comments sometimes offer a clue 😃
That's correct - some Bushnells were used in Season 9.5 but I think the central Serengeti cameras are a different species 😃
Insect/spider/suspended vegetation close to camera.
That is a weird effect! Some of the new photos, like this one, have a central rectangle with distorted colors, not sure why.
Yes, they are #buffalo and the central one is #young.
Correct. They are big, with sloping back, lion-colored with pale hindquarters.
Yes, they tend to be the ones with just a single photo instead of a series of 3.
Agree #oxpecker #birds on #buffalo.
Grass
Correct.
I don't see any animal here. There are clumps of grass that look like animals. Civets are mostly nocturnal anyway.
I don't think it's an animal.
I think trees.
Agree the #bird is a #white-bellied-bustard
From color, most likely a #wildebeest
It's probably the body of a wildebeest
Nice photo! #dailyzoo
Probably right. Am away from books and will be off grid till end March 😃
Agree topi. Ear seems to be 'above' curve of horn. In buffalo it'd be below.
Probably hartebeest.
Looks more like bird than radio-collar 😃
If indeed it's an animal, maybe eland?
Thomson's gazelles.
I'd say fairly old with both horns broken.
I'd say about 14 zebra and 4 wildebeest.
Possibly impala? I think I can see the heel mark, rump stripe and body shape of impala.
Correct. Looks like there may be a giraffe too, beyond them on horizon.
I think Tommies but can't really explain why 😃
The #white-storks are there because of the fire, they catch small animals fleeing from the flames.
Young male #impala.
Correct 😃
And this exclosure will be present in all images taken by this camera.
Thing at bottom R is a twig.
L is wildebeest, R something small like reedbuck? impala?
Or hartebeest? hard to tell.
tyre on back of truck?
Not abundant, but fairly common in riverine habitats. They need plenty of shade and easily available water.
Yes, that's why they are there.
I think so. If it's animal it's domestic.
Confirm #secretary-bird 😃
Looks more like #steenbok.
Agree, 2 lions walking exactly side by side 😃
Hyena seems reasonable.
Looks like it.
I think hartebeest.
#hartebeest I believe.
#hartebeest + #young in fg, #wildebeest in bkg
see below
#eland - overall light color, 'garters' on forelegs, black tassel at tip of tail.
I prefer #impala
#wildebeest
We are calling all domestics #cattle.
Spotting and body shape say #cheetah to me 😃
Correct
I agree
Looks like it.
Note markings - black spots at reat hocks and groin, black bar on rump... #impala
Yes, can't see any animals even after tweaking it.
#impala
#topi with #young - the short swept-back horns of adult are distinctive. But there's also an #impala at R behind trees.
Correct 😃
hartebeest?
It is a #topi, the grey patches on hips & shoulders bleached out by overexposure.
Maricksu, I think by now you have learned exactly what is in the view of every camera - impressive!
Great photo!
I'm not sure what that is in centre! But I do think there's a smaller giraffe beyond base of tree, facing R.
#impala is correct
#thomsons-gazelle is right.
Probably flying insect v close to lens.
#warthog 😃
Shows the "head-up" posture of a territorial bull. You can almost hear him honking!
Carcass of a bush 😃
I would say #impala. His horns look damaged but they curve back rather than forward.
That's what it looks like, but I find it hard to believe zebras here would just graze while a man walks by!
Looks more like buffalo to me, but hard to be sure.
Correct
#waterbuck 😃
Agree #eland.
Looks like impala.
Agree #steenbok
Absolutely #cheetah with that long slumped body and tiny head 😃
Can't think of anything but hyena for this, though it does look odd.
He could just be a pastoralist out for a walk - when you walk there at night, you feel safer with a spear, even such a puny one as this 😃
It would get mist, particularly after a night of rain, most likely Dec-Apr, but Maricksu has proved that this is indeed smoke.
Well spotted! It's the muzzle of a medium sized antelope, I would say impala. See also Image ASG001qgxc, 50 mins earlier.
The white storks are there because of the fire - they catch insects and other small animals fleeing the flames.
Impala would be the most likely suspect, for the bkg animal.
Probably eland.
Could be, but I wouldn't rule out a 1st year hartebeest calf.
Probably bat.
They look like tommies.
Yes, they usually calve ~ Jul-Sep so maybe 7-9mo old. They are already mature at 2 yrs.
That's correct - eye looks black.
Buffalo is correct. You aren't likely to see cattle at night, because herders round them all up and put them in a boma (corral) for safety.
Looks like #wildebeest to me.
You guess, so do many others, and if most guess the same thing, that's what it is! I guess wildebeest, cos seem to have vertical dark faces.
#buffalo and #young 😃
Most likely wildebeest but impossible to be certain.
If wildebeest it would be 8-9 months old, and that looks about right. The only other option would be eland.
I don't know what this could be!
Maybe small carnivore rather than springhare because a) posture (back straight not rounded) b) forelegs visible, c) eyes close together.
Definitely #buffalo, could be 3 in this photo.
Definitely big cat, I'd say lion.
Agree just one 😃
Definitely #impala. Note 2-tone body color, black eartips, groin spot and heel spot, hornless females.
Could also be reedbuck. Hard to be sure with this one.
Well done, they are #topi 😃
Absolutely #wildebeest. Long dark face carried almost vertical, hooked horns that don't droop down, mane.. many ID features visible.
I would say #spotted-hyena, Looks kind of indistinct but spotty, holds head low. They are frustrating, but don't despair!
Also with wildebeest, you would most likely get part of a horn in this kind of view.
If you mean the black patch, that's her tail 😃
Maybe one of the medium sized antelopes, like reedbuck or impala, but can't tell which species 😃
agree #reedbuck
Looks like smoke, yes.
Don't see fire. You mean the clouds, or the orange plastic thingy?
These are sheep, but we classify all domestics as #cattle.
Definitely #steenbok
Yes, maybe the Rattling C, which is one of the commonest.
Topi in centre, and maybe impala on R.
Agree #buffalo. You're unlikely to see cattle at night - the herders put them in fenced corrals.
We don't know what you guessed! It's likely to be a medium antelope such as an impala.
Agree #lion
Agree #impala
Dark 2-humped thing may be termite mound.
Can't be sure - has binocular vision - could be a small carnivore like jackal, or even an owl.
Yes, this would be mainly guesswork - the guys under L tree look like buffalo to me.
Horns do vary, with age and across individuals. All the other features are good for impala.
Well done!
Yes, rather challenging! My guess is wildebeest. Others?
#impala yes, but the guy in lower L looks too small for gnu - I think #warthog.
with #young
All are #buffalo.
Correct, all distinctive marks clearly visible.
Correct.
#wildebeest - note black face contrasting with light neck, and buffalo horns are more droopy.
Correct
You could answer a lot of your own queries by studying the ID guide and learning distinctive features of each species. 3 #eland + wildebeest
The curve of the horns makes this an #impala.
Yes, you got 51+ #wildebeest there.
Correct - heavy black side-stripe and tail.
Correct
Correct
Correct. Combination of body color, dark ear tips and lack of female horns is unique.
Correct - dark face and mane, hooked horns.
Correct
#eland. Gnu has proportionally bigger head and usually holds it lower - many other diffs.
Looks like it - even though washed out, you can see black ear tips.
No, it's a #wildebeest
Please un-tag lion. It is indeed a #wildebeest calf.
hmmm, still looks more like hartebeest to me.
See below. Cow-like build, level back, dorsal stripe, large size, slightly twisted horns - all fit #eland.
My first thought was #serval - note the long-legged stride, short head, short tail. What do you think?
Or white-tailed-mongoose?
Doesn't quite look right...pale body, dark legs, also a bit small. Other thoughts?
I don't know. Did you pass?
It appears to be a male #thomsons-gazelle.
This image shows a #buffalo in R foreground and 2 or more buffalo in background.
Super photo! #dailyzoo
Try #black-backed-jackal.
Every giraffe is unique - this 'maple-leaf' pattern is common among the Maasai giraffe of Serengeti.
Green December grass gets no fire but plenty moisture 😃
Looks like adult female #thomsons-gazelle.
Can't tell - obscured by a bush 😃
Pooping - they typically give birth in the morning, lying down, in Jan/Feb 😃
#hartebeest
Yes #oxpeckers do occasionally sit on impala, and on warthogs too. I haven't seen them on gazelles though.
Really hard, cos so dark! Eland? or buffalo?
Agree #reedbuck
Ok, thanks for those examples, I think I was wrong and I can believe you have a young bull here 😃
If it's a bull, its horns do not look thick enough for a territory holder. Looks more like female. But I could be wrong - educate me!
I think wildebeest though no positive ID feature visible - just the way they all run en masse and are mostly dark 😃
Agree #steenbok...and welcome back to expert classifier AowlanCrystal!
They look too small for topi, I'd say impala. Good to know where this is!
I agree 😃
Anything you want me to be!
Black on ear-tips and crown are good clues that these are #impala.
#wildebeest
#wildebeest. Serengeti has NO horses (other than zebras and donkeys 😃 )
Yes sheep - their tails hang down. Goat tails curl up. Anyway, we have to call them #cattle.
Or possibly scientist houses at the research institute?
Might be, or a tented camp.
The pale wavy streak is a flying #bat.
Cow-like build, large size, black-tasseled tail and black bands on forelegs, all point to #eland.
Agree #impala.
Yes, an #impala.
Certainly looks like bird.
A lovely Xmas eve...missed it, as I was in an aircraft on my way there 😃
Agree #impala from spacing of rings on horn.
Possibly warthogs
Wildebeest. Look at the tails.
#giraffe is right
Impala is correct
#hartebeest, as it lacks the dark markings of topi.
Don't know what you guessed - these are #wildebeest
Don't know what you guessed - these are 3 #wildebeest
#buffalo
#wildebeest
Agree hyena, mainly because of the absence of any white markings - cheetah or leopard would show paler on chest and inner legs.
They look rather white and angular to be zebra. Maybe cattle but not sure.
If there are no animals, just score it as 'nothing here' and move on - no need to post blanks here, they are very common.
Young eland?
#topi - note the dark patches on thighs, and yellow "stockings"
Correct
Agree 2 x #warthog.
#hartebeest
What we are seeing here are the two prominent horn-bosses of an old male, very close to camera.
Cool! That #bird is an #African-hoopoe, first time I have seen it on SSS.
I'd say #wildebeest, with head seen in profile...black vertical face, pale beard, etc.
Looks like it. Mounting, anyway.
Hard to tell - if so, something domestic with that color scheme.
Looks like it's part of a vertical dark face, as in Wildebeest. There is also a shape at L which looks like another sitting gnu.
I can't for sure see any zebra here, think all are gnu.
Some of these cameras are set high, so large animals may seem small. This looks more like #hartebeest. If unsure, pls don't use #.
tree shadow
#thomsons-gazelle
Correct
The reason for no horse option is that there are no horses here. But there are very many #wildebeest and this is one 😃
Antelope with thick black side-stripe, most likely #thomsons-gazelle.
That's possible, but more likely dead wood.
Not trap. Exclosure for vegetation/grazing studies.
...and groin spot and horns. You're right, he's an #impala and the rest are #grants-gazelle - nice to see them together.
I think so.
Agree bat.
Oh yes. In that flat country the floods can be surprising!
Black centre bar in white tail is also a feature of #impala.
I would go with female Grant, because the horns though long are very thin.
Could be.
I think wildebeest would be unlikely in such a dry August landscape. But eland are correct.
I see what you are looking at, but I can't be sure that it's an animal.
#hartebeest is correct. Looks like 2 mums and 2 #young.
All of the larger antelopes (impala and up) form herds, though you may see single individuals.
Either impala or Grant, but I'm not sure either 😃
You are such an expert at this! 😃
#wildebeest. The form of the tail - with pale base surrounded by a fringe of very long dark hair - is unique to wildebeest.
I'm sure it was, but we don't know what you guessed! The black-tipped ears suggest #impala.
There are probably 4 antelopes here but very hard to tell what species! Possibly large ones like hartebeest?
These are 3 #wildebeest.
Seems to be a wildebeest. If unsure, please don't use # - it confuses people searching for those animals. You can edit your own post 😃
I see the rear end of an animal at R edge which appears to have zebra stripes.
Yes, you should always guess. We can't tell what you guessed, but hope it was #wildebeest 😃
Can't see any animal but the ele. The thing R of centre looks like a bush or grass clump to me.
The #young #wildebeest in foreground is not alone, there are at least 20 in background. Not sure what it's looking at, maybe dead wood?
Same animal as ASG001qifo.
Probably a bat.
How about the base of an #eland's horn?
#serval, that diagonal shoulder stripe is so distinctive.
Definitely a big cat. Cheetahs sometimes are active at night but I am not 100% sure either...thick neck...could be lion with artifact spots?
I say spotted hyena.
I think it's mud 😃
More commonly known as #impala.
#wildebeest lit by IR beam from camera 😃
#wildebeest
They are #wildebeest like the foreground animals.
It's a wired exclosure for studying the effect of protection from grazing.
I would have guessed buffalo.
#wildebeest
I can't for sure see any animal.
#buffalo is correct
Horns and neck stripes and body form most resemble #wildebeest.
Yes we think so.
#grants-gazelle. The long bent-back horns are unique to gazelles here. Eland have mostly straight horns, as do oryx which we never see.
Correct
Correct.
I agree, but not # positive 😃
Strange & beautiful lighting! Typical 'harem' #impala group with single male and many females.
They are sheep, but we classify all domestic animals as #cattle.
They are #wildebeest
Also #grants-gazelle, 3rd from left.
The running one may be, but the head in foreground is an #impala - note black forehead and ear-tips
Maricksu is correct - white rump patch and horn shape of foreground animal show it's a Grant.
I don't think an adult bull would do that, but the one mounting here looks like only 18 months old.
That was my thought too BB, it could possibly be a young buff. Tapers too quickly and angle is wrong for ele tusk.
Can't even tell if it's an animal.
The 'rods' appear to be flying insects, maybe flies dislodged by a horned animal shaking its head. But who has a horn like that?
Yes #fire
#hartebeest, with those hooked horns it could be nothing else 😃
Looks like a #vulture.
Surprisingly difficult! These guys lack the Grant's black eyestripe and bar across nose. Horns very slender...but I think I agree impala.
#grants-gazelle
Could there also be a tiny giraffe calf standing behind the R adult?
Agree #topi #young
#wildebeest
Def #grants-gazelle. Note how the white rump mark curls over top of black bar.
#impala
Great capture!
You nailed it, #hartebeest 😃
Probably not grass but a baby shrub or tree such as acacia. Female giraffes like this do 'browse down' a lot, more often than males.
Possibly wildebeest walking L to R but not certain!
Your instinct was good. Dark ear tips and facial markings and general shape, all match #impala.
Correct, no question!
All are #wildebeest. Front centre is a calf not a half, at left a mother and calf rear view, eyes are yet more gnus.
Adult #hartebeest
Or part of a plant close to camera?
I think it's a plant.
A wildebeest there in Aug seems unlikely, and would it have that thick black dorsal stripe? But what? Eland? donkey?
Correct 😃
#leopard
I think camera is lying on its side on ground - don't see any part of human.
I'd guess bat too.
Grey Flycatcher
Definitely 😃
I agree 😛 Baboon male going right - but why no tail? or warthog grazing facing left. You decide!
#impala horn for sure.
Looks right to me.
I think impala too.
Agree, probably hartebeest. Also some tommies present, e.g. far right.
Agree #spotted-hyena
Only #impala has that black heel spot 😃
Well spotted! I agree.
Can't be sure - may just be plants 😃
#impala - I can just make out his S-curved horns.
Just maybe. I'd expect more dark on its ears and legs.
I'd score it as nothing.
Could also be dirt or veg - can't positively ID it as horn. The other impala is a #hartebeest 😃
#spotted-hyena definitely, cubs probably.
The pattern does not change, just 'stretches' as the zebra grows.
Agree, #spotted-hyena
Identifiable, as #hartebeest
Right genus, wrong species...they are about 4 #zebra.
#spotted-hyena - larger size, small dark tail.
Now that's an unusual night capture!
Good guess. I can't swear that it's not a #young topi calf - they are very similar.
The white on the muzzle narrows it down very few species. This appears to be #impala.
There are 3 or 4 of them and I think impala is a better bet. Duiker is very rarely seen in Serengeti photos.
Tricky one, but I believe a gnu calf with horns that big would show a bigger darker mane, and the context makes eland much more likely.
#White-crowned-shrike
#zebra has a #young one standing behind it. At R is rear of a #wildebeest. The cage is some sort of exclosure for vegetation study.
#hartebeest
#hartebeest confirmed!
Yes eyes - maybe more #zebra.
Could be a hare
#topi left, #hartebeest right. Study the difference.
I'm sure you're right...I might have been tempted to call this impala, but your other photo has to be topi.
Sold herself to Nike? 😛
#spotted-hyena
They are all #grants-gazelle - the white rump patch is distinctive.
#hartebeest
#wildebeest
More likely #impala.
With those very black ear-tips it has to be #impala.
Too small and sleek for cattle. I think impala.
It looks to me more like a gazelle than a wildebeest.
I agree with #impala
#hartebeest
You probably don't need to tag #Serengeti, since all photos are from there 😃 But #thomsons-gazelle is legit.
Now whatever could that be?........#zebra?
Dark eartips, dark forehead = #impala
I'd guess Impala.
The knobbly patches on body are dried mud from an earlier wallow - he looks OK to me.
They are topi, honest! They look grey because of the harsh light.
They are mostly sheep, but we code them as #cattle 😃
#buffalo 😃
BB, it's random luck I guess...I see lots of them!
I can ID 2 species here - #zebra and #topi (both with #young). Not sure what is in rear centre but assume also topi.
This is a #topi - has short horns (in both sexes) that curve backwards. Waterbuck has longer horns (male only) that curve forwards.
I hope you do! It is even more fantastic than the photos 😃
No, it is shaped more like hartebeest. Pls don't use # if unsure of ID, because picture now gets sent to at least 2 reedbuck collections.
No, it's more medium-sized, possibly a reedbuck or Grant but I can't see enough head detail. Pls don't use # if unsure of ID 😃
It's a #hartebeest - its horns curve forward a little and then back - topi horns are more swept back. Also topi would look darker.
Correct.
Yes, that's Heliotropium.
Well done! 😃
I'm not seeing an animal here at all. If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use # 😃
#buffalo - dark color is a good clue.
I doubt it.
2 #zebra
#spotted-hyena - vastly commoner than stripped or even striped 😃
#grants-gazelle is right - shape of white rump patch is distinctive.
#wildebeest confirmed
#hartebeest is correct.
#hartebeest I think.
I think all are wildebeest 😃
It's always good to see scientists having fun 😃 What animal do you think is being imitated?
It could also be a stump, termite hill, baboon...at this distance, we can't tell 😃
Looks like Black-lored Babbler
Yes, looks like #fire
Feels like a bat to me
Not sure if bat or moth
I can't imagine what would make the stripes at top left.
Bats?
The flying thing beats its wings 3 times during the flash; possibly moth.
I would guess windblown debris.
Possibly small insect travelling upwards very fast?
The flying thing between the #zebras may be a bat, showing a relatively slow wingbeat - two beats during the flash.
Maybe small insect close to camera, or windblown detritus
Probably flying insect
Maybe a strand of spiderweb close to camera.
Animal was beamed up to the mother ship? 😛
Looks like the back half of an #aardwolf.
And possibly a 2nd giraffe, small, just R of centre in front of big bush.
The stripes make me want to say zebra, but not 100% sure.
Yes, looks like a #young male #lion.
I'd guess wildebeest from size and motion.
They are #buffalo
Looks like oblique side view of the base of an eland's horns. Tricky!
Too small for elephant, I would guess wildebeest.
If aardwolf, we might see more stripes? I'd guess spotted hyena, as they can appear quite un-spotted 😃
Most likely grey-breasted spurfowl.
Yes sheep, but we tag livestock as #cattle. Sheep have tails that droop down, goat tails curl up - otherwise they can look rather similar 😃
Def #leopard! The white under the curl of tail, the stocky build as you say.
I think sticks. Nothing we know here has such long straight horns or could hold them at that angle.
#impala - note dark spots on heels
Or tommy??
Agree #grants-gazelle
They don't tend to hunt adult gazelles but may be looking for small fawns. Front gazelle acts like she's chasing it away.
Nice! Maybe Acraea.
Mmm, most project females take better care of hair...this looks very matted...could be lion mane!
I think it's smaller than kori, perhaps the size of white-bellied bustard.
Agree secretary.
Yes #eland.
Right, #reedbuck - lacks the bushbuck's black marks on forelegs.
Correct 😃
It does, however, have enormous ears, so steenbuck is also a possibility.
Definitely #cattle, naughty cattle, shouldn't be in Park 😃
Looks like it.
Yes looks like #elephant
#buffalo & something close to camera - part of another buffalo?
#secretary-bird
Very good!
Could it not be the tusk of said #warthog?
Does look as though he is threatening another male out of frame. Not sure what's on horizon, ostrich?
Seems to stick out sideways too much for either jackal or serval. How about a young hyena? I'm really not sure.
#bird-other, probably francolin, preening itself.
Eating.
Front leg of #elephant 😃
#bird-other tail or wing
#giraffe foreleg - brown with typical white 'sock'
#hippo is correct 😃
I agree, #kori-bustard
Good guess - #topi
I agree, #warthog
Nose of #zebra 😃 Stripes at top of the object, nostril at the bottom!
Pretty dawn light here.
Too tall for genet. Maybe hyena - not much to go on!!
Possibly baboon close to camera.
#hippo
Jackal?
Lucky zebra 😉
#thomsons-gazelle
#impala
I can't see any background animals. Zebra shows partial 'saddle' mutation where stripes on back are broken into irregular spots.
Agree, looks more like #reedbuck.
#zebra
#spotted-hyena
#buffalo is right 😃
#cattle is correct 😃
Maybe flying insect.
#wildebeest
What else has legs like that?
Correct
#impala
#wildebeest - it's the species most often seen with zebra 😃
#impala - rich orange brown color.
#dikdik - note big dark preorbital gland, pointed snout, relatively small ears.
It's a hard one, but not the first I've seen. Look at a side view pic of a bull eland and you'll see how it works 😃
I think so too.
Yes, not sure what's with the ear... wet? mud? blood?
Yes, #lion #cub looks likely.
Main subject is the dewlap of an #eland. The thing that comes in from left may be something it's eating.
I see your point 😃 Large, dark, a bit shaggy but not maned or bearded - I'd guess buffalo.
#bird-other in flight
I see no horns, so they may be.
Looks like a #weaver.
#wildebeest
'Rodent' is #bird-other
Can't go back! For how to deal with multi species, read https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000057
Large rounded horn bosses (below #oxpecker) indicate #buffalo. Interface does permit entry of multiple species.
We can't know what you guessed, but these look like #thomsons-gazelle, dark side stripe visible.
Tsessebe is a general term for Damaliscus lunatus; the E.African ssp. D.l. jimela is known as topi. Looks dark because night photo 😃
All #impala
I believe this is a #spotted-hyena - smaller than lion, seems to have spots on arm, head down and out of sight so we just see hairy shoulder
agree t-mound 😃
Correct of course 😃
So much bling...might be human?
I say #wildebeest 😃
I agree 😃
RGV is correct.
Definitely duiker. Also they look rather stout and stocky, short thick neck compared with dikdik.
Amy, it's an aardvark...armadillo only found in the Americas 😃
I see 1 hartebeest and a lot of #gazelle of uncertain species.
I'd call that a butterfly 😃
Kori is a bigger bird with a crest and a thick pale gray neck. This looks like a #black-bellied-bustard.
Could be.
Could be a Coqui Francolin in front of the #thomsons-gazelles.
Agree #bat-eared-fox - white spot may be flying insect.
I'd say you have two #tawny-eagle L & R, then between them is a #white-headed-vulture - super bird, too bad we can't see her head!
Agree impala.
This looks like a much smaller animal than Grant but with narrow straight horns - I suggest steenbok.
#thomsons-gazelle - it has a black side stripe.
I think not a large #bird, maybe a shrike.
#bird-other perched on camera, perhaps Roller.
Tommy yes. #bird-other perched on camera is probably Lilac-breasted Roller.
Ha, that's a #lion!
#young zebras I believe, hence brownish tone. Gnu on left.
He's holding a grass slasher, obviously needs to use it 😃
Yes...birth happens at the other end 😃 Animal is #hartebeest.
Looks like something man-made. Maybe human arm/hand manipulating camera.
Correct
I'll go with #lion.
Correct
Agree all are tommies. The L female's horns happen to curve like a reedbuck's, but r'bucks don't hang with tommies - different food prefs.
#hartebeest
I think #warthog
#wildebeest
I'd vote for hippo.
Bill of #kori-bustard
#bird-other, probably francolin.
Cheetah watching zebras, yes. But she isn't going to mess with them - they could kill her!
Too tall for vulture, too many feathers on neck - #secretary-bird
It is quite common in female #thomsons-gazelle, for horns to be broken or deformed
Correct, #zebras and #hartebeest here
Normal #wildebeest with stripes on body.
#thomsons-gazelle
Correct
#guineafowl is right
#thomsons-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle
You're right, it's a #dikdik.
Black-bellied Bustard - think it's this rather than Hartlaub's.
There are 6 or more wildebeest.
Vegetation in foreground, perhaps zebras beyond.
and #topi in foreground.
You could hardly get a clearer image of cheetah than this!
#wildebeest
#warthog
#kori-bustard
#white-bellied-bustard, a smaller #bird than kori.
It's a fairly busy main road through the park.
yes, it's kinda green.
I propose that these are 3 giraffes 😃
correct.
#reedbuck confirmed! Spot under ear just visible in 3.
Looks like it 😃
Good call. I thought giraffe leg when I first saw it, but of course you are right 😃
Agree #leopard, well spotted!!
L-shaped horns and no dark leg markings = #hartebeest
All are #gazelle but can't be sure of species.
They are #wildebeest, at least 15.
Don't - it is an enigmatic pic, and everyone has to learn 😃
Yes, and 2 more #topi at far R.
#gazelle is the best I can do!
Possibly hyenas. Hard to see!
#black-backed-jackal, golden would not have so orange a leg.
#spotted-hyena
#topi
I don't see a white nose...animal is a #topi
Spike at bottom is plant. Thing at R edge is much closer, thus out of focus - could be insect or lizard on camera. I'm not seeing a Grant.
We often get this, it's the tail of a #bird-other perching on the camera 😃
It could be elephant.
Correct. Probably a tommy.
#wildebeest
#buffalo
OK...I guess dikdik.
#gazelle, but can't be sure which.
I'm sure it was, but we'll never know 😃 #wildebeest
I agree hyena - with that sloping back.
They look small for dwarf m, and not red enough. Might be Arvicanthis grass mice - very common but seldom caught on camera.
Driver would be on R side with R arm out 😃
Yes! I guess this camera is mounted on a short post, not a tree.
Agree young #buffalo. Waterbuck would have white around nose.
Too big for hog, too smooth for ele, agree probably buffalo.
I think tail is cut short, yes.
Looks like arms of two different people. How does that work? 😃
Rather scruffy #thomsons-gazelle. You can see part of the curving black line that runs from eye to nose.
#impala - note black ear tips. Bushbuck is an unusual animal here, compared to that other place where it's so common 😃
I don't see any animals even when pic is lightened.
It is. This place is #dikdik Central, they live nearby. In bkg are #thomsons-gazelles.
Neck and ear of grazing #hippo
You are wise to deduce small antelope; normally a view like this would be giraffe, but this camera is on ground. #gazelle, maybe tommy.
Too low for wildebeest. This bristly hide on a short animal is typical of #warthog.
#crowned-lapwing
Cute... #young #elephant often lie or roll on ground.
#lion
They appear to be, yes.
I agree.
#impalas yes, black thing either bird or insect.
Well done, that #bird is a #grey-hornbill.
The dark thing on R horizon is a tree.
#lion looks right.
Yes, #bird is #crowned-lapwing / #crowned-plover
This is your second #hare! Bounding from R to L. Note how its ears are about as long as its tail...this is not true of jackals.
Looking at the 4 moving ones - 2nd from left is wildebeest, others are zebras, compare differences in profile.
Maybe; or hartebeest; something large and smooth-coated.
Fairly sure it's #buffalo
Animal - possibly serval but not # positive.
#kori-bustard is right, they are huge!
Correct.
Starling, probably Superb.
#buffalo looks good.
Herd of #wildebeest on the move 😃
Two #egyptian-geese
The bird looks like a Superb Starling, about the size of a European starling 😃
Probably topi.
If you are referring to #zebra, there are >10 here.
Not sure...maybe zebra.
Looks like animal.
#lion is right, that little bearded chin is typical.
Could be!
It's the horn of a #buffalo. Better not to use # if not certain of ID 😃
I agree, #bushbuck.
Correct
Agree - the dark stripe along foreleg matches #reedbuck.
There are good reasons why we don't have this category, see Discuss section. These are wildebeest.
Hard one. It has to be one of the tall birds. I'd say secretary, perhaps a young one.
No idea what you guessed. This is a #topi
#hippo
Probably another zebra - nothing else would stand so close.
Sorry, I can't see any 😃
#wildebeest is right 😃
The half-head at R is definitely #wildebeest so I think we can assume the eyes are too.
Nice!
Raindrops in a windy storm.
Correct. It's guess-time!
Looks to me like Tommies on the left and perhaps zebras in the middle.
Not in October. The very short birth season normally falls between late December and early February.
They are all gazelles. I think Grant's but not sure.
I can see 4 here and possibly 5 😃
That's a #young calf in foreground, its coat red-brown, horns still smaller than its ears - an unusual view!
#serval is right
Definitely #impala
Correct 😃
That was my best guess too.
I agree, #male #lion
Good-looking #buffalo.
Maybe sidestriped jackal.
Please no 😃 Just classify these as "nothing here" and no need to post them.
They'll be part of a larger troop, maybe 30-50 indivs.
From dark ear-tips, dark forehead and nose structure, I deduce #baby #impala. Then, the 3 in left bkg also look like impala.
Looks like #elephant.
The only animal I see here is the #reedbuck.
The #wildebeest may just be walking past the camera. In bkg are #grants-gazelle.
Not sure what is happening behind the #hartebeest!
#thomsons-gazelle #selfie
Yes good, they are #hartebeest.
This looks like the leg (left) and tail (right) of an #elephant who is dropping dust or other debris (the many small spots)
I see 5 #wildebeest on left and three #eland on right 😃
#bird on #wildebeest probably a wattled starling.
In foreground #hartebeest, #zebra in 3
Agree, though maybe #zebra too.
It may be a bird, like francolin, but not sure.
#dailyzoo
#insect
This #wildebeest would have given birth about 6-7 months after the date on photo 😃
Zebra.
I think he's OK.
Fruits of Sausage Tree. Please just use # when certain of ID 😃
Those are two words I don't often see together, but yes! 😃
Thing at top is tail of #bird-other
Probably.
I would guess cheetah.
Looks like #spotted-hyena hair and paw.
Fruits of Sausage Tree
Termite mound.
Probably another #buffalo.
True. It's June, so probably not gnu or zebra - pick any other herd-living animal 😃
Could also be dust or insects - no body outline visible.
Agree with TD.
It's a #bird-other 😃 The antelopes are, or include, #grants-gazelle.
The one we can see most clearly is a tommy, with dark side stripe and tail. Probably the others are too. Was that your guess?
No suricates in Serengeti, but could be a banded mongoose which similarly stands erect.
It's stamping on small prey to stun or kill it.
Looks like it. And looks like your spellchecker is infected with an American virus 😉
Definitely serval 😃
Agree #aardwolf 😃
Camera fired the first flash, #spotted-hyena is just reflecting...good try but no 😉
see below
Or raindrops.
Probably large carnivore - lion or hyena.
Correct
#side-striped-jackal
Looks like a fork-tailed drongo chasing an insect.
Perfect!
You bet, #bushbuck. Banding on limbs also distinctive.
There is honestly no way to ID this. It could equally well be a lion 😃
Wonderful picture #dailyzoo
Everything I can see is #zebra. While elephants may look similar, they are a LOT bigger 😃
There are at least 6 together which would be unusual for bushbuck (which are seldom seen here!) or reedbuck - they look like #impala to me.
#grants-gazelle is correct! See our little features on Grants in Chat/Fun Facts 😃
It does look like #lion, probably a cub.
#zebra (black stripes...) Your # automatically adds this image to several rhino collections, but if you delete # you can correct this 😃
#zebra and the 'tail' is vegetation
correct
#male #lion and #zebras
#thomsons-gazelle by color, also you would probably not be able to see horizon over a Grant's back.
#zebra 😃
Correct
Probably correct.
Most likely impala.
#bird-other. It's very unusual to see rodents in short grass plains in daytime, they would be too vulnerable.
correct
Yes, looks like one.
#slate
Very very tall, with spotted legs and long flowing tail tassel... #giraffe 😃
Correct
Could be 😃
Agree #spotted-hyena
Animal at left is a #topi. If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use #.
Yes, probably a #bird-other part.
Correct, #lion ear.
All are #buffalo.
#bird-other, probably shrikes.
Not a rook - frame 3 clearly shows a #raptor head, but I cannot say more.
#eland female. Note horns smooth & straight, crest of hair above neck, dewlap below it - all differences from topi 😃
Correct
You are good at finding problematic pics! I can't be sure here, it looks to me like a young Black-backed.
I don't see one.
Good point. Somehow it looks more like Eland to me, but I can't prove it 😃
Me neither. No outline visible. Probably fairly large grazer (eye on side of head), hartebeest or eland or such.
Whether you can or can't see sides, you can look at rump (big white rectangle) and horns (long yet slender) - female #grants-gazelle 😃
Themeda triandra - Red Oat-grass.
Read about it in "Fun Facts".
That's right, the young are just starting to show signs of their dark limb markings.
Can't tell. Maybe a large bird like a kori bustard?
If it is so blurry, it is very close to lens, therefore very small. I suggest lizard.
#zebra with #warthog group
I'd guess reedbuck but can't be certain.
My bleary old eyes can't see any animals here, but I may be missing something 😃
Lion coloration, but it's a #hartebeest 😃 Chest and neck of lion wold have longer paler hair.
#wildebeest is correct.
#male #lion - one of the best yet! #dailyzoo
Or to something. Who gnows?
#slate #fail 😃
Think we are seeing shoulder & neck of big grazer - not gnu, not zebra, not h'beest or topi or eland, so how about buffalo?
You're always welcome 😃
Almost certainly 😃
#wildebeest
#elephant #injury #trunk - Presumably truncated by a poacher's snare.
I think TD has the answer. Camera is in a locked steel box which may be secured to tree with a cable lock. Lion is pulling the cable!
Maybe tiny spider or other small object hanging from spiderweb.
Def. dirty #buffalo 😃
You brute! Spare that tree! 😃
But in fact, the dikdiks may enjoy feeding from some of the branches that the ele knocks down.
Agree #cheetah, well spotted!
I can't tell what it's doing. Not birth season and anyway he looks male. Perhaps just rolling, as they sometimes do 😃
Yes, 2 #wildebeest here 😃
Agree #hartebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle. Note the clear line between the back color and the paler flank color.
Thanks Amelievb for making that connection! I'm still not sure what it is.
In 2 & 3, it looks as though she is holding a piece of technology in her mouth - can anyone see what that is?
Could be that the lion has food, off-camera, and the jackals are monitoring the situation 😃
#banded-mongoose is correct. My #mongoose reference is here: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc
I'm impressed! It does indeed look like a small cheetah cub, rear view.
#wildebeest is right
#bird-other
No, it's a #thomsons-gazelle. A side-striped jackal has a fox-like gray tail with white tip.
Probably something larger, between gazelle and zebra size, but I can see no ID features.
Where there is one #wildebeest, you can usually assume that there will be more, and that is true here.
Color, texture, shape and movement are a better match for lion.
Maybe gazelle.
#white-tailed-mongoose is right.
Yes, babies often lie down to rest.
Foreground object might be part of a lion but doesn't move...might also be a fallen sausage fruit...I'm not much help! 😃
Conspicuous white rumps, so I'd guess white-crowned shrike or possibly wattled starling.
I'd say #aardwolf. Hyena is more densely striped.
Could be - I can't swear it's not hartebeest 😃
Correct
Super lion! #bird-other I'm not sure - head too big for vulture - cape rook?
Correct
Looks like a #warthog, right way up, ears at far L 😃
#slate
They are #oxpeckers and the giraffe is their supermarket; they eat its parasites.
Definitely bad-hair #warthog!
see below 😃
Another suggestion is lion - but to me it seems too tall and not long enough.
I think this is a Thomson's gazelle. A serval would not walk with its head held so low.
Much too big for hare...maybe aardvark with a notched ear?
#butterfly - you can be certain no elm seeds here 😃
Enigmatic - I doubt it would be cow, walking around at night - maybe eland?
Well done! So beautifully close and clear - pity we missed the face! 😃
I can't see any animal here.
I think just vegetation.
Correct, well spotted!
#hartebeest, doesn't look too bad, maybe old?
Definitely lion, because of the shape of ears, the black marks on their back side, and the very short head hair.
With that thick brown coat it is surely a #waterbuck.
#zebra and #warthogs
#lion with #collar
Judging from the grass, this camera may have fallen and is pointing at ground; animals may be dwarf mongoose.
Might be a pair of jackals sitting down.
#zebra, with probable #warthog under bush at L.
#thomsons-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle. Servals have spots, lions are bigger & beefier 😃
Nice! I think it's Spotted eagle owl because of all the spots on breast.
That's a really smart guess - it certainly could be!
Looks like 3 #spotted-hyena resting. Hyenas at a kill are generally standing over it, with blood and body parts everywhere 😃
Best to say 'nothing here' - camera has fallen down and small moving object could be vegetation.
For what? Hope you guessed #elephant - couldn't be anything else. We can't tell what anyone guessed 😃
Well done, #cattle they are 😃
#grants-gazelle is correct 😃
I only see grass moving. You're unlikely to see any rodents in this grass in daytime.
Cattle often are 'branded' with knife cuts, but usually on upper parts of body, visible above tall grass.
D'oh! Putting this together with Image ASG001m93c, this is not eland but domestic #cattle 😃
Maybe spotted hyena.
Do u mean the thing that looks like a couple of big leaves surrounded by short grass? They might be just that. Animals in bkg are #buffalo.
Yes - perhaps because of a combination of wildflowers and bushes that provide shelter from wind.
These are gazelles, probably Thomson's - there are no deer in Serengeti 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
Yes! See below, also 2nd ID image for Mongoose, also https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG000000b/discussions/DSG0001jnc
Super shot! I think the #wildebeest would be even more worried if this were a lion - the cat is a #cheetah, less of a threat to adult gnu.
I think it has to be, but I wouldn't like to guess which species 😃
#bird-other it is!
Not with all those folds and wrinkles. It's most likely eland but I'm strongly tempted to say #cattle - tail more like #cow than eland?
Correct 😃
Correct 😃
Ha, we all do it 😃 And, well, it could be a shadow falling across pale gnu hide, or the border between face front and cheek...
#hartebeest, from horn shape.
Or even a zebra!
Ears of both gazelle species are similar. From horn shape I think #thomsons-gazelle.
Hairstyle and ears look more like hyena.
#thomsons-gazelle
Right. I wonder what the hind-leg stripes are about? I've never seen that.
Awww...don't you find this #warthog cute?
30-50 might be a typical size for a Serengeti #baboon troop but it would be rare to catch all in one picture 😃
Correct 😃
#male #lions and wary zebra!
Yes this looks like a #fire
They are identifiable, as #wildebeest and #zebra.
Definitely #buffalo bull.
PLEASE DON'T POST these multiple images of moving grass, wind, haze, whiteness, blackness....They serve no purpose. Thanks!
Much more likely to be an aardwolf. Striped H is a larger animal, about the size of Spotted H, and has longer mane hair.
Raindrops.
It is a #crowned-plover / #crowned-lapwing - much smaller than a kori.
It's on the main road thru Serengeti.
It probably is, and the 2 parents are by the dung-midden, to which one of them is contributing 😃
It could be a vulture.
Maybe wing of bird landing on camera?
That's right 😃
#hartebeest front and far L, others are #zebra. Bushbuck prefer bush country to grass plains.
Impala avoid open plains like this and their tails are mostly white. This tail has b&w stripes... now who can that be? 😃
You can see ribs on one of the horns, which bushbuck don't have, but also a long smooth section at tip, so not gazelle. He's an #impala.
Yep, they're nesting.
Iridescent bird R of centre is a #superb-starling.
Someone with a big curved tusk growing out of his face!
A dikdik has a very pointed muzzle. This looks like a young reedbuck.
#warthog
I think warthog.
It's not such an unusual sight actually.
Definitely #caracal, well done!
We know there is wind and vegetation in Serengeti. Please do not clutter this forum with such stuff.
Please restrict your posts to images that are hard to ID, show unusual animals, or are otherwise of interest.
Popcorn. Or hail?
Correct
#lion is right
Probably just food
Maybe reedbuck.
Why ?? Only a #giraffe could be so tall 😃
This is a #cheetah.
From the height and the sharp demarcation between grey and black on wings, I think #secretary-bird.
The #slate shows that on 27 Jun '14 a new memory card was started in camera J06 at 11:36 local time. Note computer time stamp is 3 hr fast.
Methinks serval is a tom. He has his own little 'lumps behind' 😃
Ummm. I think it would be more white if Grant's. But what else...hartebeest? looks a bit small.
From size, #buffalo looks mature. We really can't judge color well in these flash shots - he may look black in daytime 😃
Looks like 2 Grants interacting.
I think they are all Cape Rooks.
Perhaps mongooses.
Yes, #lion.
Flock of #birds. Not sure what, maybe Caspian plovers.
#impala
#elephant wallowing
Possibly serval.
Great #selfie!
Maybe francolin?
Not a lot to go on, is there? Could be hippo, or various other suspects 😃
Agree #hartebeest. A tommy is a small animal and usually the camera can see over its back to the horizon, which isn't true here.
Most likely a branch but I'm not # positive 😃
Great portrait. "Make my day!"
Good point - maybe something outside the frame is moving, like her tail or another lion. Note also radio #collar.
#kori-bustard is correct.
#bird-other
#thomsons-gazelle
Small thing in centre is probably a bird.
#lesser-kestrel, male, moulting.
They look like zebras. The thing close to camera is a plant.
Not elephant, not giraffe, not porcupine, not zebra...hmm...probably Thomson's Gazelle 😃
#warthog is correct.
Hard to tell. Maybe go-away bird or one of the small hornbills?
How are we supposed to know? Think of a reason, e.g: He's after a fast buck 😉
yes, because of 'nappy' texture and brown stripes.
#raptor, maybe vulture.
#black-backed-jackal is correct 😃
#dikdik is correct.
It does appear to be a #kori-bustard.
Ha, yes! #serval
One of the most distinctive #bird species in Serengeti - the #saddle-billed-stork 😃
Maybe a weaver or sparrow - shrikes have longer tails 😃
Correct plural is mongooses. Nothing to do with goose, origin is Marathi language (India) 'mangus'
#secretary-bird - it is listed on the classification page.
Looks like it.
Approx 5 zebra and 10 wildebeest
Even my superpowers cannot reveal your guesses, but this is a #warthog 😃
Can't tell what you guessed, but see below...
From the dark color it looks more like wildebeest.
Could also be an impala, or perhaps a topi or hartebeest...
The shape and the short neat hair look more like a female #lion.
The one in centre is more likely to be another #wildebeest sitting down.
Animals to the right of the wildebeest are zebra and more wildebeest.
It's the back of a #bird, probably a Black-bellied or Hartlaub's Bustard.
They are two #wildebeest.
What's your guess? We can't tell 😃 This is a #hartebeest
#bird-other, probably francolin. A leopard is a lot larger!
#wildebeest #young #calf
Animal is very vague - rounded back, head low, apparent dark tail and spots. I suggest Spotted Hyena.
Seems to me we've always had #hartebeest, though often in more open areas standing very close to camera.
#bird - something, probably a hawk, often perches on cameras and we just see its tail tip.
#zebra, about 4. You don't need to hashtag something as unidentifiable, because someone can probably ID it 😃
It's an #insect, probably butterfly.
I only see #spotted-hyena, and dung scattered in grass.
If you aren't sure of ID, please don't use #. These are #dikdik and they are very, very often seen in this scene - it's their home 😃
#cheetah
#slate
This was Oct 2014 so I am sure someone has fixed it by now 😃
#bat-eared-fox
#bird-other
#grants-gazelle
That's a new one! This camera had fallen off a sausage-tree and is looking up at the sausage fruits. Please only use # when certain of ID 😃
If there's really no animal, no need to post it here. But there does appear to be a #bird, perched on the camera - its tail-tip at top left.
Black object probably an insect.
The two in centre may be zebra. Not sure about far R animal.
#banded-mongoose #mongoose
Yes, #cheetah.
I would call this a #black-bellied-bustard. Hartlaubs has a mostly black face. I also find it difficult to distinguish them!
Looks more like Hartlaub's but not certain.
They too are #zebra.
Could be an insect or small lizard crawling over the camera lens.
Actually not so hard...we see an ear, and below it a curving tusk, attached to the same head. What can that be?
Large tan short-haired animal - maybe hartebeest.
termite mound 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose is correct.
It could be a variety of things...tusk and trunk of a young elephant, or a plant close to camera!
All are #wildebeest.
Remember we don't know what you guessed - hope you got #eland 😃
#wattled-starlings confirmed 😃
The tight grouping, light shiny backs and big tails are typical of wildebeest, so I think that's what they are.
Smoke moves, green grass doesn't burn...I think the camera is just pointing into the sun, or its exposure control is kaput.
#insect, probably a wasp. Anything out of focus like that is very close to camera, therefore small.
Maybe topi, hard to tell. At this age, calf is only just showing adult coloration. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidbygott/4148848069
It's just lost in motion-blur. Compare with next frame and you can see a dark blur to L of his other leg.
Female #grants-gazelle
I could see this as a jackal's back, a buffalo's horns or a hippo's nose. Not helpful I fear 😃
...Large animal with unpatterned tan short-haired coat grading into white at rear, is most probably #hartebeest.
Read this thread: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000009/discussions/DSG000127t. Actually there are not many choices here...
Looks like it.
Great sunset lighting on these #eland.
It's a #buffalo #calf, that's why it looks strange.
I think you have a group of wildebeest standing still at R with pale backs, and some buffalo at L or moving from centre to R.
Me neither. Pick any medium to large herbivore 😃
Is a #cheetah
Yes, good comparison of these very differently shaped animals.
A bushbuck does not have those rings on its horn, and you'd be unlikely to see it in open short grass like this.. This is #thomsons-gazelle.
Good enough. Two fairly-sures make a #duiker. Done!
#superb-starling #bird
Probably #insect
Also a #hartebeest exiting R.
Not sure about this one. Its neck looks thick and short, more like a duiker. Other thoughts?
I'd say too big & stout for wildebeest and not enough neck hair - in which case, buffalo.
#thomsons-gazelle
It's a #buffalo #calf - they are reddish brown when small.
They look like zebras.
They are #zebras.
#secretary-bird is right.
It certainly could be 😃
This #bird is a #ground-hornbill.
giraffe? where?
Can't ID with certainty - they look like medium sized antelopes.
Fairy with a sting, I suspect - a hunting wasp 😃
Probably dirt then.
#hartebeest. A topi would show conspicuous dark marks on shoulders and thighs.
Doesn't move, probably dirt on lens.
Correct
A big one, but far away 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
It's some animal touching the camera, strongly enough to move it. Warthog? Baboon? Squirrel? several possibilities!
It's a good guess. When you see a wildebeest, there are often many others nearby 😃
#side-striped-jackal is correct.
#secretary-bird
#thomsons-gazelle
Fruit of a sausage-tree.
#warthog
This 'saddle mark' of scrambled stripes is a natural mutation we occasionally see in Serengeti zebras.
Good thinking 😃
But not too fast for ID: #impala
Looks like vegetation - it may be one of these cameras that's lying on the ground?
Surprise! It's a male #lion 😃
Left by elephant 😃
All #thomsons-gazelle except for the #elephant. However, the object at lower R looks like the horn of a female Grant's gazelle.
Looks more like hartebeest.
#elephant
I think all zebras but some are far away.
They are zebras.
#thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest with a few zebra as well.
...and the tail. #warthog is right.
Interesting one! You're right it's not gazelle - could be bushbuck, other options being reedbuck or impala. Other opinions?
Definitely #buffalo
I think there's nothing here.
Looks like a #lion.
The leaves close to camera are what triggered this shot. Nothing here.
It's a #cheetah #cub
#insect
Red butterfly.
Looks like a #cheetah #cub on right.
#lion #cub.
On the left are zebra, not sure about the central ones.
Correct, the #reptile is a #striped-skink, quite often seen in this spot. Well spotted!
Yes, looks like a #lion.
I can't tell what the second animal is - it might be another jackal.
It could, but we can't see enough to be sure. I think no other photos have yet been tagged as rhino on that date.
#white-bellied-bustard
Imagine giving birth to a baby with such long sharp horns. Ouch! All antelopes are born hornless. This is an adult male #thomsons-gazelle.
Not sure about what? The #zebra on the left?
Looks like it, how cool! There are nightjars in Serengeti which sit on the ground and fly up to catch insects in just this way.
Good guess - they do look like harriers, either Pallid or Montagu's (which in my experience is more common) 😃
From the way that bird perches, on long legs, it looks like a wattled starling - oxpeckers have very short legs and cling close to the host.
Could be.
#spotted-hyena
Looks like it to me 😃
Good #lion!
Raindrops, because of brightness and all moving down in same direction
Can't see any detail outside of that eyeshine. It has to be something with good binocular vision so maybe hyena or big cat.
Might be - something big like eland - not sure.
#wildebeest with some zebra among them in background. No buffalo.
Maybe hartebeest.
I'd go with hyena. Tillydad what say you?
I suggest male impala, moving away...white tail, widely spaced horns.
LOL 😄
Yes, well done! This has now been reclassified as #golden-wolf, but old habits die hard...
Herbivores outnumber predators about 300 to 1 in Serengeti, so they're more likely to be herbivore eyes - maybe more impala, can't tell.
The car is a tourist car on a nearby road. Serengeti is a National Park so visitors do not shoot. The #zebra rolls to scratch its itches 😃
Not really - I just throw such dark images into Photoshop and lighten them up 😃
#warthog - what a formidable face!
There are 5 more #zebra in the background, and other light spots at left and top are from raindrops.
One #eland is visible L of centre but I can't identify the eyes.
All animals in the photo are zebras.
#hartebeest & #young
#buffalo, #giraffe, #zebra, #multi-species
It does not move - probably dirt on the camera lens.
Definitely #wildebeest - no other animal has that beard and mane.
Definitely #dikdik.
I think dikdik is correct.
They are all #wildebeest.
In foreground a female #grants-gazelle, under the dead tree is a dead branch.
This is a #lion. Here is a photo of a caracal in the same place: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG00131r6
The close animal is easily identified by its tail as a #wildebeest.
Not so; from size and shape we can say this is a large antelope, and the vertical dark stripes are unique to #wildebeest 😃
#giraffe is correct 😃
Well done!
#hare is correct 😃
#bat-eared-fox is right 😃
We hope that you guessed #wildebeest?
The #slate shows that a new SD card was put in camera R11 on 1 July '14 at 1524hrs. Date/time stamp on photo incorrectly shows 3 hrs later.
#thomsons-gazelle
Turn your computer on its side and all will be OK 😃 This camera has fallen on the ground, and there are no animals to see right now.
Bravo!
We can't know what you guessed. This is a #young #thomsons-gazelle.
They are #zebra. Up close they are stripey. At a distance they appear to be a light neutral gray.
#hartebeest
The animal standing L of centre is a zebra.
At least some of these are wildebeest.
I agree, #grants-gazelle.
It's a #bird - #helmeted-guineafowl 😃
Antelope - possibly reedbuck.
Looks like just wood and bark.
Dust.
#baboon with #young
Same old #secretary-bird, we see them quite often here.
The back story...cheetahs really don't like hyenas. Possibly the cheetah had been eating something and the hyena came to investigate/steal.
Cool! I'm glad you check...some might just look and say 'nothing here' 😃
Definitely #serval 😃
With that sort of tail, it is most likely #lion.
#insects illuminated by the flash.
Definitely #hartebeest, a steenbok is much smaller!
I guess wildebeest.
#giraffe - with legs & spots like that, what else could it be?
Looks green, like grass.
It looks like a rhino, doesn't it, with an oxpecker hovering over it! Can't be sure, but it is possible!
From its small size and the way the spots are aligned in rows on the back, this is a #serval 😃
Wonderful portrait of a male warthog!
It's a resting #lion. Maybe she is guarding the remains of a kill which the hyenas want.
One of those cases where we just have to guess. Zebra? Wildebeest? You decide! 😃
😉
Shape is like lion.
They have no horns and are shaped rather like donkeys...how about #zebra?
Small antelope - could be anything from dikdik to reedbuck.
I'd guess zebra here.
We guess. For example, frame 1 shows almost white skin with a dark stripe. Now what can that be? How about....a zebra?
Eland or possibly hartebeest. Too tall for lion, chest hair too short.
It's very likely feeding from the tree to which the camera is attached, but as you say, we can't be sure.
Those are all #wildebeest, probably >50.
I can't decide - they may also be zebra, or both species mixed.
Looks like a Tommy to me.
#cheetah and #spotted-hyena - unusual to catch them together.
Still a #guineafowl 😃
Mostly zebras.
#secretary-bird - the only raptor as tall as the camera! Note hooked bill, general gray color, and orange bare skin around eye.
#wildebeest. You'll get to know them really well soon 😃
It's greyish short hair rather than wrinkly skin, so #wildebeest.
#buffalo - dark hair, massive stout legs and hooves
#wildebeest, with a few zebra too (light grey)
#wildebeest
#wildebeest
Distant herd of zebra, more than 10.
I'm pretty sure these are #wildebeest.
Dark animals - possibly buffalo
It's a young #buffalo - when you think about it, no mom wants to give birth to something with horns, so horn bosses develop later in life 😃
If there are animals, there can't be no animals! Always guess - e.g. for a herd of dark animals, there are actually only 2 or 3 options 😃
He is a she, and female #thomsons-gazelle often have deformed horns. She does have 2, one sticks up, the other bends forward.
Very good guess, I expect you're right!
Possibly zebra, like those in the background.
I don't think we can be sure about this. From season & location, buffalo may be more likely.
Animal R of centre, not sure; female ostrich? Shadows, alas, can't be counted as reliable ID is impossible 😃
#hartebeest
Yes, #topi with #thomsons-gazelle.
The blurry thing that moves must be v. close to be so unfocused. It is probably a small lizard on the camera. Dark objects in bkg are trees.
For those new to this game, this is an #aardvark.
About 7 #zebra.
Lightening it, I see 3 #zebra.
This #eland does indeed have an #oxpecker !!!
#reedbuck & #young
The thing in foreground is a plant.
There do seem to be 3 animals standing there, maybe gazelles?
Ears look too small. I'm wondering duiker? Compare: http://www.mugabasafaris.com/Animals/common_duiker.jpg
Probably Thomsons Gazelle
It might be!
#wildebeest
#wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle is right 😃
#wildebeest is right, couldn't be anything else 😃
The beard shows it is a #wildebeest.
A little bigger.... #eland male 😃
#elephant
Yes, #thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest and #young
#thomsons-gazelle
#coqui-francolin
It's a plant.
#wildebeest face.
Not happy about w'hog. It moves the cat-head part (w'hog muzzle) independently of the cat-shoulders (w'hog upper head) - how does that work?
Looks more like a cat - short face, upcurved tail - cheetah?
#steenbok is correct 😃
Probably #wildebeest.
Many #buffalo, most sitting down.
Not zebra. Texture suggests either scales or textile - perhaps part of a researcher's clothing?
Well done! #little-bee-eater.
I wouldn't like to guess! 😃
They are wildebeest - note how the back slopes gently from shoulders to rump, while the neck makes a steep downward angle.
Never mind, you'll learn a lot here! 😃
It's a #secretary-bird, but sitting down so you can't see its long legs.
It looks more like a reedbuck, or possibly a steenbok.
Animals moving L to R are also #zebra.
They look more like zebras to me.
It is short - maybe the result of a lucky escape!
#secretary-bird is right.
Nice close-up - I think she has her mouth open to pant rather than growl, her face looks relaxed 😃
The small white thing is a butterfly.
There are 3 #helmeted-guineafowl here, maybe you are referring to the middle one?
May be just resting - I've seen several photos like this.
I think you're right.
#hartebeest is right 😃
#porcupine is correct 😃
I agree, #serval
Beautiful!
This is strange! Tail looks like that of a cheetah/leopard cub but I can't really understand what part the yellow thing is...penis?
Or maybe moth or other insect. It feels small for a bat.
Yes, young male #lion
They are ground-nesters but nest site is usually within 4m of a tree, shrub, mound etc., so...maybe!
I think the objects at L edge are all part of a plant - no animal here.
No, it's a couple of #oxpecker #birds! We've seen this before, sometimes they roost in a giraffe's groin!
Looks too small. Maybe steenbok.
#kori-bustard is right 😃
#hartebeest
They are all #wildebeest, about 10 or 11.
We know 😃 #wildebeest - the dark striping on sides is diagnostic.
Very nice image - an evening shot with fill-in flash, these cameras are clever!
I agree with #spotted-hyena.
It's a zebra.
It's a plant. Please don't use # unless you are sure of ID, as it is used for sorting and searching 😃
Maybe that's the back of its left thigh, and it's raised that leg to scratch itself?
Yes it is - no horns, so not gazelle. Black tips to ears, black bars on rump, so not reedbuck or bushbuck. Therefore #impala!
Either playing guitar or more probably, grooming its own hind leg 😃
This large white rump-patch is very typical of #grants-gazelle - note how its top corners curl over the vertical dark bars that frame it.
Looks like a baboon.
Not baby - adult female #thomsons-gazelle.
#giraffe is right 😃
#white-tailed-mongoose is right. BEF has a darker tail and you would see bigger ears.
I wouldn't totally rule out serval, but the combination of large and small spots we see in 2 & 3 is more typical of cheetah.
This camera has fallen off its mount on a Sausage tree (Kigelia) and is looking up at its branches and its large fruits.
LOL...but also, some #crowned-plover #birds.
#bushbuck mother & #young. Note dark and light banding on upper forelegs, white crescent at base of throat.
Also #wildebeest
#wildebeest is right.
Or butterfly?
I think it's a Coqui Francolin.
It can be useful to know that the 3 parallel dark marks in ear distinguish a bushbuck's ear from that of any other animal here.
I agree.
Fruits of sausage tree (Kigelia).
#lion! A caracal does not have this long slender tail, and of course it is much smaller. Image ASG00131r6 shows a caracal in same place.
Close animals are also #wildebeest.
#superb-starling is right.
#cheetah it is.
Agree #lion.
Jackals can be very bold and very good at keeping out of trouble! Might be a second lion at L edge?
This is quite a low camera, often we don't see so much of a jackal's back.
They are wildebeest, not buffalo.
Yes, #side-striped-jackal.
I think it's a young warthog.
#white-bellied-bustard
I agree, tommy.
Male #thomsons-gazelle. A Grant would be taller and if male, its horns would diverge more.
Flying bird is not a kori. It looks more like a hawk.
Probably a harrier, a kind of #raptor.
#rhino is right, well spotted! Place, date, time and even mud patterns match Image ASG001l7v8
Could be. I think this is a Silverbird.
I think nose and ears of serval.
#dikdik.
Yes probably.
Agree #jackals.
Yes, it appears behind the shoulder of the closer zebra.
#lion is indeed wearing a #collar
Here's one, perhaps same dikdik but different night, which shows the colour more clearly: Image ASG001j890
#aardwolf is correct.
Well done, #dikdik is correct 😃
The one that looks very small is actually an adult female, judging from her horns. Little fawns have no horns.
Actually a female #grants-gazelle. A female tommy's horns are never so long, a male's never so thin 😃
A #slate photographed when new SD card is installed, confirming date, time and camera ID.
Where? The animal is a #wildebeest, but I can't see evidence of a snare.
#topi is right 😃
Correct - though technically it's an antelope, not a deer.
Something so bristly is probably a #warthog scratching an itch on the camera box 😃
#reedbuck is right 😃
I think so!
Giraffe heads are spotted, but this is uniform brown with black front - it is a #topi.
Note that this photo has now been assigned to collections of zebras and hyenas because of incorrect tags. But...you can edit them out 😃
This is the flower-spike of a plant that commonly grows around these cameras. Please only use # where you are certain about ID 😃
#buffalo with that little 'beard' 😃
Not as big as a vulture - probably a cape rook.
As stated below, this is a wildebeest, as are the animals in the background. Study the ID guide and please only use # where ID is certain 😃
You're very welcome! And learning fast 😃
Yes it's a #dikdik 😃
This is a #wildebeest.
What I see is almost all of the foreground zebra, 'stretched' by perspective, and only the forelegs of the one beyond it.
#oxpeckers are correct.
The 2 small things coming in from left are #birds, probably crowned plovers.
If hard=hare, yes they are mostly active at night.
Correct.
#young #grants-gazelle; note dark chevron on nose, leaf-shaped black mark through eye, white rump-patch curling over top of black bar.
#wildebeest
Looks like #coqui-francolin
I would guess hartebeest or possibly topi, from structure of tail.
#serval - other spotted cats have smaller ears in relation to head.
Looks like 3 adult #baboons and 1#young.
#white-tailed-mongoose.
The #bird pair are #crowned-plovers.
#hippo
#grey-backed-fiscal shrike.
Definitely has spots too, so... #spotted-hyena 😃
I'd say B + C 😃
Correct as usual 😃
see below 😃
Possibly wildebeest beyond the #spotted-hyena, not sure.
#cheetah #cub is correct 😃
Don't see any kill, just 2 lyin' lion.
#thomsons-gazelle airborne 😃
It's a #superb-starling
All I can see is grass - camera lying on ground 😃
Perhaps wildebeest.
Tree?
Thomsons gazelles yes, and the 3 on L look to me like zebras.
#impala - richer reddish color than h'beest, also note the color change on its flank.
#grants-gazelle is correct.
#interaction - they are definitely courting!
#wildebeest - much more common!
Also the grey neck and rump, with brown body, is typical of dikdik. That is what I use with a view like this.
Can't improve on that, sorry!
My pleasure! We've had all of the cat species at this camera, except perhaps wildcat who is rarely photographed anywhere.
Me too 😃
Classic #buffalo and not all that young. In profile, a buffalo's nose points forward and a wildebeest's points vertically down
Yes - thick bill of a sparrow-like #bird-other 😃
Looks like he's eating elephant dung, but I think he's eating plants close to it 😃
#black-backed-jackal
#caracal !! The long hair tuft on ear is unique.
I'm not sure! Your other options would be bushbuck and tommy...maybe impala. This isn't a view I'm used to 😃
Yes, maybe even 3 or 4.
#lion is correct
They look like elephant.
Could be wildebeest.
The front of this camera box fell open!
I'm guessing buffalo. Maybe the neck of an old bull.
#leopard
Could be serval. I'm not 100% sure.
...Trunk.
#giraffe & #guineafowl
Those horns say #topi to me 😃
Possibly an egg-eater snake, say the experts. A harmless snake that lives, surprisingly, on eggs 😃
Am seeking expert opinion. It's always exciting to open a camera box and see who's living in it. In AZ I get black-widows and vicious wasps!
#bird-other, #white-bellied-bustard. It's in all 3 pics, I can see its head in no. 1
Looks like warthog.
Wow, he's moving! Sometimes they bounce like this during territorial chases.
Thanks! This one's too easy though...I'm looking for those that don't offer so many ID clues 😉
We've all come a long way! I'm building some reference collections, that's why I'm dragging up some old stuff and occasionally retagging it.
#superb-starling
#spotted-hyena 😃
Looks like it.
Young #hartebeest I think...tail ears and nose wrong for reedbuck
#zebra #nose
It's very unusual to see cattle in the Park. These are #buffalo.
They are.
What are we guessing? If you mean the small moving dot, could be a gazelle, could even be a kori, take your pick!
#eland #nose
#thomsons-gazelle eye
#buffalo #nose
#hippo #nose
#thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest #nose
This #bird-other is one of the #weaver species - the flying one is carrying grass to build into its nest.
You don't tend to see them in August (dry season) - looks more like a plant.
'Horning' vegetation or ground - an aggressive sign, perhaps aimed at the 'rival' approaching from R.
'Helmet' of a #guineafowl 😃
They are angled forward in line with the neck as the serval focuses on some movement in the grass. That is how they locate their prey.
Agree tommies, at least 5.
Definitely #lion 😃
The coat texture and the form of the nose suggest #reedbuck to me.
I'm not seeing any bird here. However there is the head and neck of a #serval cat at far L 😃
Butterfly genus Acraea I believe 😃
Light spot top R is a flying insect. Looks like something brown sitting in centre background but too vague to tell if it's even an animal.
The long black tail gives you a clue... #wildebeest
You can do it! What is REALLY big and flaps its huge ears like that?
If you mean the small pale spot L of centre, no. May be insect or leaf. There are no rodents there that emerge from holes in daylight
Always think first, 'could it be the same as the other animals in picture?' This is the ear of a #buffalo 😃
You don't often get buffalo out on those open plains with wildebeest - I'd say all those are #wildebeest.
I think it has to be #wildebeest 😃
#eland is right!
But look at the S-shaped horns and the pattern of black and white on rump... #impala male.
#thomsons-gazelle !
You are SO good at this 😃
I think the ear is the most plausible suggestion so far 😃
I still think #human hand - tried lightening it and can sort of see the joints of the fingers.
Definitely a reedbuck or other medium antelope.
There are fireflies, mostly in marshy areas and their light isn't very bright.
Rubber-stamped 😃
Yes, well done! Also the little short tail is different from the reedbuck's bigger tail. #steenbok are only a little bigger than dikdik!
Nice one!
If it is an eye, it must be something very small as I can't see any body. Perhaps nightjar, mouse or spider 😃
#grants-gazelle - pale color, long horns.
Correct 😃
Elephant dung 😃
Yes, I think that's a #reedbuck.
#bird-other 😃
Correct, #zebra beyond the #wildebeest.
How about base of neck of a Grant's?
Not sure about giraffe. Might be a topi or hartebeest.
Flying insects tend to leave weird zigzag shapes like this.
Difficult; may be lion?
Waterbuck is right. A hint about size: cameras are set about .5 to 1 meter above ground. So small animals like fox can never fill the frame.
#baboon #young
What better for Mothers' Day!
😃 We endeavour to give satisfaction
#spotted-hyena following a scent trail. A lion would be longer and its back isn't rounded like this.
#secretary-bird confirmed 😃
#crowned-plover is right.
Yes, looks like serval.
You are absolutely right! I was in a hurry and didn't lighten the photo. #topi it is.
No, they are about 4 #wildebeest.
If it's October, most adult female #wildebeest will be 5-6 months pregnant, and young will be born around January.
Yes, wing of our mystery #bird-other 😃
It looks like an oxpecker, a #bird which climbs around on large mammals and eats their parasites. They sometimes land on #impala.
May be Magpie Shrike
Probably bees.
#giraffe
#dikdik. Brown color with grey rump is distinctive. A pair of them is often seen at this location, but we very rarely see duiker anywhere.
Looks like #warthog.
I see another tommy, I think.
#impala. It does not have the Grant's extensive white rump patch, and the long hairs of its tail are white.
#wildebeest at sunrise 😃
Grants is smaller with white legs and conspicuous white rump patch. This is hartebeest.
I think the size is more like hyena than jackal. It actually fits a striped hyena, but I'd need more pics b4 going there!
#young #wildebeest - also has mane, dark color, striping, etc.
#lion #cubs
#bird-other 😃
Both are eland 😃
Not many birds are this tall... #kori-bustard
The #elephant holds the shrivelled fruit of sausage-tree (Kigelia).
Correct.
Possibly black-backed jackal?
Can't tell what, maybe birds?
Statistically they are more likely to be a herbivore 😃
#spotted-hyena with #grants-gazelle.
All the animals here are #zebra.
I can't do better than that. #buffalo pile 😃
I agree with #crowned-plover, and hmm... #bird-other 😃
Maybe white-headed buffalo-weaver - a lot of species have big white wing patches!
They are really common but people on safari don't see them so much because they are more active at night.
#dikdik works for me.
I prefer #lion too 😃
Black eye identifies #ring-necked-dove, rarely do we see it so close 😃
They are a lot of #wildebeest
Not sure...might be that sitting-down Secretary we had a few days ago.
Thanks, nice one!
Thanks! Have a look at the collection. I only want one or two of each species, so it's convenient for reference.
Now known as #golden-wolf.
Female waterbuck
#waterbuck #tail
#lion #tail
#thomsons-gazelle #tail #butt
waterbuck #tail #butt
#grants-gazelle #tail #butt
#grants-gazelle #tail #butt
#tail
#hartebeest #tail
#tail
#thomsons-gazelle
#caracal #tail
#caracal #kill
#wildebeest #tail
cheetah #tail. I'm digging up some old images to add to my collection called "Tails and rears"
#hartebeest #tail
#lion tail
#wildebeest tail
#elephant
Me too 😦
May have found some small prey - they stamp and kick with their feet to flush it and to kill it.
I prefer #reedbuck too.
I agree.
I believe this is #elephant. When lightened they show the right wrinkles, and they move in a more elephantine way 😃
Looks like some sort of greeting or group-bonding ritual.
Wow, that is an unusual sighting here.
But, it is a shrike and not a corvid - long tail is the only similarity.
One of the smaller bustards, perhaps White-bellied.
#impala
Hartebeest have L-shaped horns, so this is #topi.
Yes, that #eland tail is quite distinctive
@maricksu, you are becoming so expert....I think I can take the day off 😃
I think it could be lion.
#hartebeest is right 😃
Definitely 😃
Some of these photos blow me away!
I think the dark blobs are trees or bushes 😃
Giraffes browse on trees and bushes, so when you see one bending down thus, you can bet she's found a baby tree hidden in the grass 😃
Can't even be sure it's a bird...might be insect 😃
Sorry, no! Too small.
Do you think the wildebeest would be standing so calmly with a lion in their midst? More likely is a wildebeest calf 😃
This is a male #thomsons-gazelle 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
This is the muzzle of a #wildebeest, so they have no reason for concern 😃 I'd never noticed the white lips, don't think they all have this.
It's some kind of dirt, though slugs would be unlikely in July.
#hartebeest - what else could it be?
It could be a variety of things - probably a grass head 😦
I think the camera has fallen down and we are seeing grass.
Looks like he is spray-tagging this tree 😃
#spotted-hyena
It's very hard to ID birds from such small images. Maybe rufous-tailed weaver, maybe gray-headed sparrow, or something else! 😃
Giraffe mothers often park their young together in a "creche" in some open space, while they browse. Maybe that's what we see here.
Well done, you get a gold star 😃
Don't see it. There are some round discs caused by airborne dust etc.
Correct
Maybe one of the wheatears, but I'm guessing.
Lovely image!
#superb-starling and #wildebeest
😉
Does anyone else think mom looks like a male?
#gazelles, probably tommies.
I agree that's a wildebeest leg.
However, this offers a nice comparison of body shape - e.g. note the level back of #buffalo and sloping back of #wildebeest.
I think this is an #aardvark.
If you can't figure it out, it's usually a warthog 😃
Maybe camera malfunction, but if it's a real and underexposed photo, that could be the moon.
At least 3 young males, correct.
#bird-other
#lion is right 😃
Wildebeest is one possibility.
#topi is correct, the color pattern of the legs proves it.
Definitely 2 #dikdik. Mystery spot may be a bird.
I would say #eland. They look so much more muscular than hartebeest.
Probably is another #thomsons-gazelle 😃
I'd say Grant's gazelles. Hartebeest would not show such bright white.
The thing moving fast from R to L is a #human driven Toyota Land-cruiser. Pls only use # when sure of ID.
#hare is right - very short tail, black above white, is unique.
Maybe - medium sized hawk or some such.
Well done, and here there aren't oribi to confuse you 😃
#spotted-hyena. Aardwolf is much more nocturnal and has a relatively bigger tail & ears.
Large size and wrinkled texture should give you an idea - #elephant
Good guess! Definitely #gazelle. The little black bar across top of muzzle right at edge of frame, suggests Grant's - tommy doesn't have it.
Impala would not be in open treeless plains. This horn form, very thin but as long as head, is unique to female #grants-gazelle.
#hartebeest is correct - there should be no doubt here. Note lion-like colour, horn shape at top L, and the little dorsal hair crest on tail
I think no animals visible, just bushes.
#elephant 😃 - a small one
It's a #warthog. Just "mark with a #hashtag" the animal's name if you are certain of its ID.
#crowned-lapwing or #crowned-plover
#cheetah #cub is correct.
Maybe insect? seems to be no body attached.
#butterfly quite close to camera.
Yes, the big grey animals are #elephant and the smaller ones are #zebra.
#serval playing with camera!
#baboon x2. A big male walking towards us along tree shadow, and a smaller one coming in from R.
Awesome you guys!!!
#lion for sure.
Me too! They definitely own this bush 😃
A wet night in Serengeti. This is how raindrops look on our cameras. No animals present as far as I can tell.
My opinion is that it's an #impala, from the white on upper lip, chin and under throat, but feel free to shoot me down.
#zebra & #bird-other
#hare
#dikdik x 2
This came up earlier today - Not sure what we are seeing there.
It's the leg of a #giraffe.
Looks so smooth...how about a large bird like vulture or kori, with its head down...think we've been here before, anyone remember?
The one behind... could be!
Fortunately this was an easy one, yes? Smooth, rounded, with short tail and fat legs... #hippo
Isolated muzzles like this are tricky! Tell us why it's an eland 😃
Looks like one.
If Chanting-goshawk, its tarsi would be twice as long. All details better fit a black-winged (black-shouldered) kite.
Part of the face of a #warthog 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
NO WATER BUFFALO HERE! This is a young African buffalo. All horned animals are born hornless, and the horns change shape as they grow.
A mother's responsible for her kids, but all adults in family may help protect them. Those on R are adults & big young, drinking in a pool.
#dikdik is right.
There does seem to be a smallish animal but I can't ID.
Well done - unmistakably rhino. They are active day and night, but probably prefer night - it's cooler for a big animal feeding in open.
The two rather distant beasties on R look like wildebeest, and the fuzzy vertical thing at far R is a plant stem.
Topi is right, good!
Analysis of close animal's coat suggests hair not wrinkles, so all are #buffalo.
I think thats the best guess.
A tall one, to be above the horizon, and a raptor with a hooked beak... #secretary-bird.
I like that. And anyway it's dumb to wear khaki when you are driving around in a white land-rover 😃
All gnu - when they sit down in a bunch like this, it's an exclusive club and other spp don't participate 😃
Imagine that its ears are facing out to the sides like yours, and you view its head from L side, seeing front of L ear & back of R one 😃
Good, #buffalo is right.
This color & texture is typical of #wildebeest - usually with some black stripes (there's one at R
2 tommies I think.
#aardwolf - striped h would show more of a mane along its back, I think.
Might be a black-headed heron, but as you say, not v clear.
Not sure! If I had to guess, I might go for resting gazelles. But not altogether happy with that.
Definitely #wildebeest, spots are due to dappled shade of tree.
I agree with all of that 😃
Looks like it
Look at the horns! #hartebeest
#buffalo, as are the 2 in distance
#wildebeest. The closest one is a calf still with straight horns, but has a full wildebeest tail 😃
Let's hope it's just mud. Scars often result in an offset of the stripes, which we don't see here.
Female #ostrich perhaps reacting to male out of frame - running away & drooping wings. No cheetah!
My least favorite thing to see in the torchlight when walking in Serengeti at night 😉
Sometimes both species share the same space. 2 #grants-gazelle here - 2nd is just above tail of central male #thomsons-gazelle, mom of kid?
Yes, looks like #guineafowl.
Don't be sorry, be glad we agree! 😃
It does look like a white stork...maybe the date is wrong?
Correct!
Correct
That's right 😃
#buffalo
Looks like #serval. Well spotted!
It's possible.
May just be about to scratch his neck with hind hoof 😃
Could be - or wildebeest!
It's what they do. She fills belly, treks back to den (up to 50 miles commute!), converting meat to milk en route, nurses cubs, repeats. 😃
Looks like lactating + belly full of meat.
Could be. It doesn't move so not sure.
Wildebeest
Looks like a Grant's.
They often raise trunk to sniff the breeze, higher above the ground.
I'll guess buffalo ear 😃
No, insect or other airborne small thing.
#warthog is right
#buffalo calf walking
#guineafowl & #thomsons-gazelle
#magpie-shrike
#spotted-hyena
Definitely a lark, one of several species that live there.
Yes, it's just come from a #kill. They do get very bloody 😃
These are zebra - I lightened it and could see the stripes.
Your guess remains your secret - hope it was #ostrich?
Correct, closest one is a tommy and all the others are Grants.
#bird-other !
#zebra
Probably.
I wouldn't rule out a jackal, serval or gazelle. But not elephant, giraffe or buffalo 😃
Looks like gazelle neck, so - no cheetah in vicinity!
One of those Vogue fashion shoots...
Dust. Grass is too green to burn.
Probably wildebeest.
Probably more creepy #wildebeest 😃
#spotted-hyena - ya got it!
Yes - very small #buffalo!
Agree #wildebeest
#guineafowl
Well spotted! Dikdik is more probable.
More likely a #lion.
Quite common, seldom seen because nocturnal. Kingdon reports territory size 1-2 sq km where termites (their main food) are abundant
Agree #buffalo. Flies are part of the package 😃
These are #warthog, a giveaway is how they run with tails erect. I confess I have sometimes mistaken them for lions even in the field!
No, this is surely food. A pregnant cheetah still has to be able to hunt and chase, but this one can barely stand!!
Such a distinctive silhouette, isn't it?
Wow, nice one!
Correct, the texture is unmistakable. Imagine how much skin cream it could consume!
It looks too smooth...possibly a giraffe leg, quite close to camera.
Well done, this is the #golden-wolf, formerly #golden-jackal. In Serengeti their preferred habitat is open short-grass plains like this.
Frame 1 is quite a nice op-art design!
Insect or wind-blown leaf.
This big rounded smooth body with all those little pores or spots can only be a #hippo 😃
Could be a baby, but no certainty here.
Yes, it's a kind of lens flare.
I lean towards topi because it looks so dark, but not 100% sure.
Eyes too high above ground for genet. This appears to be your 237th #spotted-hyena 😃
Spotted hyena. Striped has a bigger bushier tail.
Might also be a kori bustard.
#serval. Big ears give distinctive shape to head; spots on back are often elongated and arranged in rows.
Puzzling. It moves R to L and rises at the same time - if horn/ear of grazer, where's the neck? I need a new brain.
Medium-small, sociable, open-country; my educated guess is either starlings or one of the larger weavers.
Happy zooming! 😃
Just for fun: #wildebeest = Afrikaans for 'wild beast' or 'wild cattle'. Gnu from Khoikoi: 't'gnu' or San: '!nu' - it's the sound they make.
Objects in this Kigelia africana (sausage tree) are its fruits, which look like big grey salami weighing 5-10kg (don't camp under one 😃 )
Friend is a #crowned-plover a.k.a. #crowned-lapwing. So you're stalking the tommy, and the darn bird flies up, "KREE-KREE-KREE!" - no lunch.
Too. Close... The animal in foreground is hard to figure out, maybe just a tommy in deep shadow? Those in R mid distance are tommies.
Hard one. I suspect reedbucks. Other views?
In daytime a single hyena is no threat to a healthy adult gazelle, as long as the gazelle stays > 30m away, which these ones are.
From its ears, spot pattern and long tail, I'd call that a #cheetah 😃
#insect. It's fuzzy cos it's v. close to camera. Flying birds are usually more clearly focused and often appear in >1 frame.
I think it could be.
Don't you think this looks too big for a BEF? It looks more the size and texture of an aardvark, but then, what's the black 'tail' - shadow?
We'll excuse you, even a lion biologist wouldn't be sure 😃
#lion is right!
Correct 😃
Yes #hartebeest - looks like 2 adult, 2 young.
Very likely a #superb-starling.
Looks like #lion.
I agree #thomsons-gazelle
Grant's muzzle is mostly white at the end, so I'd say #thomson's-gazelle.
#elephant - you can see the tip of a tusk in 3.
It's a #warthog.
#spotted-hyena
I think #bushbuck is right.
We think zebras at right, and that's a plant at left.
It's a #thomsons-gazelle, note face markings and black side stripe - compare with ASG001i1iu. We very rarely see duiker here.
Amazing! Note how a small cub is all black, and at this stage it's kept in a burrow, so mama must be transferring it to a new den.
I think the camera is being handled by staff.
Not a horn but a plant 😃
You got it!
The one with head up, R of tree, definitely zebra. Others could be either zebra or gnu.
#white-bellied-bustard
Zebras
#coqui-francolin
I agree #warthog.
After a lot of study I conclude that this is an odd #warthog that lacks the usual mane but still has bristles on side and rump.
#elephant - we see the head of the left one and the rear of the right one.
bird poop or other dirt on lens.
#secretary-bird
Looks like #lion.
The #insects are flying termites, which emerge in a nuptial swarm when the rains begin.
Not dead, just resting 😃 In July, the driest month, these plains are barren. When they are green, Nov-May, they are packed with animals.
Identifiable if lightened - #wildebeest.
This is a #spotted-hyena.
Yes indeed! Migratory herd of gnus and zebras.
#hyena is right. In 1 it's turned its head on one side so you can see its ear, eye and long dark muzzle.
Good guess - about 7 #wildebeest.
Definitely #gazelle but can't ID the species. I suspect Grant's.
Yes and yes. Interesting photo!
From the long bristles I'd guess warthog.
We're not in Scotland 😃 the beasties are more #elephant, the 'black face' is shadow behind ear.
#hartebeest is right, from color and size there isn't much else he could be.
#grants-gazelle is right - a mature male.
That is a weird #thomsons-gazelle! The females' horns are quite often deformed and are probably not very functional.
Correct - I've a feeling you've seen #impala before, somewhere 😉
Yes, well spotted!
#butterfly #insect
To me it looks more like an insect.
Color is odd, but texture is more like a vervet than a baboon.
#magpie-shrike #bird is right 😃
Yes, #insect.
Sunrise, not that it matters 😃 They always launch just before dawn.
#spotted-hyena is right 😃
That many cars, they'll be looking at one of the big cats 😃
I think it is a #mongoose, can't really make it into anything else 😃
#bat-eared-fox - if you want to tag it thus, join the words with hyphens or underscores, otherwise it goes in the "bat" bin 😃
There might - but it's anyone's guess what it is!
This is a #serval - very distinctive ears. You wouldn't see a genet out in daytime. Please delete the # on genet 😃
#lilac-breasted-roller
I don't see a hyena, but there could be another hippo at far left facing us.
#reedbuck is correct 😃
My best idea: bill of a Grey Hornbill, common local bird, perched on or close to camera checking it out. Google Image search: Tockus nasutus
I don't think a buffalo horn could move this way.
#spotted-hyena.
https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0001hai
Good clear night portrait.
#wildebeest is right, and 2 more on left.
Classic LBJ - probably a lark.
Yes, #egyptian-goose
Then it probably is #buffalo. I was fooled by the paleness of its underparts, but it is built like a buffalo.
#lilac-breasted-roller
Topi yes, but looks like settling down or getting up rather than leaping.
#side-striped-jackal nice view.
Possibly jackal.
May be crowned lapwing.
#spotted-hyena.
They are #spotted-hyenas. They do sometimes hunt zebras particularly if small foals are present, but prefer not to hunt during a sunny day.
How about...more impala? They can be in quite large herds.
Think bigger...#elephant tail 😃 Compare with ASG000u11p
Zebras.
They are all plants.
Just more creepy #wildebeest 😃
Possibly eland.
#bat-eared-fox
#lion. In 1 & 2 we see its paw, and in 3 part of its back.
A herd of light neutral grey animals, all more or less the same size, is always zebra.
With those bristles it can't be a bird, so it has to be part of a zebra 😃
It's all we ever see of it - tail of #bird-other that frequently perches on camera.
They are zebra behind the Thomson's.
Wildebeest - when grazing, they look slightly like a capital A.
Looks like young or female waterbuck.
Think it's not an animal.
#elephant is right, looks like a leg.
That's a big chunky leg, could be buffalo.
Can't see an animal, alas!
Odd pic of a #giraffe reaching down to ground. We see her neck and mane, her right horn and ear.
Hope you guessed #hartebeest?
#hare hopping away. Its tail is black above, its feet are pale and you can see its L ear.
What is the point of #guess? We don't know what you guessed, and no-one wants to search for someone's guess 😃 These are zebras.
YeeHah!! Good find!
When I lighten it, looks like a reedbuck mother and young.
From open habitat, size, shape and colour I would guess it's the shoulder of a grazing Thomson's gazelle.
Could be a spotted hyena.
I don't. An ostrich would move more slowly across the scene, this flashes by - maybe a small bird close to camera.
Very hard. I think I see zebras and gazelles.
We tag it (I hope) just for flames or still-smoking burnt areas, which make it easy to pinpoint when fires happened.
I see nothing there.
I don't think it's an animal.
That's correct.
Definitely #leopard, well spotted 😃
They must be fairly small, maybe the heads of birds such as guineafowl.
It's smaller and greener than the European species, but that one also visits Serengeti on migration.
Head and shoulders of female #lion wearing radio #collar. Lions are the only collared animals you are likely to see in Serengeti.
Only one large animal has black stripes on brown - #wildebeest
Fine example of an adult female.
a.k.a. #oxpecker 😃
#spotted-hyena
Sorry, can't ID this 😦
Too bad! It's still not clear where the other side of the car track is, hopefully the driver was not cornering on his left wheels 😃
#bird is a Little Bee-eater - they typically perch thus and scan for a flying insect, then swoop to catch it, and return to perch.
#dikdik
Won't be a bat in daytime. Could be an insect.
#topi is correct.
#thomsons-gazelle is right 😃
...impala females are hornless, Grant females always have horns - about as long as a male tommy's but thinner.
#impala are rich orange-brown and have 3 black lines on rump. Grants is pale pink-tan and has a big white rectangle on rump...
#white-bellied-bustard is right!
The #bird is a species of weaver, can't tell which.
#lion it is!
They may be eland.
With such a flat top, I suspect it's a vehicle.
Looks like a dragonfly.
Very laid-back #lion!
It's a #wildebeest, there are several there.
Looks like one #zebra chasing the other.
#buffalo is correct 😃
Long coarse bristly mane = #warthog.
Looks like a Dwarf #mongoose.
I think they are tommies.
#vervet
Looks bigger than the #zebra so may be #eland.
Definitely #zebra, that's all we need to know!
Could be dung.
Small #baboon drinking at bottom, big male on log in centre.
Could be other #thomsons-gazelle.
#thomsons-gazelle looks good
#wildebeest - note hooked horns, slender legs, long-haired tail.
Not many species have such long hair. My guess is a wildebeest's beard
And in foreground these are #impala.
Always tell us what you think they are - in this case #thomsons-gazelle with mostly #zebra in background.
It is neither, being covered with short hair. Most likely an #eland, the part where the shoulder joins the neck.
I think insect.
Agree #wildebeest
Oops, my dark monitor didn't show the animal! Agree #elephant
A plant.
Antelope ears - something hornless - maybe female reedbuck.
Good - a big old bull.
In R foreground, a male #impala.
I see some maybe-gazelles far R and a butterfly R of centre, that's all.
Gnu is true!
Nzuri sana! Utafiti means curiosity (i.e. research) and simba you can probably guess 😃
Rear end of a medium to large antelope - wildebeest?
Maybe zebra?
Shape, size and color suggest a black-maned male lion walking in from R.
Yes, at least 2 #thomsons-gazelle here.
#thomsons-gazelle has flies, you can see them move.
#hartebeest. Note how the horns make a right-angle bend; those of topi curve smoothly back, diverging slightly.
#spotted-hyena confirmed
From shape - flattish backs, drooping heads - I'd say zebra.
#grants-gazelle is right, well done, you got that distinctive rump patch and big horns.
Likely a #bird such as guineafowl.
I agree #warthog.
Any small antelope seen on this camera is highly likely to be #dikdik, there seems to be a resident pair. Duiker are rarer here.
#human
Agree #lion with #collar
#thomsons-gazelle. Grant may have black stripe too, but they are bigger and the white rump patch larger, curving forward past tail-base.
#aardwolf is correct 😃
It is probably a spotted hyena.
Those are #zebra. Surprisingly, at a distance zebras appear to be a light neutral grey, so people often mistake them for elephants 😃
They are indeed elephants.
Can't really see what it is. The dark one in shadow looks like warthog.
Can't make it into an animal, so I think it's wood.
Tail far L definitely #wildebeest, other animals probably are too.
#warthog is right 😃
Sunlit animal far R is a #zebra.
Crowned lapwing or, less likely, bronze-winged courser - can't see the head well enough.
The orange things look like #insects, butterflies.
#hippo. The pinkish color should be a clue.
The thing lying in foreground may be a branch or fallen fruit, it does not move.
These are at least 2 #buffalo. All the little discs are dust particles.
I think #lion.
#wildebeest
#wildebeest is correct
No, nothing here.
Human hand?
I'd guess elephant.
I agree birds.
This photo is so unfocused we can't tell what's there. Could be just an empty grassland scene.
At least you can say #thomsons-gazelle is present, and the white object is probably another tommy.
I just see one animal, belonging to the eye - might be wildebeest, or not 😃
He's a young male #impala.
Think bigger... #wildebeest. The black vertical stripes on dark brown coat are diagnostic 😃
As far as I can see, all 3 are #buffalo 😃
The pale animals beyond the #thomsons-gazelle herd may be zebras.
They are insects, but the animal is a female #impala. Note absence of horns, black-tipped ears, orange-brown color with lighter side stripe.
#cheetah #night
Correct
#warthog - that ear shape is distinctive.
Vegetation I think.
Zebra
Maybe it is a #buffalo, like the 3 grazing to R.
#elephant is right.
Yes, neck and horn of a third #buffalo.
If you mean the close object at bottom, it's an Achyranthes flower 😃
Maybe small bird passing thru.
Agree #buffalo.
Well done. The #wildebeest stripes are distinctive.
Not a lion but a termite mound. All the animals I can see appear to be zebra.
#baboon is correct
At least two.
Too big. Maybe buffalo or hippo.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver on ground I think, can't see the one on right.
#bat-eared-fox. Aardwolf is bigger and conspicuously striped.
All those that I can see are #grants-gazelle.
Grass, no wildcat.
Silverbird - a kind of flycatcher.
May be Egyptian Goose.
I'd agree banded #mongoose.
Correct, #elephant trunk.
The black-spotted white panel on brown wing identifies it as a #kori-bustard.
Certainly could be hartebeest.
#gazelle, probably tommies but 2wee as you say 😃
#eland, complete with #oxpeckers
On safari too - we strain eyes at mound-cheetahs, stump-lions and rock-rhinos then BAM! the real thing is snoozing in middle of the road 😃
Very likely a buffalo closest to camera providing the flies, 10 more buff further back, and across the drainage line look like wildebeest.
I suspect it's a termite mound, but we'd need another photo from that camera to confirm 😃
Animal R of tree could be buffalo, and the white slab at L could be another. The white drop-like things are indeed raindrops falling.
Exactly. This is a Serengeti ecosystem endemic, but commonly caught by our cameras.
Tail's right, shame about the legs...dark patch on thigh, black band below it, yellow lower legs, are all #topi features.
Yes, that's a #serval, they do seem to enjoy the cameras. As if they needed behavioral enrichment in Serengeti! 😃
There you go 😃 #thomsons-gazelle
4 zebras...but I now see you have photoshop 😃
It's a naturally eroded bare patch crossed by a car tyre track. The staff who download the photos travel by car 😃
Less than 50 though - so you would just score 11-50 #zebra, no need to be more accurate.
Hippos are big and smooth. This is probably a medium antelope like a reedbuck or bushbuck.
If you mean this side of the water, I can see nothing but grass. No zorilla 😦
R.I.P., whatever it was...I'm not certain about bird, can't ID the prey at all.
I would say wildebeest with a few zebra.
I do, I do! For once, an absolutely un-ambiguous animal 😃 This shows all the eland's key features nicely.
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If you have any way to lighten it, you'll see >11 #wildebeest here. A quick way to do this (on desktop/laptop) is described in next comment
Nope! Someone else will catch it, never fear.
May be normal and we see it from an odd angle. Horns start diverging more, halfway up, then the tips curve back.
Unusual grass-eye-view of a tommy. Little plant, be afraid!
Looks like a plant close to camera.
Dust or rain - probably rain, given the greenness of grass.
Beautiful portrait!
#buffalo. Wildebeest would show a pale beard under neck, and definite dark stripes on the neck.
That's unusual! I wonder what the story is here.
Not sure what I'm seeing here. Possibly a hare?
#baboon
#buffalo is correct.
I believe so, just sitting down in the shade!
Red billed #oxpecker
It is very rare for an animal to die just where our cameras are looking. These #lions are just sleeping.
The left-hand one's head remains rock steady, so the standing #wildebeest may just be grazing on grass.
Your options are reedbuck or bushbuck, and I think I would vote for reedbuck 😃
The upper part looks spotty, so perhaps a hyena?
It's the neck, brisket & shoulder of a short-haired ungulate - head down and facing left - maybe hartebeest, only other option is Grant.
Eyes are below bottom of frame in all pics - head is very close to camera.
I think that's a good guess!
Correct - using those big ears to locate insect prey in the dark.
Two #zebra
#wildebeest
Ribbed horn, coat and ear all uniform tan...young hartebeest?
#eland - bushbuck smaller and absent from open plains. Long skinny tail + black tassel is good clue, also neck hair, black marked forelegs.
Most likely more #wildebeest.
It's walking L to R and I see no tail. Warthog?
Light color - zebras ??
It looks too small for waterbuck but that said, not sure what it is! Reedbuck? In foreground, a fine #grants-gazelle.
Looks like just grass 😦
In back, that appears to be a #dikdik, and in foreground #helmeted-guineafowl. But we often see impala here too.
Yes, these #birds are #coqui-francolin
#bird
Agree #thomsons-gazelle
Technically there are - it's a loose category for any Bovidae who aren't cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, or goats. So gazelles r antelopes 😃
...so why wouldn't that be a #kori-bustard?
Help me understand...looks like white breast with brown wing 'shoulders' each side and grey faintly barred neck bent backwards over back...
It looks like a stick, irregular hard and angular, and it moves in 3 different planes...but what could be moving it? Baffled 😦
But the belly of the standing one looks more like Hartebeest...not sure.
#hartebeest is right.
Cameras are set about 1/2m above ground so it would be a short cow 😉 This is a #warthog face.
#giraffe
#hippo
see below
Looks like a good guess 😃
....and compare with https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000dh7a which shows eland.
Hard one. Turn it around and imagine that this is forequarters of a wildebeest with head down, the long hair is its mane...does that work?
#hippo
#buffalo. Some old bulls seem to have very little hair on large areas of body.
#crooked #tusk - right one curves forward as usual, left one curves back.
...compare with https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG0003uyy
which shows hartebeest...
Eland bulls normally show a black medial stripe along belly, stouter legs and a longer tail. #hartebeest might be a better ID...
If the time stamp is correct, this is really strange for them to be out so late.
...but after looking at a few steenbok photos, I think your ID is correct 😃
#impala
Just to be difficult 😉 .... this has small ears for a steenbok, and a pointed nose, and what might be a reddish fuzzy crest on forehead.
#lion looks right, well spotted!
Correct!
#bird. Giraffe never look like this.
Yes, both are #young
#warthog face - rubbing against camera.
#hippo is correct.
Probably zebra, like the closer grey animals L of centre.
Camera box has fallen open. Through the 'window' you see trunk and foreleg of elephant.
If you don't know how to zoom, it's described here: https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG0000x0t
#black-backed-jackal
Sooty chat not found in study area. Apparent white is reflection on glossy plumage of #cape-rook 😃
Texture looks more like a tommy to me.
Thanks - so #buffalo it is.
#buffalo
LOL! They DO exist!
Lions do not wear them voluntarily - they have to be knocked out first. But they quickly get used to it and it seems not to affect behavior.
From its large size, short pale coat and stout muscular build, it has to be #eland.
I am not sure what is there, or even if it's animals. If lions, you probably would not see them, the vegetation is tall.
awww!
Grey-brown with darker vertical stripes can only be #wildebeest. The shadows of ear and horn in 1 support that.
Can't see any.
Big, but has a lot of short hair so not hippo or elephant. Maybe one of the larger antelopes, or buffalo.
Probably a dust particle or insect, illuminated by flash.
Lion balls are smaller, rounder, and further back-just below tail. This is a #wildebeest.
My guess, and it's just a guess, is buffalo. The shape looks wrong for waterbuck and I'd expect at least some white on muzzle and neck.
Correct!
#baboons is correct.
Lovely photo!
Yep. You're getting good at this!
#serval
Vegetation close to camera.
#warthog
Super picture!
And much thinner than those of the young male at right.
This small #bird appears to be a #quail.
Tusks begin growing in very early in life, with sharp tips. The adult in 1 shows the broken stump of what was once a big tusk.
A recumbent #buffalo.
#wildebeest #interacting
That's what we are here for! We think #side-striped-jackal.
A #young #buffalo. Yes, buffalo are supposed to be black, but young ones are browner, and overexposure of flash can also do strange things!
Well done - not an easy one!
No. It could be a reedbuck, or perhaps a bushbuck.
The hartebeest you see in 1 moves behind a grass clump in 2, and a second h'beest appears from R. In 3, both are behind grass clumps.
#hartebeest is right, well spotted 😃
Also a rounded body, level with horizon. Hare isn't that big, it'll be something like a Grant or a hartebeest calf.
They are #wildebeest.
#vervet is correct, they quite often appear on this camera.
It's a tommy.
#warthog - note how it runs with its slender tail held erect.
Very nice #closeup portrait.
I agree - #elephant.
Hairless and pudgy looking - a #hippo!
#kori-bustard
Correct, these are young male #impala. Note also the characteristic body colours.
#kori-bustard
Most are tommies.
About normal for a #guineafowl
Not sure, maybe hyenas.
All #wildebeest
#wildebeest, >11.
From the backswept horns I say #topi.
The animals are #buffalo, one sitting in foreground, one standing behind it, another sitting behind that, so 3 or even 4 in photo.
It's possible. The eye belongs to a #hippo 😃
Correct - that tail at the far right in 1 is definitely #lion.
Certainly very young!
banded #mongoose
Looks like a second one lying down. The females in a herd often give birth around the same time.
Maybe, is all I can say!
I see only one distant pair of unidentifiable eyes.
#wildebeest is right.
Correct, #guineafowl.
Looks like a francolin.
They are zebra.
Likely zebra & wildebeest.
Correct.
Not sure - may just be moving grass.
#buffalo is right.
Impala horns have a shallow S curve, these just curve back - #grants-gazelle male. There are tommies here too.
Wildebeest close R & mid distance, mixed wildebeest & zebra in bkg.
Well...looks kinda green to me, so let's just call it a leaf, "nothing here" - and I'm not going to worry about those dots on the horizon 😃
I think the hyena is an eagle or vulture?
Believe it or not, it contains at least 5 wildebeest and a zebra 😃
Yawn is often used as a threat gesture - "look at my weapons!"
Oops, sorry I missed that!
The slightly dished profile between nose and horns is typical of #thomsons-gazelle.
They are #zebra. At a distance you often can't see the pattern, just a grey tone.
wildebeest in background.
#zebra are much more often seen with #wildebeest, as here, than buffalo.
You have a #wildebeest in foreground. The way to ID the others is to lighten the photo. They are about 10 more wildebeest.
Remember no-one but you knows what your loose idea is. Anyway these are #buffalo, about 5 of them.
So it does. The camera has fallen and is lying on the ground.
It seems to be a refraction/diffraction artifact thingy that you get when the sun shines directly into the lens. Wiggly lens flare!
Dikdik is never seen in open plains - this is a #thomsons-gazelle.
Correct.
#thomsons-gazelle
More rocks.
Yes, the mother #elephant may be nudging her #young to stand up.
#wildebeest
Looks like Thomson's.
I think this is a serval.
#reedbuck, much bigger than steenbok & dikdik.
It is a #hippo.
Absolutely right - its colour scheme is unique.
#spotted-hyena. They are a lot more common here than in Gorongosa, right? 😃
Very clearly a #topi with that combination of horn shape, body colour and size.
#spotted-hyena
Very cool. You can't hide those lion eyes...
Big dark ungulate, seems to have some faint striping, so I guess wildebeest.
#white-tailed-mongoose is right.
A roller would have brilliant blue and black wings. This is a #butterfly.
They have a big splash of white on the rump, and the one in profile view has big backswept horns, so #grants-gazelle.
Spots at top R, rather than stripes - hind leg and tail of a #giraffe 😃
I see it as a medium-sized antelope with its head down grazing - reedbuck, gazelle or impala.
It's a #hartebeest.
#elephant. Note how the thick sparse hairs grow only from the dorsal and ventral sides to form a flat fly-swatter 😃
Also light & dark bands on inner foreleg, and slight dark collar - #bushbuck is right.
No, and the shape is wrong - this is a #jackal.
Really looks like elephant below the tallest tree on L.
I agree, probably black-headed heron.
We are looking at the ear and mane of a male #lion.
Not easy - I'd guess topi from colour.
#spotted-hyena, wouldn't know if pregnant, prob wildebeest in back.
#wildebeest eyeballs.
#wildebeest - they look dark and humped, with lighter backs.
#hippo is correct.
Thomson's gazelles.
Yes, all are #wildebeest.
Animal on R is #wildebeest, they are often seen with #zebra.
#white-tailed-mongoose - first time I have seen those two together!
Dull brown coat with black stripes is enough to ID as #wildebeest.
Mostly zebras - nothing else looks light grey - and some tommies.
#bird tail is more likely.
We've no way of knowing what you guessed - my guess is zebra - but who knows?!
If all you can see is lower legs and a flowing tail, you are looking at the tallest animal of all - #giraffe 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
The foreleg and trunk of an #elephant with two straight white tusks...see it now? And maybe a plant reflecting brightly at bottom right.
"A herd of #elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world" - Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
Dust - each particle reflecting light as a hazy disc.
Tommy in the background?
Awesome! It took me a while to find the second, sitting under bush at R. I hope the dikdiks who live here were well hidden!
I agree #guineafowl
YES!! The elusive #zorilla !
Correct
I'll agree with that!
#hartebeest #young is correct
Well done!
Foreground animal is #warthog of course! 😃
Not a hyena. It looks more like a warthog.
That's right!
Smooth red-brown coat with black lower legs - presence of external gonads - all indicate #topi
in frame 2, silhouetted between tail and trees, you can see how small giraffe poop is - about the size of grapes.
Be glad that's all she lost! Perhaps she had a lucky escape from hyenas as a kid.
Yes, it conveys a sense of space and freedom 😃
It's hard to interpret but most likely an impala grazing, the black marks being the tips of its ears.
I agree, probably a #young #topi.
#warthog
That's what it is, on the back of a Land-rover.
#black-backed-jackal
#lion female
Side profile of #wildebeest facing L; from top, we see tip of one horn, boss of horn, then part of forehead.
Rare view of a #wildebeest eye!
Yes - the black on his face, and a growth or abcess on back of head, doesn't look good.
Correct
Not a new animal, #eland is correct. Their horns are quite variable - sometimes parallel, sometimes diverging.
We can't know what you guessed, but Zebra is the right answer.
Looks like the camera is being taken out of its box for servicing.
Zebra is the only option, unless they are cars.
Good eyes tillydad!
wildebeest again 😃
Lightening this pic shows at least 5 #wildebeest, and the rest probably are the same.
#waterbuck is right. Hornless females also include: reedbuck, impala, bushbuck, dikdik, duiker, steenbok.
#mongoose - #egyptian-mongoose a.k.a. #great-grey-mongoose
Adult female #thomsons-gazelle. Their small horns are often crooked or deformed - in this case, meeting at their tips.
#egyptian-goose it is. We seem to be seeing them more often this season - perhaps they have a nest near this camera.
This is very borderline...they seem to have sloping backs so might be hartebeest, not sure.
Silhouettes look like zebra.
Could be a sitting wildebeest, or a number of other things!
It could well be a vulture.
#wildebeest - I can see his dark face and light beard. I think there are 2.
#thomsons-gazelle
Probably a tommy.
Your main choices here would be spotted hyena or male lion. Stripes are tree shadows. Aardwolf is nocturnal.
Because of their dingy darkness I think they are buffalo. Zebra or eland would show more contrast.
The tail is that of a #wildebeest, with that very long black hair it's very different from any other animal.
Dust devils do occur (when plains are drier) but I think these moving shadows are artifacts from a flying insect close to camera.
#helmeted-guineafowl
Truly weird picture...I think all animals are #wildebeest, at least 8. From R: one head down, one head up facing R, one head down facing L
Yes, >11 #wildebeest anyway.
Young male 2-3 yrs with trace of mane, already showing the bigger head and neck of a male.
Think the gazelles are Tommies. The dark guy is a warthog.
#black-backed-jackal
Correct.
Yes, two #spotted-hyena.
Your imagination is the limit! Beats me.
There's a good shot of one (at my request!) on the Mongoose ID page, second photo. If I click on that pic I can see the whole body and tail.
I've never heard of a melanistic one - it's just backlit.
Looks like topi but I can't tell what the small things near it are.
Another zebra.
Maybe more #wildebeest?
#cheetah cub confirmed, but I wouldn't call it mongoose-like; it has a blunt little kitty head. Spots and blond mane on back are diagnostic.
#thomsons-gazelle
Helmeted #guineafowl
No, it is an #ostrich. Female with her back to us and head down, L of centre, male at R.
And #wildebeest is right!
Dark color and sloping back - #wildebeest.
#wildebeest
Correct.
Maybe. Would need more pics to prove or disprove this 😃
I agree.
The button is called "GUESS!" Lightening this pic, I see a #spotted-hyena left and right and perhaps a rodent in middle.
Believe us, this is a zebra ear. Genets are nocturnal and their tails are fuzzy.
When the sun is low, its light has a redder hue.
#warthog
#wildebeest herd
Wet green grass doesn't burn 😃 This is something small and close to camera, possibly an ear but more likely a leaf.
May be side-striped jackal.
Striped yes, but not hyenas - 4 #zebra 😃
Buffalo often have their resident cloud of flies 😃
#hippo is correct, all you see is its ear and its bulging eye.
Looks like cat whiskers, that's all I can say!
#zebra #wildebeest
I see 2 zebras and a line of trees.
Can't tell what. The thing close to camera at R is of course a #wildebeest.
#bird tail and wingtip.
Very likely.
Closest animals are #topi. Not sure about the others!
It may have done, we can't tell. There are many pics showing various animals in front of this open camera.
#grants-gazelle
#wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle - smaller than lion, different shape and pelage.
#serval
#wildebeest
Because they are zebras.
Dark brown with black vertical stripes is characteristic of #wildebeest.
I think it's partly that the camera is overexposing to compensate for the shade. And partly that this is an #eland.
More likely Spotted Hyena, based on probabilities.
#thomsons-gazelle is correct.
Big herd of zebra.
No, I think all zebras.
Not big enough for vulture but not sure what it is.
Leaf or dirt on lens.
No, just grass. We almost never see actual snakes 😃
Bottom L - maybe wood or buffalo dung?
#wildebeest is correct
Baffled too. It seems shiny on top, maybe a bird part?
White spot looks like a moth caught in the flash.
Planes move more steadily, I think this is an insect.
I only get #zebras and #wildebeest in this pic.
Looks like a tommy.
I'll guess impala!
#warthog. Note tail is long and thin, hippo has short thick tail. Also hippo is far bigger and rarely seen out of water by day.
They are #egyptian-geese on the ground, but can't tell what is flying.
#spotted-hyena
Maybe you're better at spotting them 😃 At least one camera faces the main road through Serengeti, but I think that was true last season too
Correct.
Correct, that's a #wildebeest beard.
We may have 2 #spotted-hyena here, the standing one greeting another lying on its side. I'd expect more blood at a kill scene 😃
Unusual to get a #reedbuck portrait like this!
I can't think what else it could be but veg.
Hard to see - maybe small bird?
This: https://daily.zooniverse.org/
Looks like the Grey Hornbill.
The camera is mounted on a tall tree, and the shadow shows its forked trunk 😃
I agree, we had one recently like this where you could see other elephant parts in bkg.
It could be several things! I read it as the neck and ear-tip of a grazing animal such as reedbuck.
They are #zebras - horse-like silhouette.
It's a face, you can see long eyelashes and the base of an ear. Maybe a gazelle.
Could be!
You got it!
They are #wildebeest, 2 in foreground and presumably more beyond.
#guineafowl is correct.
Most likely bees.
Big & black, sturdy legs: #buffalo 😃
Hmm, what could it be? How about... #thomsons-gazelle? Note level of its back relative to horizon - same size as the other tommies. 😃
Just make your best guess. You can see this is a large tan ungulate with short tail and no markings, so #hartebeest is your best option
#thomsons-gazelle
Tricky! I guess wildebeest just because they look the same size as zebs and more often associate with them than buffalo do. Tillydad?
I think it's another #hippo.
Definitely 2.
Best we can do - I don't know either. Looks like there are 2 close together.
Interesting. I wonder if they actually did notice it - but as you say, a cheetah alone is no threat to an adult gnu.
Something reflecting the flash. Maybe insects.
No, these are brown and guineafowl are dark grey. These are #francolin.
#lion is right.
Well done, back of a #lion ear.
They look like wildebeest.
Maybe a tommy but can't be sure.
Orange and blue #bird in foreground is #superb-starling, not sure about the brown trio.
#thomsons-gazelle
#lion it is.
It certainly could be! Other folks with pale legs include Grant's gazelle and Hartebeest, but I don't think it's big enough for H-beest.
It's actually the ear and the big wart under the eye 😃
#guineafowl
I think #spotted-hyena...see the spots?
A fine #grants-gazelle.
Yes, they look like swifts.
#spotted-hyena
It could be. I can't tell if they are both from same camera but I see no contradictory evidence.
right.
Maybe airborne dust lit by flash?
#insect - a butterfly.
Again...looks like vegetation!
A #helmeted-guineafowl picking through elephant dung in search of seeds and insects.
Looks like just veg.
I think veg.
hmm, I can't get anything out of this, sorry!
#warthog. What you see is his bristly eyebrow, eye & facial 'wart' on L, and upcurved tusk on R, and he's scratching himself on camera box.
Could be...but not enough info to be sure it isn't a #hartebeest like those in back.
A male, but without the thick ossicones ('horns') and body proportions of maturity, so I'd say #young.
I think rain.
Good one! Probably the blue-headed tree 'agama', Acanthocercus.
I can't see an animal here, even when I lighten all 3 - are u sure?
Can't see much detail. She's adult, is all I can say.
You're welcome, but you don't seem to need much! Have you a lot of experience with African animals? Your ID ability is remarkable.
Lovely! You've got 6 there, so probably parents and 4 young.
It is probably an insect sitting on lens. In 3 we see a leg.
Search for #hare and you'll see quite a lot of sightings.
#lion is correct
You're right about the #spotted-hyena. I don't know about the 'tail' though. It wouldn't be a vervet. It is downy, and focused. Plant stem?
Striped horses, a.k.a. #zebra 😃 There are no domestic horses in Serengeti. None.
I agree with your reasoning.
#caracal is right 😃
This grey-brown bristly ear belongs to a #warthog.
It's got more spots than most lions, I think #spotted-hyena 😃
#impala is right, well spotted 😃
Looks like it - well done.
Next step is to turn around and spray it 😃
Ah, thanks, you are always so thorough 😃
I can only find one other chameleon sighting, 3 yrs ago. They are common in Serengeti but so hard to find!
They march from L to R, so #wildebeest rather than trees 😃
None of us can say with certainty what this is, so there will be a wide spread of guessed species 😃
It can be whatever you want it to be!
Could be scratching an itch, on the camera box or its supporting tree.
Weird-shaped bristly things are often a #warthog rubbing its face on the camera box 😃
#zebra is correct.
#grants-gazelle - many don't have black marks on side of body.
#grants-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle. Note horns diverge slightly and tips curl forward. Also it is small, its back is below horizon. Now compare ASG001ofg3.
Yellow-billed #oxpecker
I would say #thomsons-gazelle. A Grant would be taller relative to camera, with its back above the horizon.
So do I, but I would call this a #leopard 😃
Rare sighting! a #chameleon hanging from a twig, about to descend to ground.
Yes, #reedbuck.
Looks like it, and the one left of centre is another calf.
I see these as #elephants, at least three of them. The 'ostrich neck' may be a trunk.
#helmeted-guineafowl
#topi is right
This is the butt of a #wildebeest, and at least 3 others graze in background.
There are no hummingbirds outside of N and S America. This is a #lilac-breasted-roller. We prefer you just use # when certain of ID 😃
When lightened, the red just looks like highlights in its chin hair.
Good example 😃
This kind of big rounded ear with the 3 dark bars belongs to a #bushbuck, also the horn is thicker than a steenbok's
#dikdik. A pair of them lives at this site and are very often seen near that bush.
Possibly insects.
#kori-bustard and #hartebeest. Kori has a thicker, shorter neck than ostrich, and narrower body.
#dikdik - much more commonly seen than duiker here. Note grey color of back end.
Correct.
My guess is hyenas or possibly warthogs.
Distinctive head of a #helmeted-guineafowl.
More likely an antelope - maybe hartebeest.
#reedbuck male.
No, #bird is a Sturnid - one of the glossy starlings, can't tell from this photo which species.
Can't see any animal, just beautiful Themeda grass.
All #wildebeest here, about 6 visible.
Yes, #cape-rook
Hey, good find!
I see no injury. The hair of the black stripes is longer, coarser and glossier than the brown background coat, hence the 'wet' look.
#hartebeest
It is a #secretary-bird, looks mature to me.
Can't honestly tell if the #bird is a guineafowl or a francolin. Also seems to be #fire in the distance.
All #zebras. The #birds are #oxpeckers - I've never heard of swallows perching on animals in Africa 😃
#spotted-hyena is correct.
I think so.
It's the tail of a #bird. Hashtags are a search tool here, so please don't use them unless you're sure of ID 😃
It could be, and it is.
#bat-eared-fox is right - dark crest & tip to tail are distinctive.
#marabou stork
Ha, I catch you out far less often than you catch me, and less often than elephants have twins 😃
If I had to choose an animal I'd say sidestriped jackal.
Or chewing bufflegum 😃
They do twin, but twins are less than 1% of births in populations studied. Newborn weighs 200lb, but that's less than 3% of mother's mass.
#slate
It is a #bird preening itself, one of the small bustards - probably white-bellied
I'd guess a large antelope, this is its chest and base of neck, probably a hartebeest.
Dark face, pale beard, horizontal hooked horns, black horse-like tail - all visible proof of #wildebeest.
Could be secretary but I can see no detail.
Yes indeed! The animals are #eland, for those who are new here.
Not likely - they don't twin, and the left calf is several months older than the other 😃
I think it's the cat's nose, very close to the lens as it sniffs the camera.
I think so too, possibly a young one. Cute little beast!
#hare touching down at the end of a leap.
Could be blob of mud, seems attached to mane rather than to side of neck.
Correct, a young male.
I don't think so, it has more of a falcon shape.
First a reedbuck wouldn't be so tall, and second it would have a broad fuzzy tail, not a little skinny one like this animal.
Well spotted @fernfire, it is a third #giraffe.
Uh-oh, body-shaming among carnivores - as if hyenas didn't have enough insults to cope with!
Close, but actually #hartebeest. When lightened it shows a tan body and a whitish rump.
Yes #oxpeckers, what a lot!
Wow, you're good! I believe they are.
Hard one, might be warthog?
Well, just enough to tell me that it's a #waterbuck - dark shaggy coat with some white on back of thighs.
Probably.
Could well be a swallow, yes.
#wildebeest. No zebra stripes, and a waterbuck would have a white ring around nose.
Correct, a #striped-skink, it seems to live there.
#hare is right.
It shouldn't happen, but sometimes it does.
Correct.
I would say #reedbuck. Dikdik are smaller and would show grey haunches and neck
I think it's the neck and crest of a #kori-bustard exiting right.
#dikdik. Similar size, but is brown with grey on hindquarters and neck.
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I wonder if it could be an elephant....?
Another of your impossible pics! Shape is wrong for hippo, could be buffalo, eland, something like that 😃
#wildebeest
That does look like a lion tail, but I see no hare - it wouldn't be there, with a lion so close!
But, at least you can see the one on the left is a #wildebeest so perhaps the others are also.
Hmm...it's a brightly lit object that casts a long thin shadow...how about a trunk reaching towards camera?
I think this #insect is a hunting-wasp.
Looks like an #oxpecker.
Correct.
I think we'd see a bird in more than one frame...perhaps insect?
I'll agree with #hyena, the shape is right.
#baboons are correct.
A log, a zebra, and something unidentifiable at top corner!
Yes, probably #thomsons-gazelle.
Antelope ear, I think #hartebeest.
If anything bad was going down, those other two zebras wouldn't be peacefully grazing 😉
Yes, texture looks like #lion.
I think so. Hi, haven't seen you for a while 😃
All these animals are #zebra.
If so, the antelopes would not be so nonchalent! It's a gazelle. In background you have 2 #impala as well as some tommies.
I suppose it could be a young one.
yep. I think most of the antelopes give birth while sitting down - that way, it's not so obvious to predatory eyes 😃
#buffalo is correct.
#dikdik is right.
At least three.
But what about that slender pale leg in 1? I think we are looking at the shoulders & dewlap of a big male #eland.
I'm not sure about hyena, but I have no better idea.
Yes, I think you're right.
#white-bellied-bustard.
Looks like waterbuck.
#bird-other I'm afraid! 😃
correct, and #kori-bustard in foreground.
#wildebeest
Definitely #thomsons-gazelle.
Wow, that is hard. I've no idea.
It is. I have been collecting the different animals that visit this site and I have every cat except wildcat!
I think we are looking at its neck and throat - gnu has more long hair there. Maybe hartebeest.
#buffalo is correct. A rhino would not show a pendulous scrotum like that.
My guess is eland.
#white-tailed-mongoose
It could be almost anything. I think we see a part-open mouth on R with a row of upper incisors - therefore, not any horned animal.
Secretaries have long legs and these don't. The 2 on ground are #egyptian-goose and the flying #bird looks like a corvid, maybe Cape rook?
Unusual combo, but your ID is spot-on!
Some of these close ups are really tricky 😃 But by studying everybody's puzzle pictures, as I do, one slowly learns.
Great capture!
#wildebeest & #hartebeest
It does look like a kiddy, yes
Probably a tommy
#kori-bustard it is
#spotted-hyena
The big dark animal L of centre is a #topi.
#cheetah #cubs is right.
#elephant trunk.
Or more #zebra?
You could suggest what it is! This is a #wildebeest, distinguished by stripes and dark color.
It is the wheel of a vehicle. Not sure why we can only see one, but perhaps the other is just obscured by angle of view.
This appears to be a front end, of a #lion walking R.
Yes #buffalo. He is facing R and you see his eye at bottom and tip of L horn at top.
Definitely hippo skin 😃
No stripes, it's a #bat-eared-fox
#secretary-bird
That is probably correct.
More likely we are seeing extreme close-ups of the lion's nose, mouth etc.
#thomsons-gazelle
#spotted-hyena is right.
Mine would be buffalo, but it's very unclear 😃
Wish I could see more of its head! Everything but the ears indicate #reedbuck so I will go with that.
#warthog with babies is right.
Yes, #duiker - well done. They look short and compact compared to most other antelopes, and the dark facial blaze is distinctive.
Thanks for doing that 😃
Yes, looks like a young one. Horsey people like to call them 'foals' 😃
Not necessarily. Pregnancy can be hard to detect in comparison with a big meal 😃
Correct, and the ringed tail is a give-away!
#serval it is 😃
The thing on right looks like a flower moving with the wind.
#grants-gazelle - well done TerezaK 😃
I would say #reedbuck. The dark spot under ear is distinctive.
They are hippos, yes.
The good news is, you don't have to! Only actual animals or parts of them are counted.
#buffalo
This is one of the best aardvark portraits I've seen here.
Good guess say I.
Mostly zebra 😃
Probably Achyranthes flower spike.
Looks like a baboon.
If you mean the 4-5 animals at R, they are #zebra
I would say #spotted-hyena.
Had a warm dinner 😃
Something small on camera, perhaps insect.
Achyranthes flower spike.
Definitely a #zebra on left, perhaps others are too.
#aardvark. Note the long nose and ears, humped back and big tail.
It's a female #thomsons-gazelle. Note the face markings.
The color-balance of this flash is biased to yellow and red - the red stuff could be just mud or dung.
#lappet-faced-vulture. The distant flying #bird does not look like a vulture.
Normally they rest standing up. If they feel particularly secure, they may sit down like this, but normally keep head up.
#lion
#lion #male and female. The female (bottom) is fairly old, judging from her ears.
Yes #hartebeest, what else could they be?
#zebra
That looks right!
I see 1 but never mind - where there is one there are usually more!
Not sure where you see a cheetah! If one is visible, there usually won't be tommies within about 100m 😃
#wildebeest and tommies, no worries!
#topi. Note red-brown body color, ribbed horns, no obvious dewlap - all differences from eland.
#wildebeest
Maybe elephant shaking tree, stick falls out.
Can't see any animal, just moving vegetation.
All appear to be #zebra.
Tail of scruffy bird.
Gazelles, probably Thomson's.
It's a tiresome plant called Achyranthes which, if you brush against it, leaves barbed hitch-hiker seeds all over you 😃
Looks good to me.
I think you're right.
Either a reedbuck or a bushbuck.
#thomsons-gazelle
Yes well spotted! This would be a Black-headed Heron, which commonly feeds in grasslands.
He's a male cub about 1.5yrs old, starting to show longer hair on his neck.
Yes, #crowned-plover
#superb-starling - Hildebrandt's lacks the bright coloration and white vent.
#thomsons-gazelle
#impala is right.
Visible details indicate #buffalo calf, which would match what we see in background.
He's a she! Here's a young male, note different profile of belly and neck: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG00148ts
Most likely another zebra but can see no detail.
It's very close to camera and small, seems to be furry, but what small climbing mammal might be out on open plains? a wandering monkey?
Thanks for that link...too funny 😄
#warthog
Absolutely! 😃
Excellent portrait.
Yes, that's all we can do. Don't know what you guessed, but I'd guess warthog. Or Topi!
However, frame 2 clearly shows black spots in fur at base of ear, so it is a #serval.
About 5,500'ASL. After a night of rain, low cloud layers often hang over the grasslands until mid-morning.
Must be insects - weird!
Is #leopard 😃
#wildebeest
Probably a swallow.
Looks like 2 Tommies.
#spotted-hyena
I see it as a hand holding or reaching for the camera, with white daylight shining between the fingers.
Just old guy jowls 😃
#crowned-plover, a.k.a. #crowned-lapwing
I think you have about 7 zebra on horizon, and closer to camera a male tommy resting on R.
They can't dislocate - they are firmly rooted but just growing in different directions.
In such open plains a #thomsons-gazelle is far more likely than impala/
Probably birds in distance, yes.
Impossible for it to be both 😃 The big guy on the L is an #eland. All the others are #wildebeest
#bird-other is as far as we can go with this 😃
Looks good for #elephant.
That's so cute, they do seem to be playing.
Not so hard...you can tell it's a fairly large antelope, so one of only 5 species. Only one of these has a tan face, the hartebeest. Done!
A sight to make termites tremble!
...of #wildebeest
#buffalo is correct.
#giraffe - better than possible!
#spotted-hyena
Looks male to me but not very clear.
No, the tree is erect - the camera is lying in the grass, looking up at its metal housing screwed to the trunk 😃
#white-bellied-bustard. A young kori looks very like an adult kori, just smaller.
Yes, #mongoose - #egyptian-mongoose, a.k.a. #great-grey-mongoose. Nice view of it. Note long tail with tuft that becomes visible in 3.
See below.
Looks to me more like the dewlap of an eland.
The 'city lights' in bkg are probably wildebeest - most sitting down, a few standing.
What a brilliant image!
I agree, common #genet. It seems excited about something, with all its hair fluffed out like that.
Just got feedback - huge bill and light crown indicate immature Verreaux's Eagle (=Black Eagle), a very rare find!
Why we reject rhino is because horn is blurry, thus v close to camera, thus not v big. Also rhinos are seen rarely and (so far) not at rest.
My first thought was go-away-bird, about that size, could also be one of the medium sized goshawks.
Or a car, perhaps? There is a road running across this view.
From what I see, not sure that I could distinguish that from a zebra nose 😃 There is a zebra exiting R edge.
No, these are #eland. Note large size, long skinny tail with black tassel.
I can't see any animal.
#elephant is right.
Correct
#buffalo is right.
#reedbuck looks good.
Looks male, and there would be no births in June anyway - Jan-Feb is the season.
A #wildebeest, like those beyond. You are looking over the top of his head from behind, right.
Hard to give a positive ID on this one, but I think it's the horn of a resting wildebeest.
It is surely a #warthog. There should be no conflict between the two species, but it may not be quite as close to the #zebra as it looks.
Not sure...to be so brightly lit, it must be fairly close, thus, rather small?
Yes, what you see is the detached front of the camera box as someone removes or replaces the camera.
Hehe - looking through these same "windows" on Serengeti year after year, I do get a sense of what is usually there and what changes 😃
All #lappet-faced-vulture. Looks like they were grounded and then the approaching storm just brought them enough wind to lift off.
#eagle for sure. Not certain that it's the usual Tawny, am seeking other opinions 😃
#secretary-bird.
He is sniffing the tree stump on which he stands, perhaps next he will scent mark it.
If you mean the lion colored rock in foreground about 1/4 the way from R to L, it's present in other pics from this site, e.g. ASG0012l7c.
Lion is a rock. Bird looks like a kestrel.
Hmm is right. Looks large and fat but too hairy for hippo; maybe buffalo?
Nice image!
My thought too, but I left this one for you 😛
Very unusual to catch this on remote camera!
#reedbuck is right.
Yes, those are zebra.
That's what it looks like. But if they are males they are very young, as horns are barely visible.
Note the little cuts in the ridges. This is a spare tyre mounted on the rear of a research vehicle 😃
Grants has a very white rump always bordered by a black bar. This is a #hartebeest.
I agree #lion male.
I agree, buffalo seems likely.
I agree with maricksu - Great Grey #mongoose / Egyptian / Ichneumon. You know your animals really well! 😃
#hartebeest is correct.
Has a hard but very irregular edge - think it's a leaf.
I think it's something on the tree...vervet?
Beyond the #zebra are more zebra. At a distance their stripes blend to neutral grey.
Yes. And species is #impala.
Yes, #bird looks like a francolin.
Yes #grants with white rump & swept-back horns.
Yes, well below the tail-base. Believe me, I've sexed a lot of lions 😃
Bull #eland. Its head is down grazing, we see its tufted forehead at L, and we see its eye. Any better ideas?
Looks like the 'helmet' of a guineafowl.
Maybe bat-eared fox?
Ok, looking on a different device I see what may be hair. So maybe serval?
Your guess is as good as mine 🙂
#buffalo
Correct
Correct
Hmm, the back has a more smooth convex profile than rhino. I'd guess hippo, possibly buffalo.
The ear is dark with a light patch at base. Only zebra and serval might fit. I don't think it is either - may be woodpecker tail feather?
The background animals are mostly wildebeest, I think some zebra too, but I see no car.
There's a definite #zebra in background, so maybe the CU is also a zebra as you say.
Hard to figure out what this is! It shows the colors of a Lilac-breasted Roller, but if it is one, it is surely dead.
Yes, zebra traffic on horizon!
Probably warthog.
#grants-gazelle is right.
Looks a bit small and grizzled to be aardvark - possibly dikdik?
Looks like a lizard.
Flower-spike of Achyranthes plant.
#impala is right
Yes indeed - #black-backed-jackal
Or panting?
This #lion shows no evidence of maleness.
Looks like it.
#warthog, possibly two of them, rubbing face against camera box.
Looks like a Tommy.
Don't know how you saw that, but yes! From shape and rump patch I would guess waterbuck.
Probably zebra, from form and color.
Since this #lion #cub has testicles (frame 2) it is probably full of meat rather than pregnant 😃
When no bushes/trees in sight, you can be fairly sure that it's not an impala. This is a male #grants-gazelle.
It certainly does look like a bee-eater, though I won't commit to a species!
I do this on iPad sometimes and it's not bad for zooming - the usual way, putting two fingers together on image and then sliding them apart.
Even when lightened it is borderline, but I would say shape and color tones are more like eland.
#wildebeest is right.
I agree, #spotted-hyena
Probably #thomsons-gazelle, like the animals in background. It looks odd because of the shadows of tree branches.
Spots, not stripes! #spotted-hyena
#hartebeest is right
They straddle like this to drink (not likely here) or to feed on small plants close to ground.
It's a #warthog
Looks like a #wildebeest tail.
Could be a topi, not sure.
Definitely 4 #giraffe, might be as many as 6.
Yes, it's a termite mound. Even seasoned field researchers mistake them for animals sometimes 😃
#spotted-hyena
#side-striped-jackal
#hare is right!
#grants-gazelle female. The very thin horns, dark leaf-shaped bars thru eyes, dark bar across nose, are all useful features.
"Couple" seems misleading as impalas are either one or many, but then, a major purpose of English is to mislead 😃
NO WAY!!!
Animal on the right? It looks like a zebra.
Zebras don't have beards like this. I think it's a #buffalo.
#coqui-francolin is correct.
well done 😃
lens flare
I think it has to be a zebra because it is striped and short-coated, but not sure what part I'm seeing in 2 - ear??
#spotted-hyena looks right.
looks like a #lion's tail.
Something is there but could it also be a warthog?
People have asked if the color of eyeshine is useful for ID, and here's an example of why it isn't 😃
Yes, occasionally they get 'truncated' by wire snares, but they are amazingly good at doing without. This one looks healthy.
I do believe it IS a #rhino! Well done, this is unusual 😃
I guess the #bird could be a cape rook, can't think of anything else that would fit.
Cheetah with 2 cubs, as per comments below.
They are 2 #buffalo running.
It's just sleeping off a big meal. A female would choose a very secluded place, like a rock crevice or dense thicket, to give birth.
#thomsons-gazelle
#hare
#bat-eared-fox
#hartebeest is correct - it really couldn't be anything else, could it? 😃
If you mean the thing that bobs up and down - it could be a 'tree agama' lizard, or it could be a small bird. I can't be sure which it is.
Correct - tan color with paler 'tights' is distinctive.
It is an #aardwolf. Striped hyena has a lot more dark under throat, and more stripes on body.
Probably.
This is a beauty!
#warthog is right!
Can't see an animal.
#bat-eared-fox - small size and the tail has a thick black crest.
I'd guess springhare, but can't make +ve ID.
I can't do any better 😃
Looks to me like topi with young.
#insect - butterfly
Correct - nothing else has a mane like that.
It's not unusual, particularly in female and young Grant's. Best ID cues are the tail & rump patch.
#hippo is right.
Tail of a #bird
An enigmatic blur.
beautiful portrait!
I humbly suggest that these are #grants-gazelle despite the dark stripe - note how the white curls over the top of the black rump bar.
Not such a large #bird species, maybe starlings or buffalo-weavers.
Yes, an adult #topi and three #young.
Seems to be chewing on an acacia branch.
#hartebeest is right. They often stand long periods under shady trees, like the one to whose trunk this camera is attached.
Could be right, we often see them here.
a #male #lion
Probably insect.
There's almost no wind so I don't think it's a plant being blown - maybe a bird.
I agree...looks small for a lion, but who knows?
#grants-gazelle is correct.
The #bird is probably a francolin.
Small #bird, perhaps a capped wheatear. In 2 it is just landing on R slope of mound, in 3 it has closed its wings.
#black-backed-jackal.
#civet is an interesting and rather unusual sighting here.
#aardvark is right!
I would have guessed zebra in distance, but hard to be certain.
I say #impala...with the eye of faith and some photoshoppery, I can see the lines on its butt, the dark ankle spots and impala-shaped horns.
Yes, hard one...hartebeest is another option.
Yes it sure is!
I think you just see the movement of the #jackal's paws. Animals in bkg are of course #topi.
It doesn't look good, but I can't tell what caused it.
#reedbuck.
Looks like a little #elephant lying down.
Looks like a Cape Rook (Corvus capensis)
Could be a small bird.
Right, and it would be hard to find a clearer photo of a #dikdik!
And no, he isn't pregnant...this demonstrates well the effect that a big meal can have on the shape of a big cat 😃
I say #reedbuck. We've no real sightings of oribi in study area, and in 4 yrs living there I never saw one - they live further north.
Can't tell much about color in this photo, but markings and head are good for #bushbuck.
That buff is totally muddy!
#aardwolf. You know you can edit your own posts? 😃
It may all be the bird's bill! Looks like one of the smaller hornbills.
Probably more buffalo.
could be a serval.
#spotted-hyena
All #wildebeest I think.
#secretary-bird, with those legs!
Could be a cat, maybe cheetah?
Yes. These are not very recent estimates, but only ~16,000 eland in ecosystem; compare ~1,300,000 gnu, ~200,000 zebra, ~400,000 tommy
#topi close to camera, the others are #hartebeest, and you do occasionally see them together.
#impala is correct.
Yes, #lion with radio #collar
She looks like a large cub/subadult and is just sniffing around in the grass.
It is a #lion, female or cub.
I see no gender specific features on the R lion. It could be a female, or a male.
Yes, #topi
#spotted-hyena. Striped would show more visible striping on legs and longer hair on back.
Lyin', hence the name... I can't see any cub, balingsnas, just his male equipment 😃
Definitely a #white-headed-vulture and two scavenging eagles, possibly Tawny.
The thing in distance is a #black-backed-jackal.
Try a #helmeted-guineafowl 😃
Monkey or baboon?
#impala is right - she has those black ear tips.
I agree, def #topi
Yes, #serval - the longitudinal rows of spots and the big ears are good clues
Puzzled too. I can't make this into a dikdik, and habitat is wrong. I'm wondering about a bustard, but can't explain the 'ear'.
I haven't a clue! Tip of an elephant's trunk might be another option?
Probably a lark, but very hard to ID small brown birds from these photos.
Impalas prefer bush and woodland - in open grass plains this is more likely a Thomsons gazelle.
I think there's nothing.
One of the weaver birds - from all-yellow crown it could be Speke's weaver.
Def #aardvark.
#reedbuck is more likely - we hardly ever get duiker here. Compare with ASG001jcir.
Close things are brightly lit, this isn't, therefore grass 😃
Umm, your hyena looks too small and sleek - might be another #thomsons-gazelle.
#buffalo looks good. Their backs are horizontal, where gnus slope.
They do, when they think no-one is looking 😉
#topi - reddish body color, blue-grey patch on forelimb.
#bird-other, could be a lark.
Interesting guess! Mongoose also possible. Really not sure.
I can only see moving vegetation.
#thomsons-gazelle from size & color.
I think so.
Or steenbok?
Yes! #bird is a #crowned-lapwing / plover
Yes, #buffalo.
#helmeted-guineafowl, cool photo!
May be an insect on the lens.
Spots look right for #cheetah.
We're seeing the back and ear of probably a medium-small antelope, all we can do is guess - I'd go for thomsons gazelle.
#jackal, probably side-striped.
Nice clear #hare portrait!
#wildebeest beyond the #zebra.
I'd guess warthog. Others?
...and it seems to have raised a paw (small-spotted patch at L) to obscure its muzzle.
Head is facing left, seen in profile and from slightly below. Big black spot like rabbit-head is on its cheek. Eye is at 10 o'clock to that.
#serval here has much bigger ears and shorter tail cf. cheetah. Shoulder height 60 cm Serval, 80cm cheetah. Cheetah mass is about 5 x serval
Why not leopard? I see what appears to be an eye and a rounded ear at top, not like serval ear. 'Muzzle' is spotted like a leopard's paw.
I agree #hartebeest. Only other antelope whose horns might look like that is impala, which would show more facial markings.
Might be scratching itself with a hind foot, or less likely turning head sideways to gnaw on something unseen?
LOL 😉
Looks like blood - #spotted-hyena had a hot dinner.
It's unlikely - but without more pics we can't be sure. This is an unusual species, a #duiker.
That's cool!
Might be, but might be a lot of other things! #bird will have to do.
#thomsons-gazelle.
Stripes visible in 1, very full black tail in 3, I say #wildebeest.
#topi.
Yes, we get a lot of those.
It's all veg blowing in the wind.
Yes well done, the head shape is distinctive.
Battling where? I see some gnus grazing and several zebras beyond them, moving R to L.
So, if the animal itself isn't in the frame, we don't count it.
They appear to be #buffalo.
#cheetah
Probably - not certain.
Yes - the most minimalist photo of 2 elephants that I have ever seen 😃
Could be - or aardwolf. When lightened it looks stripy, but that could be artifact.
#kori-bustard - shame about the hair...
But the tail has a white tip, which narrows down the search... #side-striped-jackal. Frame 2 shows it best.
Yes, this #cheetah is possibly scent-marking.
I think #spotted-hyena, yes.
Possibly buffalo, but let's see what my illustrious colleagues think!
I think Coqui Francolin pair, male on right.
#wildebeest correct.
Could be!
Not hyena, not wildebeest, I like warthog too. Somehow it doesn't seem "big enough" for buffalo which was another option.
#thomsons-gazelle is right.
A #bird likes to perch on this camera - this is the tip of its tail 😃
Good ID. For those who aren't sure - look at the dorsal crest and white spots on red-brown sides. Only bushbuck has this set of features.
nope, #dikdik 😃 Note the grey tones on rump and neck. You are much, much more likely to see dikdik than duiker here.
They are some kind of small #bird.
neck of grazing #wildebeest
#broken-horn is a #grants-gazelle, distant herd is #zebra.
#human - pop-top of a tour van.
Looks like wildebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle male. When close to camera in flat plains, Tommies' backs are generally below horizon, Grants are well above.
Probably topi.
It is a #serval.
#wildebeest is right.
#kori-bustard is correct.
Fine #mane on this guy.
Correct. Particularly in S of study area we sometimes see adjacent herds of these species
The hartebeest here is Coke's (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokei). A.b.lelwel ranges from Chad into Kenya but doesn't reach Serengeti ecosystem.
#collar
#crowned-plover #bird and #thomsons-gazelle
Well done 😃
#buffalo
Wildcat has more triangular ears. Could be young hyena perhaps?
Or as we say in the trade, #grants-gazelle #courtship #interaction
#wildebeest correct.
They all have amazing eyelashes, but they aren't normally easy to see!
Hint - It's not necessary to post every animal here, just pics which are puzzling or unusual or of special interest to everyone
I was just thinking, how well you know your animals 😃 this is a little hard - #wildebeest calf - note stiff upright mane.
#lion with #collar is right.
Even without seeing spot pattern, the long legs and slumped back are characteristic of #cheetah.
#spotted-hyena is right
An ear. Probably of a gazelle.
Nice portrait here.
I agree #spider
Yes, it's got a bone.
Way too big for genet...that pointy crown between ears makes it a #spotted-hyena 😃
Classic male #impala. There is another impala, sunlit at far left.
well...not an elephant or a porcupine or a lot of other things! Medium-small shorthaired antelope such as tommy or about 5 other options 😃
Well done - so #lion looks like a possibility. Wish we had real time-stamps.
Not a giraffe - it looks like our usual view of giraffe but camera is on ground. Also a giraffe would show spots & pale ankles.
They are big beasts, 125-165 lb or about 55-75 kg.
I think it may be the face of a tommy, but really not sure.
Elegantly stated! It appears to be a #reedbuck.
yes #elephant, well spotted. It flaps its ears in 3.
See discussion below.
Very possibly!
Greeting #interaction - mutual crotch sniffing.
Doesn't look like rhino but not clear what they are!
Easy! #wildebeest.
#dikdik - note pointed muzzle, white eye-ring. If u search 'duiker', only 6 of 92 are correct! ASG000xzi2, ASG000dysp are good duiker pics.
You are much more likely to see #dikdik than duiker. Common duiker has not such a pointed muzzle and has black stripe up center of face
#secretary-bird - there's nothing like it!
#hartebeest
I think #warthog.
Topi or possibly hartebeest.
Definitely #wildebeest - brown with black stripes.
see below
Correct.
It could be so many things. Probably part of an insect or bird.
#elephant is correct
I agree #spotted-hyena
No, that was a long time ago 😃
#wildebeest - profile of face in foreground, big herd in distance.
But enough to recognize a #serval 😃 Note the very contrasting black n white marks on back of ear.
Technically maybe, but we normally use it for less common interactions such as fighting, mating, playing, grooming.
My guess is a big herd of #buffalo, just from the variability in size and the location. Also there would be no wildebeest here in August.
Duikers are pretty rare here. So when you see a small antelope, think first 'dikdik' and then 'steenbok' before trying 'common duiker'.
This is the female of course, and it seems to be her signal that she's 'receptive' to the amazing stuff the male is doing (off camera) 😃
#thomsons-gazelle
I think they could be wildebeest.
Yes indeed. Reddish body, dark gray shoulders and hips, yellow socks, black face and short backswept horns are all good topi ID features.
Bulging belly of a #wildebeest
#raptor, could be a Greater Kestrel. Frame 2 is an epic shot! Maybe this is one of the birds whose tail is in so many pics.
#eland x 3, good reasoning. Note also the 'armbands' and white stripes, good eland features. You won't see cattle in wildlife herds here.
That's wonderful. At first I could only see that white tail-tip moving along!
That's a fine #male #lion.
OK, I think that flies better than my idea 😃
I think you are correct 😃
It could just be one gazelle, bent around to lick himself? From color & size I'd say male #thomsons-gazelle.
I wondered that, but couldn't recall seeing that much white on a BEF.
Great #bat-eared-fox portrait!
#white-tailed-mongoose
#serval
How cool is that? Good and unusual sighting!
#dikdik. Note the thin antelope legs and lack of tail, both differences from a mongoose.
#dikdik. They live around this camera and are often seen in this view.
#cheetah
Definitely #male #lion.
#slate
#gazelle, from ear structure - my guess is Grant's gazelle, from height of animal.
#lion pride
I'll offer my reasons: wildebeest often run strung out in long line like that. Also closest animal on R when lightened shows gnu-like color.
Thing on right looks like an eagle #owl, can't ID the distant eye.
#wildebeest
See below.
#buffalo - looks like a female, her neck is slimmer than a male's and her horns lack the male's thick bosses (bases).
The latter, I think.
4 #buffalo, at different distances from camera, are grazing from L to R. No elephants 😃
From the apparent coarseness of the hair I'd say yes.
Yes - #tawny-eagle with a #rodent #kill no less!
Only the side-striped has the white tip. This is a #black-backed-jackal.
Hard to tell...could be one of the larks.
Also an #oxpecker #bird in frames 1 & 2.
#black-headed-heron
#dikdik
I love it when we each come up with the same answer at the same time...adds to our credibility 😃
Probably wildebeest.
These are #white-bellied-bustards. A kori is a larger bird with a thick neck. It looks like this: ASG0002jrf
Definitely #thomsons-gazelle from tail # rump.
Yes, for once we could actually be seeing a hunt! Cheetah is definitely doing the stalking walk.
I think the rains were early that year. The white and red flowers are both, I think, small species of wild Hibiscus.
I would be tempted to say serval - it's a hard one!
I couldn't be certain of species from this rear view. It's not SSJ but Golden is also a possibility in this location.
Surely wildebeest, from shape of nose and hair density?
ok, thought i was seeing white belly, but it's grass.
Bustard, maybe a young white-bellied bustard. Only crane you could possibly see here is the crowned crane, a very distinctive bird.
Yes doves #bird
Young, but bigger than baby.
#black-backed-jackal
#side-striped-jackal
The antelope isn't a lot bigger than baboon - possibly impala.
I think so.
Looks like male-male #mounting.
Tail of a #vervet monkey, like those you can see in frame 3.
I would say young #reedbuck, based on ear configuration and the black spot under ear.
Tail and wing of a #bird perched on camera.
#topi x 2
I'm not sure that I see an animal here, just grass.
#aardvark nice pic.
Awww thanks!
Agree #wildebeest, not grungy enough for buffalo which is your only other choice.
I like eland, ingenious solution.
Leg is another #grants-gazelle. Kori would have wing and tail overlapping beyond the leg 🙂
#topi correct.
Agree #wildebeest.
I think the 'warthogs' are also zebra but further away, so 7 zebra altogether.
But much smaller. This is a #white-bellied-bustard.-
#grants-gazelle portrait
Not that I can see.
#dikdik as seen here has grey haunches and rump. A steenbok is colored tan and white.
Nubian #vulture x2
#elephant is right.
#jackal
#thomsons-gazelle
It's a #thomsons-gazelle, yes.
Impossible to tell what those dots are I see one moving thing running L which could be a gazelle.
Might be the top of a kori bustard's head, with that little crest they have.
#wildebeest #fight
It's a #butterfly above the #thomsons-gazelles.
The huge size and tasselled tail are pretty distinctive for eland.
That's right!
Probably.
A tommy has more of a bushy black tail, and its back would not be so high above horizon. This is the larger #grants-gazelle.
That is weird! It may be using L hoof to scratch inner R leg.
...mature hyenas' spots fade and body color becomes browner. And the 'dark marks' here are shadows of branches overhead.
Maybe this helps: If this were a wild dog, its ears would be oval and twice as big, that is the main difference. As for similar colors...
#thomsons-gazelle is right. What a close-up!
a #mongoose - #white-tailed-mongoose
Looks smaller, more like Black-bellied Bustard but hard to tell.
Ha, who knows? I don't!
The closest one on R is a #wildebeest, I expect the rest are too but can't tell.
Yes, that's an #eland. They have a kind of rectangular shape like a domestic cow.
They like to scratch against the camera housing 😃
Pretty!
Could also be a skink (lizard), we often see them on this log.
I agree with Alinna.
#white-tailed-mongoose #mongoose - rear view, tail fluffed. Here's a zorilla, at about same distance from camera, to compare: ASG0018pj3
Part fluffy and part smooth, so I think it's a young male lion.
Always check for previous comments 😃 It is a hyena.
#spotted-hyena but looks mature colour.
#hartebeest. Eland would have a thick black band on inner forelimb, and a 'dewlap' fold of skin below neck
#dikdik is right - blend of greyish and tan, small size, bush habitat.
@tillydad, something to ponder - this is a normal adult Serengeti serval, does it seem to you that the Gorongosa population has longer legs?
#hartebeest is right
The one on the left could be a baby, yes.
I don't think we've ever had an #elephant die on camera, but the #young ones often lie down like this in the shade to rest 😃
#leopard is right.
Great picture!
Similar. In E.Africa we call them bustards. This is the biggest species, #kori-bustard, has shaggy grey neck feathers and a small crest.
Looks like, with those ears, but it's quite far from camera so it's bigger - it's an #aardvark !
A trick of the light, not a marking. On these open plains, no bushbuck (imagine!), small antelopes this size are mostly #thomsons-gazelle
Only a #lion has a tail like that! - long with a small black tuft.
#dikdik it is - greyish haunches and neck, white eye-ring, pointy nose are all good ID features.
Good - I think #bushbuck is right, its colours look too varied to be a reedbuck which is the only other beastie that might look like that.
We don't let you 😄 - Here's why: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb - So just guess.
#ground-hornbill
#cheetah looks correct
#impala and #giraffe are correct
Wonderful #portrait!
Hi @kosmala, we've been telling people to just classify these as 'nothing here' - do you want them tagged?
There are two of them - a second one entering stage left.
Hard to tell. I'd say #wildebeest.
#slate
A Tanzanian lawnmower cutting grass, so you'll get fewer "nothing here" pictures of waving grass.
Yes, a #human sighting.
The three largest silhouettes are #zebra, not sure about the rest.
#topi is right - horns and leg markings are distinctive.
#wildebeest - dark color, mane on shoulders, long horselike tail.
A pipit, or maybe a lark, but can't see detail.
I see no animal here.
From its ability to hover during 3 frames, I think the #raptor is a kestrel or black-winged kite, but not sure about the bird on ground.
I'd say 1 Grant (closest) and 7 tommies.
Possibly zebra but in this case, your guess is as good as mine!
#thomsons-gazelle, from size.
Thanks for the correction! 😃
#magpie-shrike
I think just flowers.
Koris are as big as tommies! These are #crowned-lapwings.
They look like cars to me - rectangular, don't change shape.
#lion, female.
#aardvark
#side-striped-jackal, note white tail tip. BEF has mostly dark tail, big dark ears and 'raccoon' mask.
#superb-starling
Bending down to scratch his neck with his right hind foot.
I'm not sure either. #bird is all I can say!
That's correct!
Classic example of how we can interpret the same image in different ways 😃
Large tan animal with paler rump = #hartebeest
#spotted-hyena is right, though it looks healthy with no sign of mange 😃
It's something very close to camera lens, or sitting on it - maybe an insect?
Terrific composition! Note the black mid-belly stripe of the foreground eland, a useful ID feature.
We call them dust-devils - small temporary whirlwinds during the heat of the day.
Cameras are set about 1m above ground and a guinea can't reach that high - this is a #kori-bustard
#hartebeest
#spotted-hyena is right
#collar
No, and you may notice they are a different subspecies (defassa) from those in Gorongosa. These have white patch instead of ring on rump.
I agree with you, #hyena
Could also be a belly full of meat - they normally look like this after a good meal!
With its very short glossy coat and its dewlap, this looks more like a domestic cow to me.
Just grass I think.
Possibly vulture.
#zebra. See the stripes over the eye?
#ostrich is right.
You can just tag it as #human and #slate. It marks the start of a new memory card and shows the camera ID and the date and time.
Fruits of sausage tree
Just guess, for example, cheetah!
May be impala.
and #zebra
#thomsons-gazelle
Not gazelle. I think this is a #topi, scratching face with rear hoof.
Maybe the shoulder of a Grant's Gazelle?
Dinner looks like a wildebeest head and neck.
#dikdik is right
#aardwolf - nice sighting!
#bird has a long tail, I would guess Magpie Shrike.
we don't have a brownpig category, these are #warthog - probably the only kind of pig you'll see here 😃
At centre going R, could be a car, as a road runs thru this view.
Most are #hartebeest - about 12 - then maybe 3 wildebeest at L and a #thomson's gazelle at R.
#thomsons-gazelle. (I try to tag and label animals to help other users learn 😃)
I think all are Grant's - all have big white bums.
Looks like it.
Correct, mature male #grants-gazelle
Your guess is your secret, but this is a #grants-gazelle.
#grants-gazelle is right.
Correct.
More #wildebeest in distance.
weaver-bird nest
#side-striped-jackal mostly eats insects and small stuff, so is no threat to adult #grants-gazelle - but may eat her new fawn or placenta.
#white-tailed-mongoose is right.
Maybe back end of a hare?
Then you give it your best guess. These look like #gazelle but can't be sure which, so just choose a species, e.g. #thomsons-gazelle.
#white-bellied-bustard - greyish tones, white on face, long legs and neck.
No spots! 😃 I thought Side-striped because of greyish tones and pale side stripe, but can't swear to it. Like ASG001leow but diff date.
#dikdik
Wild dogs are really rare here and have a sort of blotchy camo pattern of black, tan and white, always with distal half of tail white.
Looks like the 'Yellow Peril' - the old #cheetah research car. If so, I've driven it, and it's a heap of ..... 😃
#wildebeest
#buffalo is right.
Hard to know. Could even be an owl.
Impala would have black-tipped ear so I suggest hartebeest.
Raindrops.
#thomsons-gazelle based on tail at L.
#black-backed-jackal
He's supposed to display slate with date and camera ID at start of each new memory card. He forgot the slate so is using a CD case!
I would guess impala.
That's the box, screwed to tree, that protects the camera. Someone is probably servicing camera, which is lying on the ground.
Muzzle of #wildebeest
It's a #hartebeest.
#zebra is right
That little crooked horn suggests an adult female #thomsons-gazelle, since babies have no horns.
#giraffe. Nothing else is so tall!!
Not roller. Maybe starling?
looks normal to me.
Yes, #wildebeest.
Looks like the further male is trying to herd the female.
Triangular ears more likely jackal or serval.
An #oxpecker
Looks like it.
Correct.
looks like a rock.
They're young - 8 months old and still all legs 😃
#lion
Of course it's a #warthog!
Applying Occam's razor, it is probably also a buffalo, as they tend to go in herds.
#wildebeest (dark color, horselike tail) but hartebeest are the same size.
Resting. Young ones quite often lie down.
#wildebeest is right.
Why not lion?
Yes, those two moving things could be big birds, like secretary or bustard.
I think it's a #bird.
Deformed horns are common in female Tommies.
#secretary-bird
Welcome to Serengeti! The hartebeest here spend a LOT of time standing in front of cameras, so you'll get plenty of belly views like this.
Interesting! And unusual bushbuck portrait.
Serengeti has at least 6 different mongoose species, 4 diurnal and 2 nocturnal. This is the one we most often see at night.
Red Bishop, perhaps.
It does seem to be attached to, yet stand out from, his leg as he walks, like dart. Not a flower - no desert rose or similar in SNP.
#reedbuck looks right. They often have the dark 'shins' on forelimbs.
I think you have 3 #spotted-hyena in foreground and 1 further away.
The L animal is surely a #dikdik - preorbital gland, crest on forehead. I would therefore assume that the R animal is the same.
When considering the crazy things wildebeest do, "why?" is often not a very fruitful question 😃 Your guess is as good as mine 😃
Yes, all are zebras. You'd be surprised how often people mistake zebras for elephants!
Truck - no trains as yet in Serengeti!
Correct
#wildebeest, at least 3 visible.
The herd running through the brush are #wildebeest, but at R and closer to us are some #guineafowl too.
#spotted-hyena - ears wrong shape for lion
#elephant leg
#spotted-hyena
That looks right.
They are.
#reedbuck
Yes, and near it seem to be 2 zebras.
Sisige you're brilliant! I can see it now. I think I should retire 😃
#secretary-bird anyway. Probably young.
More likely lactating and full of meat!
#black-backed-jackal
Agree zebras, because they are white/grey rather than tan.
Could be, or else gazelles - hard to tell!
#secretary-bird - it has to be about a metre tall, which kites are not.
klallman got it - #wildebeest. (Unless it's the infamous pygmy rhino 😛)
I think he is, can't tell what it is. Great!
#reedbuck - beware of using single ID features. Impala would also have black at eartips, groin and heels, and 2-tone-tan on flanks.
I think #thomsons-gazelle female, from its facial marks and very thin horns.
Hard one. Might be a gnu mane, but might also be a warthog, I suspect that in Sep a warthog is more likely.
yes, a light artifact.
Cool!
er...that's a #zebra ear! Note also another zebra R of centre.
Just a sausage tree with its sausage-like fruits.
#tawny-eagle would be my call.
I hope you do! #grants-gazelle
It's a dust spot. No animals here.
Mother Earth does - the camera is on its side and we are looking at grass 😃
This looks like a Silverbird, Empidornis semipartitus, a flycatcher. Olive thrush is more of a highland/forest bird.
Maybe lion's shoulder.
It marks the start of a new memory card, giving date, camera identifier, and time.
...but if you search on SSS for 'golden jackal' you will find plenty of photos of them. They are the ones with no distinctive markings
...but has recently been reclassified as African Golden Wolf (Canis anthus). This is more common on open plains S of the study area...
To clarify...yes Side-striped, but Serengeti is home to 2 other 'jackals', the Black-backed and what's trad been called Golden Jackal...
Eland makes more sense I agree. I just never saw one rolling!
Hi there! Yes the head-up run is typical of a territorial bull.
#elephant is right
Couldn't swear to it but I think most are.
Yes and yes.
#buffalo is right
The shape looks like wildebeest but it'd be strange to see one there in June.
Possibly #bird such as guineafowl or spurfowl
Maybe buffalo.
Animal that tall has to be a #giraffe.
#gazelle, perhaps Grant's.
possibly elephants?
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver
I think buffalo.
In those ID photos, the first shows a male, the second a group of young, the third is a female. However, this is not explained.
Von der Decken's #hornbill.
All I see is bushes & trees.
Could be females too, as both sexes are horned.
#hyena is right.
Curious. Looks to me like a lion rolling on its back. Thoughts?
#white_bellied_bustard
Yes, there's a road in the background of this view.
#reedbuck is right.
Could well be more lions.
Trees imitating ostriches - the trees grow along a watercourse.
Tail of #bird perched on camera.
I can see 5 there - I think #thomsons-gazelle, yes.
Hard to say. I'd guess topi.
#lion #male
At least 5 #buffalo visible here.
#thomsons-gazelle with horns this size is mature.
#spotted-hyena
#grants-gazelle
Baby is resting. Everyone else is seeing how many elephants can stand in the shade of one tree.
I've seen several pics in which it changes position. I think it is just chilling, as young eles tend to do.
Good eyes Jinx, it sure is a #spotted-hyena.
Sorry, can't see it...what does it look like?
It's an Ipomoea, maybe I. jaegeri, which perversely blooms during this dry month when all around is brown.
Medium-large hairy mammal - outside of gnu/zebra season - so could be lion, buffalo, various other options
Tail of #bird sitting on camera
I can't see any animal attached - might be flash reflecting off an insect or other UFO.
Looks like #lion to me.
Yes #hippo
#thomsons-gazelle is right!
#coqui_francolin, also common here; a bit smaller than GBS, note the grey barred breast and orange head+neck.
It's just how she walks - always looks odd when reduced to 3 frames. For those who aren't sure, this is an adult female #grants-gazelle.
It is a #hare.
It is a #guineafowl bird.
lol! Might be buffalo, but I am rather baffled!
Has to be #aardvark, but tail is curious, looks like it was bitten off, e.g. didn't dig fast enough to escape the lion 😃
I think they are mating. When they fight they jump or fly at each other and slash with their feet.
In light of another sequence that just came up, it seems more likely to be a mongoose! Perhaps the Dwarf species.
#thomsons-gazelle is correct. Grant's are paler and have a more extensive white rump patch which you can usually see even in side view.
Looks like it!
No, they are #hartebeest. You will see many, as they spend long periods standing under some camera trees! Note distinctive tail.
Yes, they are #impala
Definitely #wildebeest. Their profile when grazing is unmistakable.
I agree with you Tillydad - looks like the tommy is trying to face down the jackal.
Very nice clear photo!
Wing or tail feathers of a #bird perched on the camera box.
From the structure of the ear it's a #wildebeest.
I think #lion is right. She's rubbing her face on the camera box!
From the general shape and large ears I would have thought #steenbok.
#black-backed-jackal
It's vegetation. Leopards are much bigger.
#side-striped-jackal
Through the Force, things you will see... 😃
#wildebeest privates
The animals are #wildebeest.
The animals L and R of the centre are #buffalo and it's safe to assume the others are too.
They are #wildebeest.
#topi they are 😃
The #human is noting that on 20 Sep '14 a new memory card was installed. G031 may be the camera number.
The #butterfly is a Red-tip (Colotis sp., perhaps C. antevippe).
#crowned_lapwing
Likely just dirt. This isn't a crime scene 😃
Just walking.
People, there are NO HORSES IN SERENGETI! (Except zebras) 😃
#wildebeest
Could be a human doing something to the camera, but not a fox.
#waterbuck. No donkeys in Serengeti.
#zebra
Pregnancy is not easy to detect in lions, compared to the effect of a belly full of meat. Anyway, in frame 3 you can see this lion's testes.
The option is that you guess 😃 Here your choice is between Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, I'd go with tommies.
Possibly waterbuck?
Yes indeed. Adult female.
Looks like rear end of a #thomsons-gazelle. Also some cute little scarlet wild hibiscus.
Difficult! Possibly a wildebeest? mostly its face & beard?
Yes, good one!!
The only other possibility is hare - looking at the tail, and the apparent rufous color of forelimb - thoughts??
Yes it is. #reptile #skink
Could it possibly be an immature Bateleur? It has shaggy head/neck and I'd expect Tawny to have more tail.
Looks like #wildebeest. 'wild_guess' tag isn't necessary as we can't know what you guessed, and scientists won't be searching for guesses 😃
Hard to say, but I vote for cheetah, probably a cub.
Even cheetah researchers get them confused!
Where do you see it?
#dikdik. Note the grey areas on neck & haunches, relatively small ears, big dark white-ringed eyes.
Can't imagine where you are talking about 😛, but it is a luxury to have such diversity here, and such image quality too.
Thanks @balingsnas 😃
#bushbuck. Note: big ears with 3 reddish bars inside, dark blaze on face, black and white markings on legs, all differences from steenbok.
When classifying, if you see no animals, just hit the "no animals present" button and move on. No need to post blanks here.
Please use # sparingly, just for animals whose ID you're certain about. It's meant to be a search aid. I can't positively ID these eyes.
I think what you're seeing is just a bare spot with bird droppings. The camera has been dislodged so it points at ground.
No need to post it if there are no animals 😃
Wildebeest is correct.
I would say #hartebeest. A topi would show a lot more black on upper limbs.
I would say #gazelle, possibly Grant's.
I agree, looks #young.
I agree with #hyena.
We can't know what you guessed - maybe wildebeest but I can't be sure.
Correct 😃
#eland is right. Nothing else that you'll see here has those thin white stripes.
#wildebeest
The antenna on top marks it as a research car - looking for radio-collared animals. Probably lion project.
Don't know what you guessed - could be almost anything, but appears to have horns! Maybe a Grant's gazelle?
We can't know what you guessed, but what I see looks like the rear end of an #elephant.
We can't know what your wildguess is, but it's a female #lion.
It's a #mongoose.
Correct
Classic #topi. Reddish body with darker face & hips & shoulders, yellow socks, horns curved not bent.
#superb-starling
My guess is waterbuck
This tail is curiously straight. Only possibilities I can think of are secretary bird, or grass slashing tool!
Frame 1 may be an aardwolf, it appears to have a thick black band below base of neck.
#hyena looks right.
Rich tan colour, "tidemark" along flanks, black-tipped ears, make this an #impala. W'buck is bigger, greyer, shaggier.
There's no need to # every picture, unless it's of particular interest or if you have a query about it 😃
Blurbuck - it can be whatever you want it to be 😃 Probably something reedbuck-sized.
It looks more complex than a single gnu. Might be two males with their heads down, sparring?
I agree #caracal.
Grey-breasted is the species we normally see here - it's a northern TZ endemic.
#serval is right.
Took me a while to figure out, but it's the head of a grazing mammal facing right, ear at top, looks like female #waterbuck.
Civet unlikely and very nocturnal - I'd guess the back of a bird, not sure which.
Looks like a tree shadow to me - perhaps the tree to which the camera is attached. This is why we don't use shadows for ID! 😃
When I lightened #2 it looked more like wildebeest - but hard to be sure.
Looks like a tommy but I can't see enough detail.
Serengeti's white-bearded gnus are Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus, which typically appear to have light back and dark belly.
I think both paws belong to one lion, rolling over!
Hard to see, it doesn't move.
#wattled-starling - they often 'use' gnu & zebra in the same way that cattle egrets do.
#reedbuck. If you Search for 'bushbuck' here, you'll see how they look on these cameras - rounded back, dark collar usually visible.
With those slender tusks and big tits I'd call her female 😃 The thingy at the middle of her belly is part of the ear of the next ele.
#reedbuck is right, well done.
It could not be anything else but a fine male #giraffe! Frame 3.
Really can't tell, except wildebeest would be unlikely in this area in September.
I think #grants-gazelle because black side stripe is faint and rump patch more like Grant's
The nests are made by weaver-birds, sorry I can't see enough detail to give you species. Not buffalo-w because they use sticks not grass.
LOL!
Female #grants-gazelle (or granticorn)
Oh yes they are! They often sleep belly-up, especially after a meal.
...wildebeest only show 2 eyes if looking straight at you, otherwise one. Carnivores usually show 2 or nothing. (I'm simplifying here!)
All the animals' eyes reflect light. These are most likely 8-9 other wildebeest. Note that most are single eyes like that of the front gnu..
There is something harmless, perhaps warthogs. If lions, the giraffe would be staring straight at them or running away!
most likely spotted hyena - scruffy hair, traces of spots.
#impala is right - could be adult F though.
#reedbuck is right. You'll see more reedbuck here than in Gorongosa, and very few bushbuck (relief!!)
The antelopes and geese are all #thomsons-gazelle 😃
Not tall enough for that 😃 It's a #hartebeest. Serengeti cameras are fairly consistently 1m above ground.
#jackal ears (frame 3)
This is almost certainly a #warthog. They have long sparse bristles on face and often rub their head against the camera boxes.
In the field, this uncertainty seldom arises because mama is always nearby - except rarely when you find a predator eating the calf 😃
Pity about the oryx, we used to see them quite regularly in the eastern plains in 1970's, then they 'faded away'.
In frame 1 is an acacia twig, the person is probably clearing the area around the camera.
I assume your ID was #lion, but from this view I couldn't confidently assign gender 😃
Leopards or leopard + kill.
Steenbok has bigger ears. Reedbuck, bigger animal with bushy tail. Duiker, would also show more tail and rarely seen. I think #dikdik.
Bigger, I think - perhaps lion.
Whatever you guessed is probably as good as anyone else's!
#vulture is right
Probably wildebeest.
yes, looks like it.
'snow' is falling rain, yellow-eyed beast might be hartebeest or reedbuck.
I'm embarrassed that I can't tell which! I think hartebeest has a darker tail tip, so this may be topi. Anyone know?
Not certain! Looks like the horn of a young animal such as a buffalo.
Correct
That's right! The stripes are denser on the neck.
This is a herd of #impala.
Clinging to its flank is a roosting #oxpecker bird - unusual shot!
The baboon is facing camera, about to take a selfie. The shiny ear at R is its right ear. The fuzzy ear at L is its tail!
Looks to me like a grass slasher, a simple hand tool that the techs use to cut tall grass around the camera tree.
Tricky! We're looking at the dewlap of an #eland, plus its muzzle as you say.
What if I told you...it's running L to R, so the bushy 'tail' is the neck of a #wildebeest, with white beard below, black mane above!
An unusually good clear picture of a #white-tailed-mongoose. Zorilla is smaller and black-and-white very like a skunk.
You're good at this!
#white-tailed-mongoose - you're looking at its gray back and white bushy tail. You won't see baboons after dark in Serengeti.
#baboon infant riding on mama's back!
I think she is just interacting with grass 😃 The dark thing to R of centre is a more distant buffalo.
Very clear #reedbuck - I wish the southern reedbuck would pose so nicely 😃
one #wildebeest is sitting, the other is standing closer to camera
#superb-starling is right - blue & orange with white eye.
Curious! I think the guineas are mobbing the #raptor, which looks like a tawny eagle.
I think leopard because no primate curls its tail up like that. Maybe 2, because I don't think the paw higher up belongs to same animal.
Typical old bull #buffalo, they often look threadbare but he's plump enough.
#thomsons-gazelle, 8 or 9 in this pic.
Yes, maybe baboon.
Could be.
Yes, #marabou
European #white-stork
#young #buffalo.
Can't be sure but I think it's a jackal.
Black-backed #jackal. Note dark stripe on side.
yes, cutting grass around camera.
No, #hartebeest. Same color but different shape. They very often stand close to camera in daytime.
#hippo !
Yes #dikdik. They are small like duikers but much commoner here, and have very pointy faces and big eyes.
Correct
Most likely more wildebeest.
I think wildebeest would be the best guess.
Correct, #lion - right ear and cheek and eye as it sniffs the camera,
I agree, buffalo.
I think it's looking at more #wildebeest
Agree #wildebeest - I just saw another mud-caked one, perhaps the same indiv.
It's a #wildebeest - note the tail - and it may just have some mud caked on its flanks. They don't wallow, but sometimes fall down.
#white-bellied-bustard - a kori stands about as tall as a tommy!
#eland. You won't see oryx here - and they would have a lot of black and white on face.
From size and texture, it could be a lion cub.
No-one can tell what you guessed, but this is a #wildebeest
Correct
Well spotted - yes, #dikdik
No, just resting.
#buffalo. Horns are on top of head, not on nose. Rhino is pretty rare here.
But we can get a clue from this - brown short coat with vertical black stripes fits only one large species here - #wildebeest
Yes, we often get #baboons on this camera
Here's what a BEF looks like: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG001ggds
Not BEF, this is a blackbacked #jackal. Its ears are big but paler and more triangular than in BEF. BEF also shorter & has black face mask
Actually young zebs quite often lie to rest like this, especially when group is stationary for a while.
It's another buffalo, so I think not.
Grizzled texture is like BBJackal but too shiny. Has to be at least 1m tall. Does not compute. Brain crash. Reboot... 😃
On a size basis I'd say reedbuck more likely.
Shape and size fit #eagle-owl #owl
Might be another hartebeest grazing, or something else - can't tell.
Could be dust rather than water - so many particles.
rlb66 is correct, as usual 😃
I dunno, it looks very close and thus rather small, might even be a grass head?
#lion flies - peculiar flattened hippoboscids which travel around on lions and suck their blood.
The white light looks like a moth, but I can't see any other animal.
Yes, that's a tail.
2 #spotted-hyena here.
I don't see an animal, think it's vegetation.
It's a male #eland
No, it's a #lion
Its apparent shininess is peculiar. So far I agree with bird.
That's fine - any kind of animal you can classify is good 😃
It's a consorting #lion pair, male closely following female, who is flicking her tail.
It's a #topi
I don't see any animal here.
Yes, adult #topi on L, and some #young.
It means that on 1st May 2014 at 09:41, camera P09 started a new memory card.
#impala looks good to me.
#Hyena is correct
I can't answer that, but it'a a #buffalo - the only large black cow-like animal.
#zebras
Wildebeest & zebra
Their shape and the way they fly in a flock and drop into tall grass together, makes me think guinea-fowl.
No animal here. If you mean the light disk, it's a dust speck lit by the flash. Moon was dark on this date (if correct).
That's a #thomsons-gazelle sitting in the shade.
I can't see any animal.
It's rather random on this site, but if you vary the last letter or 2 of the URL you sometimes can find at least pics taken on the same day.
Yes topi.
Well spotted, but I think alive. My take is that all these animals are tommies - earlier and later photos show tommies gathered here.
Looks like head of a #hartebeest. Impala unlikely in such open country.
It looks a lot more like a #helmeted-guineafowl head 😃
No animal there
#buffalo. The horns are completely distinctive.
With that rather scruffy brownish coat, most probably a #spotted-hyena.
With that long black horse-like tail, it can only be a #wildebeest
This large, powerful male is an #eland
#wildebeest
May be a Thomson's Gazelle, but hard to be sure.
If you mean dead, no - just wildebeest calves resting in the shade with their mamas.
Yes looks like wildebeest.
Probably more zebra.
And my comment about tags just refers to these Talk pages. When classifying, do as tillydad says!
Correct!
No lo sé también. Posiblemente es un león?
Really hard to see. May be zebras.
#dikdik - the most common small antelope here. Just use tags when you are certain of ID, as now this pic will show in 'duiker' searches
All the animals' eyes reflect light. This is a Thomson's Gazelle.
Mostly zebras but some wildebeest too.
#eland bull.
Definitely #warthog. Bushpig don't live in this open grassland habitat.
No nyala at all in Tanzania! If he were an adult male nyala, he'd be darker and have a belly fringe. Note the eland's unique tasseled tail.
Victor, you'll see this one in Gorongosa too.
Looking at facial markings, I think you have all Grant's here. The young one in foreground just has a strong black side stripe, as some do.
#guineafowl
I agree #eland - body shape is clear, but only when lightened to the limits.
That's a reasonable guess.
Correct.
Nor can I. Maybe wildebeest.
If you want more animals than grass, take a look at Wildcam Gorongosa - a lot of us are having fun there until SSS posts new pix here.
However, your effort is valuable because you are so much better than any machine, at seeing if animals are there or not, so be patient 😃
An alternative suggestion is eland, based on bulky body and horn shape (after lightening in photoshop)
Buffalo generally don't frequent such exposed plains, or travel so widely spaced apart - my intuition says #wildebeest.
it's that bird's tail again.
looks like zebra.
Yes, probably.
Yes
Tail of bird perching on camera. We get a lot of this.
May be a white butterfly.
I'd guess wildebeest calf.
Reedbuck has black spot below base of ear, and black "trident" mark in ear is typical of gazelles. I'd say this is a tommy.
#grants-gazelle is right. They are bigger and have less black on the sides, and more white on the bum, than Tommies
#bird-other. Probably a raptor, too dark to ID.
#zebra
The small brown spotted thing in centre looks like a bird walking away, possibly a coqui francolin.
It might be the 'boss', or base, of a grazing buffalo's horn. That's the only thing I can think of, that is shiny and laminated.
I'd say they are trees & bushes, I see no movement there.
Yes, a courting male Tommy approaches female with that head-high posture.
Well spotted, I took ages to see it right there on the stump! #Superb-starling.
Herd of bushes! It's Nov, late dry season, and the wildebeest don't return from the north until that brown grass is replaced by green.
I'd guess a larger animal, maybe topi.
Think it's all plants.
#bird, perhaps guinea fowl
This is the flank of an animal with short sleek hair and a clear border between tan and white. Perhaps Grant's gazelle.
Just wood.
#eland - large size, black stripe along midline of belly.
Probably flash on vegetation close to camera, not fire.
Could be the shadow of a grass-colored bird - hard to say.
That combo of size, color & stripes can only be #wildebeest.
To be so bright it must be v. close, therefore small - a grass blade. Change the last letter of URL and you'll see it in many other pix.
No. TV watchers expect blood and drama everywhere, but the chances of seeing a cat and a zebra in the same frame are very, very small.
#wildebeest - that tail is very distinctive.
Tree stump I think. Not an animal.
Yes, and some zebra too - the light ones L of centre.
I'd guess buffalo.
#Wildebeest. Giraffes are spotted and much taller - when this close to the camera, you would not see bellies, just legs.
Think about what the camera might be attached to 😃
Grass blown by wind.
Blank - nothing here
There are a few pale things on L that don't move - might be zebra but most people will say "nothing here".
Among dead wood on R? Could be a small bird.
This blank. Nothing here.
Probably more zebras but hard to see.
Termite mound. It's always here.
All about same size and some are light, some are darker. Light are zebras, dark are wildebeest. >11 of each. No extra button needed!
Grey-breasted #francolin (aka spurfowl)
This one is very clear - big animal with black 'garters' on forelimbs can only be #eland
That's OK. Because they look mainly grey I would score them as zebras, 11-50.
No animals.
All #thomsons-gazelles here
At night the cameras just record a single capture, and sometimes there are indeed no animals.
Rolling and scratching its back.
#Thomsons-gazelle
Wildebeest looks good.
grass head blown by wind. No human.
trees
trees
You'll see lots of grass, no need to tag it or its height.
I think Thomson's because a) it's small, its back would be below horizon and b) because its horn tips curve forwards - Grant's go backwards
maybe zebras.
or head? Buffalo? all we can do is guess.
Zebras L of centre for sure - the way they stand head to tail and flick tails to keep flies away. Please just use hashtag when sure of ID.
trees
I see no giraffe but more than 20 buffalo.
If you mean the dark thing near centre, it's a termite mound.
2 #hartebeest. Eland has a thick black tassel at the end of tail, hartebeest has a crest of black hair along the dorsal side of the tail.
#hartebeest. If you're not sure, please don't hashtag.
#wildebeest.
yes, #spotted-hyena
Yes, zebra.
#thomsons-gazelle is right.
Love it! Bird is a yellow-billed #oxpecker.
it's a zebra.
correct.
Actually an #eland. The tail is shorter with a bigger tassel than a lion's, and the front legs show the typical black 'garters'
I think it's a wildebeest...elbow?
Yes, #baboons.
4 in foreground are #grants-gazelles - big size (their backs are above horizon), big horns, etc. Herd in bkg is mixed, some tommies there.
No, the arrangement of hair on tail and the position of penile sheath are more typical of #hartebeest
There are at least 9 wildebeest this side of the first tree-line, probably more beyond but they can't be resolved.
Correct, 2 in foreground and 2 distant.
They are at least 5 zebras.
Grants is a good guess, as there are other Grants nearby. I see no jeep, the moving objects near horizon are more gazelles.
Probably a bird, like another starling gliding in to land outside the frame.
correct
Might be an ear with a notch in it, shape suggests hyena ear.
No zebra foal, probably just vegetation.
No these are lions resting, at least 5 or 6.
or bird on camera?
#buffalo.
It would be a flying car! Might be things hanging from tree - caterpillars? see also ASG0019gol and ASG0019gom, same night.
? indeed. They may be impalas. Or something else. Hard to tell!
Not lion - his 'junk' would be just below his tail. This is a large ungulate, probably wildebeest.
Agree not birdlike. Not balloon but could be fixed-wing aircraft.
#wildebeest. Note the dark stripes on neck and shoulder.
might be hippo! Hard one.
Never seen a twister in Serengeti or elsewhere in TZ, apart from little dust devils...might be one of those?
Nor can I - just have to guess.
correct, young male #impala
Definitely #spotted-hyena
I'd say nothing there.
Looks like a dirty lens. If it's March, it's not fire.
#thomsons-gazelle i believe
It's a stick!
You have to guess, even if you haven't a clue, because an animal is definitely present. E.g. see below.
Hard one. I'm more inclined to see it as an eland. It's bigger than gnu, it has stout stocky legs, I think buffalo would show more bristles.
You will see thousands of these...no need to tag them 😃
Yes, looks like a tommy.
Looks like overexposure & a dirty lens
#wildebeest and #young
correct
or eagle, or vulture...can't tell.
Maybe. Most have given birth by then but some are late.
No rocks in front of cameras. Hippo?
#spotted-hyena - less obviously spotted than cheetah.
Frame 1 shows the tusk, wart, ear and bristles of a #warthog.
yes #elephant
yes all #zebra
Nice shot!
Maybe, but I can't tell what view I'm looking at.
#hartebeest because of kinky horns and no dark markings.
#lion female
Both are family Cercopithecidae, but langurs (only found in Asia) are subfam Colobinae; vervets (only in Africa) are subfam Cercopithicinae
#wildebeest yes, though I think all 3 in the picture are adults at different distances from camera.
All I can say is that they are gazelles.
Also note the dark bar across muzzle - a Grant feature.
Weird photo! This is a female #grants-gazelle. Her horns, are thin but longer than her ears - in tommies always shorter.
It's a warthog - walking in 1 & 2 then in 3 it stops & raises its head and you see the whitish bristles below its face.
Nothing moves at all so I think you could safely say 'no animal'. Camera may be lying on ground or other static situation.
#hartebeest. Giraffe has spotty legs and its chest would be above the camera frame. Gazelle chest would be at bottom of frame or lower.
Yes #wildebeest, well done - not much to go on there, except the shape of horns.
correct, a zebra.
Yes, looks like 2 #zebras fighting. And the bird is a #crowned-lapwing.
#warthogs correct.
Maybe an insect on camera lens. Not vegetation, as other pics from same morning don't show it.
It is the hind foot of a giraffe walking L to R, accompanied by lots of flies.
correct
#impala - in frame 1 you can see the white fringes of the tail.
#aardwolf yes, nice one!
That usually requires the presence of another 😃
#elephant but fairly big.
#hartebeest. ASG001d1u7 shows them more clearly. They often stand in front of certain cameras for hours like this.
From the extensive white on rump and thighs, these are #hartebeest.
ASG001epw4 (earlier) and ASG001epw6 (later) show #wildebeest, so it's reasonable to assume this is gnu too.
It's a #wildebeest 'cos of the stripes - how do I get my million? 😃
#grants-gazelle is right
Cutting down grass around the camera, to reduce fire hazard and excessive photos of waving grass!
I wish! There are probably more #buffalo in this photo than the entire Serengeti rhino population.
2 zebras walking. Hunting, chasing and other carnage are really rare events in our photos!
tillydad, nice that there are still elephants in 2023...I wish!! Actually, SNP is one of the few areas in TZ where eles are increasing 😃
That species isn't found here. Still looks like francolin/spurfowl.
Not an animal. It looks just the same on different days.
I think I have to agree with rlb66xyz below, who is pretty much infallible... lion.
Big tan animal with black tassel on tail = #eland
#buffalo - #young one at centre, adult female at R, and a third one further back.
Well spotted - #serval
Fit what? we can't tell what your ID was. This appears to be an #eland.
could be a plant?
At least 3 #wildebeest
Thin horns longer than ears = female #grants-gazelle
They don't often give birth at night. Also, from its horns it looks more like a male - just resting.
#wildebeest
#wildebeest is correct
Hairs wouldn't look segmented like that. It's the seed-head of a grass, maybe Cynodon sp.
More likely dust. Rain looks like white drops or streaks.
wildebeest herd
termite mound
#wildebeest #young
of #eland
#hartebeest
You're right! Biggish dark herd animals is about all you can say, my guess is buffalo, but gnu or zeb are also possible.
I see impalas but no ostrich.
Hard to see it clearly but I'd say aardwolf. Pls don't use hashtags unless sure of your ID.
I don't think there can be any consensus here. It could also be a hartebeest, or even a Grant's gazelle.
Hey well spotted! That's a hard one.
Try #wildebeest - dull grey-brown color, long black mane.
Looks more like an #insect with 4 wings, perhaps a flying termite.
Correct
About 8 #wildebeest
tail of #bird
look at the horns...#wildebeest
#bird tail. There are birds that love to perch on these cameras, particularly (I suspect) those that are mounted on posts not treetrunks.
Correct, also total lack of horns. Gazelle females would have horns, reedbuck and bushbuck females are hornless but wouldn't be in herd.
#human (Homo vehiculans). A road runs through this view.
#reedbuck
Yes, the slate is photo'd when a new SD card is put in the camera. It should show date and camera ID.
#dikdik is correct
#cheetah
maybe just an artifact.
Also from this rear view, BEF's ears and feet and most of tail would look black.
yes, lion
I think it's the ear of a tommy sitting behind the grass. Try changing the last letter of the URL and you may see what I mean.
#leopard
#cheetah
Rear end of #spotted-hyena exiting left.
correct, well done
Might also be a hartebeest. You don't often see giraffe's muzzle in these pics, usually legs.
all #wildebeest
#topi
#white-tailed-mongoose. Sometimes you can find answers if you read the previous comments.
correct
tail of bird perching on camera
es un ñu (#wildebeest) - mira a su cola.
#young #waterbuck - i agree, looks rather like a donkey
don't see anything but grass.
#white-tailed-mongoose
I do. They are zebra, with possibly some gazelles sitting over on R side.
Probably more #impala.
Really good #aardwolf portrait
I'd guess steenbok. Other opinions??
#buffalo is right
This is probably the tail of a #bird perching on the camera
I think you're right.
I think wildebeest.
As they're pale and clumped I'd guess zebras. Cattle here always show a mix of different body colours.
Since you've got one #wildebeest there, I'd guess the others are too, but +ve ID impossible.
#wildebeest. There are not many species you see in such numbers - hartebeest usually in small groups or alone.
I would say yes and yes.
#thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest, the horse-like tail is distinctive.
#wildebeest yes, and I think some zebra too.
Two lions here but can't see enough to sex either one.
Can't be sure. Looks like a shoulder and part of neck, of short-haired brown animal. Reedbuck also possible.
#zebra
I'd say nothing here.
Probably wildebeest beard.
All look like zebs to me.
They are walking. No chase!
#grants-gazelle
black stripe, black tail... #thomsons-gazelle
#warthog ear and tusk
No animal visible to me.
#wildebeest on the move
Big with no beard, no distinguishing marks on legs - my best guess is hartebeest
Probably gazelles but too far for ID
Car on road
well done, horn shape and tail are both fairly distinctive for #topi
Not clear. cheetah?
#impala tail
I see Grant's gazelles and zebras.
#wildebeest
#human recording start date of a new SD card for this camera on the #slate.
They are all #impala
I can't make this into any animal. I wonder if it's the shadow of a bird passing over the grass?
#eland - ID'd by lightening the photo.
It's another zebra.
Yes flies, and hairy animal which is prob. hyena but maybe lion
#bird #other #wattled-starling
Here's why there's no such button: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000009/discussions/DSG000127t. Anyway, it's a #warthog.
It is a BEF and its tail has a thick black dorsal crest.
There is a way, read the instructions.
The light lines are lens flare artefacts, the moving one perhaps reflecting something moved by the wind.
#eland
Can't really tell what it is. Not fuzzy enough for lion ear. It's something that doesn't alarm those grazing zebs.
Not unusual, they can be widely scattered.
Dead branch.
doesn't move, may not be animal.
just gnus.
It's a branch of that fallen tree. And what antelopes wear are "horns" not antlers - surprisingly, they are cow family, not deer family.
I'd vote whitebellied (just to be ornery) 😉
Agree #elephant
Might not. Vegetation.
#impala - note the black tipped ears
I wondered hoopoes too, but not sure. #bird-other
I agree, I think it's a flower or grass head mounted on a stem which moves with it in the wind.
Has to be something human or human equipment.
Elephants are larger with thicker legs, big ears and no horns. This is a #buffalo 😃
yes
Can't see any. The grass is sparse and not tall, so they would be very obvious if there.
#serval looks good to me
He's a tech for the project and he's just replaced the memory card in this camera at that date and time.
Prob tail of #bird perching on camera
#impala
They prey mostly on insects on or under ground, locating them with those bat ears.
Ear and throat look more like #buffalo to me
I see no animals except possible giraffe left of centre on horizon...but doesn't move.
Yes, well done. From its spotty leg I'd say #young #lion.
Tillydad, why not a Grant?
vegetation
#wildebeest
Gotta be male with all that head fuzz.
#wildebeest. You can magnify using Command + (for Mac) or something similar for darksiders, maybe Ctrl +
Long horselike tail is a give-away - #wildebeest
think all are zebra.
On left is #spotted-hyena, can't ID the one on R.
Can't tell what you guessed, but this looks like buffalo.
Don't think so.
see comments below
Only #wildebeest in this picture, with a calf sitting in centre. Nothing unusual here.
#buffalo looks right.
Could be large young. There are two - one looks out of burrow in 3.
#thomsons-gazelle because of thick black sidestripe and black tail
#buffalo flicking his tail over his rump
see comments below
The blob in centre is in fact a dung pile, visible in many photos around that time.
#dikdik. You can see the large black preorbital gland (in front of eye).
#wildebeest, and read why we don't have such a tag: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb
or drinking from a puddle?
He's in fine shape, like a lean athlete. Most zoo lions are somewhat obese.
Particularly late in the rains, like April, we get wonderful blooms of yellow or orange daisy-like flowers there
Yes! Gorgeous dawn colours.
Probably a grass stem close to camera
Can't really say what it is doing.
If u mean the light streak above gazelles, that is a patch of clear sky showing thru clouds at dusk.
Looks like it. and the one close to camera is #young, you can tell from the fuzzy hair.
sorry, no jaguars in Africa....#leopard
lion #young is right, a cub of 3-4 months, see comments below.
This is a #hartebeest self-grooming. An eland would show a dark band on each foreleg in this view.
Similar - a Coqui francolin, female.
It can be hard! Maybe 6 or 7 in view.
Great clouds in this shot
looks like mix of gnu & zebra. Zebra sometimes do lie down to rest, yes, but usually on their sides.
The way it twists its tail, must be a fast manoeuvering little bird such as a swallow or martin...not sure of species though.
rlb66xyz - it's mostly a behaviour of passerines and a few small to medium non-passerines - don't recall seeing it in Serengeti.
Zebra yes, 8+ wildebeest in bkg yes, lions no - may be dead wood or small termite mound.
Of #warthog
I've never seen or heard of vultures 'anting', have you?
From height and shape I'd guess Grants Gazelle.
probably vulture.
More likely tommy because of small size.
The eyes in the dark are just other wildebeest.
There are no weasels here. Check the ID photos for mongoose. These are Great Grey or Egyptian mongooses.
Black-backed #jackal can be quite orange, except for their grey grizzled back.
#waterbuck female or young.
Another zebra.
I see it as a Magpie Shrike entering frame from R, trailing its feet and long tail. This is a common woodland #bird #other.
It's a sitting wildebeest.
Could well be baboons and they do sometimes associate with Impala.
Don't see one. The walking gnu is adult.
#thomsons-gazelle
Group of zebras moving through, one rolling in dust.
Probably tommies but positive ID impossible.
#wildebeest
From its short neat coat and clear spots I'd call this #serval.
We so often see the tail of this bird...has anyone found pics of it flying at the camera before landing there?
#thomsons-gazelle - if you lighten pic, you can see black side-stripe of the one at R edge.
Definitely #hippo
I think you're right.
i agree
He is a she - female tommies often have deformed horns.
#young #wildebeest in which the mane is still erect and the tail not as full and dark as in adult.
Looks like a white-backed #vulture
Definitely #serval from small size and spot pattern.
It's a #lion
#aardwolf
Of gazelles? Not in Serengeti.
#elephant tail! It is sort of paddle-like at the end with all the hairs growing around the edge of it.
Not dikdik. Looks to me like baby gazelle, poss tommy. But hard to tell.
Or francolin...not much helmet there.
correct
That's not found in SNP - these are #wattled-starlings. They often forage with wildebeest & zebras.
correct
#aardwolf is right
#hartebeest - the front one is young, still growing its horns, the 'kinked' shape is only seen in adults.
#impala is right, well done
We can't tell what your ID was, but this is a side-striped #jackal (white tail tip is distinctive)
Zebras - more often confused with elephants than you'd expect 😃
Might just be dung.
Very tiny for a w'buck! This is a #dikdik 😃
These are #thomsons-gazelle. Please only hashtag if you are sure of ID - now this will go in the impala bin and confuse people.
Female #black-bellied-bustard. Ostriches when this size are much fuzzier and never alone.
#dikdik
Back of ear.
#warthog is correct
#waterbuck. bushbuck smaller with less white on rear.
correct
This black tail fringed with white looks like #duiker to me.
Might be Eurasian swallow on migration, they commonly accompany the big herds and feast off the abundant flies.
If it were a gazelle I think we'd see horns. Ears...are we seeing both ears aligned? I vote reedbuck
#black-backed-jackal, has bigger ears than other jackal species
#thomsons-gazelle
Gazelles - species uncertain.
yes see below
yes, so this is #human
That was my best guess but it's really puzzling.
Possibly lion...there seem to be whisker spots in 2.
Buffalo weavers don't ride buffalo 😦 This is an oxpecker.
Looks like a big hunting-wasp with red tipped abdomen, flying left 😃 There are such wasps there.
car, you can see it moving L to R
horns = ears
#buffalo
butterfly
young elephant?
Topi would be redder and has conspicuous dark grey patches on hips, and yellow 'socks'.
Staff member cutting vegetation around the camera.
#vulture is correct
Only striped ones. This is a #wildebeest
looks like #reedbuck
It wouldn't be a serious fight, they are yearlings.
Flies - some of them move as you play the frames.
They are just walking. Most calves are born by end of Feb anyway.
#springhare, see below
#warthog - greyer, shorter than lion but his mane is almost convincing!
Lovely pic of a male about 2 or 2.5 yrs old.
#buffalo - has longer slimmer legs and darker colour than rhino.
They could be, and indeed, they are! Well done.
Well...the mechanics are tricky, yes...but tusk much closer to lens than ear, so its movement is amplified. Perhaps 😄
They're common residents out there, nesting in burrows and surviving the long dry season. I'm surprised we don't see them more often in pix
I'm thinking #warthog nuzzling the camera...tusk on L, ear on R with a 'wart' below it.
#serval - a genet would not look so big, and its heavily ringed tail would still show despite overexposure.
#aardwolf looks right
Those plovers are more often seen by water than in arid plains. I suggest Capped Wheatear.
Starling, perhaps Superb.
#human cutting grass
#leopard
2 #buffalo in this picture
Looks like the head of a female #thomsons-gazelle
Wasp or other insect. No hummingbirds in Africa!
#civet
It does look more like hartebeest than eland, for sure.
butterfly?
You might be right - something pale that moves - but v late for a newborn, most are born by end of Feb.
#selfie !!
#genet. Cheetahs are bigger.
I think these are horns of a male tommy.
141Dial34, you're confusing the Hare description with this #springhare, which you'll find under Rodents.
Surely that's a #lion ear???
#spotted-hyena is right
#warthog is right
Grass
Bird looks like a wattled starling, which often perches on gnu & zebra.
1 looks like male lion, not sure what is going on in 2 & 3.
Waterbuck horns are ridged and curve forwards...this is an #eland.
Think it's just grass.
Southern #ground-hornbill, young.
#serval because small, spotted, short tail, big ears.
BEF would have big black ears, dark legs and grey body. This is a #springhare.
BEF would have big black ears, dark legs and grey body. This is a #springhare.
And the black side-stripe of tommy is always bordered by white below, but not so in Grant.
yes but...the horns of that female Grant are longer than those of female tommy and thinner than those of male tommy. And she is way bigger.
mixed wildebeest & zebras.
Zebras rarely die in front of cameras, but they (especially young ones) do often rest lying on their side.
Could be.
I don't have a quick answer either. This camera is mounted very low, could they be guineafowl?
Oww, looks like it has been caught in a wire-noose snare (commonly used to trap meat animals).
#hartebeest. Lion would have no visible genitals on belly, eland has a dark stripe along centre of belly.
correct
I think there are wildebeest too, sitting down at R - but not easy to tell.
In most pics the tail looks more slender, but when excited they can puff it out like this.
A topi would look darker, black on the front of face. This is a young #hartebeest
Good one, it's unusual for us to get 2 carnivore species in same photo. This is a nice view of black-backed jackal.
So do I.
A #warthog's tusk as it rubs its bristly face on the camera box.
Hypolimnas misippus - male above, female below, a very dimorphic species whose female mimics the toxic African Monarch.
#porcupine
Maybe eland. Lion not so tall and would have fuzzier hair on belly.
#warthog with very short mane.
We can say it's smallish, gazelle size, but no trace of black so not Impala nor gazelle, so probably reedbuck.
I think #wildebeest #young. It's taller n darker than w'hog and in 1 you can see its little spike horns.
Like!
#white-bellied-bustard
#buffalo is right.
Let's keep it polite please. IMO the ear shape and hair texture are a better fit for lion.
Thing at right looks like hartebeest.
It could - about the right size anyway.
#wildebeest
I think they are just resting..."friends" often rest their head on each other's back, or stand head to tail, or even form triads as here.
Really good genet - look and learn, everyone.
Not secretary nor other bird, I think, but could possibly be insect.
Neither...they look like bustards, prob. Whitebellied.
#eland. Longer tail distinguishes it from hartebeest.
#buffalo
Zebras on horizon, more gazelles closer.
#topi is right
#warthog. In 1 you can see a tusk, mane and little thin tail.
Long ears short tail...#hare hare.
Close, but I think hartebeest. Topi would look darker and have more backswept horns.
Lesser kestrels, migrants from Europe. They prey mostly on insects.
Male roars while chasing intruding males or herding females. Incredibly loud sound, see if you can find a recording!
#buffalo
And the S-curved horns, Impala is the only one of our animals with horns shaped thus.
Not eland. Buffalo is my best guess but its legs look so thick.
Yes wounded probably by another hippo.
Yes #wildebeest.
#eland
I was thinking eland. So, we are all over the place on this one!
Def not hyena, it has to be a cheetah or serval...I think serval.
Are we sure it's a lion? Are those dark spots on belly or JPEG artifacts? and body shape looks more like male leopard to me - just saying 😃
Look in Discussion Boards/Help/FAQs, the third item down, Sizes of animals - might help.
Has to be #impala with that tail.
Probably #reedbuck
From shape and height it's an smallish antelope ear but rounded not pointed like gazelle, so your choices are reedbuck bushbuck or impala.
#steenbok - much more common in open grassland, lighter color than duiker with more white.
It is a dikdik. Steenbok would have less angular butt and show some white on legs.
#zebras. Backlit they look dark.
Cutting the grass so you get less "nothing" pics 😃
I suggest wildebeest calf - small horns, pointy ears, beginning of mane on shoulders.
So nice!
Very close to lens...maybe spider?
Eland really are big, bigger than gnu or zeb but not as massive as buffalo. But I think all the non-zebras here are gnu (wildebeest).
#white-tailed-mongoose...small size, white tail.
Probably #hartebeest
#eland - note tassel tail and lack of dark patches on hips and shoulders.
I think it's the rear view of #baboon showing its bare butt & tail at edge of frame.
What a gr8 capture!
It could, but I don't think we can ID for sure.
50 minutes later there is still an eagle feeding in the same spot: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG001as67
I'm guessing that the eagle is catching swarming termites on the ground (they often do) and the Lesser Kestrels are catching them in the air
#hartebeest is right. Arm is too thin for a lion.
Cool! I think most are superb starlings.
#white-tailed-mongoose is what it is.
Maybe, as no visible horns, but the one standing is male.
Definitely. Which cat, is a little harder! My guess is cheetah.
#impala is right. 3-tone body color scheme and black spot at groin are clues.
Why? Large size, oxlike build, straightish backswept horns, black garters on forelegs, dewlap under neck, etc.
The one in back is a reedbuck I think, in which case the one close to camera is surely not a serval.
I see no snake, just a stick. 'Rodent' might be springhare but can't be sure.
I see the tree moving with wind...no wildcat.
#serval, from small size and the way the spots on back join together in rows.
Note black spot below ear...#reedbuck
Hard to tell from tiny image but fam. Pieridae, maybe Colotis euippe or danae or antevippae.
Looks swollen, ouch.
Looks like elephant trunk
From the profile I think they're wildebeest.
Birds soaring and on ground could be white storks.
Young what? I see an adult #gray-breasted-spurfowl
Could be a territorial male Impala chasing a rival.
I agree Bonnie. They are so vast, mysterious, wise-looking and it is so amazing that we still share their planet.
I suggest buffalo ear.
Wildebeest unlikely here in dry season. I suggest hartebeest.
#hartebeest
More likely zebra
How are we to know your guess? Looks like #buffalo
#buffalo
No, they are fairly used to cars by now.
Can't tell
or hartebeest?
#aardvark, good
Correct
You get used to it 😃
#Dikdik. Duikers v seldom seen.
It is a marsh owl
Dust in the air
#tawny-eagle
Good call, #buffalo
Surely this is a #leopard?
Lens dirty or encrusted with cat pee?
Like!
Google is our friend 😉 I had to look it up.
Possibly...could be a number of different things, impossible to be sure.
Take a look at #thomsons-gazelle - much commoner, has that dished face and light muzzle with dark stripe from eye to mouth.
Agree tricky!
I'll buy that.
#grey-breasted more prevalent in this area. White malar stripes, orange throat & red base to bill are distinctive.
Among ungulates females in estrus show increased tendency to mount other females. May serve as long-dist signal to male that female's ready.
Yes. Maybe ostrich.
Grants would show much more white, esp. on rump. These are impala.
Small size, tight little tail, hair forming peak between pointy ears, very slender legs, not much white visible...like that.
#superb-starling
#eland balls
Truly a puzzle. It's the muzzle, mouth and chin of sth sniffing the camera. Doesn't look hairy enough for cat. Maybe some kind of antelope?
With the black spot below ear, I say #reedbuck.
No, too low. It looks like a #buffalo.
#spotted-hyena. Jackal is much smaller & looks like fox.
Soaring raptor is all we can say. Red kite not seen in Sgti.
Maybe warthog with less mane than usual. Butt looks like w'hog.
White #stork is right
#dikdik
#dikdik
#grants-gazelle
#buffalo
#wildebeest
Looks like it.
Those topi are just trotting past the camera. Hunted animals gallop flat out! Hunts are much rarer than u imagine.
Very nice!
#aardvark is a good call.
...and the size, and that little dewlap and especially that tail...this is #eland.
ASG001bh24 shows lions covered in flies in same site 2 hrs earlier. Typically if they find a shady site by 0930 they'll stay most of day.
I vote #steenbok because of slender build, large ear, very white underparts, light tan upperparts.
But looks too low for a big spotted cat.
There is no light, until the animal's movement triggers the flash. At that time the animal may be moving in any direction.
Wildebeest should not be here at this time of year with the grass so dry. I suggest #hartebeest
Definitely #lion
Very small for hyena. Maybe jackal.
good - spots look right for #serval
Horn looks like buffalo. Smaller moving animal in centre maybe gazelle.
#Wildebeest L of tree, maybe more grazing further away.
I think 2 reedbuck
possibly hyenas
#baboon is correct
mostly zebra, a wildebeest and a ?gazelle.
#Wildebeest
#Wildebeest
#Wildebeest
#Wildebeest #young is right
#impala
looks like wildebeest leg.
#Wildebeest - you are not likely to see such large herds of any other animal, except zebra.
En Africa no hay chupacabra! Maybe impala or gazelle, can anyone tell?
yup, termite mound, it's always there 😃
correct
prob hartebeest...eland usually shows a dark stripe along middle of belly
#tawny-eagle, funny to see it run like this
I'd say #warthog with #grants-gazelle beyond it.
male #thomsons-gazelle - Grants is bigger
I think you're right.
Most are #zebra, at least 10, and maybe one hartebeest near R of zebra group.
2 #zebras standing head-to-tail as they often do. You see the nose of one, tail of the other.
#Wildebeest is right. You can see its beard and front leg. Second wildebeest in distance.
correct
I'd guess tommies.
Looks like mostly #thomsons-gazelle
Most herbivore species are tolerant. You have at least 11 zeb there.
I only see a tree shadow...anyway we don't score shadows.
#elephant is right
#grants-gazelle
correct, young male #eland. Spooky photo!
I think #hartebeest
yes - pipit or lark, can't tell.
Maybe but I can't think which bird. Might be a white butterfly.
#topi is right, distinctive horn shape
Nice - the less common #side-striped-jackal, distinguished by white tail tip.
Looks like it.
Do this: choose Zebra from list, enter # & activity, hit Identify. Now choose Wildebeest from list, enter # & activity, hit Identify, Finish
#bat-eared-fox
#Spotted-hyena is right
A small #bustard species, maybe white-bellied.
#impala young male. note black marks at hind ankles, dark ear tips, backswept horns. Rbk horns curl forwards.
Not a fox, too small, but still looks like a small mammal. Maybe mongoose?
Looks like it.
Nose of another #buffalo
Great! I hadn't seen a vervet there before.
#wildebeest is correct
#wildebeest - the dark stripes are characteristic.
no, #black-backed-jackal
many zebra there too.
#tawny-eagle
no, it's a male eland doing an equipment check.
Cool - that's a rare sighting. Maybe a spitting cobra.
mixed wildebeest & zebra
Grazing
maybe #warthog
#buffalo
well done
#young #wildebeest is right.
no, they are seeds of grass, probably a Sporobolus species.
#impala is correct
could be a tommy.
#wildebeest
Nice find!
A w'hog' back only comes to bottom of frame and bristles more sparse. My guess is #wildebeest,
Agree hare running R to L.
I see no claw, but in 3 is the rump, tail and heel of a sitting animal that could be #hartebeest. Close one is too tall for lion too.
Hi bellas granny! This looks like a #white-bellied-bustard
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
#spotted-hyena is a good guess. With the eye of faith I can even see some spots!
Correct
Dorsal crest and rounded ear are more typical of #bushbuck.
#buffalo
Looks like 1 #mongoose
Very clear #white-tailed-mongoose
We can't know what u guessed, but with those puny little horns it has to be female #thomsons-gazelle.
Size is a good cue. Heads at camera height= #thomsons-gazelle. grants are taller.
#white-bellied-bustard
Small #bird
Don't think so.
No, it's hard. Call it a Thomsons gazelle and you will probably be close to the truth.
Nope, read the discussions. You have to give it your best guess. This is tail of #bird sitting on camera.
#impalas on L. Can't make out the thing on R.
I think #aardwolf.
Sweet! It's a #dikdik leaping to see over the tall grass.
#spotted-hyena
#tawny-eagle
#eland
European white stork. The only crane in Sgti is the crowned crane.
#bird-other, and on horizon just a tree.
I think nothing there. The lump in middle is a termite mound.
Well done misty...no mistake about that one!
#eland
Very cool
#warthog. Ear at top, then bulge of eye, then big wart below the eye!
curious sequence! I think it's the same giraffe, raising a hind foot to scratch foreleg.
Looks like lion.
Adult #topi
See below - #waterbuck
Nothing moving but grass. Your reptiles prob rocks or elephant dung.
#topi
L of bushes = #grants-gazelle. R of bushes not sure, maybe same. In your face = #thomsons-gazelle I think.
You're right! My guess is warthog.
#topi - if you lighten it you can see the black marks on those legs
The thing above camera in 1 looks like a landing bird's tail. Your cheetahs could possibly be gazelles...other opinions?
Not so hard...Large size, brown, horselike tail = #wildebeest
#eland and #zebra
#grants-gazelle would be my call too, based on the amount of white on rump.
yep, #elephant
Yes you can! Look at the rosette pattern of its spots - unique to #leopard.
#eland is right. Good call
#wildebeest
#wildebeest
You'll get a lot of hartebeest close to camera, standing in the shade of the camera tree!
Centre animal swishing a black horse-like tail - diagnostic for wildebeest.
Correct!
😉 good to see ya back!
I think, hope, it's just a vertical branch. Comms towers in the area are all on hills I believe.
No. Fire looks redder and flash would pick up some smoke.
More likely insect such as dragonfly or grasshopper.
#wildebeest
I favor lion. Hyena is your only other option.
Herd animal, smallish, poss gazelles?
plant
We can't know what your best guess was...mine is "no animals here".
I think mongoose, yes.
Looks like ear of #lion female to me
Sceptical at first but I agree with #leopard, You can even see the bunch of white whiskers on its nose.
Nice one! Very smooth & hairless...zeb butt has horiz stripes...dark hair beyond/below...could be part of an upswept horn, as in buffalo?
#wildebeest
Humm, my intrepidity is out of practice...Think they are wite-headed buffalo weavers.
I don't see it. The thing at lower left is just a sun artifact.
That's all i see. "No animals here"
#wildebeest ~8 or more
Looks like butterfly.
There are going to be a lot of "nothings". Just check the 'no animals here' box and no need to tag.
#dikdik is right
correct
All I see here is 1 #buffalo walking from L to R. The small thing in front of buffalo, as usual, is its head.
The horn shape of the further one is distinctive. Can't go back but a majority will likely classify #wildebeest, & majority wins!
Little white pointy ears = gazelle. Most of head below frame = #thomsons-gazelle (Grants are taller)
#hippo
Very nice! From feathered legs and probabilities i would guess tawny eagle.
You must be a scientist! 😃
I don't know. I've only worked with lions.
#reedbuck is right
#warthog is right
They have more rounded ears than the striped hyena, and this is a #spotted-hyena
Yes, wildebeest
correct
#warthog for sure
#elephant is correct
#hartebeest
#topi & #thomsons-gazelle is right.
definitely #hartebeest
Camera. Looks like they are off road and approaching something photogenic that's sitting under this tree!
The spots in frame 1 of present sequence appear to be muzzle spots, where the whiskers grow - the spots we use to ID lions.
Yes, #serval
All zebra, about 10 in picture.
Hartebeest yes - but no deer in Serengeti! Deer-like beasts here are antelopes, closer related to cows than deer.
I agree, wildebeest.
Yes, 2 #warthogs beyond the close zebra.
Your pig is a #warthog, your brown balls probably elephant dung. African porcupines are huge, as big as a warthog, black and white in color.
Looks like #lion. Short body hair, no spots.
dsiepman, if you see animals always try to guess. Doesn't matter if wrong. Here, blond beard and long black tail are clues,
#thomsons-gazelle but can't really say if young or adult.
#warthog
My best guess is #buffalo
Hartebeest calves - none of the bovids are born with horns, for obvious reasons. Small horns visible on the L calf.
brown body black face = #wildebeest
#buffalo x 4 at least. I'm totally convinced.
Looks too big for w'hog - prob buffalo.
Try #elephant
Weell done, you're right - lightening the photos, I can see #topi. What looked like a long tail is really a short tail close to camera 😃
But it's still a #grants-gazelle. They do vary in the extent of their black markings.
Correct.
Better not to tag unless you are certain. This is a #male #lion. Civet is smaller, nocturnal, and not in open plains.
wildebeest surely, with that luxuriant tail.
#wildebeest x 3
Correct.
I think it's just a fold where limb meets body.
If you read people's previous comments below, you may get a clue!
Yes - not unusual in female tommies.
#thomsons-gazelle
We're not in SA...these are #thomsons-gazelle.
Misanthropic! These are hard-working members of the hot-air balloon crew, folding up a balloon after landing near this camera.
The smallest one (beyond the rump of the foreground female) may be young.
#wildebeest
Wildebeest males often do thrash young acacia trees with their horns, not sure why, maybe he has been doing this.
Yes - females have very weak horns and they sometimes break.
I see no lions. I do see two wildebeest calves, running after their mamas.
Dikdik has a much more pointy snout, no black muzzle and a big black mark in front of eye. This is a #reedbuck. See ASG000bxqj for dikdik.
The 'baby vervet' is a crowned lapwing or similar sized bird.
#thomsons-gazelle
Do try to learn to distinguish the sexes of tommies. Females only ever have little spike horns about as long as their ears. This is a male.
#spotted-hyena
Correct!
#spotted-hyena
I can't see any.
Its legs. This is a #secretary-bird, and they are tall. We are looking up its posterior - its underparts are mostly black.
The 4 tommies we can clearly see are all males; and it's not unusual for them to feed near Grants.
That looks like a lion, but I'm not convinced that it is. I think it's another hyena. If lion, the hyena wouldn't approach it like that.
No. He has male horns - very different from female horns.
Nor can I!
She is lactating - may be pregnant, may have just given birth. Nursing mums show brown stains round nipples, not clearly visible here.
I think all we can say is that she has had cubs in the past - the prominent black nipples show that.
I don't think so, but it is bizarre! For once, I am stuck - anyone got ideas (about the thing in frame 2)?
Resting. Chances of anything dying in front of camera are vanishingly small unless it's a kill. Then you'd have carnivores!
Puzzling - not gazelle or impala, bigger than dikdik, poss reedbuck male fawn?
#elephant
Here the tommies look smaller than they really are, they are in a dip as well as further away. Tommy back is about as high as a zebra belly
Looks as though just standing next to the sitting ones. When they mount, the mounted individual is standing too.
That's right, and you will probably see more aardwolf than striped h.
Yes, most cameras are attached to trees and these are leaf shadows on tommy's back.
Looks male - thick neck, testes apparently present.
Gender can be hard to determine from photos, as females have fake penises! This could just be a big meal.
Some are born one-tusked or tuskless; in other cases, tusks break off.
Judging by size of facial warts and presence of penis, I doubt it!
Deformed horns are common in females - this is a young male, and their horns are usually symmetrical and strong.
I would interpret this as a Grant's calf (note tiny horns) sitting down while its mama (longer thin horns) feeds in foreground
Believe me, it can 😃
Often they raise their nose to sniff the air, as wind travels faster high up than it does close to ground.
I agree #hartebeest
aww thanks (blush)
That one is pregnant, but as far as I know they don't bear twins.
Not noticeably.
If it's not reversed, it could be 2 different eland, with #guineafowl in frame 3.
Definitely male #thomsons-gazelle
Actually it's one of the commonest subspecies of Toyota touristicus 😃
#warthog
Not with such a luxuriant tail - #wildebeest.
R of centre is a #zebra and to his R could be tommy - hard to see.
Greyish with long sparse bristles, looks like warthog scratching self on camera box.
All we can tell from this photo is that there were 3 #spotted-hyena.
probably a francolin.
I think buffalo.
#serval
There are 3 eyes on L when I lighten it, but their configuration suggests 3 diff individuals.
Yes, Martial eagle - one of a series of this eagle eating prey on this stump.
It is a young male #impala. Because length and twist are added at the base of horns as they grow, horn shape changes through life.
That's what I do. In a herd you can have several standing, feeding, moving, resting - click em all.
Can't ID those eyes but they are too far apart for one animal, could be as many as 3.
could only be giraffe.
#grants-gazelle females interacting - maybe the one in the shade is telling the other, 'no room here!'
If male, you'd see cheek hair in #3 for sure.
I only see the 2 jackals and waving plants.
Ha, last time I said zebra, this time they look like gnu, so it's a hard call!
Hard, yes. We can tell it's not a very big animal, with rather scruffy pelt and a suggestion of spots down low, so I guess #spotted-hyena.
I think you got it right SarahJenny. And the camera is tilted sideways, maybe from eles playing with it!
Looks like it - but she has probably turned her head to use her carnassial cheek-teeth, like scissors, to shear through some tough tissue
The centre ele has tusks but the R one doesn't. Thus, the centre one may be older but further away. Twins are VERY rare!
Yeah, those things hurt. They can puncture 12 ply tyres!
But that 'little information' includes 40 yrs familiarity with Serengeti and knowing what's likely to walk thru that landscape 😃
In frame 3 you can see a little helmet spike moving ahead of the body, making it a #guineafowl !
#grants-gazelle, yes
Looks like a #francolin.
#wildebeest. Note: dull brown color, tail like horse, beard below neck, stripes on body.
I think #male #lion is right.
#thomsons-gazelle
Not the moon, as it was a thin crescent on that date. Probably a dust speck illuminated by flash, we often see that.
F horns are v. thin, as here. M horns get about twice as thick, and eventually twice as long. Even young M horns are thicker than this.
Can't tell. Could just be sniffing, as this is a place where hyenas often come to rest.
Could be.
Wrong shape for guinea, wings & tails too long and flexible. But I'm not sure what they are!
Yes I think so. If we're looking at its belly in 3, it's too big to be serval.
I wouldn't expect them to fight, as both females. Left one appears to be eating, right one may be giving way to her. Who knows!
Tricky! Hoofed animals flick their tails, but won't keep them up for 3 frames. But a #spotted-hyena holds its tail up when excited.
Probably gnu, yes.
Giraffe yes, but the other guy is a zebra 😃
Looks normal - just brightly lit compared to shadowed ones in front.
Hope the new season will be posted b4 year's end. Meanwhile you could browse some of the collections and check out other people's IDs.
#vervet not.baboon
#young #buffalo is right.
#warthogs is right
Looks like lappet-faced #vulture
It's 3 more #buffalo
They eat a lot of trees. How much damage depends on how much space they have - in Serengeti, they've a lot of woodland!
#hartebeest
#wildebeest and #young is correct.
Baby to left of tree, and a larger one (probably not adult) behind the tree.
what did u guess? 3 #wildebeest.
Yes. If you think about it, they must start with no horns, so this is a stage in developing the mature horn style. The 'kink' comes later.
For starters - if you look in Discussion Boards/Science/Birds, you will find some collections of photos of birds seen in SSS.
I can't tell what those standing at L are, but I'd guess more impalas.
Can't be sure. My guess is cape rooks.
Springhare is very nocturnal. Also it has big bushy tail and very small forelegs. This is #dikdik.
Neck, not tail!!
Could be...but it's 2 #buffalo.
No, look at the tail - has to be #wildebeest.
Possibly.
It's another warthog.
I think it is another secretary.
Looks like it.
Can't tell! Looks eagle size.
Could be 2 young males fighting - using their heads & necks as clubs.
Yes, there are a few! Believe it or not, the Lion Project collars only 1 female at a time, per pride, in its study area.
Not deer, antelope (cow family!) - #thomsons-gazelle
With that tail? no way. Please don't tag unless you are sure of your ID. This is a #warthog.
Maybe - I can't figure it out.
correct
Road grader. No farming in Tanzania national parks.
all #wildebeest, at least 14 in picture
There's a #young #wildebeest standing behind a big wildebeest, altogether 5 present, that's all we can say. Births take place in Dec-Jan.
#impala
Yoy got the right family. They are #cape-rook
They are #reedbuck. Bushbuck are redder, usually with a grey 'collar' on neck and some white spots on body, and black & white marks on legs.
#thomson's-gazelle
Looks like #eagle, no horns. There are several eagle pics from May 14, which we've ID'd as a Martial eagle.
It's a #wildebeest.
#spotted-hyena, striped only by tree shadows. Striped hyenas are VERY rarely seen on SSS and mostly at night.
#warthog. It's out unusually late in evening.
Buffalo is right.
Yes it looks small.
see below. We seldom get daylight pics of BEF.
correct
LBJ. Maybe pipit, or lark.
#wildebeest, yes
No.
More #buffalo!
You bet. Lots of grasshoppers and other insects flee the fire and the birds have a feast!
You'll see a lot of them...they are #wildebeest, adult and young, at least 7.
#vervet
See below.
8 trees 😦
I see no dikdik, just an #impala exiting R. Warm two-tone tan color and black heel spots are diagnostic.
Who knows. But nice close-up!
No, they don't harm babies...all just running
Ha, lucky you! You got a #springhare - kind of nocturnal rodent that hops like kangaroo.
Nor me. Medium/small antelope, could be a tommy.
It's a francolin or spurfowl - can't see which species. Bustards are bigger with long neck & legs.
Thanks rlb66xyz for keeping me honest...#hartebeest !
Reedbuck normally aren't seen in loads. Note the black-tipped ears and horizontal division between dark and light tan, on these #impala.
This #spotted-hyena has long neck hair too, more rounded ears than Striped, and is MUCH more commonly sighted.
The mongooses are bipedal with beaks. #bird, can't see what kind.
correct
#hartebeest IMO. The belly is too high, and the arm too thin, for a lion.
#warthog is correct
Could be the butt end of a lion.
The animal obscured by zebra is another zebra. The animal at left of these zebras is a female #grants-gazelle.
#cheetah is right
#grey-breasted-spurfowl / francolin
Well spotted!
I'd guess hartebeest but can't be certain.
#warthog
correct - and of course, zebra at far R.
#dikdik
With those very skinny horns, can only be female #grants-gazelle.
Guess it could be Crimson-tip, Colotis hetaera, but there are several that look similar.
No - #buffalo, at least 2. Looking at the rhino tag group, most sightings there are buffalo, elephant or warthog! But rhino CAN occur.
#buffalo
Looks like horse but isn't - there are none there, except the striped ones. This is a topi.
You don't need to tag fires.
This was 14 mo. ago. Much of SNP burns Jun-Sep and then it rains Nov-May. There's already been a new cycle of fires, and rains have begun.
#serval for sure
#buffalo young
Def #serval with that short tail.
Young zebs like this one often look brown.
The eyes look like a fairly small animal, but no detail is visible. A lion would surely appear paler.
With that tail, it couldn't be anything else.
They do have amazing eyes, and it is perfectly OK to appreciate them 😃
or sniffing it. #female #lion
Unlikely, 'cos very open country. They are more tommies.
Big animal nearly 2m high (how do I know? camera is 1m high, half of animal is above horizon) = #eland
#warthog - combo of bristly back and thin whip-like tail in frame 3
#secretary-bird - light upper body, black 'britches'.
correct - big, pale, no black markings on legs
correct
The strong black stripe on its side is your best clue - #thomsons-gazelle. There are 2 in this pic.
Very unlikely to see aardvark in daylight, also they are bigger. These are #guineafowl.
Look at that long horsey tail - #wildebeest!
but horns very distinct, showing these are #hartebeest.
When you post pics here, we don't know what your wild guesses were!
They often seem to scratch their faces on the camera box.
I think it's just grass.
They are separate closed or open rings rather than a spiral.
I can't know what you guessed, but hope it was #wildebeest.
The 3 animals on R are #wildebeest. At a distance, their backs look light.
Eland has a long tail with a tassel at end. "Crested' tail like this is typical of #hartebeest and topi. This is hartebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle
I don't see elephants. The animals in R bkg are zebras - which, surprisingly, are often mistaken for elephants.
Yes - like other members of cow family, #wildebeest sits down forelegs first.
Umm...embarrassing for a lion researcher, but I can't be absolutely certain! I would say #lion because of stout build.
#oxpecker
These are #reedbuck
#zebra for sure.
#spotted-hyena
Nothing odd. When a new SD card is put in a camera, the tech records the date and the camera number.
Based on size & color this is #hartebeest
#cheetah - they are bigger. You are looking probably at its shoulder, whereas only the face of a serval reaches cameras height.
It's a #hippo, and eating grass not birds.
#wildebeest
In a car with a pop-top? It's a standard tourist rig. There are many pix of balloons landing here, so maybe part of that crew.
Yes, they often lie down. No elephants were harmed to make this photo!
Just try to guess what they are. Each pic is classified by many people, so if the results are very variable, the experts will review it.
The light spot is just grass, and i think there are several more impala over there, so there wouldn't be a lion.
#wildebeest is right
Not sure what we have here, it might be elephants.
If you look in the collections you can find many more in this sequence.
correct
correct - also, spotted is far more common.
Smallish (cameras are mounted 1 metre high) and has a thick black stripe along its side = #thomsons-gazelle (a bovid, not a deer)
I'd say #elephant
Yes, it's one of the biggest spp here except for hippo, rhino & ele. Level horizontal back & solid dark color distinguish it from gnu.
I was too, until I lightened it. It's a #thomsons-gazelle with head down and rump to camera.
Shape, size and color are wrong for dikdik. I think #reedbuck is a better fit.
#grey-backed-fiscal - a kind of shrike.
Difficult. They appear to be #wildebeest.
You're correct.
#buffalo
I don't see any...these are all #impala
Anything weird and bristly close to camera is often a #warthog.
I see only 2. From the head, the horns sweep down and then their tips curve back up again.
correct
yes, he is following her, perhaps with romantic intent.
There is - see, it is big, has a long beard, and some stripes. Not many animals with that combo. It's a #wildebeest.
The beard gives you a clue - not many except #wildebeest have them. The two animals in bkg are also wildebeest.
Looks like distant fire. Check this image from a few days later: ASG001690m
impala or gazelle, can't see clearly.
#hippo - way too big for w'hog.
#spotted-hyena is right
No horses in Serengeti. This is a #wildebeest.
#hartlaubs-bustard
The 'hippo' is a female ostrich.
It's close to sunset, and you do occasionally see porcupines by day.
#giraffe is the only one with such long legs.
absolutely #elephant
#bushbuck is right.
butterfly
it looks like the front hoof being picked up for the next step.
Think it's a #wildebeest.
#thomsons-gazelle - was that your guess?
The dewlap, the black patches on forelimbs and the black tasseled tail are all distinctive marks of #eland. Study those ID pix!
Yes. About this time in the morning they start to get airborne on rising thermals.
Chec the ID fotos, u'll find it thar.
#cape-rook
No - see below
#hartebeest
It's a #wildebeest
2 #elephant - one moving, the other standing R of centre.
correct
#hartebeest
What did u guess - #warthog?
#martial-eagle
Most eagles aren't this tall - may be secretary?
Wow!
Umm, look at the color - blue! This is a lilac-breasted roller.
These are buffalo. Watch the one coming from R. Its back from shoulder to rump is quite level, while gnu slopes down from shoulder to rump.
Definitely.
correct
The leg markings are your clue.
Lappet-faced #vulture
Looks like #tawny-eagle
Looks like just one - may be preening itself!
#wildebeest
Can't tell if it's an animal at all, but it's not a gnu - by May, gnu calves are big & dark like the one sitting L of centre tree.
looks like young #wildebeest
Crowned is a forest species, would be very unlikely here on the plains.
Short trunks usually mean a past encounter with a snare.
hard to say - it's behind a twig, could be part of another hyena?
probably grant's.
#eland is right
looks like it
#thomsons-gazelle
#secretary-bird
#wildebeest
#honey-badger.
Seems to have feathered head and neck, so #eagle.
Use what you can see; size, color, hair texture, shape, markings. In this case, 3 #hartebeest
Right. Also, if it were a Grant you wouldn't be looking over its back - they are that much bigger.
Looks like it.
They are born hornless, start with straight spikes that start to develop their curve towards end of 1st year.
Standing and swinging its trunk. In background, a little ele is lying down and fidgeting.
Can't tell if leg injured but his horns are broken!
Walking or standing - exposure low n slow, so it's blurred.
#hartebeest scratching itself
#elephants. They actually aren't born full sized!
yes, it would be a tommy.
So what's your guess? Mine is warthog.
I knew you'd figure it out, rlb66xyz!
Looks more like #buffalo
no, rhino is not so tall - #elephant. GES, recommend you don't tag them unless you are really sure of your ID!
also known as #bushbuck - note horns, this is a male.
I vote for tail of white-tailed mongoose.
#hartebeest
#vervet
No, rear end of #wildebeest - warthog would not be out so late at night.
Night flash photo, so top left is part of background beyond the animal. However, I can't tell what the animal is!
Most likely grey-breasted spurfowl. That and coqui francolin are the only ones common in the study area, and it isn't coqui.
#impala horn.
BEF has big black ears. This looks more like a #mongoose.
no, #wildebeest
No, #grants-gazelle
These are #eland. Gnus have a much less obtrusive penis sheath.
These are #hartebeest - looks like a young one far L approaching an adult.
#grants-gazelle surely?
Only flightless bird you will see here is ostrich!
I think Grant's is right.
#baboon
Looks like it.
#lion
5 x #thomsons-gazelle
Agree #thomsons-gazelle
Agree #grants-gazelle
This seems to be our second sighting of this cat. No tortoise, it is investigating a tree stump.
Not eland but #hartebeest
probably #thomsons-gazelle
probably #thomsons-gazelle
#impala butt
One of the small #bustard species
Why rhino? doesn't resemble any animal I can think of. Human?
#wildebeest
Looks like our old friend the #hartebeest
I think Grants too.
Probably #hartebeest. Large animal, hair on neck is very short and smooth.
May be a blacksmith plover.
Yes #hartebeest - eland should show a black ventral stripe as in ASG0012y6u.
There are 2 zebras on R, can't tell what is mystery animal at L but since no stripes, may be gnu. Stick is a stick.
Looks more like hyena.
#Wildebeest for sure
Might be small bird.
It is a way of resting their necks, but also each zebra's tail keeps away flies from the other's face.
Yes.
Agree steinbuck / steenbok
It really is a bird's feathers.
My take is zebra and hartebeest back L, and warthog centre.
Hard to tell - maybe impala.
#aardvark - yes, very unusual!
Not sure either. Possibly part of human? We'd need to see other pics from about that time.
Far L may be gazelles but others are #hartebeest.
#human
Sure it's not civet, but has anyone an idea?
Yes, but the hartebeest is an #eland. Look at its tail!
It wouldn't be very preg in May, they conceive in Apr, but still could be wildebeest.
So massive, has to be #elephant
With so much white on tail, must be #impala
Shape is very like gnu but if it was, you would likely see an ear - buffalo horns are wider. And I agree with Brit about flies. So, #buffalo
#elephant trunk.
could be rufous-tailed-weaver.
The camera is mounted about 1m high so in a flat landscape, animals shorter than 1m are below horizon, and taller ones are above it.
raindrops
Under tree is probably also a guineafowl.
Nevertheless, something with contrasting black and white markings could well be...zebra?
#Jackal, possibly side-striped.
Possibly hyena? Color resembles gnu but time of year is wrong for them.
Either is possible, and I wouldn't rule out wildebeest too.
May be baboon. There is more of it here, 2 min later: ASG0017e2y
looks like #serval
looks like #spotted-hyena, see also ASG00148yq about 1hr later.
warthog seems likely.
Probably #hartebeest, see ASG0012rcf an hour later.
More likely wind, or some unseen animal rubbing self on tree.
Highly unlikely to see a civet out on the plains at midday, they are nocturnal & secretive. This is #spotted-hyena.
It's a spurfowl or francolin, can't see any details.
Hard to tell...more likely would be bustard or perhaps secretary bird.
well done, hartebeest they are.
The round grey thing at left? Could be, it's about the right size, but hard to make a positive ID.
#gazelle, can't be sure which kind.
No - #buffalo, there are at least 4 in this shot.
probably
#cheetah - hyenas are not so clearly spotted.
Correct, could be black-winged kite
Not jackal, the ears and eyes are wrong. This appears to be a young #warthog.
#bird is probably our familiar black-winged-kite.
#zebra for sure - sorry Brittany, the stripes are real stripes and the zebra is wrinklier than usual! View is of chest and forelegs.
I think it has to be #buffalo. There shouldn't be gnus in such dry grass.
Looks like #wildebeest
based on size & texture, probably tommy.
probably a tommy.
okaaay - #guineafowl!
Looks like a mangy tommy, the horn fits too.
The birds are too small for vultures, may be doves.
These are young male #impala
It IS an #impala.
Yes, and thus she exposes a lot of bare skin which can easily lose heat. Female ostriches also pose like this to courting males ("I'm hot!")
helmeted #guineafowl - it's on the list. You're just seeing its head.
#bushbuck seen from rear.
probably #hyena.
It's round like hippo but has too much tail, so I think #buffalo.
There have been quite a lot of pics of mother & young this season. Otherwise, as you say, servals are solitary.
I see it as the left foreleg of a buff who is sitting with folded legs and leaning R. (But I really like the land walrus!)
Good! The forward-curving horns are right for #reedbuck.
Could just be closed. Their eyes can be quite hard to see.
Except, these are #eland. Note black stripe on belly, black marks around hooves - hartebeest don't have that.
Looks like one of the smaller bustards.
Yes, a #black-winged-kite
Looks right.
#thomsons-gazelle would be a good guess.
You don't need to tag fire, scorched etc, there are so many of these.
#black-headed-heron
#thomsons-gazelle
Appears to be a Von der Decken's #hornbill
#thomsons-gazelle, you can clearly see side stripe on the R one.
Ears are wrong for any hyena, and look at those two diagonal stripes! I'm sure it is #civet, well done jdemers!
Yes!!!
We rarely see more than one hare. Vervets? Birds? Can't be sure!
Yes, but no need to tag it. It will be in every photo from this camera.
Maybe, but color is more like vervet.
#impala in rain
Kori is much bigger, this looks like a plover.
#impala looks good.
That small brown thing looks more like a gnu calf.
Nice view of #lappet-faced-vulture
Looks like eland to me
Zebras do sometimes lie down, esp young ones. Looks like one standing, others sitting. Light distant beasts are zebra.
Beautiful!
#serval definitely
Correct
Not an animal
looks more like #serval
#ostrich say I
Ah, now I see it! Brilliant guys! I think I can retire...
Correct...wrinkled skin is distinctive
Compare it with same view, different time - nothing changes, so no animal.
#wildebeest, I think.
Yes - tommies are females and young; the grant R of centre is a young male - still a lot taller than tommies.
Very hard even when lightened. I'd guess zebra from shape, about 9 or 10.
With difficulty. They aren't so good at picking grass but can still browse from bushes at head height. And half a trunk is better than none!
Female Granti - butt & horns are distinctive; the side stripe is present in some grants but not many, just to confuse you 😃
#oxpecker bird on the buffalo.
If you compare with another pic of tree, say ASG0014bdt, there seems to be a leopard standing on branch just R of centre of tree.
But definitely #wildebeest tail at R, so they are very probably all wildebeest.
I'd guess baboon.
Nice one Brittany!
#dikdik! It looks bigger than it is, but the gray rump and the crest of hair between ears are distinctive.
#dwarf-mongoose
It looks too short-haired for hyena, I would guess cheetah.
Ouch, that looks like a lucky escape. It might recover, hard to judge, but if it limps it may be targeted again.
Could be as many as 4 #elephants here.
#secretarybird head probably with those spatulate feathers.
#owl is right, maybe Marsh owl.
#black-winged-kite
#ostrich is right, and small #bird could be a plover.
Remember, cameras are about 1 metre above ground so this would be a large mouse! My guess is #spotted-hyena.
But they are #buffalo.
Honest mistake...I've heard of unscrupulous tour-guides who try to convince their tourists that a warthog is a baby rhino!
#wildebeest, looks #young
If all frames are black, I'd say nothing there. If there seems to be movement, it's something.
#elephant is right
On left is #zebra. On R may be impala.
No punishment! There may be many pictures of the same view, all slightly different.
Too tall for lion, and gazelles would definitely watch one. Maybe hartebeest?
He does have little spike horns and he's a #young #wildebeest!
Yes - unusual!
Looks like #martial-eagle, but I can't tell what its prey might be, and I don't see the mongooses - just tommies
#lion is right
tail of #bird !
Yes, #lappet-faced-vulture, still resident on the plains in dry season when most other spp have left.
Could be camera overexposing for being in the shade. But (very rarely) light coloration does occur - google "white wildebeest"
Yeah that's so nice!
Looks like it! I guess that can happen.
It looks sorta friendly. Broken horn is a male and the other is a female so they wouldn't be fighting.
#serval looks right
correct!
Just swollen with big macho muscles I think. Likely a male with a big rack to carry around.
Shape is wrong, also impala and gazelles should show some trace of black. I think #reedbuck.
Maybe Grant in front, all Tommys behind.
Definitely #wildebeest
Beak of #kori-bustard
yes, can't be sure - there are a few wandering around who have been "truncated" by poachers' wire snares.
Definitely
Definitely #impala. Also, all Grant's have horns, impala females don't.
no, much smaller - probably #crowned-lapwing
#topi is correct
Might be gray-backed-fiscal but that is a fairly intrepid guess !
yes, and a #topi further away.
Call it nothing. Night photo yet not of an animal close to lens, so it's a glitch or a very dirty-lens photo.
One of the lapwings/plovers - Black-winged or maybe Crowned, can't see the details.
I agree #grants-gazelle
Only one possibility...the tallest of them all!
#giraffe
correct
bigger....#lion
I don't see eyes - on far left, looks like grass heads.
Yes, their whole back is iridescent blue.
little black bushy tail = #thomsons-gazelle
There shouldn't be actual dogs here. This looks like #spotted-hyena.
Can't see one!
no deer in Africa...may be a #wildebeest
yes #hartebeest tail, tricky one!
Civets are the size of a medium dog...these are small birds, perhaps superb starlings.
A warthog would not be out so late at night, and would show more hair. Might be young elephant lying on side - another guess!
#thomsons-gazelle is right
Yes #serval - because of black and white markings behind ears.
If tommy, it ought to have horns, but none visible. Maybe reedbuck?
About to spray the camera, I think!
No, just lighting artifacts, which we often see on this camera in early mornings.
Thanks for sharing it!
I think so.
yes #zebra - I just see 2.
We very rarely see zorilla. This is a #white-tailed-mongoose
Probably #grants-gazelle in foreground and #superb-starlings further away.
#thomsons-gazelle
The flies are often an ID aid, when you can only see a small part of the buffalo. No other animal consistently has so many flies!
Since camera points skyward and is being moved, I suspect this is #human.
No, it's the gnarly horns of a #buffalo.
If you mean the vegetation, yes. These are both #eland.
Gotta be #lion. There are so many pics of lions sleeping under this bush.
I'm guessing #jackal because a serval would have more black behind its ears.
The front one is definitely #wildebeest, look at the tail. I think the others are too.
Hyena is more likely.
Elephants are quite big. This is a warthog.
All look like zebra to me.
Identifiable as large & hairless with short thick legs - #hippo fits well.
I like that! Appears to be a #buffalo component,
#buffalo - at least 2 and possibly 4 in photo.
Probably #buffalo
#buffalo
Yes, #aardvark.
No...dikdik head is lower than camera height. Maybe a tommy?
Yes, about 4 months old.
Part of a plant in foreground.
#impala
True. It looks like a family on the move, so maybe hurrying to a shrubbier place to spend the day!
Tentatively #white-bellied-bustard
#magpie-shrike
Well spotted - #hartebeest kinky horns are distinctive.
#serval is right.
Seems impossibly low for another's tail, and absent from other frames...could be shadow of tail??
Yes! #serval x 2
All #buffalo, and they are listed.
#waterbuck
It is still the tail of #bat-eared-fox. Hippos are quite large.
They are #zebras - about 8 total.
You're correct. For those who are still learning gazelles - Grant's female in foreground, then male.
I like the perspective in this picture!
Looks like it - #grants-gazelle
Daytime - Maybe hand of researcher, or someone preventing camera seeing what should not be seen...
#black-headed-heron #bird
#grants-gazelle - lots of white on rear.
They are quite often active in daylight, esp early and late.
It looked like a threat. Re earlier comments about grant horns...these are all females.
you nailed it!
Sisige, grant females have much bigger horns than tommy females - slender but about a foot long, and quite functional for self-defence.
Or this is the big 'grant' that they applied for?
Looks like #wildebeest, horns are out of frame.
#lion is really the only animal that color that you'll see resting under a bush.
but head is clearly #wildebeest
Several possibilities - I'd guess zebra
#gazelle, species uncertain
#thomsons-gazelle
looks like #lion.
#buffalo
#lion
looks like #serval
I wonder if that's the tail-tip of another, close to camera. Could be a mother & young together.
I like it!
mine is #warthog
Routine grass fire. Fortunately the camera survived!
It's out of focus dust. Real moon looks about half that size.
#thomsons-gazelle
Genet? There's a hint of a ringed tail hanging down.
Head shape looks like #jackal.
Hard one - could be impala, hartebeest, several other possibilities. Not elephant - too low.
It's interspecific - 3 tommies, 1 grant.
#secretarybird is right
I think they are more gnus. One on R has a big black face.
Mature, and no sign of maleness there.
#secretarybird x 2
Must be. I can't see it at all 😉
Here's another jackal picture that might help: ASG00168xf
Dark mark about 1/4 way from tail base to tip is quite distinctive for BBJ.
#hippo looks right
This is a #thomsons-gazelle, dark marks are tree shadows.
Civet would definitely show striping along back and have a different shaped tail. This looks like a #black-backed-jackal.
More likely #thomsons-gazelle in tree shadow.
#grants-gazelle is right - the white curling forward over black bar on rump is distinctive.
Elephants aren't hairy like this.
The moving thing is just grass, so anyone moving it is out of frame.
#wildebeest elbow I would say
Looks like #serval.
I'm not intrepid enough for this one. LBJ!
#dwarf-mongoose definitely
leaves!
Foreground is Ring-necked or Mourning dove, can't see eye to distinguish. Background isn't dove but I can't ID.
correct
#buffalo
Either that or topi.
#thomsons-gazelle is a good guess.
The well-known #bird-other !
correct.
You generally don't see belly of giraffe, just legs. Maybe buffalo.
But no horns! Surely an #impala female.
#warthog.
I think they are all #grants-gazelle.
Yes, 2 playing in branches.
I see no animal.
Tommy is correct.
Just resting - young ones often lie on side thus.
These are Gazelles, wea. Hard to explain why - Eland are "bigger", shaped more like a cow. I think these are Grant's, maybe Tommies too.
Yes, tommy at far right. It's not unusual, but they eat different foods and don't seem to interact.
Happens most years, not as terrible as it looks - unless you're a grasshopper or stick insect!
Another tommy maybe
#buffalo correct - also, note the more cow-like tail than wildebeest who has a horse-like tail.
well, sometimes a zebra 'rides' another zebra... 😃
#spotted-hyena more likely. I just can't imagine seeing a striped h in daytime sitting under a tree like this, they are usually in a den.
#hartebeest looks right.
#wildebeest is right, may even be adult.
#waterbuck is right, well done.
#wildebeest
I think I can see the black stripes of #thomsons-gazelle, but not 100% sure.
No, in June, E. Rollers have returned to Europe! These are #superb-starling, metallic blue with orange below, and often seen in these photos
Yes, iPad is not good for night photos. On computer you can make lighter, see the details in the darkness.
Swarms (bees, termites) are usually not seen in dry season, and not so dense. This is a #dust-devil, picking up ash from the recent fire.
#interacting - jumping on another, out of frame!
This is a #young #baboon - in 1 you see its head at right, its bare butt & bent-down tail at left. Jackal has big triangular ears like fox.
Yes #lion
Right on lens and static - caterpillar, or dirt.
#thomsons-Gazelle
You did exactly right - made a guess based on what you could see. It is indeed a #warthog's rump.
You will see many, don't need to post or tag them. There are thousands.
All #thomsons-gazelle, maybe 9 total.
It is a tommy, but standing and maybe scratching self with a hind foot.
#bird
Genet is small, like a cat, and has no horns. These look like #topi.
prob female Hartlaub's
#guineafowl, which form large flocks esp in dry season.
Can'r tell - maybe buffalo?
Waiting for the champagne breakfast 😛
#impala - time to review the ID guide!
In fact it is a raptor (Accipitriformes), just with longer legs than others.
I agree, bat
#impala is a good fit, and habitat is right (trees & bushes).
Small and solitary, though, is unusual. Warthog?
No idea! Researcher opening the camera box?
Years of practice! 😃
These are #impala in classic impala habitat, but the little guy closer on R is a #dikdik.
For this open plains habitat, smallish size and warm color, best guess is #thomsons-gazelle.
Young often rest like this. No animals were harmed to make this photo!
#baboon. Can't fix res, but for zoom read this: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG0000x0t
But the stripes are distinctive - this is a #wildebeest
Steppe would have a bigger gape, extending beyond rear edge of eye, so this is #tawny-eagle.
Looks like it.
So far, that I can see #nothing!
Definitely seeing her reflection in the lens!
I think cats use the cameras as scent-marking posts, and check them out each time to see who else has been in the area.
I get, altogether, 4 #hartebeest, 2 #thomsons-gazelle, 3 #buffalo and a #grey-breasted-spurfowl #bird.
Fire. Sky is lighter at sunset.
I think it's #topi. Eland has similar black patches, but compare e.g.. ASG001817w and it's a good match.
Good guess. Either that or topi. I find it hard to tell, if mum isn't visible!
That is neat - must be a second serval checking the camera, as nothing else would be so close to a serval.
Definitely. Funny!
Exactly! This #crowned-lapwing / plover is the one most commonly seen in SSS photos.
I can't prove my ID - it's based partly on size - impala would be taller - and on habitat - too open for impala.
#eland leg. Topi would be more yellow below the black. Also see 10 mins earlier, ASG00182mw
Yes, he could well be doing that.
#wildebeest yes. You can see its black face, pale beard, and striped neck & shoulders.
Also, impala rarely seen away from bushy areas.
About 1 metre, like this #thomsons-gazelle. More info here: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000xe1
But it is a #secretarybird.
Right again...the well-named #superb-starling
Size, color & texture look like #wildebeest
Looks like #marsh-owl
Drooping a wing - hurt or just hot.
Likely a female #thomsons-gazelle
Looks hairier than a heron, too small for any antelope (to be that blurry it has to be very close). Maybe tail of baboon?
#elephant.
#hyena makes more sense!
Ah, no wonder you know your animals. I've done many safaris in Kenya. but not so many these days. Karibu TZ!
Looks blocky like a car but can't be sure. Foreground animal appears to be a tommy.
The 'tail' in 3 is likely the bristly lower lip. Ele is probably pulling grass, blurred in dim light, as there's no waterhole there
yes #guineafowl
Well done sisige! I'll buy #thomsons-gazelle. When I look at ASG0014cqj it's obvious. Duh!
#white-bellied-bustards
Ah yes, #white-headed-buffalo-weaver.
Funny!
We see them sometimes, but usually after 10am. In early morning, this camera gives interesting lens-flare effects.
all #buffalo
Hard one! Projections in 1 look like feathers. Either crest of Secretary with head v close to camera, or less likely, part of fem ostrich.
Use what you can see here. It's solid gray, no marks, lower than camera lens, coarse hair on back...that narrows it down to... #warthog.
I think so, yes. Only other option is hare but I think hare ear is more rounded at tip, eye would be closer to base of ear. Good call!
From its roundness and pink tints, I think so.
Likely the flank of another #hartebeest, closer to the camera.
This adult's in no danger. The rare predations by baboons are usually on baby gazelles etc who hide by crouching motionless in the grass.
Might be a babbler.
It's unusual though. You more often see a baboon troop and an impala herd peacefully feeding together. btw, that's an #impala in back.
#superb-starling - white vent feathers
Beautiful light and 'soft focus' (probably from cheetah pee all over the lens!) - a calendar photo!
#wildebeest
Good one, it isn't often you get to press the "51+" button.
spotted-hyena
But horns v distinctive - female #grants-gazelle
Let's not...might be back of serval ear but who knows.
#aardvark - Good guess say I.
from color & size, looks like #impala
Could be, or baboon? it's a bit brown for a vervet.
#thomsons-gazelle grazing. The black part is the stripe on its side.
Sorry...no horses in Serengeti NP, nor in most of E Africa. It's a zebra looking over another's back. Closer dark lump is a termite mound.
Antelope-type body, crest of dark hair along neck & shoulders - #young #wildebeest
There are 4 #birds, may be plovers, or sandgrouse.
#thomsons-gazelle resting.
No obvious black sidestripe, lots of white on rear, therefore #grants-gazelle x 3 and #hartebeest
#wildebeest
what's your guess? mine is #wildebeest, female groin and teats. 1/2 hr earlier the area was full of them: ASG00123oa
Don't know what you stabbed...my guess is #spotted-hyena
It's normal. This is a young male #thomsons-gazelle.
Looks like #lion.
You didn't share your guess. Wildebeest is one possibility.
Carnivore. Not lion or spotted cat. slightly scruffy with hint of long hair on neck - #spotted-hyena? Many hyena pix here later in morning.
Then your only other option is #grants-gazelle.
Male #thomsons-gazelle sitting down.
#warthog, and the others are of course #impala.
Zebra in bkg too.
Yes, it is! Mongoose? Not sure at all.
I'd guess #thomsons-gazelle.
Ear shape is v similar to the hartebeest in 3. Might be young h-beest, or a tommy - I can't be sure which.
#guineafowl
#thomsons-gazelle
Not confidently. I'd guess tommy.
#balloon mate! They launch just b4 sunrise and fly about an hour, so timing is right.
Yes, it's a whole new game when they get so close to the cameras! What will we do with these amazing skills when S-S is finished?
#superb-starling - a trash bird there, but they still blow me away!
#spotted-hyena
Yes it's something - elephant dung!
Couldn't see it...or anything moving. Where?
At least 3 in picture, not counting shadow. Always check for extra legs!
#ostrich !
Looks like #warthog
#lion
Honey-badgers are silvery-grey on back, and don't have hands. This is a #baboon.
Usually if it's this close and you can see the horizon over its back, as here, it's a #thomsons-gazelle. If it's taller, it's a Grant.
If it was there, you'd be sure! Nothing here.
This is the elusive #wildebeest.
Note large size, humped shoulder, fringes of hair above and below neck, vertical white stripes. Bushbuck have none of these. This is #eland.
Size, shape and color are useful clues. I see 1 #warthog grazing and 5 #guineafowl passing by.
The acacia thorn is probably 3-4" long, so animal is a bit small for elephant. It may be #eland.
Hartlaub's bustard.
Surely it's easier to see the stripey thing as the out-of-focus ridged horn of a tommy who is very close to camera?
yes #young
#grants-gazelle
Note fringe of black hairs overlapping edge of ear from back. Jackals don't show this - it's a #serval. We need a guide to ears and noses!
Tail of #bird perched on camera
Long ears with dark tips visible on front and back - surely #impala?
There's only one kind of warthog. They do look #young.
But color is totally wrong. These are #young #hartebeest.
Nice male #thomsons-gazelle #portrait
It occurs in many photos, hours apart, so it's grass or other vegetation.
It's elephant dung.
They Dolittle but stand in the shade 😃
Er... the bird is INSIDE the half-open camera box - that makes it a pretty small passerine!
I don't think so. If you compare with ASG0016gio, taken 5h earlier, there is no difference.
correct
Big, no spots, so it's a #lion!
It has to be serval or cheetah. Serval has greenish-yellow eye and #cheetah has orange eye, see 2, so that gets my vote!
Misty, tell me why these are cows. They look so much like #buffalo with #young! 😉
Nice #portrait.
Might be a lioness bending down to sniff below camera. I only say this because object in bottom R looks like back of a lion ear.
Sometimes they rest the trunk on a tusk, like this. Imagine having a 300-pound nose, it would start to pull on your face after a while...
Resting #wildebeest.
Limb - of tree or partly-eaten large animal.
The hard line between buff and white is typical of #grants-gazelle.
#reedbuck ?
#male #lion is right.
Looks like #spotted-hyena
#wildebeest
You'll only see impala where there are trees and bushes. Here's a #grants-gazelle between two #hartebeest.
Looks like a very new baby #hartebeest.
yes, stripes and irregular hair texture make it a gnu.
Plant
Probably #thomsons-gazelle
Well, there is a long-winged short-tailed bird perched on the camera box, maybe a blackwinged kite but who knows!
Correct, 4-5 months old. The horns start out straight, then become curved (. ) before getting their final shape.
No - refer to ID guide. This is a #kori-bustard.
That's very typical of #serval.
It's a road grader.
No - short cat face and long ears make it a #serval.
That's how it is, five months into dry season.
No, young ones often rest lying down.
To get somewhere else quickly.
Could be!
Ear shape fits warthog better!
male #bushbuck
#hartebeest, yes, and more distant tommies.
#warthog
correct - horn shape is distinctive.
Correct. A resident pair lives around this camera.
#crowned-lapwing, a.k.a. #crowned-plover. I assume you got the #giraffe too?
definitely #baboon
I agree. As elegant as a butterfly's wing, if you disregard what it's attached to... 😉
Absolutely - there's nothing like it!
Car yes, but the animals are bigger than car - #elephants, probably at least 30. I wouldn't expect to see wildebeest here in Oct.
#thomsons-gazelle - strong black side-stripe visible
Just grass. I can think of no green herps that you'd see in Serengeti grasslands.
Same old - gnu & gnu
Like!
#yellow-billed-oxpecker on #eland
Looks like #serval.
It's what they do. A big male like this has about an 18-foot reach!
Nope. We force you to guess. Here you have biggish dark grazing animals, #buffalo would be a reasonable guess.
#impala. You can even see the little black tufts on 'heels', which only impalas have.
Its blurriness confused me - I thought small thing close and unfocused, but could also be gnu moving very fast.
Corrrect
#white-tailed-mongoose
Possibly blackwinged-lapwing?
Teaser...baboon? I can't be sure.
Striped has longer hair on neck and back so I'd vote spotted h, but again just a guess.
I don't think so. More likely a hyena.
#white-bellied-bustard
Unmistakable topi on far R, and I think another sitting to L of the foreground h-beest. Mixed groups of these species are not unusual.
More like jackal than BEF, but very puzzling because neither is tall enough to be photographed from this angle - unless it's someone's prey?
#elephant, probably adult.
Yes there is. You guess. Actually there's enough here (ear, small deformed horn) to ID as female #thomsons-gazelle.
yes it is.
Looks like one.
Correct. We classify them as 'human' and tag them #cows, as you have done.
New juicy green shoots often appear soon after a burn.
Yes, #thomsons-gazelle
These are #dikdik, who are often seen in this particular view.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver
#serval
#black-winged-kite
Muzzle and horn of an ungulate, probably buffalo.
Can't see any animal bodies there. They may be eyes, or just flying insects lit by flash.
Can't see one.
...it's a sinister-looking bush 😦
#thomsons-gazelle
Ho hum, just another #aardvark!
correct
A #tawny-eagle.
Dark colour & humped shoulders = #wildebeest. In 1 you can also see the long flowing black tail of far left animal.
#thomsons-gazelle
This appears to be a #warthog - unusual to see one out after dark, but it's only just after dark.
Always guess and call it something. See discussion: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb.
Cameras are about 1m up, attached to a tree. Cheetah fur and spots are as shown. Young cheetahs are more fuzzy, especially on neck and back.
#crowned-lapwing
Smoke from fire. Fog sometimes seen on cold mornings after rain, usually Dec-Apr.
May just be because sun is behind it. There supposedly are dark zebras, you can find them with Google.
#eland. In 3 you can see that its head is high up, has slight twist to horns, and a tuft of hair below its neck.
I'd say #cheetah. We're seeing its shoulder, and a serval can only just reach its face up to the camera.
Good eyes!
In 3 it looks more like #hartebeest.
That is also possible !
hyena?
#wildebeest
Why not? April & May is a beautiful time to visit, not many people around, and wildflowers can be amazing.
probably #thomsons-gazelle
Probably #serval
Correct
Not an easy distinction. Size is more useful - a Tommy's head is about level with lens, Grant's are a lot taller.
Yes, we get a lot of these artifacts on this camera at dawn.
It's in the act of sitting down to rest - folding its fore-legs first, to be followed by hind-legs.
No grouse here! #kori-bustard.
Well done!
Correct, a very nice view of one. Often we only see part of it. Note bushy white tail and black legs - unique combo.
I think something much smaller and very close to the camera, like a small bird
Too far for reliable ID. Leopards are generally solitary. These could just as well be buffalo.
Well done...it bothered me that a zebra would be mugging the camera with no others visible.
It does look strange.
I'd guess #spotted-hyena, mainly cos ear looks hairless and lion ears are usually more fuzzy.
Take a break 😃
#spotted-hyena - dark because it's wet or muddy.
How about...pink nose, nostril and spotty muzzle of a lion (or other cat) sniffing camera?
#spotted-hyena is what I see.
Who knows? Maybe gnus, can't tell.
#young & tender!
I see no animals. Maybe your lion is a pile of dung.
#impala, I think.
#giraffe
#baboon for sure.
Correct
Big raptor, maybe tawny eagle.
There's a car and possibly part of a person, so #human
dragonfly
When you get that feeling it's best to stay well clear of the bushes 😃
#bird-other
The one on right of pair is a minor, note the straight vertical horns.
#ring-necked-dove
Looks like #young #cheetah to me.
I can't see any. There are a #buffalo mother and #young in background.
#banded-mongoose
No, too big and wrong shape - #buffalo
No, they look more like gazelles.
Looks more like cheetah.
This #bird is a #ring-necked-dove.
#buffalo - at least 3 here. Well spotted!
#wildebeest. ASG0018fn1 and ASG0018fn3 imply they were around for much of that morning.
You're welcome! It's an enjoyable challenge for me to ID some of the weird shots you all find, and to revisit the wonderful Serengeti.
L may be cape-rook, R probably vulture.
Only #wildebeest has this kind of beard - we can be absolutely sure. I see at least 2 in this pic.
#young #buffalo is correct
#black-backed-jackal for sure.
Correct. #Hartebeest often spend long periods resting in front of certain cameras.
Yes it is - #guineafowl are about the size of chickens.
Female #thomsons-gazelle often do.
#zebra
Can't really tell.
#leopard
#thomsons-gazelle
3 #eland on R for sure, 2 more zebras in centre, can't see what the further ones are.
Just tree.
Leaves.
Can't tell what the little guys are, maybe small birds. The big guy is either a baboon or a warthog, can't be sure.
In a lion, the bridge of nose would not be convex like this, and there would be rows of black whisker spots at side. This is a #gazelle
looks like #grey-breasted-spurfowl.
Size & shape=big raptor. Fully feathered head & neck=eagle. Can't tell u more, but in dry season, best bet is #tawny-eagle.
Definitely #serval.
Yes, banded #mongoose
In April, there usually is - it's one of the wettest months.
Height, texture, no horns, form of front leg...oh, and I followed lions around Serengeti for a lot of years, so this view is familiar! 😃
#female #lion, facing away. In 1 you get her flank and elbow and tip of ear. In 3, thigh and base of tail. It puzzled me for a while, too!
This is a young male #grants-gazelle. The female coming into frame 3 may be his mother. The Thomson's gazelle has a heavier black stripe.
Deep Inner Cleansing.
Don't see one. Serengeti termites don't build tall chimneys. The tall black thing is a dead tree.
termite mound
One #wildebeest for sure, maybe another 4 with heads down.
tail of #bat-eared-fox.
But locusts would show hind legs, and we never see locust swarms in Serengeti. This is undoubtedly a mating swarm of termites. Honest!
No interaction - that's typical.
correct
Outstanding!
#topi or possibly hartebeest - I can't tell which, can anyone?
Looks like #martial-eagle
Too big. Looks more like #thomsons-gazelle.
#banded-mongoose. In the background are #impala.
#elephant is correct
I think you're right, doesn't fit anything else.
If that's a hyena at L, it is unlikely to tackle a zebra alone, and the zebras don't look concerned.
I get 2
Yes, #crowned-lapwing
The lump? Could be its hip bone.
I think so.
It's night-time and something very close to camera, but I can't tell what. Ear? Fold of skin? Have fun and give it your wildest guess 😄
#thomsons-gazelle. I've noticed recently that when very close up, you can see whiskers above their eyes.
Can't ID from this, sorry
Reedbuck looks correct.
Correct
Probably #tawny-eagle.
I'd say #nothing here.
About 7 #thomsons-gazelles and 2....buffalo or sth else?
So do i! Seems to be very close and has some short hair...in cases like this you just have to guess, or hope someone finds another pic of it
It is indeed a #white-tailed-mongoose, not often do we see the front view!
I was guessing serval, because so low...what do others think?
camera malfunction.
#thomsons-gazelle - imagine it's facing you and grazing below frame, so you see its back and side-stripe. HB is shorter!
Yes - there are at least 5 bustards on the Serengeti list!
correct...#white-bellied-bustard
correct
#thomsons-gazelle. What is the point of #waytooclose?
#grants-gazelle
I agree #spotted-hyena, from head-down posture and brownish color with dark muzzle.
correct
In such open grassland, more likely #grants-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle. It could almost have been impala, but then in 3 it flicks that little dark tail - impala's tail would show white.
Not too close - you have color, leg form, tail form. #buffalo
#hartebeest
#sunrise!
Does look like a little trunk, doesn't it? 😃
Yes, looks like #side-striped-jackal
Definitely, with young. Black spot below ear is diagnostic.
Yes indeed. You can see the mum's bum, which confirms it.
Most likely a #bird but can't tell which.
Much too big, and you almost never see striped hyena. This is a #wildebeest.
He's not really; was coming towards camera, then turned slightly to right of picture.
They often kick a food-plant with front foot while pulling it with trunk, to uproot it more easily.
From its stout, ridged horns you can tell it's a young male #thomsons-gazelle. Dikdiks would never be in this open grassland habitat.
#kori-bustard
This is a much smaller bird, probably an African Hoopoe.
#bird #other. Could be a roller, or a small hawk.
Wing, of #black-winged-kite
Well spotted. All I can say is 'probably'.
#hippo is right
ha ha
Correct, #lion
Yes, tommy.
#wildebeest
Head of another zebra, halfway up left side.
might just be an illuminated moth passing.
Probably fighting another male. Boys will be boys.
Sometimes - yet still, some lions specialize in hunting buffalo and get very good at it. Solitary males are the easiest targets.
In all my years in Serengeti I only saw them a handful of times. They aren't very common and keep a very low profile!
The big blocky animals L of tree look like eland, those to R may be Grants.
He may be scratching his face on a stick.
A fine example of #bird #other 😃
Like most of the horse family, they are fond of rolling on the ground to scratch their backs. Nothing to do with the gnu who is passing by.
Wildebeest rubbing its head or horns on the ground or on a small bush. The bulls often do this.
Also a cheetah is not so tall!
and Grant's gaz in foreground.
Correct.
In photo 1 are two #thomsons-gazelle. In photos 2 & 3, one gazelle walks away. Nie ma tu lew!
see below
I don't see anything, except that tree stump which so many animals like to climb on.
Neither. When a group is resting, the young ones up to ~5yrs often lie on their sides thus.
Could be, but I can't tell.
Not running for their lives, as one just stops still in 3.
It's very likely, but we can't be certain.
#impalas, yes.
A rare chance to see the camera housing. Guess the researchers forgot to bring the slate 😃
That columnar leg, and the strange pattern of hair growth on tail, can only be #elephant.
hmmm...I'd say tommy.
This site has everything!!
Looks more like #thomsons-gazelle, behind the rocks, not on them.
correct
I think so. Only other possibility is reedbuck.
#kori-bustard
#kori-bustard
Could be.
and several zebras and at least one Grant's gazelle.
#superb-starling
#eland
#african-grey-hornbill
Yes. Good one!
Not from such a small view - unless you can ID it from the spot pattern!
#grants-gazelle
We would see more of the body of a waterbuck...this is something small like a #thomsons-gazelle.
#zebra is right.
It's #wildebeest, but it's hard to explain why. Maybe it's how it makes a sharp curve and then straightens out at the tip.
Grass is burning. Relax, it happens all the time.
#black-headed-heron
This is the muzzle of an #Impala.
The long brown and black horse-like tail is distinctive. This is a #Wildebeest.
#buffalo
The closer one is #buffalo and the eyes appear to be another buffalo.
You're right.
#thomsons-gazelle
I would score this as 3 #wildebeest
OK, I'll buy that! Thanks hayvel.
We are told to ID them as human and hashtag #cow or #cows. They don't live in the park but Maasai sometimes sneak them in, in dry season.
We do sometimes get jackal ears, but they have longer hair inside. I think #thomsons-gazelle is right.
#red-billed-hornbill
#grey-breasted-spurfowl, common visitor at this site.
Probably young, but some older males also get reduced manes.
#waterbuck, yes
Doesn't look right for reedbuck. Its legs are so big with knobbly "knees". I think it's a #baby #eland - they're often here at night.
It's just grass heads blowing in wind. You wouldn't see an aardwolf in the middle of the day, anyway.
#wildebeest
Yes it could be a bony old impala.
#kori-bustard
Well, it isn't something you see every day! You seem to have the tail of a #pangolin, unless someone has a better idea.
You may find a lot of burned views and fire pictures. It's not necessary to tag them. Our focus is identifying the animals.
Definitely #warthog.
It's going to make a nest.
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May be #Grants-gazelle because of size, though it looks like a tommy.
You're looking at its tail and hind leg. The weird stuff is dust close to camera, illuminated and out of focus.
I think so.
Could be hyena
Correct.
Yes indeed.
I think it's a bent-over flower spike moving with the wind.
Appears to be a #magpie-shrike
Three - a rather dim one in centre!
I honestly can't tell, but I suspect it may be a male lion. Maybe someone can find other pics from that time & place?
Rueppell's griffon #vulture
I think #warthog, scratching itself on the camera box.
#impala
Not literally - they don't twin as far as I know. There will be another mother outside the frame.
#termite swarm - short bodies, 2 pairs of long similar wings. I've never seen locusts swarm there.
Lion?
A young ele lying down. One of the standing eles may be 'dusting' itself with dry dirt, that may account for brown streaks in 1.
Difficult. Looks a bit like wildebeest but unlikely here in Aug. Or ostrich?
But not Water; those are only found in Asia. Here we have African or Cape buffalo.
Yes - and note the mis-aligned stripes on his belly, which may be the result of an old wound that he somehow survived.
Wow, never saw that before. But it's still twilight.
Rear of a female #ostrich
Definitely #human - 1 is hand reaching for camera.
Think it's just leaves.
I'd say they are more #impala.
Forehead and horns of male #thomsons-gazelle.
Looks like a youngster playing with stick.
Lion would be bigger, longer bodied and would surely show a tail.
It's a baby elephant lying down, its rear to the camera, another ele in foreground.
correct!
Looks like #side-striped-jackal with that white tail tip - the scarcest of the 3 Serengeti species.
I agree with #zebras here, but I think the previous one was something else.
Probably Coqui Francolin.
#dikdik is right.
I think #buffalo, from their shape and movement. Wildebeest would be unlikely in this area between May and Nov.
Not shaggy enough for H2Obuck - I'd say gnu too.
#waterbuck is right - the texture too is distinctive, they have longer hair than most antelope.
Looks like another #eland.
And pssst...the R one is a grant 😃
By severely lightening it I can see the white rump markings of a #grants-gazelle.
According to Tanzania mammal expert Charles Foley: "Definitely #mongoose, probably Slender, but can't rule out Banded or Egyptian...
The only guy with a long skinny tail like that is a #warthog, so the "horn" is his tusk.
Tail of a #secretary-bird
#Martial-eagle - it's appeared here in several pics but usually eating with head down. Note yellow eye, and slight crest on back of head.
Of course they are zebra. AowlanCrystal and I have eyes that can penetrate the gloom and see their stripes 😃
I was about to scoff, but it DOES look like a mongoose. Now, if camera is 1m high and most mongooses are shorter, how did it get up there?
Looks like a young male following two females. Males have stouter 'horns' (if you can't see the Other Parts).
Nice wings for flying, and an ostrich would be taller than horizon. This is #lappet-faced-vulture.
#superb-starling
#buffalo - see ASG0013n3r a few mins earlier.
Guy on right is buffalo too. If he were gnu, he would show some pale patches, especially beard.
Vertical, so it's a dust-devil
Its lack of distinction is distinctive!!
of #impala
My guess is #warthog. I think a jackal would show more obvious ears.
One clue is the cloud of flies around it. This is probably the muzzle of a #buffalo.
Thus the tommy's back is less than 1m high, grant's back is over 1m, and hartebeest is way taller.
Size comparison - hartebeest, M tommy, F grant. On such a flat plain, anything level with horizon is at camera's-eye level, about 1m high.
Think it's dust or bug. With these wide-angle cameras, the moon would actually look about this size: o . (Am I an unromantic pedant?)
yes, that might even be a mother ele' & calf.
I think it's just a log. Ele is using front foot together with trunk to kick loose the food plant it's pulling up.
Certainly #elephant.
#serval
just grass!
Re-setting the camera
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More likely reedbuck.
I wonder if that's another one standing up and sniffing at the camera?
Seems to be just the one tommy, bending around to groom itself.
That's a plant, and the antelope is a #grants-gazelle.
Yes - I believe I can even see its white tail moving.
Looks like it at first glance, because of light color. But, the guys in background do appear to be #buffalo.
Bonnie, you don't need to hashtag EVERY animal you find - just ID them in the classification window, and tag only pix of special interest.
She does look rather skinny. Flies are a normal part of the environment and she doesn't really have so many.
Yes, #black-backed-jackals and #wildebeest.
#leopard
Yes, they seem to be.
#elephant
You won't see cattle at night. These are #buffalo
Rain
#spotted-hyena
#lilac-breasted-roller
#wildebeest
That's right.
It is - we often see them on this camera.
I rarely see aggression between different herbivore species. Buffalo will only attack what they see as a potential threat.
To fill the frame, it has to be a much larger animal, with a smooth coat and black stripes...#zebra.
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Ha, that's nice. The tiny head is a #topi - dark + swept-back horns.
I can't think which part of a serval it would be. How about the back of the elusive Zorilla?
Could be a steinbuck, looks low to the ground and sleek and glossy, unlike bushbuck. What do you think?
This is a messed-up camera, you can't really tell what it is photographing.
Could also be a dove, roller or shrike. We just can't tell.
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They are common in Serengeti grasslands but I guess not common enough to make the list. ID as dikdik or whatever, and tag as #steinbuck.
It's a #baboon walking past the camera. In 3 you can see its arched tail.
You're right, but it does happen. They mostly ignore each other.
I don't see one.
All animals' eyes reflect flash...can't be sure what these are.
Smaller and neater - #steinbuck.
correct.
Thanks sandwood!
#hartebeest
They are intermittently active during the night, but one of their hunting peaks is around dawn, so this one could be scanning for breakfast.
Hartebeest yes, pregnant probably.
Yes! well done.
Heh heh! You never see a skinny zebra, but this one is extreme.
#vultures
I think an eland would be higher, but I'm not sure what we are seeing here. Could be the horn of young hartebeest, or an ear of ...?
If I really lighten it a lot, I see individual spots of different sizes, as typical of cheetah.
#cape-rook and #spotted-hyena
Definitely.
Can't see enough detail for ID, alas.
#bird-other is all I can say.
Correct on both counts.
What a beauty 😃
#cheetah.
Or possibly part of a big cat's paw as it messes with the camera?
#buffalo
correct
This is a puzzle! It looks big for a warthog, they don't have beards and shouldn't be out b4 dawn. Gnu shouldn't be there in August. Ideas?
Yes. But what's unnatural about pregnancy?
#elephant
How about a fire?
It is a very scruffy #male #lion
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No, it's an Achyranthes flower spike. The animal is a #spotted-hyena as you probably know.
No it is a #jackal, probably Golden. Look at a picture of a BEF and you'll see the differences.
I see a large ungulate with a tasseled tail, probably eland.
Correct! Hard to see that black bird against a black plain.
#tawny-eagle
You're right, it's very #young.
But we can guess. Big animal, short neat hair, tan or brown, narrows it down to lion, hartebeest, eland or wildebeest. Take your pick.
Mum & #young - happy Mothers Day!
#warthog
That long muzzle belongs to a #hartebeest.
#Wildebeest. Even without lightening it, you can see how its ears stick up, higher than its eyes. Buffalo ears usually droop down.
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correct
correct
#cheetah. The profile is distinctive ('bulging forehead') also the black tear-marks from eye to chin.
Looks to me like a #spurfowl.
This is a #hartebeest. Its horns are relatively smaller than impala's and more sharply bent, and it is much bigger.
#guineafowl
Amazing to capture that!!!
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Think so. Looks like a fanning ear.
It's sure to be an animal, at least the rounded part ar R. Looks v smooth, hippo? or....?
You've amazing eyes, I would have missed that for sure. It's a #coqui-francolin. Odd to see it among the gazelle legs!
I thought gnu at first, but they shouldn't be there in July. Possibly a warthog? Hope they drag it more into the frame!
Certainly could be.
Very good guess! See also the thin tail in 3.
Yes, not much to go on. Probably a cat, large or small.
Not very, because of the large size and hairy dewlap below its neck - #eland
Yes, a #bat-eared-fox.
#grey-breasted-spurfowl is right.
It's the flank of a tommy.
The brown objects under this bull buffalo's neck are its folded front legs.
#hartebeest
Probably approaching a female.
No-one's darting gazelles. This is a typical V-shaped pair of acacia thorns.
Good #portrait.
Probably a #bird flying past, very close.
All elephants have a temporal or 'musth' gland, and it secretes fluid most of the time. Judging from slender tusks this is a female.
You got it!
Um...do we really need branchbombs?
Looks right for that.
I see the 'something' as a #hartebeest facing us with head turned to L.
Your guess is as good as mine. I'd eliminate ele, hippo, giraffe, warthog, mongoose and birds on texture and time, but anything else goes!
She doesn't know about the camera until the instant it flashes, so was probably just running by on some other mission.
Female #ostrich feeding. Head down at left, tail at right.
Nor I. I suspect it might be a serval messing with camera.
Yes, particularly if they've been feeding nearby and there aren't many trees to choose from.
#vulture dormitory!
Wow! Good one. Look at the tufts on those ears!
Totally #lion - big black triangle on back of tan ear.
#thomsons-gazelle.
Only one thing with that segmented wrinkled look - #elephant trunk.
Blackbellied/Hartlaub's Bustard
Could be a small hawk, like black-winged kite.
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You rarely see impalas feeding in open plains like that - I'd guess grants-gazelle but can't be sure.
I'd guess reedbuck.
girlziggy, why are you hash-tagging all these dates? The photos are all date-stamped anyway. Just curious! You obviously like lions 😃
A wind eddy picking up dust and ash.
probably an old buffalo, with tattered ear visible in 1.
#hartebeest - in open plains you rarely see impala, they prefer bush country.
rain
#kori-bustard. From a distance, an ostrich is more round-bodied with very long thin neck, can look like a small bush.
#lion
From the size of the cat, and the way its tail curls, and the number of rings, I'm sure this is cheetah.
Yes, well spotted!
Could be black-winged-kite.
#white-bellied-bustard
Has to be #eland.
Yes! They look like carnivore teeth.
Cheetahs and lions are not friends; as the further animal is obviously cheetah, the close one is too.
Yes they always wear baggies! In 3 you can even see tip of a tusk top R of centre.
Arm of an animal, perhaps Serval, playing with camera.
birds look like #vultures.
It has such a hard edge though - not furry - how about a horn tip, e.g. buffalo?
Maybe. They are unusually still for zebra.
Yes, #thomsons-gazelle. They are early and frequent visitors to burnt areas, going for the new green shoots that soon become visible.
There are 3 #superb-starlings in this sequence.
#guineafowl is right
Or nesting material? - it's hard to see an animal in that object.
Looks about the size of a vervet, but unusual to see one on such open burned plains.
Correct
Is that likely? They are all #hartebeest and the banding is the ridged base of a hartebeest horn.
It's a smaller bustard, Hartlaub's or Black-bellied - I still find it hard to distinguish them.
#Buffalo. Maasai cows never wander around at night, even when trespassing in park. They are always penned in some kind of corral.
or eye of warthog? a puzzle!
Not wildebeest nor ostrich. Looks like the tail of something, but can't think what.
Looks good for reedbuck.
Thanks for finding that #grants-gazelle, - the pics are 40 mins apart, but there likely wouldn't be many other options out there in August.
I'd go with nightjar too, also note the very reflective eye which a bat wouldn't show.
Ideas anyone? It looks about impala/grant size but the dark areas don't make sense unless they are shadows.
Interesting to get so much rain in mid August (middle of dry season), but I've known it to happen.
Did you know you can age a lion from its nose? It's all pink till about 4 yrs, then becomes mottled, all black by 9 or so. This guy: 6-7yrs.
Note how its tail goes up as it runs!
I'd say a bit bigger than mongoose, but I can't figure it out either - sorry!
Looks like big raptor, unfeathered tarsi so prob. #vulture, whitish rump suggests white-backed vulture.
Once again, No Horses in Serengeti! It's a zebra and as long asi it's >30 yds from predators it doesn't have much to fear.
#serval - note the short blunt cat face. Genet, which isn't a cat, has a longer muzzle like a mongoose.
Termite mound, yes.
May be a #rain shower.
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This one's a #cape-rook
Ha, a classic #multispecies photo!
I think mongooses
Me neither. I lean towards lion but it might also be hartebeest.
Yes, it is.
Partly perspective, but he is indeed well endowed.
Considering how rare rhinos are, v. unlikely. My guess is elephant.
Makes me wonder what amazing things may be happening behind the hartebeests who so often block our view 😃
Either that or a young baboon - that tuft looks more like baboon than vervet, but who knows.
At night they sleep underneath like this. In the daytime, they are all over, often on head and neck where they can easily cling to mane.
No - baby eles are always with big ones. I only see zebras in this pic. But even in the field, it's easy to make that mistake!
Easily confused but serval ears are usually closer together, more rounded tips, some black hairs round edges - see ASG000cqol
#human hand reaching for camera.
But you have a #grants-gazelle in fg and probably >11 #thomsons-gazelle in bkg.
with #bird roosting in her groin - an #oxpecker.
Pale tan animals scattered over short green grass are generally #thomsons-gazelle.
These very distinctive ears belong to a #serval.
Appears to be a #warthog.
#hartebeest
Size, color, and the gradual fade from tan to white, make this a #hartebeest
Yes, could be a flower...or a tattered scrap of flesh dangling from the talons of a perched raptor...really hard to say.
3 seems to show a dark hairy mouth and part of dark resting animal. I suggest #buffalo. There shouldn't be wildebeest in October.
It isn't easy to tell when carnivores are pregnant. Bulging bellies are usually full of meat! Note bloody face in this pic.
Looks like a leaf.
The only horse here is the striped one. Dark brown gal is a #wildebeest or gnu. Please refer to the ID guide.
The thing in top of central tree has to be a #bird - no idea what.
Prob immature #black-winged-kite.
#tawny-eagle
My best guess is a crowned lapwing with head bent down to preen itself.
Appears to be Ali.
Wing tips - something with short tail and long wings, perhaps kite.
It's the smallest of c. 6 spp in Serengeti. V social, in large packs, diurnal thus easily seen. Usually reddish brown, eats insects.
Great #portrait !
Nor can I! Could it be a bird's beak?
But it IS his ear - seen edge-ways, as he turns his head away.
(Is an elephone what we old-timers used for "trunk calls"?😃) The #elephant calf lying is about 3-4 yrs, they often do lie down like this.
I think bottom R is an artifact from lens flare or similar.
I nearly said buffalo, but sandwood, I think you're right, as you usually are!
Ears and crown look slightly pointed so I'd say #spotted-hyena. Lion would have more rounded ears.
Large animal with all-dark blunt muzzle would only be buffalo or gnu. Since gnus have left study area by July, this should be #buffalo.
Black face, pale ear, square nose - all tell us that this is #wildebeest.
Most likely a bird, but can't ID.
They are #Thomsons-gazelle, a small antelope with thick black stripe on flank. Refer to the ID guide. Also ears of a 7th at lower left.
I think just coincidence - the shrike happens to be going in same direction. I've never seen ostriches mobbed.
Probably vervet.
correct
#hartebeest
correct
#warthog
#secretary-bird.
#black-headed-heron
#zebras
Our old favorite, the #helmeted-guineafowl.
Ah, I see...There's much variation; most have these 'ragged' spots and a few have polygons - but never as clear as in reticulated giraffe.
No need to post it, then! 😃
Def #bat-eared-fox. Note: dark ears, legs, and end of tail; short face. Rounded back 'cos sniffing ground.
#dwarf-mongoose
They are all #wildebeest.
With warts and tusks? surely #warthog !
No, this is a #black-backed-jackal.
Yes. This series is full of grass fires. They're no big deal, except for grasshoppers. Larger animals can walk away, around or thru them.
Too small...it's a #warthog
Tail and markings normal for the Maasai giraffe found in Serengeti...perhaps you're more familiar with a different subspecies?
LOL!
Looks like it.
Looks normal for a female. Their horns have a slight twist, like the male's, but are thinner. They may splay apart, or not.
#black-backed-jackal. BEF would show darker ear edges and face mask.
Could be a ground-hornbill, but that is only a suggestion!
Don't think so - you can see its feet as it strides, sandgrouse waddle on very short legs. May be #coqui-francolin.
#dikdik is right, haunches are def gray and tail v short.
Definitely an antelope, might also be a steinbuck, opinions?
My guess is #spotted-hyena, because of how the hair on neck points forward to the ears at R.
She's a #grants-gazelle.
Leaf is more likely
They do look like #wildebeest running R to L in 1 & 2, the thing in 3 may be a bird? hard to make it into a gnu!
These are #wildebeest.
Is smoke.
Southern #ground-hornbill
This may be part of a balloon landing sequence - ground crew bundling up the balloon.
It appears to be a grazing #thomsons-gazelle. The 'stripes' are the shadows of tree branches.
Uniform dark brown on back and wings, large head, resident on plains in dry season (RGV & WBV tend to follow the gnus).
Alinna, the dark 'collar' is distinctive for female bushbuck. Also, a reedbuck would have a big black spot below base of ear.
So, you just have to guess! Large with no obvious marks, so could be hartebeest.
#topi
#lappet-faced-vulture
Impossible to tell. Based on probabilities, I'd say tommy.
#jackal, yes
Bull eland typically has a hairy head.
#thomsons-gazelle
These are 5 #eland. If you can drag a dark image onto your desktop and lighten it, you can often see more detail.
Hard to say - reedbuck probably.
#superb-starling
These are #buffalo
see below
Female #grants-gazelle
#SERVAL
see below
Honestly everyone, there are NO HORSES in Serengeti (except zebras!)
#young #buffalo.
I think so.
Rump is definitive, stripe is optional.
Looks like it - but perhaps young bulls play-fighting, they aren't mature tuskers.
Could be mother & young
#wildebeest
A small proportion of zebras have their stripes scrambled in this 'saddle' area.
Maybe part of another honey-badger - not many other species want to get so close to one!
#Dwarf-mongoose
Think it's Side-striped - stripe on side, relatively small ears.
Well done, you know your birds!
tip of #elephant trunk
Looks like #tawny-eagle
It's a #young one, that's why.
Looks like #lion
Indeed! That's the first male tommy with deformed horns I can remember seeing, and I've seen a lot. It's much more common in females.
Unlike most of the other behavior categories such as feeding or resting, excretion is only momentary, so photo data wouldn't be very useful.
#aardwolf say I too.
Probably a dust-devil.
#eland
Their horns sometimes break during serious fights.
Nice - but your buffalo are #wildebeest!
Camera is lying on ground looking up, and the moving thing might be part of a human.
#Leopard - see the rosettes of spots at lower part of tail.
There are pink headed agamas but this isn't one. I suspect an insect on lens.
Interestingly, females often browse down and males browse up. They don't eat much grass, but herbs & low bushes among the grass.
This is so rare to see, let alone photograph. Sometimes lions seem to kill non-food animals just for the hell of it - because they can!
looks like hyena
no, #white-tailed-mongoose.
see below
Yes - definite interaction!
No - looks like rear view of an #elephant fanning its ears.
Yes #topi - note reddish color, dark band on each leg with yellowish socks below.
#lion - because of short hair, fuzzy ears, whiskers above eyes, 'eyebrow' above eye at L. Probably #female.
Great puzzle and team effort 😃
Yes. Interestingly oxpeckers almost never visit elephants, perhaps because it is too easy for an ele to swat one with its trunk.
Think it's just grass.
When it's green in the study area, the grass is too long for tommies' preference, and they all move out to the short-grass plains to S & E.
Ah, now I think I get it. Armpit of a #serval standing up and playing with camera. They do have those big black marks on inside of forelegs.
Looks like it.
Good guess.
Also grants are bigger and their horns are different. Here is a female Grant on L and male tommies centre & right.
July is dry season and it's hard to find any green places. But in burnt land they can more easily find new green shoots.
Bones or stones.
Has to be part of a zebra, but hard to interpret! - No...FAIL...see above!
Hmm, maybe the front of the casing has come loose. That tommy wouldn't be there if a human was opening the box.
Probably vulture on ground - in air, could be another.
Yes indeed
yup - good.
or maybe raindrops?
Censor at work - some naughty stuff going on here. (just kidding!) Corrupted image file probably.
In the sense that they're all trying to share the shade of the same tree, yes.
PERFECT #portrait !
#impala - shows the 3 black stripes on rear which lead some safari guides to call them "one-eleven" or "mcdonalds"
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Well spotted! #golden-jackal.
My guess is topi. It isn't Hartebeest, Wildebeest, buffalo, giraffe, or any of the smaller guys, and I don't think it's zebra.
#springhare #rodent
#Aardwolf. StripedH is stripier, and darker underneath, and has more mane on its back.
Cool! May be mother and young playing.
#dikdik. There's a pair who are often seen in this location.
#Steinbuck adult.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver
They are more zebras.
I think tail - maybe baboon.
#bird #other - perhaps grey-backed fiscal.
A camera that's fallen down or been blocked by vegetation.
Or could be a prelude to sex?
I agree, perhaps blackbellied bustard
Ha, you beat me to it - you are very sharp!
The lioness CAN lie down with the lamb. But you have to keep her supplied with fresh lambs 😛
Possibly giraffe - when lightened the animal's head is quite high above horizon.
Smallish antelope, could be reedbuck.
They are both #grants-gazelle. The close one is too white and too low to be hartebeest
Seems bigger and with more tail...i would say #cheetah.
Bird, maybe coqui francolin.
If you guessed #warthog you were right!
They look like #buffalo.
Looks like #hartebeest
Lightening it, we see two hind legs with a long black tail behind them - seems to be #wildebeest although at this time of year that is odd.
How about horn and ear of #buffalo?
Looks like more tommies to left and possibly a giraffe in centre.
Gnu
correct
no, they don't twin.
I think it's a zebra's ears.
WHV has a lot of white in the wings, so I would consider this more likely a #lappet-faced-vulture. Hooded V is the only other possibility.
mecurtin got it - tommy horns.
#spotted-hyena
looks like rear half of a #wildebeest, facing right.
#spotted-hyena
no, #crowned-lapwing.
#wildebeest, yes
Probably spotted-hyena
Looks like it, yes.
Warthogs' food is almost entirely grass and they don't hunt. The birds are spurfowl, not guineafowl.
Definitely warthog, coming towards camera, with mane erect.
Looks like one of the lapwings, maybe black-winged. Not nearly as big as a bustard.
Correct! We don't often see them in these photos.
There are very dark giraffes with spots almost black...but I see them more in Manyara than Serengeti.
Correct. Jackal would show a longer muzzle.
Looks like a lion.
They are indeed.
Fires are common in dry season, many are lit by park staff. They are no threat to larger animals, though plenty of insects get toasted.
I know! But others might be curious too.
correct
They are topi calves.
This is much bigger than dikdik. It may be a young hartebeest.
Nor do i 😦
The trunk gives it away!
could be flying insect?
Horns look like topi.
I think it's grass
More likely hyena.
Also, don't expect to see warthogs at night - they sleep in burrows.
Could also be dust.
correct
If you mean the 'horn' on the right, that's a flower-spike.
Perhaps buffalo lying down.
I can see that as a warthog.
Unusual that it doesn't move at all...
Looks like francolin/spurfowl.
Looks like back end of small bird.
I'd say cheetah. Other opinions?
You'll see a lot of fires. Don't panic.
One to check the camera, others to help slash the grass or push the Land-rover when it gets stuck in a remote location. Buddies are useful!
Usually the brown ones are younger. Their coats are fuzzier and pick up the dirt more...or, they may just be browner.
correct
#thomsons-gazelles
#warthog, yes?
Young cheetahs of both sexes have slight 'manes'.
Actually a #black-headed-heron
Muzzle of #grants-gazelle - note the striping on face - and bird is likely #crowned-lapwing
Yes, its horns are v small.
#Thomsons-gazelle
Looks like a #wildebeest passing camera.
#elephant
It appears to be a #grants gazelle.
You'll never see dikdiks in open plains, and never more than 3 in a group. These are #thomsons-gazelles.
Correct.
probably warthogs.
Front of camera case being removed (by researcher, we hope!)
yes, another guinea.
#Side-striped-jackal. Usual white tail-tip not obvious here. Golden would not have side stripe. BBJ would be more rufous below stripe
#spotted-hyena
Insufficient reference pictures to be certain but proportions appear correct.
#warthog
#lion
#warthog
Poking their heads into gory carcases, and wallowing in muddy pools to keep cool, doesn't favor an elegant coiffure 😃
Grass
#magpie-shrike
yes
May be blinking with its nictitating membrane.
#mongoose looks right
You've got 2 #buffalo in background, and in L foreground you may have the neck and horn-tip of a third one, grazing.
Fauna - #bird-other - looks like rear view of a spurfowl foraging.
I would guess #reedbuck, as a bushbuck would surely show some white spots.
Good - unusual to catch one flying!
Yes, in profile it looks more like #hyena - good call.
I agree - elephants
#cape-rook
#ostrich
All prob. #thomsons-gazelle
We check them as #human and we tag them #cows.
#eland
Giraffe is walking, not running, and the animal walking behind her is a #baboon.
nor can i - maybe kites?
It's a bunch of wildebeest legs standing behind his appendage.
Right ear and eye of grazing #hippo.
correct
Mammal prob. hartebeest. Glossina, the tsetse fly, only frequents bush and woodland, will not cross open plains, so you'd not find any here.
And, reedbuck commonly has dark front 'shins' unlike any other small antelopes on the list.
Yes, we have a lot of photos of a martial eagle eating its kill on this stump - prob part of that sequence.
Uh, no trains in Serengeti (yet!) - this is a #human truck.
#zebra, yes!
Ha, that animal shadow extends way up into the tree canopy's shadow, so it may be a giraffe!
A mongoose so close to the camera would be below the field of view. This might be a young warthog grazing,
Everyone, that's a beautiful clear pic of a serval, which shows well its size and shape and spot pattern.
I agree with #lion
I'd say a #thomsons-gazelle, male.
#crowned-lapwing
Butterfly.
Could be the eternal reproductive drive 😃
Excellent deduction. I would go for the topi 'cos it's darker.
That is pretty unusual to see, esp. at night. Usually they rest standing up. Good one!
#side-striped-jackal is right!
Correct - #hippo left eye & ear
Hardly looks bright enough for eyeshine. It's highly unlikely that a caracal would climb so high!
Easy! Small animal with pointy ears, grey-brown color, and tuft of hair on top of head....#dikdik !
Yes. Horns look right. They are born hornless and their horns are still mostly straight by end of year 1. This one is 4-5 mo old.
#magpie-shrike
Why not?
Who knows?! It's after dark so maybe it shows a dust cloud raised by some passing beast - I'd call it nothing.
#eland - it has more of a tassel on its tail than hartebeest.
It's a #grants-gazelle. See how its back is above the skyline, and the tommy's is below? Also, no black side stripe between tan and white.
They've no reason to. They feed on rather different diets, so they don't compete.
It's a #young #hartebeest, that's why the horns look strange.
I agree
i don't see any bustard. There's a tiny moving thing at left near the termite hill, but it's no bigger than a plover. Kori is BIG!
Buffalo is correct.
correct
just weeds i think.
maybe eland?
As cameras are about 1m high, a serval's back wouldn't fill so much of frame. Also serval spots tend to merge into stripes esp. on shoulder.
correct
Umm, that's hard - I'd have guessed impala, because they show such white bellies & it's rare to see 3 rbk in a picture. But I may be wrong.
Or dust.
Correct. That's a #black-backed-jackal and the tommy is taking off.
Closest is #Grants-gazelle (no black racing stripe) and the others are tommies
impossible to tell - I'd call it nothing.
Looking at how its horns slump down, I am fairly convinced this is a buffalo, and so are the other animals visible.
young baboon is correct.
#Spotted-hyena not striped.
#thomsons-gazelles
small #bird-other
Muzzle of gazelle very close to camera - maybe tommy.
For a male tommy, that would be highly unusual 😃
#warthog kneeling to graze.
Technically, a horn - the African antelopes are more related to cows than to deer!
These are all #grants-gazelle. Impalas are more orange, and would not be found in treeless plains.
Seems likely.
#francolin, perhaps female coqui.
I guess so.
Near horizon, L of centre, are #zebras.
Buffalos and cows don't fraternize. This is a brown-looking buffalo.
#Cheetah - fur is too short and neat for hyena
Could it be the neck of a kori bustard? perhaps from behind, with the 'whiskers' being drooping crest feathers?
Highly unlikely. They are small and nocturnal. I'm guessing part of a bird, maybe the dark crest and pale cheek of a kori bustard. Ideas??
It's a #bird-other!
Eland unlikely, topi more likely.
yes, #aardwolf
correct
We really can't tell what they are.
My guess is Tommy, because very pale neck and chest, and there appears to be a dark side stripe (could be shadow though).
Definitely a #serval tail.
correct
It's hard from photos - all u can do is lighten the photo & see what's around the eyes, or guess based on apparent height and group size.
#wildebeest grazing - most heads down but you can see one head with horns in 3, at R.
#warthogs
He's using a slasher to cut grass in front of the camera
Well spotted!!
In this case...grey, smooth, with some long bristles, and fairly low down...I'd guess warthog.
Yes
where??
I think #spotted-hyena. They do exist in daytime too, and sometimes rest in the shade of camera-trees.
Part of a bird.
I'd say #dwarf-mongoose
#dikdik
Could just have a bellyful of meat. Hard to tell.
How 'bout the muzzle of a wildebeest who is sitting in front of camera and looking back?
I think you're right.
#spotted-hyena is right
Could be!
Male approaching female, perhaps to see if she will stop long enough to mate.
he are mowing the grass
where??
Bullbars on a car
#impala I think.
If u guessed #wildebeest ur right. V. distinctive silhouette.
Too big for pigs or gnus. Too pale for buffalo. Lacks the black marks of eland. Therefore they have to be #cows (& bulls!)
They look glossy black, so might be cape rooks.
#lion is right
Good call. That's a tricky one!
Seems likely.
#hyena, and did you notice the spurfowl standing in the grass?
correct
#vervet is correct
Because it's so high, I'd guess giraffe tail.
They are #cows indeed, you can classify them as 'human' and send them to 'Discuss' with a #cow hashtag. That's what we are told to do.
#springhare - a hopping rodent about rabbit size, with long bushy tail.
Sable is absent from Serengeti. This is a #wildebeest #young c. 4 months old.
Civet would never be in open plains, and in daylight. Too big for mongoose. Might be a tommy sitting down.
#eland. You're looking back past its neck and foreleg to its hindlegs. Large size, light color and the folds of skin below neck are typical.
All are #thomsons-gazelles and you're right that one is #young.
#serval. Genet would have more and bigger spots, and it wouldn't stand so tall relative to camera.
You'll almost never see waterbuck in open plains habitat like this. They need shade, or they may die of heatstroke.
yes
No. The fat short tail and pinkish coloration are typical of #hippo.
look like zebras.
Sometimes tusks break off, sometimes elephants are born with one or no tusks.
#thomsons-gazelle
Raising their heads to look at each other. Perhaps one came too close - they usually don't feed v close together.
Gazelle, prob. tommy
Looks like a tommy.
And yes, at least 5 #topi and 4 #hartebeest visible.
They really have no reason to avoid each other unless they are serious food competitors. There's safety in numbers.
Yeah, I'd guess zebra too.
I'm not seeing an animal here. Wind blown vegetation?
What's your guess? Mine is #buffalo
No kangaroos in Africa. #impala
I think #buffalo
Yes
Close, but easy to see what they are - #thomsons-gazelle.
Same tribe but much bigger - #eland
#buffalo - rounded back, dark color. Rhino has longer body, concave back, thicker legs, usually gray.
probably warthog
hartebeest?
probably warthog
probably warthog
Enjoy them while they last. An elephant is killed every 15 minutes in Tanzania.
#baboons
Buffalo yes, not water-buffalo (they live in Asia)
#spotted-hyena for sure
Yes!
looks like another 2 ostriches, about 1/3 of the way in from left.
#lion male
I wasn't sure either, but that is compelling proof that there are indeed blond hyenas!
#hyena I'm afraid!
easy - black bushy tail on smallish animal is #thomsons-gazelle.
It looks like the wingtip of a bird that's sitting on the camera. I can't see it as a secretary, maybe a kite?
Maasai live to E of the Park, and sometimes sneak their cattle over the border in dry season, to graze until someone tells them to go away.
All you need to do is guess. Zebra stripes in 1&2 are good enough for me. I agree the fuzzy thing is prob. its ear.
Impala would be redder on back and wouldn't get darker lower down...I'd say it's a #grants-gazelle
could also be an impala?
Most often when animals run they aren't being chased by predator - they're spooked, or chasing one another, eg males trying to herd females
It's vaguely spotted, may be #hyena
#banded-mongooses
#bird tail
they gazelles is fo sure
Seems to be black-winged kite, a smallish hawk.
All you can say is 'nothing here'
Perhaps white-crowned shrike or white-headed buffalo weaver - not sure.
look like impalas
These are zebras, look at long faces and lack of horns. >11.
#lion
Often during the day, hyenas lie in waterholes partly submerged to keep cool. Then when they come out, they look like this. Wet n muddy!
Its tallness is rather distinctive! #giraffe.
yes, #lappet-faced-vulture
correct
Probably serval
#wildebeest at least 6
It has to be wet or muddy hair of something. Wildebeest is a fair guess but no way to be certain.
Good guess. I'd say #thomsons-gazelle.
I work a lot at computer and keep the SS page open to see what comes up! #Spotted-hyena looks good. BTW hashtags go at start, not at end.
But horn has rings on it, which gnu hasn't, also gnus normally not there in October; poss #hartebeest.
Looks like cheetah.
looks like black-winged (=black-shouldered) kite.
#spotted-hyena
correct
#thomson's gazelle I think
Hartebeest?
#cheetahs
looks like #kori-bustard
They are active both by day and by night.
#spotted-hyena
Hard to tell - looks scruffy like a hyena.
I don't see it. Just a branch or antelope leg lying at left.
correct
It's a pair of #birds - prob. Von der Decken's Hornbills.
I'd have called this one an #aardwolf.
correct
#crowned-lapwing / plover
I'd call it buffalo
I see 2 young eles playing. One lies on its L side, the other is as you say 'piling on' or climbing over it.
#cows. Record as "human" but label with a #cows hashtag, as there is no 'cow' category.
Just take a stab at it - your best guess. Hartebeest?
Part of a gnu-sized animal, seems to be the 'armpit'.
Correct. Topi is a 'safe' distance from lion (about 30m or more) and can study the enemy at his leisure.
The front of the camera housing being removed or replaced by a fieldworker.
Yes, they lift off just b4 sunrise and land about an hour later.
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=13a41310c8994ff8a08d606959996be6
This shows the situation in May. SS study area is in centre of map.
Quite a lot! I was there in early Aug and saw many burnt patches, as well as huge areas still unburnt. Google is your friend (contd...)
I'm guessing grass stems, blown about by wind.
#springhare
#coqui-francolin
Good call, S.
My, you have good eyes! I think I would have missed that.
Yes, #impala - the dark-tipped ears and the subtle facial marks are clues.
It's another lion, yes, but looks adult when I lighten it.
leaves
Rains often start in November and continue thru May, occasionally with a hiatus in Dec or Jan, and max rain in Mar-Apr.
I get a hartebeest at L and a Pierid butterfly at R, don't see a bird.
Probably. Diurnal grass mice are common and often caught.
Already learning how to do hartebeest selfies!
Happens every year, and it often burns. No big deal.
Yes. You will see a lot of fire pictures.
I see no animal.
I see #guineafowl, with little pointy heads.
rlb66xyz, you're right again! I'm back on the big screen now.
Looks animal, maybe warthog? Hard one.
Such long columnar legs - can only be #elephant.
Possibly male Grant's gazelle. Impala would be unlikely in open plains. Birds are #cape-rooks
#white-bellied-bustard, yes.
I don't see it. The light spot at L of canopy may be a flashlit dust speck, or the eye of a small creature among those thin twigs.
#secretary-bird
#wildebeest rumps
looks like #baboon
Lion ears are fuzzier, with a big black mark across their backs. This is #spotted-hyena
Could be elephant, with tusk tip visible in 1, and ear in 2 & 3.
Size J is right - nice capture.
My take is that it's a neck and lower jaw very close to camera, with a suggestion of rows of teeth in 1. In which case, #hyena.
It's > 1m tall so it's gotta be a secretary.
Wildebeest on the move.
You can't hide those #lion eyes...
The only tail with that pattern of hair growth is attached to an #elephant!
Yup. Clearly shows the rows of black 'whisker spots' which we lion biologists use to ID individuals.
Could be, I can't say that it isn't!
Might be a serval, but insufficient data to be sure. Civet very seldom seen by day.
LOL (licks our lens!) - this is a #jackal
A pair of #dikdik
#buffalo. Its back is level, with a slight angle at the hip bone, whereas rhino has a concave back and a more rounded bum, like a horse
Yes, #martial-eagle - good!
Correct.
Yes, #reedbuck. Also note the dark front 'shins' - most of them show this.
Yikes! How unusual is that - to get 2 servals together! Good one.
Black-winged(/shouldered) kite.
yes, probably a tommy.
3 birds - two spurfowl just L of centre, one looking like a rock but it isn't, and a probable starling perched at L
Civets are almost entirely nocturnal, and bigger. This appears to be a #grey-breasted-spurfowl, with its head outside R frame.
#serval, yes!
no, it's a dikdik, just partly shaded perhaps.
#hartebeest
Hard to tell. Its actions look more like a raptor.
#wildebeest - you can even see the horns and mane on the young one at far left.
Could be palm of a #human hand reaching for the camera.
Funny! To get stereo vision, herons have to look beneath their bill, so it's definitely staring at the lens. #black-headed-heron.
#wildebeest is my guess.
Grass blades, or the Mark of Zorro!
Looks like adult #grey-breasted-spurfowl - the commonest francolin/spurfowl in this area.
Nowadays apparently called #black-winged-kite to distinguish it from the Australian BSK. I hate it when names change!
Looks like neck & chin...gnu has longer hair there...poss buffalo?
you're pulling my leg 😃 - fly or bee!
#bird-other, I'm afraid!
I'd guess an ear! e.g. serval or other cat
Greyish color and slight striping suggests wildebeest.
With those strong facial markings & gray neck, #white-bellied-bustard is a better fit.
#Magpie-shrike is right. EGPE is a forest bird and you'd only see it in far west of SNP, outside this study area.
Looks like it.
#young #hartebeest. They look dorky - eland are so much more handsome.
An event rarely photographed, if it's what you think it is 😛
Yes there is
Posture suggests ratel, though I would expect its back to look lighter.
dust-devil
Yes...there are some photos of a Martial Eagle with prey here, might be part of that sequence.
in 3, yes.
maybe gazelle.Not much else is out there in October.
Look like foxes, but they are #golden-jackal
nope, gazelles - dikdik only in bush country.
#warthogs
Judging from the shape of their backs, they may be 2 buffalo.
The close sitting one may be rolling to scratch itself
many tommy females have warped horns.
looks like #cape-rook
Right size & shape for a tommy, but not a lot to go on.
Correct.
Correct.
Yes, possibly a dwarf mongoose.
Maybe a grassland pipit.
Yes, #reedbuck because of small forward curved horns, black spot below ear, lack of facial markings.
Anyone's guess! I'd say not gazelle or buffalo, it's out of season for gnus, so maybe the tip of a hartebeest horn.
#cape-rook
#white-stork fits well.
Cape rook?
That's the most likely suspect, in this habitat.
Could it be a zebra's nose (in 3)?
That was my feeling too (but wasn't going to stick my neck out !)
Good close-up!
I'd say not a dikdik - habitat wrong, and animal's back is almost black. It does resemble civet, but seems too small.
Maybe mongoose?
Correct - #black-backed-jackal
The black #bird is a #Cape-Rook, a corvid.
Yes.
Not I!
Tommies probably.
Maybe scratching head with hind foot
Grass
Correct
I think there's nothing. At base of horn is a ridge which spirals loosely around horn. On forehead there's a tuft of long hair.
Think it's a female lion walking away.
Yes! Black-backed.
#golden-jackal
#birds - these are sandgrouse.
Plants, I think.
looks like black-winged kite
I agree about the trace of mane, and it has antelope legs, but deeper torso than gazelle or impala. I'm wondering if it's a wildebeest calf?
white-crowned shrike
Hard one. I think jackal.
Proportions of face - big ears well separated - eyes close to nose - peak on head - black 'collar' stripe - all these fit aardwolf.
How about a #warthog facing you with head turned slightly left, tail up, eye to L of tail, white whiskers further down. Possible?
#ring-necked-dove
Yes - this site must be Small Cat Central!
#aardwolf
#Black-winged-kite - probably the most commonly seen hawk on the plains.
#Serval
Ooh, good one! Note the big mane of hair on the back and the very stripey legs.
It's really getting "ticked off"!
Dark collar, white spots on chest and limbs and body, all say #bushbuck. Reedbuck is a very uniform tan with almost no markings.
Yes, lightening it in PS, you're obviously right - ele trunk.
Ele ear looks good!
Interesting to get a night bird that isn't owl. Seems to be #spotted-thicknee (or dikkop)
I agree
My guess is black-winged-kite with nest material. Def not secretary.
Unless we are just seeing an ear?
correct
Don't ask me! 😛
Seems to be licking its nose, to keep it moist and sensitive.
Looks as though wings are backlit blue, maybe a #roller?
It is.
Looks like back end of a Tommy?
Looks like topi.
Warthog?
Okay guys, I GOOFED - but thanks to sisige (whom my ipad keeps trying to correct to 'disingenuous'!!) for being charitable 😃
Horns are a useful cue too. Both m and f Grants have much longer horns than Tommie's. This one is female.
Correct, and could even be a big one.
Correct
Leaf?
Cameras aren't placed high enough to see over an eland's back. This is a #gazelle.
Neck movements (head leading and body catching up) show it's walking - when bird is running, the neck is held back in a permanent S bend.
It certainly could!
The faint striping suggests #wildebeest
Could be a grey breasted spur fowl.
With #young
Eye and upper 'wart' of #warthog
Young #bushbuck. Ear is different from reedbuck or dikdik.
#spotted-hyena
Bigger - elephant
#thomsons-gazelle
2 #hartebeest
Maybe more zebras.
yes - Grants I think.
They are cows.
GJ is very like mini-coyote, even sounds like one. Mostly seen in open plains, while BBJ and SSJ are mostly in woodlands.
Both are #spotted-hyena.
#kori-bustard
#buffalo
Most likely baboons.
#Reedbuck
The lying animal looks like gazelle.
Golden jackal
Gazelles, most likely tommies.
But if yellow thing in 3 is an eye, it absolutely isn't a vervet because their eyes are black. I'm wondering, some kind of bird?
Yes!
Cameras are mounted about 1 m up, and #Thomson-gazelle is ~65 cm high at shoulder, so when they are very close you only see their backs.
That's why you're here, to discover the hidden secrets of Serengeti! Animal is #hartebeest
Actually no, the dark pointed object is an #oxpecker #bird asleep in the groin of what looks like a female giraffe !!!
Correct.
Maybe tail of large bird like kori bustard, exiting frame left
They don't bait cameras. Boxes probably contain batteries etc for servicing the cameras. I see no lion.
#thomson's gazelle
Twisty stick, alas, still there next afternoon: ASG0015uio
Controlled burns are a management tool which helps maintain the balance of grass and bushland in Serengeti.
Pareidolia, I fear.
Possibly #mongoose but hard to see.
#grants-gazelle I think.
#wildebeest, at least 3
It's still a #white-tailed-mongoose.
Most cameras are 1m off ground, and so is the belly of this animal, so it's bigger than gazelle. It's a #hartebeest.
Large tan antelope with dark belly stripe = #eland. Baby sitting below.
#wildebeest
This could be a lovely abstract painting. I like the wink in 3.
That could work!
Good guess.
Yes. The black spot below ear is a useful ID feature.
Often green shoots appear soon after a fire and are easy for gazelles to harvest - another reason for controlled burns.
It has white head and belly, which eliminates almost every passerine bird in SNP, then the red rump which is v unusual too.
#serval for sure.
Probably rufous-tailed weaver.
Leaf.
Looks way too young for that - just resting
correct
about 3 #wildebeest.
You won't see humans and wild animals together in these photos. All these are #wildebeest.
Could be a good site, just needs the grass to be cut!
All I see is vegetation.
The striped animals on left are zebras, the much larger animals centre to right are #eland. Refer to ID guide.
correct
Looks like a #hartlaubs-bustard
Likely a young one lying down - they often do. They usually foal during rains, Nov-Feb.
correct.
#eland - note cow-like body and dewlap (hanging flap of skin) under neck.
Yes - tommy muzzle
Absolutely.
Dikdik is never in such open habitat, only in bush country - this is a female #thomsons-gazelle.
Branch or tree-stump, appears in all pictures from this camera.
In a group of animals, consider first that it may be same kind! It's a hartebeest, walking away down into a depression, so it looks smaller.
Yes - no horns.
For reasons given below, no.
It's the tail of a bird perched on the camera housing.
#thomsons-gazelle
The birds are #ground-hornbills
#wildebeest
It's not so unusual. But different diets often cause separation - tommies prefer short grass shoots, grants prefer herbs over grass.
or reedbuck?
#eland x 2
#Thomsons-gazelle
more likely lion or wildebeest
Difficult, but photoshoppery shows these to be 2 #buffalo
Maybe Thomson's gazelle
Large, dark, narrow legs...try #buffalo
#bird-other !
The muzzle is a #hartebeest.
In such cases, it is usually a warthog or a #guineafowl...in this case, the latter,
#thomsons-gazelle
Correct
Gazelle - Thomsons?
Dark backs, white legs = #marabou
Gazelles, prob. Thomsons
Gazelle, prob thomsons.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver, nice capture!
#martial-eagle, not often seen on these cameras.
Correct
More likely #serval, looks like he is actually spray-marking the camera!
Many fires are controlled burns started by park staff, usually early in dry season to prevent more destructive fires later on.
Correct
This here ear is a #serval
#ground-hornbill
Correct.
Correct
#lion female or cub
Definitely hard. I say bushbuck's a good guess; it would help if we could see earlier or later pics, but the numbering is still scrambled.
They are indeed cows - not Friesian but Maasai zebus!
Flying bird is grey-backed fiscal, not sure about others.
I think this is grey-breasted spurfowl. Welcome back :}
Could be old lion scratches.
Bull eland, like this one, have a tuft of hair there.
#serval for sure
Good one - we don't see a lot of these.
Elephant trunk is my guess.
looks like Tommies but I really can't be sure.
Correct.
correct
look like #cape-rooks
Oh they often do. They offer professional nose-picking and ear-cleaning services! 😃
yes, that little black spot betw thigh and flank clinches it, only impala has that.
correct
I've seen a LOT of pics of these flowers lately!
They are female Grants.
Agreed.
This is a #black-headed-heron. Ostriches are much bigger.
Correct.
If camera is at typical height, a serval's rump would be below field of view, but cheetah/leopard would be about the right height for this.
But the taper is strange. Could also be cheetah tail seen in perspective, with tailbase much closer to camera than tip. Who knows.
WBV has all-white lower back, different shaped head, and you wouldn't see the feathered leggings in #2.
#secretary-bird. If camera is 1m high and there's no convenient perch, this bird is at least 1m tall.
For sure! It is shown in the ID guide.
Not from this small amount of face. If you could see more of head, males have longer hair on cheeks, throat and top of head.
#hartebeest
#white-bellied-bustard x 3
They're normal - often get rather crusty from mud wallowing.
Not unusual in female tommies - their little horns are often warped.
#buffalo
#grey-backed-fiscal...roger that.
Correct.
I agree with tawny eagle.
Guineafowl are bigger and look very different. These are flowers.
BEF would show more black. I see this as a mongoose.
neck of #wildebeest
correct, good call!
Usually on serval the spots on back are more aligned in rows. This may be a cheetah.
Looks like it.
#spotted-hyena, a young one with clearer spots and grayer background than you see in older animals.
LOL!
Wow, that is amazing! I would support black serval, based on the ears, but I never heard of one in Serengeti, more often seen in highlands.
By golly, they ARE cows!
If it's crazy weird and doesn't fit anything it's probably a #warthog, as in this case!
Swishing tail quite high up - for once, I haven't a clue, but I said eland.
I wouldn't swear that I'm right, and picture quality is poor, but jackals definitely don't have any black behind their ears, and servals do.
Rufus-tailed weaver?
I suggest serval, cos of black fringe and cos jackal is less likely than serval to come so close to camera.
#hartebeest
#white-tailed-mongoose is nocturnal.
Maybe hand of a scientist handling camera?
Spotted.
I'd say impala grazing.
#cheetah
Correct!
One's tired and lying down.
It looks like a foal and its mum, so 1 & 3 are unlikely - hard to tell what is going on.
She's young and just has very small tusks. Tusk removal in Serengeti tends to be illegal, and fatal.
You're right, 2 dikdik here, and those could be impalas in background.
#wildebeest, very overexposed because close to flash. In lower left you can see a horn & ear, above that is its foreleg and rounded flank.
One definite zebra on R, the others in distance will be either zebra or wildebeest - your guess is as good as mine!
Yes, you can still see the umbilical cord in 3.
A mother wildebeest and her baby are standing in the shade.
Not odd...they are cutting the grass in front of camera, because if it grows tall, its motion causes many blank photos.
#hartebeest
It's an #eland, like the one on R
1 definite #wildebeest, others probably are too.
#wildebeest - 2 in foreground and many more beyond.
#eland
#warthog - short, grey, skinny tail.
#reedbuck. The previous picture ASG000yvyt shows its head.
Correct
#wildebeest
Could only be hippo - big, fat, v short tail
#buffalo is right
Correct
Helmeted #guineafowl. Their heads are indeed reminiscent of kasuari/cassowaries, but they are smaller and not closely related.
This is an #eland
#kori-bustard
Yes I think so.
Correct. Seems to be scratching self on camera!
I would say #wattled-starlings. Like cattle-egrets they follow or perch on grazing animals to catch the insects that the animals disturb.
Yes, one of the Red-tips (Colotis sp.)
agree with #hartebeest
The bird is much smaller than a bustard, maybe a crowned lapwing.
no, #serval
#warthog
Can't really see what it's getting. The bird here is a #cape-rook, a kind of crow.
#guineafowl x 2 - the previous pic, ASG00112k0, shows them more clearly.
More likely a wildebeest sitting down. You can see a suggestion of horns above the eye.
Not at night. Looks like an #aardvark
Looks to me like a white-bellied bustard.
Head of #guineafowl !
#reedbuck. Impala would have black ear-tips, and would not have such a black nose.
Correct.
Correct, his black heel-tufts show clearly.
There are >11 #buffalo in frame and <50 - that's all you need!
#buffalo
all are gnus
Looks like about 5 zeb on left and the rest gnus - but hard to tell, as you say.
Hard to say, as image is so fuzzy. They could be eyes.
Looks like #tawny-eagle
#buffalo
#wildebeest
Correct
#giraffe x 2
Too small. A minute earlier, this camera shows a #reedbuck, so this is probably the same one - see ASG0010155
#wildebeest
Correct - mostly gnus.
These are Impalas
correct
#topi is right
Most likely wildebeest.
Running. The animal is a zebra.
Thomson's gazelle - see thick black sidestripe and black tail
You've got the tip of a bird's wing, it's perching on the camera.
#wildebeest is correct, in fact there are 2 visible if u lighten the pic.
When a researcher replaces the SD card in a camera, s/he photographs a slate with date, time and camera number.
May be sun flare, because you can see to horizon at each edge, but it can indeed be misty there on a cold morning after heavy rain.
#lion
#hartebeest - they stand in front of some cameras for hours.
Try #wildebeest
correct!
just an earthling from the Hippopotami!
Correct
#warthog
Probably a stick - nesting material
Just bushes I think.
#wildebeest - see ASG0011qav
Could just be a bright dust particle close to camera.
It is a hard one! This is an #elephant
and a third one just behind L edge of tree canopy! Always check that tree carefully.
Hard one. My best guess is 2 wildebeest and 11+ zebra.
#hartebeest - see 2 mins later ASG000ziqv
As it seems to be moving in a coordinated way with the other baboons, I would guess big male #baboon
Those in the near distance are also zebra
#Wildebeest
Female impala. Impala because warm brown 3-tone pattern, white fringed tail, black tips to ears. Female because no horns.
Wildebeest & wildebeest. Though zebras also look like horses.
Another zebra
Warthog - adult male, judging from size of upper 'warts'
A hartebeest scratching itself with left hind leg
A little-known Serengeti animal called Wildebeest or Gnu. Have you tried the tutorial yet? 😃
Large & uniformly dark = #buffalo
It's a Tanzanian lawnmower or 'slasher' - a long metal blade with a bent end, very effective and good exercise too!
#warthogs correct
#lion x 4 at least
#superb-starling
Actually a #leopard, distinguished by stouter limbs and lack of black "tear-drop" lines on face.
Correct, and colour too, e.g. Topi would have a black face.
Yes, most likely option.
I'd say subadult #male #lion
Yes there seem to be resident #dikdik at this site.
#white-bellied-bustard it is.
You could try a black-winged kite - my best guess.
#lappet-faced-vulture a.k.a. Nubian.
#white-crowned-shrike
Hard...cheetah & serval would not show such strong muzzle spots.In leopard they are often joined horizontally. That leaves lion. Or not?
Could all be the same female, #1 showing just her chin.
#banded-mongoose
Small size and unmarked head suggest coqui francolin.
another #elephant
yes #elephant
#eland
Stripes on mama, light tan calf with dark face - gotta be wildebeest!
Could not be anything else!
#warthog for sure.
#dove, probably ring-necked.
Good guess - not a baboon. But I felt #impala might be more likely in that brushy habitat, and I found him here 5 mins later: ASG000z81p
I'd say Ring-necked #dove
Correct
Raptor or vulture, too far to tell.
Yes.
helmeted #guineafowl
They're mowing the grass around the camera with slasher tools. This protects cameras from fire & reduces blanks caused by moving grass.
Serengeti never freezes - sometimes you get a brief buildup of hail, but it soon melts. This shows dewdrops reflecting the flash.
It IS a #kori-bustard!
This baboon looks unmarked to me...or do you mean, did someone classify it yet?
yes, previous seq 3mins earlier shows hyena approaching the rock. ASG0011k0v
yes, and one in the R foreground too!
more likely insect, but not sure what.
Like chickens - mostly they walk, but flying is useful for escaping from predators! They always roost in trees.
Buffalo is right, good call.
Another kongoni (hartebeest)
If you're asking about the beasts to R of eland, they are wildebeest.
Yes. Some of the plains mushrooms are quite good!
#white-tailed-mongoose
tail of bird perching on camera - perhaps small hawk like kestrel.
Big animal with body at camera level, grey-brown color, short neat hair, some striping...all points to #wildebeest.
Correct.
helmeted #guineafowl
#hartebeest
Yes - now called black-winged kite.
And you can only see them at all because the grass was cut. Look how tall it is in background!
#oxpecker bird
No peacocks in Serengeti! This is a helmeted #guineafowl
Two #white-bellied-bustards
That's another wildebeest+calf.
They're somewhat rounded, but not as big and round as those of Grevy. And striping is v different. Google a lot of pix of each, you'll see!
Zebra would have stripey leg and not such a luxuriant tail - this is wildebeest. See also ASG0011cfi
Looks like golf, but in fact they're cutting grass with hand slashers - energetic but surprisingly effective.
yes indeed
Looks like #hartebeest, perhaps even partybeest?
Wow, that's one of the best yet!
try #giraffe 'knee'!
No-brainer, guys. Burchells/Common is the ONLY zebra on the Serengeti menu. Nearest Grevys are in N Kenya!!!
Sorry, no Grevys here - it's Common=Burchell's=Plains zebra
Lappet-faced or Nubian #vulture
Male #kori-bustard, advertising his territory. In full display, he puffs his neck and under-tail feathers out and tail almost touches head.
could be vulture - Nubian?
looks like gnu beard
Correct
looks more like Thomson's to me
They are known as zebras 😃
#impalas
Could be either.
Can't tell.
#buffalo
most likely another guineafowl
Could be sparring, yes
#superb-starling
#eland, correct
young topi taking a rest.
yes
There are several pics b4 and after, but in all cases too bright. Too small for wbk, wrong shape for dikdik, my guess is young bushbuck.
About 6 #zebra.
Coqui francolin probably the best guess.
Hartebeest. It can't be gnu, with those ridges on its horn.
The bird in 2 has dark throat, could be Barn (Eurasian) Swallow
Hard to tell. Maybe redbilled buffalo-weavers?
Correct. Elanus caeruleus has apparently been renamed Black-Winged to distinguish it from Australia's Black-shouldered kite, E.axilllaris
#black-headed-heron
Looks like 'chimney' of a termite mound.
Mysterious - do Scientists have any idea? Looks man made.
So nice! Probably listening intently to a doomed mouse rustling in the grass 😃
This big long legged grey & black bird is definitely a #secretary-bird landing and walking right.
A bird-other
Yes #vulture, carrying a twig to its nest too.
Another big wildebeest, sitting. It would never be so close to a predator in plain view!
Nope, #spotted-hyena
Yes, #jackal
Can only be cheetah, 'cos serval spots are usually aligned in rows along back and don't have the little in-between spots seen here.
They r naturally pink on face & neck, also have reddish skin secretion, so prob not blood.
Could be white headed buffalo weaver.
Yes, they look like they are doing something dodgy. Could the guy on R be carrying meat?
mowing the grass!
hare looks good.
They are elephants, fanning their ears.
Judging from the pics before and after, this is a greybreasted spurfowl
Confirmed. They are probably quite widespread but small and secretive so we don't see them very often.
This is food for sure. Cubs small enough to be carried would be black.
Fischer's is the only lovebird seen in Serengeti, sometimes in large flocks. Nice to get one on camera!
The previous two pics show #zebra, so I suspect these are too.
Yes, looks like a swarm on the move.
I see only grass.
Good one, looks like a kestrel.
Nice find. There are only 'black' rhinos in Tanzania.
Yes - shows nicely that not everything with a black side-stripe is a tommy. The way the white extends above tail & forwards is diagnostic.
This is how a heron looks at the camera. Its best binocular overlap is in a zone beneath its head.
Definitely #lion
Masquerading as helmeted #guineafowl. The convergent similarity between the heads of both species has struck me too!
Nest.
Reedbuck or bushbuck? Reedbuck would show more of a white belly, so my guess is #bushbuck.
#buffalo
Probably #superb-starling
Probably a rock. It's still there 2 weeks later.
Same reason you follow a road or path. If you follow the guy in front you are less likely to fall in a hole, break a leg and die in pain.
I agree. You really know your birds!
Most mammals' eyes have a reflective layer or tapetum behind the retina, and here the wildebeest's eye is reflecting the camera's flash.
Dust stirred up by the #elephant whose tusks can just be seen at top left.
So call it a #wildebeest ! A minute later the whole animal is captured: ASG000n5b1
If it were male you would almost certainly see a scrotum, so probably female.
#impala
From the slender tusks I would guess female.
#hippo
yes, #ostrich
I see what you mean, it's beautiful, but it seems to be just vegetation 😦
How cool is that? I've never even seen a baby steinbuck!
Maybe just practical...friendly zebras often rest thus, each one's tail whisking flies from the other's face. Signs of love r more blatant:)
Good view of #black-backed-jackal - one of 3 species found here.
Vegetation or crud on lens. Also, a #vervet monkey.
#buffalo is right
yes, #secretary-bird
#superb-starling
yes, #white-tailed-mongoose
I'd say she's grooming her boyfriend's tail 😃
#black-shouldered-kite
No radio-collar would be so tight, also it'd have a gizmo pod at bottom, and no-one's studying zebra. Probably an injury from a wire snare.
I support baby topi too; the dark marks appear after several months. Also, the previous sequence ASG000pm88 shows whom the calf's following!
It's always there - it's a rock 😦
Lion is correct
#banded-mongoose
My best guess was #dikdik, being small and with that kind of butt, and presto! here she is in ASG000xzge
Never heard them called hens before...yes, 2 more at right.
In ASG000ru7q 2 cheetahs are resting, one gets up.
In ASG000ru7r, 2nd one gets up.
In ASG000ru7s, 2nd one walks away.
No blood, bad luck.
Can't see. Could be just getting up to go somewhere.
#aardvark
Interesting - probably a paper-wasp, its wings distorted by shutter action.
A rare view of a hartebeest eye! We are more used to seeing its belly 😃
I don't think so, in daytime. It could be a spotted hyena, and view angle makes ear look pointed
He just doesn't get it, does he, how unphotogenic he is!
Unfocused means very close to camera, so they are insects.
It's a bird small enough to perch on a camera box - rules out bustards and guineas - poss kestrel or even woodpecker with that spotting.
sorry, just a #hippo
Too big for dikdik. 4 mins later there is a tommy there, so this is probably a tommy's butt.
#warthog I think. This camera points upwards so u see part of its muzzle from below.
#thomsons-gazelle
#Elephant for sure. "Blood vessels" r wrinkles. Camera would not be able 2 see under hippo's belly like this because its legs r too short
Of course they are edible, I've eaten lots. I guess they are sort of beefy. Like goats, they are much tastier young than old.
Classic dust devil. There is tree movement close to its path.
#crowned-plover aka #crowned-lapwing
#side-striped-jackal - white tail tip is distinctive
#wildebeest
#bushbuck
#white-stork, yes
Good eyes!
#hippo it is indeed!
#jackal, yes.
#lion #female
Could it be an eagle-owl?
#Side-striped-Jackal
If it was closer to a road there would be 50 land-cruisers there too - it's crazy at that time of year 😃
Yes, that's a grass fire
Cameras are mounted about 3' or 1m above ground. So a nearby animal below the horizon is going to be < 1m high. This can be useful to know.
Probably black-shouldered kite
You're right, young impala.
#zebra
#superb-starling
yes
#hare - a springhare is more kangaroo-like with shorter ears.
Sorry MissC, no jaguars in Africa, but leopards look quite like them. The "Identify" menu shows most of the large mammals you will see.
#buffalo
#white-stork
Hardly, but we can cheat by looking at the next sequence 😃
ASG000zcff
Might be a small lizard such as a gecko, which appears in next sequence ASG0010d8w
Yes, one of the kestrels - can't tell which.
#black-shouldered-kite
Possibly spotted eagle owl but too bleached to be sure.
Awesome!
#black-shouldered-kite - pygmy doesn't have the black shoulder and is much smaller.
#Lappet-Faced-Vulture aka #Nubian-vulture
They #zebra indeed.
#grey-breasted-spurfowl looks good
I agree
Just a....part of a researcher!
Wow! Very nice #serval
Elephants have internal t's. Also look at the legs - not like elephant. This is #buffalo
#nubian-vulture
all grass
Definitely a cat anyway
definitely #white-stork
plant
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
Cheetah. Genet would be more regularly ringed and close to ground level.
looks good for #steinbuck /steenbok
prob. tail of lilac-breasted roller #bird
looks like Hartlaubs b.
with testicles?? #male #lion c 3 yr old
#tawny-eagle
#impala
#reedbuck probably
#buffalo - dark they are indeed.
If it was BEF or serval you'd see some black on ears, so I'd say black-backed #jackal.
yup
#white-tailed-mongoose
Tusk is normal, but she's chewing a branch.
fur looks more like baboon
yes, reedbuck
#mongoose
#wildebeest
Yes, #spotted-hyena
nice view of one.
Reason is that most cameras point at grassland, and most herons are fisherfolk. BHH, however, preys on mice & insects. Nice sequence here!
correct
#lappet-faced-vulture aka #nubian-vulture
#guineafowl
#dikdik
But it has no striping at all..i would think #reedbuck more likely. There are no other pix of it to help us.
#aardwolf surely?
insects...no hummingbirds in Africa!
You're right, they usually don't service gnus. I suspect these are wattled starllngs which commonly perch on gnu & zeb.
Yes, all buffalo. I don't think the male in back would have a calf, that's just shadow.
Not big enough for kori. My guess is a windblown plant.
#young #hartebeest
Cool, a #marsh-owl - one hardly ever sees them except when driving offroad thru the plains.
ASG000z68g suggests #lion
Nothing here
#serval
#warthog
Mix of wildebeest & zebra in distance. Animals just beyond close zebra are wildebeest running.
can't tell. 'Other'.
#jackal
#steinbuck
#baboon
#warthog
#steinbuck
#steinbuck
#zebra
#black-bellied-bustard
#bat-eared-fox
Maybe insect on camera.
or just had a big meal!
It appears in many pix back to ASG000zwfh. Appears to be a Tawny or Steppe #Eagle
Sometimes they get caught in wire-noose snares, poor things.
#serval
#aardwolf
Cant tell, but it may well be another reedbuck sitting down.
or play? these are topi calves so nothing very serious happening here!
I'd give it a 'nothing here'.
Babies. Ha, if you're a small predator, you don't take on a warthog!
#duiker. They have curiously short necks compared to, say, a dikdik or a reedbuck.
#Duiker, well done. Nothing else has that prominent face stripe.
That's correct.
Or startled by the camera. Maybe it's marked with big cat pee, and the gnu just got a whiff of it!
It's only in frame 1 and unfocused, so something small, alive and close. May be insect flying by.
Yes, great! Maybe he is leaving some fragrance on the camera or tree 😃
But a whole lot faster than the hand slashers!
#reedbuck, as seen more clearly in subsequent pix. Dikdik would be smaller and greyer.
#reedbuck #young
#reedbuck #young
Ring-necked or mourning #dove
Interesting. Not a legal activity in the park, but obviously productive!
#baboons
here the time stamp is 6 hrs ahead of local time.
The time stamp on photo is 5:55pm same day, so the time stamp is c. 5 hours ahead of local time. Scientists, is that true for all cameras?
Common or bush #duiker - rather unusual!
Probably a wasp, judging from profile in 3 - but for our purposes, 'nothing here'!
With that many, could be a swarm - perhaps hanging on the tree where the camera is mounted.
#Black-headed-heron. Cute how it looks at the camera by raising its bill - herons' best binocular vision is directly under their bill.
#kori-bustard
Nothing there 😦
#grants-gazelle #young
Can't see it. where?
#buffalo
#spotted-hyena
#elephant
#wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle
#eland and yellow-billed #oxpecker
One of the francolins, poss grey breasted spur fowl.
#buffalo look good to me
Super view!
#buffalo, see ASG000nub5
#elephant. See how hair just grows out of top and bottom of ele tail, eland has a more 3D tuft
Shaped more like #spotted-hyena, see also ASG000smys a few mins later.
#aardwolf.
Side-striped j.
Hmmmm...what could have dark & white stripes?
This young #zebra is browner and fuzzier than an adult.
#cheetah
Yes, #lion
#waterbuck female
Maybe flying insect such as wasp or bee.
It's small and close to lens, maybe tail of a lizard or mouse, or leg of an insect.
This ear's a #lion female
#white-tailed-mongoose - a very common night creature, much more often photo'd than zorilla.
The tail on a wildebeest is really distinctive with that long black hair, like a horse tail - but no horses here!
Yes, gnus and zebs together
#lion
Serval is right. Note how many of the spots are in rows - you wouldn't see that on a cheetah.
#white-bellied-bustard, prob. adult
Yes, more gnus
Just another plant stem - Achyranthes aspera.
Definitely #serval
#buffalo
Might even be an old snare wound from a wire noose snare.
Agree hartebeest
This is a #bushbuck
Yes, couldn't be anything else...in its medium size and lack of markings, except for dark 'shins'.
The gray grizzled but unspotted back shows that this is a #black-backed-jackal.
Yes, #white-stork from Europe
Shooting stars are rain. Probably Verreaux's eagle owl with those dark rings round facial disc.
#nubian-vulture
Basically a scientist has taken down the camera and is resetting it, so there are many junk pictures.
Group of resting #wildebeest, I think at least 7 but <11.
Zoom discussed here: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000002/discussions/DSG00004j4. You have a #giraffe.
Bird tail
#eland ! In this sequence, a little earlier, you see its tail - ASG000oayh
definitely eland
Yes, lappet-faced or #nubian-vulture
Definitely buffalo
#eland is right
Fighting
Probably tail of a #lilac-breasted-roller #bird
#thomsons-gazelle
Tail of unidentified #bird
#nubian-vulture a.k.a. Lappet-faced v.
Definitely tail of secretary bird.
wbk has coarser texture, is big so you'd only see over its back if sitting - yet no other pics of it. Open habitat is wrong for wbk too..
yes hippo
#guineafowl
#buffalo
yes hippo
More likely a hawk or falcon from its shape, but can't tell which sp.
#warthog
Legs too thin, and eland stripes usually limited to body. This is a #hartebeest, see also ASG0010q39 3 mins earlier.
Good!
#buffalo
Yes - the very shaggy pelt could be nothing else.
prob. #thomsons-gazelle
#eland bum
#hartebeest - tail of one, horns of another
#zebra
#side-striped-jackal
#superb-starling
Pix b4 & after are zebra so this must be too...maybe an ear?
nope, females are similar to males. These are #white-bellied-bustard.
Yes and yes. Often happens. As I write, most of the Serengeti woodlands have burned - most fires started by parks management.
A common fallacy. See ASG000njaw minutes later - #buffalo
That long tail hair at edge of 3 is your clue... #wildebeest
Why not a wildebeest? Upper part of tail is brown with black side fringes, black hair becomes much longer towards end of tail
Troops or groups, yes...8-50 individuals depending on habitat.
Yes, classic lion. Not much else lies paws-up like that.
yes indeed. About 20 collared females live in the area covered by the camera grid.
Especially on parts of neck it does seem to point forward, yes.
May be #guineafowl, foraging with heads down, as the next sequence ASG000ow2n shows 2 guineas closer to camera.
I was among those herds last week...it's truly awesome. Hope you get a chance to see them.
#impala is best guess.
Based on its relatively small ears and, as u say, brown back, I'd go for #side-striped-jackal
Definitely H20buck
Horns are often deformed in female tommies. It's as though they are evolutionarily in the process of losing them.
#Gazelle, but can't resolve which species.
On a BEF the black tip runs into a dark crest dorsally along the tail, which we don't see here. My guess is jackal, but hard call.
Definitely dikdik
Preorbital gland (dark mark in front of eye) shows it's dikdik. Reedbuck has postorbital gland - black spot behind eye.
Looks good to me!
That kind of tail & colour are a better fit for #hartebeest.
Can't see anything but a distant herd of probably-elephants under tree.
Insect or dust close to lens
prob. aardvark
Corncrake wouldn't show so much neck or tail, and shouldn't be in this location in July. Probably female Coqui Francolin.
#Mongoose, probably great gray.
Has to be either that or a spotted hyena. Even this lion biologist isn't sure! My guess, from what I see here, is hyena.
Yes, see also ASG000omsx
yes, #spotted-hyena
#buffalo. Eles, rhinos and hippos don't have pendulous balls like that. Muddy skin is common.
#warthog
The herd is of zebras, and the animal on L looks lower and longer. May be a zebra running to catch up, but it does look like a male lion!
I agree #wildebeest. It stands in front of camera for looong time, then next image is a gnu moving away.
No, #dikdik. Bushbuck would be larger, redder, usually with some white spots on body.
Not honeybadger, too big. The pics b4 and after show hyena, and this appears to have spots on legs, so it may be a weird view of hyena too.
#buffalo
#buffalo
zebra seconded!
#wildebeest
#elephant
sure has a #wildebeest tail - ASG000plne
large raptor but can't see which.
prob. serval
straightish parallel horns are tommy - grants diverge more.
looks static - veg. or shadow
more zebras
Its blurriness compared to the clouds is a clue that this is a small object v close to lens...dirt or veg...it's in many pix. Sorry!
I'd agree #warthog
#elephant looks good, see also ASG000qbf7
#hyena - see ASG000pqev
#impala
yep. Also, buffalos are more of a dark monotone than wildebeest.
Yes those are leopard eyes. What a weird view of a leopard!!
Certainly could be the back of a white-tailed mongoose.
#black-shouldered-kite
Close to camera and illuminated by flash.
Looks like a #thomsons-gazelle
#baboons
Wow, that is a lucky one!
#impala - young male
#steinbuck
I say #warthog. Frame 2 shows, from left, a tusk, a 'wart' and an eye turret. It may be scratching itself against the camera box or mount.
I agree #jackal
They are impala.
#banded-mongoose
He's adult, with mature-looking horns.
It would be a very tiny lion! Looks like a flower or grass head.
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver
BEF has big black ears - this is a jackal, appears to be Golden or poorly-marked Side-striped.
The thing moving from left to centre is a grant's gaz.
#spotted-hyena
#White-tailed-mongoose
Probably.
Probably slender. Dwarf does not have the black tail tip.
Not dikdik. More like reedbuck.
Leopards have rosettes on body but single spots on head and parts of limbs. This is a leopard. Also seen in ASG000r0qc
It doesn't move - think it's light effects from camera pointing at low sun.
prob. impala
Both #young #wildbeest
Looks like artifact - maybe flashlit dust mote.
Yes - little yellow heads. They are sweet birds, rather like a UK partridge.
More likely a calf or goat. Their mutts tend to be tan coloured.
Has to be a buffalo. Sadly, the beauty treatment never seems very effective...but it keeps them cool.
Yes - young #wildebeest, looks very small for that time of year.
koris are huge and usually project above the horizon. this is a #white-bellied-bustard.
interesting...what part of the park is that?
FYI, no self-respecting baboon would EVER be on the ground at night. Certain characters just don't work nights!
if u mean the tiny thing on left...no idea! i'd have ignored it.
male tommy chasing a female...bird was in the way!
#lion #cub
No, but some grants have black side stripes. I think the central animal is a tommy.
Could be dikdik but not certain.
yes #dikdik
Frequent in dry season. Annual burning in selected areas by park staff. Additional fires started by poachers.
Serval is right
I thinl it could be - well spotted!
#Thomsons-Gazelle
How 'bout a #magpie-shrike?
Weedwhacking the Serengeti - what a project!!
#wildebeest grazing with neck stripes & beard visible at R
#dikdik is correct
#buffalo is right
It's there for about 2 hours. Maybe a caterpillar or other insect?
young #impala,good diagnosis
What's all this hesitation? Only wildebeest has a tail like that.
#guineafowl
#eland are quite variable. I once knew one with a horn bent in a circle!
Can't see it.
Seems to be a wildebeest calf. Photos from previous 2 mins show wildebeest there. But not at all an obvious choice.
Yes, little ones often lie down.
The enigmatic and mysterious #spotted-hyena
What's abnormal? He's coming to renew the SD card or batteries in the camera, so you can have hours more of fun 😃
They are lion cubs, and lion cubs are spotty.
#guineafowl
#crowned-plover or lapwing, yes
It is a leopard, walking away and sweeping its tail to one side. No doubt about that pattern.
yup
yes lions
#lions
sure! see ASG000tchr hyenas, we get zebras, elands, lions, all kinds of stuff.
Yes, bowerbirds tend to be in Australia...
#baboon
I know. Still, when you find 'something' running after a wildebeest, 99.9% of the time it's another wildebeest 😃
ASG000tchr and ASG000tcht show a group of hyenas investigating the rocks - no kill!
No animal here
They are #thomsons-gazelle
I only see an adult
I'm sure!
yes #spotted-hyena
Probably buffalo
Just wildebeest. You guys are SO eager for blood!!
and tusk!
Herd could also be buffs - hard to tell.
They often roll, or just rest lying on side.
Could also be a leopard. They love to climb trees like this.
#thomsons-gazelle
#spotted-hyena
All wildebeest - young have straight horns.
I lightened it and found all are #zebra
Lots of little spots - I agree cheetah.
Reaserchers photograph a slate when they put in a new SD card, so they know which camera and what date.
Ouch, yes
#dikdik
#hyena - look at rounded back & short black tail
#hartebeest for sure
Yes, has to be wildcat, but a strange colour!
#grey-breasted-spurfowl. Guineas have pointy heads.
Yes that heel looks unnaturally swollen. And oxpeckers aren't always little friends - they sometimes peck at wounds.
That's true. Gazelles.
young male #impala
Try #hare
Yes indeed! Lesser galago - amazing to catch it.
#Guineafowl
One of the smaller hornbills eg Gray
I think just a distant zebra.
The sequences b4 and after, though several hrs apart, show a Hartlaubs bustard. But I agree the size suggests Kori.
Yes, and the pink/white/black ears
#buffalo
#giraffe
#topi
#White-bellied-bustard
Likely grey-breasted-spurfowl
Bizarre, but I've seen this before - inguinal hernia or else just grossly swollen scrotum. Ouch!
Kori is about as big as a tommy - this is #white-bellied-bustard
yes! another lazy day in zebraland.
#wildebeest - dark color + long flowing tail
Gazelle. Topi would look overall darker.
Yes #bushbuck. Study the horns (only males have 'em) and the ears, which are quite distinctive.
Dikdiks typically come in pairs. And they are less than half the size of reedbuck. That gait with hind foot lifted high is v typical.
Elephant dung, methinks
Looks like #porcupine
rock or poop, not animal
Wow, you are good! I wasn't sure, but the experts confirmed #gabar-goshawk. I'm not used to seeing it come at me like this!
Yes
Yes, 3 h'beest and a presumed topi calf with the adult topis
Yes and yes
Bald #buffalo!
Could be!
Prey looks like w'hog - in 2 you can see tusks.
Too small. #ground-hornbill - see ASG000pr0a few mins later.
#blackshouldered-kite is probably guarding its latest kill
I can't even see eyes.
Just grass...snakes are so rare to see.
#aardwolf is good.
#buffalo or manure heap!
Dark mark is v. close vegetation or dirt on lens
try #spotted-hyena - ASG000qso3 5 mins earlier
As they say, when in doubt it's a #wildebeest....see ASG000qmp6 2 mins earlier
One of the goshawks I think, but I've sent it to a bird expert to see if he can ID it. It's carrying prey, maybe a smaller bird.
In a very small % of zebras the stripes break down into a chaotic mottled pattern, usually in saddle area, as seen here
He's alive, that's the bottom line, and he could still inflict some damage with what's left!
Dorsal stripe. They all have it, but it doesn't show in a side view.
Resting so close to those zebras, it has to be another z.
#ground-hornbill - weird, huh?
Amazing capture of a #nightjar - night birds which catch insects on the wing. Many spp have bold white bars across wing primaries, seen here
Clue: Black and white stripes...
Yes, he's showing off his stuff in 3!
#gazelle - prob Grant's
#hyena photobomb!
All are #eland. Waterbuck is only in brushy places - in fact, if it had to spend a day in this treeless plain, it would DIE of heatstroke!
Probably Black-headed or Lesser Masked weavers. This camera is lying on the ground pointing up, so we see a lot of this colony!
If you haven't read it yet, see this: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0000dxb
Animal is #hartebeest
#crowned-plover. Sandgrouse have v short legs like doves.
I agree with hayvel, agama #lizard - big guys who normally perch on rocks, as in R of picture.
yellow-billed #oxpecker on #buffalo
There's a #wildebeest there 1min earlier and during previous 15 min, so I assume this is one, yet it seems hornless! But nothing else fits.
Probably tail of a bird such as a roller, perched on the camera box.
That's awful! A hyenapotamus almost! Probably full of meat.
#wildebeest. Pics b4 & after show wildebeest too.
Good one. Sometimes you do see what appear to be matriarchal groups or multigenerational families.
No, something really small and really close, like an insect or a gecko crawling over the camera. Elephant parts always have more definition.
Ooohh!
Has to be #aardvark. There's really nothing else shaped like that, and we've seen them on this camera before.
#buffalo belly. Legs too slim for ele or rhino; penile tassel at far L is only seen on buffalo. He is rather threadbare, so looks wrinkly.
Yes, tommy. You can tell it's a small animal cos you're looking over its back. If it were waterbuck, you'd be looking at its belly or flank.
#koribustard
Lion for sure, well spotted! May just be resting. Go back to ASG000tdtn and work forward, you get them climbing into the rocks.
Why not? You deserve a #caracal. Look at ASG000mxe5, there's a tommy in the same plane, the cat is way smaller so can't be a lion.
prob smoke from grass #fire
This'll mess with your head - all are wildebeest! The elephant's head is hump of grazing gnu, and warthog's tusk is horn of another gnu!
Ha, best you can do! There are no other pix to help us. I'd go for one of the big cats.
Yes, it's a camera fault
Right. In fact their body profile, both when grazing or just standing, is highly distinctive at a great distance, try and learn it.
There is something indistinct there. Previous pic ASG000muj4 shows what seems to be #hippo.
#bushbuck because of dark patch at back of neck and white patch on R inner foreleg. Also coloring inside ear.
Tricky one. You can see 2 horn tips far L, big fringed ear lower centre... #buffalo! 8 mins later we see them leaving, ASG000oxpz
you're right!
#wildebeest
Camera 'eye level' is c. 1 metre so this is big antelope - hartebeest or gnu - no dark shoulder patch so not topi. See ASG000nr3a for answer
These are #young #hartebeest with grant's gaz.
correct
I like this view!
yup, #hyena
correct
good - that dewlap is so distinctive
weed
No - I see 3 #topi and 1 #impala in there
It is!
tails & trunks
yes
#hartebeest - it's big, also you don't usually find impala in open grassland with no bush.
Gazelle, prob Grants
#grants-gazelle young female - try comparing with other Grant's photos and you'll see that eye make-up.
Yes, all you can do is say 'nothing here'.
Never in daytime. Also, aardvark has a really thick tail like a kangaroo. This is a warthog.
Yes - one of the more frequent & distinctive birds.
Yes - some people get thrown by the side stripe, just accept that some Grants have it and others don't. Rump, tail and head are distinctive.
#thomsons-gazelle
Yes, I think so.
yes, coqui #francolin
#buffalo. Rhino has a very concave back, while buffalo is almost a straight horizontal line.
Absolutely.
#wildcat
Imagine that, all the way around you. When the Maasai came to this land where grass meets sky, they called it Siringet - a wide open space.
Unlikely. How about rear end of a grazing hare?
Yeah, it's amazing. They have very tough skin, but surely their mouths are somewhat sensitive. Perversely, tastiest bushes are thorny!
Both grants. Photo ASG000tump a minute earlier shows the head of close female. She has a dark stripe but all other features are granti.
Yes, #dikdik
Definitely a banded # mongoose
Might be, hard to see.
I think you're seeing things! Just veg.
Please, before you go further, follow the tutorial & look at pictures of the species on the list. Note that bison & sheep are not on list.
This is a #buffalo.
#spurfowl I think
That diddly little thing lower right looks like a classic Bird-Other to me. I don't see an animal L of tree, just grass heads.
Yes
Confirmed.
Yes
I guess baboon
Gazelle
Young #grants-gazelle
Stick
Can't tell
Different mums. They don't twin.
#wildebeest
Yes #eland
If unsure, guess. If majority guess the same thing, then that's what it is. See previous pic ASG000n2tp #wildebeest
Could be old...also, this is dry season and not as lush as it can be
Hot air #balloon
yes
They are all young, and sometimes several young do bunch together thus.
The gnu in 2 and 3 is the same. It runs behind some tall heads of red oat-grass, which look to you like a cat. A real lion wd be bigger!
1 Harte and many gazelle
Vegetation, it's in many pix in this series.
This is one of those cameras that points skywards, and takes millions of pics of the little twig at top 😦
Love it!!
It's like a hartebeest nursery group. Out of picture, a mom is probably explaining how to stand with your belly against the camera 😃
#grey-backed-fiscal
I think so.
no way, it's a #dikdik. Note greyish rump & neck, preorbital gland and white eye-ring, pointed muzzle.
yes, impala
Think it's #spotted-hyena with indistinct spots, certain it's not striped.
#wildebeest - large, grey-brown 'brindled' coat, horse-like tail
It's a baby #hartebeest. Only Grant is at far R.
agree 2 hyenas
#marsh-owl
Way too scuzzy. #spotted-hyena.
Yes
#impala, yes
Brown with light rump makes it #hartebeest
Buffalo is right
Young #wildebeest, yes
That color & texture are typical of #wildebeest.
These are #grants-gazelle - so much white on legs & belly, and lacking the black marks that impala have on rear hocks.
I prefer #impala
Right.
#wildebeest with a couple of zebra.
Either that or topi, can't tell.
#cheetah as in ASG000sski
Yes #reedbuck
Yes it is young buff.
Agnother gnu.
Maybe buffalo head? Lots of flies!
Yes #warthog
Yes
Blackbacked #jackal
#zebra
#guineafowl
Something small and v close to camera to be so blurry. Not lion.
Awesome view from underneath!
Or eland - one passing by a minute earlier.
maybe just a leaf
Just wind. Only animal there is a gazelle, not known for shaking trees.
#wildebeest for sure
They do have a facial stripe thru eye.
#lion - see ASG000snvu
prob more gnus!
yes, could be claw marks. Lucky zeb!
#elephant
I'm only seeing waving grass.
Head doesn't look right, but I can't make it into anything else.
They are wary birds and good at avoiding the traffic!
If u mean the thing at bottom right,could be bird but hard to say what
#hippo
Dark line from eye to mouth makes this a #cheetah
Good one!
Dark thing on horizon that doesn't move? might just be bushes, can't tell
It's another tommy
Hyena is good.
Very hard call. There are only 3 pix, all in this position, all in same minute. I favor #lion but who knows? They get flies too.
It's deceptive. We went thru a lot of pix b4 & after, and decided she's a wildebeest.
Not easy. From smallish size and sparse spotting and alignment of many spots into rows, I'd say #serval.
Yes, good guess! - ASG000rtjk shows the cheetah
Hard to say. Could be a young one closely following a larger one.
Thing on left might be #aardvark
yes
Next photo shows a wildebeest
#wildebeest
Presumably cheetahs - see ASG000rti7 from 2 min earlier.
Yes #warthog
#guineafowl
Prob. Elephant
#wildebeest
#zebra
#warthogs
Looks like immature male tommy
Yes #wildebeest
Anöther #impala
Gazelles and a maybe-topi
Yes, see 10 mins later - ASG000q1ca
#thomsons-gazelle female - see ASG000ouwa a minute earlier. A Tommy's back is lower than average camera level, a Grant is about camera level
It is not lightning, but lighting - on a grass stem close to camera. By day you'd see this - ASG000qhe3
If you were under this tree, would you look at the trunk (where camera is mounted) or out at the grass whence danger is more likely to come?
Yes. Young zebs have a fuzzier texture than adults, and tend to be browner.
Yes - ASG000nf5u
#lion - one close, another out in grass at L.
But definitely a #wildebeest
Just more zebra
Possibly topi
Looks like warthog
#butterfly. Giraffes are bigger.
#hartebeest
Can't see any animal here
#secretary-bird
Shape of ears more like hyena.
Very close to camera so must be small, like rodent or lizard.
Believe it or not, #thomsons-gazelle - ASG000ow8k
Just possibly could be #buffalo
#fire indeed
Yes!
#buffalo
#thomsons-gazelle - ASG000ngi0
Rain, wonderful rain!
No, it's part of a human preparing to unlock the camera
Seems to be some small critter crawling over camera, with some lens flare, but no idea who.
looks like little furry tail but don't know who.
er - these are #dikdik, could be ma and kid.
yes, yellow-billed #oxpecker
Gazelles
I'd guess dust devil.
yup
Right, well done
prob more #impala
yes, #guineafowl
Hyenas are 1.5h earlier & 4h later so may not be aware of him. Lion soc org is spatially loose, chances are that he has pals off camera.
can't tell, poss. baboon
#lion
Best guess #impala
#wildebeest
Probably #topi
#buffalo
A lot of gazelles and a hartebeest
To be so blurry, it must be very close to lens, thus very small. Perhaps insect.
two #elephant
#hartebeest - you almost never see impala in such open country, they prefer bushland.
Two #warthog - sorry!
#buffalo
Bohor Reedbuck live in loose small groups. Typically in daytime they rest near each other in tall grass, in places not seen by our cameras.
#hippo indeed
#wildebeest
A young and an old one. The very clear spots of the young become less distinct with age, and body color becomes browner.
#elephant male
yes he is
Yes, #wildebeest
Adult female #waterbuck - the fuzziest of the antelopes
Good call- but I can find no ref to twinning. Examining pic, I see the LH one as an adult, a little further back than calf but still taller.
you're sighting from its butt along its left side and seeing just the curve of its horn.
Unlikely in June. Young zebras up to about half grown often rest lying down, even adults sometimes.
Looks like a shrike
#topi
Yes, #bushbuck
Great!
#white-bellied-bustard
Gazelle, prob. Tommy
#impala - reddish color, black tipped ears
Distant dust-devil?
#buffalo young
Nothing visible at all except that eye, or dust speck. Anything goes!
#cape-rook - a corvid common on plains
yes, hyena
Juveniles play-fighting....very small horns!
Yes - a dik-dik-dik!
Yes, H. Ichneumon - found in India too.
I suggest #great-grey-mongoose - one of the larger Serengeti species.
LOL
I made up 'eyebrows', not sure what you call them on a hippo. 'Eyepods'?
Another tommy at R edge
#elephant tusk
#zebras & insect?
#guineafowl head
#guineafowl
Back of neck, top of head, two ears, two 'eyebrows', but L eye is just below frame.
#guineafowl, and distant zebras.
Insect
#wildebeest on the move. Maybe heading out to the plains at the first rains.
Part of a #wildebeest
Wow! You got a #leopard! In ASG000p3em it stands up, and subsequently turns around and hunkers down again.
#beauty !
All kinds of animals use the cameras as scent marking posts, so they must smell really exciting!
Yes! And a #buffalo
See http://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/category/camera-trapping/ - March 11 2013 blog 'Running In Place'. Box approx 3"x5"x6" is big enough.
This one's the lappet-faced-vulture
#grants-gazelle female actually
Hmm. Explain how its head is oriented, so we can't see body, ears, nose or horn tips, and why this couldn't be two #banded-mongoose instead?
Ya got me! Didn't look hairy enough for a bab tail, but in context it makes sense.
I know it's not a bustard 'cos they NEVER perch on trees. My best guess is a #grey-breasted-spurfowl
#wildebeest - see ASG000tc5d a minute later.
Yes #warthog - see ASG000ptud
Probably tail of a #leopard. There was leopard here 5 hrs earlier.
#leopard
#thomsons-gazelle
One of the small species, probably #white-bellied-bustard
Yes #vultures
Bat, moth or other UFO
Yes, #lions
#wildebeest - not obvious here, but previous pics show it better eg ASG000n5xb
#thomsons-gazelle - as in the photos immediately before and after. But yes, hard to ID from just an ear.
All I see is the #thomsons-gazelle.
All are #impala
Yes!
more #wildebeest ?
#zebra
#baboon !
#wildebeest
#nothing
#wildebeest
#buffalo for sure. Horns are swept back from eyes then curve up at their tips.
looks like #guineafowl head
#guineafowl
Camera obscured by dirt or veg
Still a #hippo
#buffalo
#dikdik is better. See also next photo, ASG000pndu, showing dikdik with bushbuck.
This one is so hard. I vote #buffalo, because a rhino has a more concave back like a horse, and a hippo would be more rounded.
Our friendly #hartebeest
#wildebeest
#wildebeest - see the yellowish beard and black tail?
Probably #thomsons-gazelle. You can see part of body too, black & tan. Next photo ASG000nsoy shows a tommy there.
Next sequence ASG000tx1p shows you more, but not much more.
That's right! Here's some fairly big ungulate (maybe topi size) dark face, no beard, already that narrows it down to 3 or 4 max.
All are #wildebeest
stands like #zebra
Scientist has just replaced the SD card, photographed the slate with date, time etc, and team is now preparing to move on to next camera
Think of young warthogs...animals with spiky bits like horns or tusks are born without them, mothers out there will be relieved to hear!
#wildebeest
#zebra - profile of part of head with mane at top. Zebras also present in ASG000oc0b.
#wildebeest grazing
Looks like it.
Can't ID, lark or pipit.
It isn't practical to record shadows. They are too variable.
If you lighten it you can see how big is the body attached to that tail!
Maybe insect on lens
#zebra
Yes
#nothing - just grass in front of camera
Can't tell. Part of large animal.
Nor can I. My best guess = warthog
#warthog is right
You can un-bate your breath. The guys in bkg are just #zebras
Chest of a #hartebeest. They very often stand in front of camera for hours. Cameras are about 1 metre above ground, helps u judge size.
The only horses you'll see in Serengeti NP are #zebras, which is what these are - about 8, some further away than others.
Yes, there's vegetation or dirt in front of this camera lens.
Also that rich reddish color makes them #impala
Probably #impala
You're right, it is a #dove. It appears in many pictures and changes position and eventually leaves.
#african-hoopoe - very nice capture!
Det är inte en elefant. Kameran har ett problem.
It's not an elephant. This camera has a problem.
#thomsons-gazelle
#hippo for sure.
yes, #lion
Yes...they are very variable
#reedbuck
#impala
Don't think it's either, as 5 mins later it isn't there. Maybe distant herd eyes?
Det är Thomsons gaseller i bakgrunden
Right on
#hartebeest - eland would have a fringed or tufted dewlap
#hippo
#ground-hornbill
You might be on to something there. There were buffalo here 2 hrs earlier. Still puzzled though!
#wildebeest is right
Possibly one of the smaller bustards.
Yes, the following and head movements are part of the courtship ritual
Awesome!
#thomsons-gazelle
Something small sitting on the camera, maybe an insect or spider, is my guess. I like yours though 😃
#serval is right
#impala is correct
#lion
#bird
#black-shouldered-kite
#wildebeest
Mix of zebra and wildebeest visible
#buffalo #calf, they are quite reddish when small.
Yes, they get broken. She's a dudess.
A #harrier - medium long winged hawk
#side-striped-jackal
Certainly could be.
Still #buffalo
#elephant - part of trunk
#warthog
Right
#topi
#waterbuck in bkg
Looks like a #butterfly
They've got bands, yes
Full belly
#hartebeest
It's the most likely suspect.
This camera seems to be permanently part-obscured by vegetation or whatever. So I'd give it a 'nothing'
In which case, this is a #black-shouldered-kite (or else its prey)
#black-shouldered-kite
They do, but you get used to it. The Great Wildebeest Migration is usually accompanied by the much less publicized Great Fly Migration 😃
Most likely Tommies
It has a weird gleam in its eye!
huh?? She's just relaxing with her head on her friend's back. Count the legs!
Yes - if that is the cat, it makes no sense for bird to stay.
#dikdik - he's v small, and note thick dark line in front of eye (preorbital scent gland) - he may be scent-marking a grass stem.
#thomsons-gazelle male
#serval - see ASG000r835 taken 5min later
#serval
#serval
#cheetah tail - there was a cheetah hanging around this tree during previous hour
Beautiful sequence.
Ticks are my best guess. But in subsequent pics he seems to get rid of them, perhaps by scraping against the treetrunk.
Yes, #zebra
This casual association is often seen - it is suggested that in combination they are better able to detect their common enemies.
Nest material?
Too white for gnu. #thomsons-gazelle
#impala
It could be.
Yes! This is a sausage tree, Kigelia, and leopards like to lounge on their branches - even lions sometimes. Any sightings of cats here yet?
#impossible - eland usually has tuft or fringe of hair on dewlap but we can't see enough for ID here
#buffalo
LOL! It's amazing what happens after dark when the tourists are safely tucked in bed.
It's definitely animal, looks like part of a bird.
Correct
Monkey is a #hornbill #bird
a.k.a. #white-bellied-bustard
wildebeest
absolutely
probably #wildebeest
#grants-gazelle
Yes. They have weird muzzles.
They often come to drink and bathe at suitable waterholes
Yes
Correct. Flash does make most animals look lighter.
two #wildebeest fighting, I think
#spotted-hyena
#aardwolf
mostly #wildebeest
#grey-breasted-spurfowl - chicken family
#lion - good guess
#wildebeest udder - elephant would have much more wrinkly texture.
A mix of wildebeest & zebras
yes, both
Puzzling. Looks almost like a car. Other animals seen here on same day include gnu & elephant
Birds seen on zebra and wildebeest are usually #wattled-starling. They just use the grazer as an observation platform to spy insects below
can only be #warthog
yes - sharp eyes!!
#reedbuck definitely
correct
3 #thomsons-gazelle watch alertly as a spotted #hyena walks by. This is not unusual. They keep a 'safe' distance from hyena.
It turned slightly towards us, so snout looks shorter. You seldom see aardwolf in that posture, too. Here's another jackal: ASG0006aih
yes
nothing that I can see. There's a game trail, and some dung.
#side-striped-jackals
#side-striped-jackal
no, #hyena
This is the seldom seen #side-striped-jackal
They are. There are a lot of photos of this colony!
#eland - see 6 mins earlier: ASG000smyp
It is #impala - blow it up to see his distinctive S-shaped horns
Yes, that is a sitting tommy
Those are #thomsons-gazelle in bkg.
why not #jackal ?
Do make use of the ID guide...this is a very clear view of female #impala. Grant is more light pinkish, big white oblong in butt.
flying insect probably, meteorite less probably
#lion
#cheetah
Spotted h.
Not wild dog, #aardwolf
Nothing
#buffalo for sure
#buffalo
#black-bellied-bustard male
3 #wildebeest & a #buffalo
#grants-gazelle all
These are #white-bellied-bustards
On #buffalo
#wildebeest calves
No, #wildebeest
Yes #lion
#wildebeest
#lion
Antelope, poss. Reedbuck
Nothing but trees I think
#bird x2, probably francolin
No idea. I would expect buffalo to show more bristles. Human would have made camera straight. Bird?
Yes, at that time of year could be white-eyed kestrel.
Classic #buffalo head in profile
Yes
#buffalo sitting down. They are the blackest of all the mammals here.
#wildebeest X 2
Yes!
Yes, several
#buffalo horn bosses.
#wildebeest - see a minute earlier, ASG000qz97
5-6 months I'd guess. Looks like Mama's working on a new project too.
LOL
It is better to see animals that aren't there, than not to see those that are there 😃
A scientist took it down, so he could send you 3,000 more photos of waving grass.
#topi - with the eye of faith, you can see dark stripe down front of face, dark on upper forelimbs.
I suspect there are no bathrooms for about 50 miles. It does what it has to do.
#superb-starling
#warthog with a fancy 'do
The former.
#thomsons-gazelle
Yup
#giraffe, see next frame ASG000qp5q
Looking for a radio-collared lion, like the ones you see in the photos!
Yes - and in left foreground, probably #dikdik
Right. Rounded back, reddish tuft between ears, black preorbital gland are other clues you can see here.
white-bellied, perhaps?
Yes
#zebra correct.
definitely banded #mongoose
Female Black-bellied or Hartlaub's bustard
All #buffalo - normally you'll see all buffalo, or all wildebeest, seldom do they mix.
yes
Of course!
Calf of #hartebeest or possibly #topi - they are v similar when small
#cheetah
yes, black-backed #jackal
#warthog - see this, 3 min later: ASG000rdy4
There are at least 6 tommies here, I can't see a mound-critter. Is it the moving head of the resting tommy, over the back of the R female?
2 #crowned-plover , one something-else and a tommy
This is the sky camera and it just takes a zillion pics of that little grass stem!
Most definitely. A male.
Amazing! #grey-backed-fiscal shrike
Can't tell. 2 mins earlier, zebra passed this camera
Could be, I can't be positive
yes
looks like a fine big male with that thick neck
Might be another #secretary-bird
It took me a long time to even find it! Can't see well enough to be positive. May be rufous-tailed weaver.
#wildebeest herd
#wildebeest
yes, #wildebeest
#thomsons-gazelle for sure.
#buffalo !
Looks like a baby reedbuck. Also appears in ASG000omt2
#dikdik for sure.
Yes - see photo from previous minute: http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000p9xz
This is a good view of a #black-winged-plover / lapwing
Nice - I think that's all it could be. Bat-eared-fox would have more black on ears and legs.
Monkey is a #vervet
I just picked it up from living with them. Richard D Estes is the world expert on SNP gnu so his writings might mention it.
Only one - C. taurinus mearnsi. Diffs in facial markings are age-related. The sitting one here is about 2 yrs old.
Yes
#impala
#human
Grant would show horns. Might be jackal.
#warthog
#impossible
Yes
#wildebeest looks good
#impossible from this pic. Others in this sequence show buffalo.
Maybe flying insect
If it were a hunting lion, you would see 2 eyes, since their eyes face forwards. It's probably another zebra. Great action shot though!
Yes indeed
Just a probability issue - civets are completely nocturnal and tend to avoid open habitat 😃
Superb!
We are thinking it's hyena.
They all have hairy faces. Spiral is interesting - haven't noticed b4.
#hartebeest
#gazelle
nests
#hartebeest
nothing here i think
#impala
#wildebeest
#topi
#topi
Actually, the R one could be immature RGV too, they look very similar to WBV.
The work of elephants, not wind!
Standing in tall grass
sunrise & lens flare
That's another good reason for slashing the grass around the cameras. The cut area acts as a firebreak.
That caught my attention! What I see here is a female #ostrich grazing. Welcome to SnapshotSerengeti.
yawwwwnnn
Just the very slight noise the camera makes, attracts the #serval 's full attention by frame 3.
Aha! You are too good at this!
#oxpecker on #buffalo. They're picky whom they peck - mostly buffalo, giraffe, eland, hippo, rhino. Rarely gnu or zeb. Never elephant.
Definitely #wildebeest
Extremely.
Slashing grass to reduce the number of 'nothing' photos caused by waving vegetation
Looks like rufous-tailed #weavers
Looks like tommy.
I think it's nothing
#eland
My guess too. In 1 it seems to have a bent over tail.
guess tommy
#ground-hornbill - unique wonderful bird
#impossible
#impossible
#buffalo
#thomsons-gazelle
#thomsons-gazelle
Massive greyish short-haired animal...think it has to be a shoulder...in 1 & 3 you get some sky at top R over its back or neck
What do you think about a big old bull eland? Color & shape & size are good.
Great #portrait
yes #buffalo
Too big for caracal, I'm not happy with lion - will have to ponder this one.
This is how some camera lenses become smeary or opaque!
Funny!
yes
Good call, I agree for same reasons
#white-bellied-bustards x 3
Good view of one
Both eat grass, both migrate to be in the best pasture at the right time, and both like a shady tree on a hot day. Love the zeb heads here!
#impossible
#guineafowl
Plants very close to camera!
#elephant - well done
Short, round body, long skinny tail = #warthog
At least 3 #zebra and a few tommies too
Mostly gazelles, prob topi too
Thanks Jihang. I've posted a request on the Interface Help board.
November, green grass, so fire unlikely. Somehow doesn't look like moon. Small flying creature with reflective eye? Such as dung-beetle?
Yes - defassa, as seen here, is the only one in Serengeti
#buffalo x 2
There's something small moving in lower R corner but I can't make it into anything I know. Vegetation?
Beautiful!
I'll buy #aardvark - other option is pangolin, which is a little smaller - hard to judge scale here.
It could be this kind of posture - http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG000s9qu
Any Scientists around to advise us?
That head-high posture is typical of a high-testosterone male, maybe it is he doing the chasing!
Hippos don't tend to herd at night - they spread out. These are #wildebeest
#ostrich tail - more ostrich at R
Based on size, very thick legs, and hair texture, you got a male #lion there. See those wisps of mane at top?
Ears cocked, listening to small prey!
If it were kill, the other #impala wouldn't be there. They aren't big fans of funerals. Resting, but agree it's an odd position.
#white-bellied-bustard female - the blue-grey on neck is one clue. And it's the most likely bustard to see here.
Tommies have 2 birth seasons here, one about Dec-Jan and one about Jun-Jul, so this fits.
#thomsons-gazelle male
foreground one is of course a #warthog
Those on far L are #wildebeest so assume others are too
Looks like #grants-gazelle on R. Then a couple of ?zebra then gnus.
can't see any
Think its #wildebeest #calf, unless anyone has better idea. Has little spike horn, antelope type ear and blocky head,
#cheetah for sure. The single spots, slender legs and lack of white underside to tail
Neck and chin of big carnivore. Maybe cheetah?
It's a plant very close to the camera and its flash, so it's brightly lit and out of focus.
more likely dust motes. There are sometimes fireflies, but generally in swampy places.
Wow. Indeed, you got a #side-striped-jackal. First I've seen on SnapshotSerengeti. I've only seen them a handful of times in the wild.
a.k.a. #buffalo
don't see any animal
of....? I only see grass and maybe an unidentifiable bird
LOL - They are such clowns!
Fantastic to be eye to eye with a tommy. You can't do that on safari.
Studying Gnu Testament?
#thomsons-gazelle - not too creepy 😃
no, just the right size! SNP has no smaller antelopes than the #dikdik
#white-bellied-bustard - very cool birds
belly probably belongs to #hartebeest
Thanks for your patience! Cameras sensitive enough to catch motion of small critters are easily fooled by waving grass.
Yes, we see quite a few of these.
Yes
surely #wildebeest calf?
Looks like wildebeest tail.
Definitely small antelope, most likely #dikdik
#impala , yes
Yes!
All #wildebeest !
You could confidently put #lion - 2 shows the clear boundary between mane and short body hair. There is no other animal like that.
LOL!
2 & 3 look like a carnivore ear, not ungulate, and 1 isn't lion, so I support hyena
yes - long thick tail is unique
Ouch! Well done 😃
tawny shape lying = lion?
Looking at it again, maybe it's the muzzle of a wildebeest?
awww, nice to see!
#guineafowl
I didn't, because I see no trace of mane or striping and its body is so light. Even topi would show some darker patches.
Can only be #thomsons-gazelle with that black bushy tail and strong black racing stripe
Legs way too thin. Probably #hartebeest
I'd call #thomsons-gazelle. Can't even explain why - this view is pretty similar for both. Jenny, you find some good puzzles!
Reedbuck looks good to me.
#eland - yes!
Achyranthes aspera or 'devil's horsewhip'. Grows under shade of trees and makes horrid barbed seeds which hitch rides on skin or clothes!
Yes. Born around Jan, so 5-6 mo old. Note the face is already dark, but they keep that tan forehead thru their 2nd year.
Hard one - I think #elephant, from shape & thickness of forelimbs, facing left
Right!
From size, curve of rump, reddish color, fullness of tail... #bushbuck is my best guess
LOL! Yes, a rare shot indeed
#Hartebeest, 'cos it's quite big and has pale butt and thighs, as if wearing light tights
Still #hartebeest
Not with that short cat-like face. #Serval
I've seen a few of these, think it's tail of lilac-breasted roller - you know, with the long streamers?
I love this
#wildebeest
Nope, male #bushbuck. Reedbuck is fairly uniform tan and has forward curved horns. This has a lot of dark & light marks, straight horns, etc
I'd say so. They have to be good friends to rest like that. Nice shot!
too far to ID, sorry
#wildebeest
Hawk, yes, but can't see much detail. There aren't many on plains in June. White-eyed kestrel? not sure
#Eland - very distinctive profile, rather ox-like with straight horns
looks like the infamous #gray-backed-fiscal
#hartebeest , yes
bird's beak?
can't ID
Yes, could be
Group bunched under tree are #zebra
#guineafowl
Possibly #bat-eared-fox - I think you're right about nose & ear
guess topi or hartebeest
#wildebeest
They don't move. Maybe flowers
They don't mix. Female #grants-gazelle - rump markings are distinctive, side stripe is variably present or absent.
Probably #elephant
mix of gnus and zebras but hard to count.
#Hippo
I couldn't be confident about this. Looks fuzzier than cheetah. A clearly-spotted hyena?
They're rocks, so zebra is your only species. If you had another sp, you'd score zebra, 3, standing, press Identify, then score the next sp.
Yes well done! The end of leopard tail is all white underneath, diff from cheetah where rings/spots are all the way round.
Slim gray neck, b&w stripes on head = #white-bellied-bustard
Or tail of bird perched on camera?
Cool...what a muddy one!
#topi , well done
That's right! Sometimes you see quite large herds.
I'm a dark and massive #buffalo
Good reasoning!
Shows nicely the forward curved horns.
Yeah, when I blow it up I can see what you mean. Gnu calf is probably correct.
Correct
Reddish, white stripes/spots on body, dark at base of neck, = #bushbuck female.
Grass head nodding in wind 😦
#aardwolf
Yes
Correct - #lion
My idea is nothing here. Lump on L horizon is a termite mound.
5 #crowned-plovers and 1 #blackwinged-plover (foreground)
Great! Thanks 4 sharing
#Impala looks good 'cos of black tipped ears
He's not very small and could be an independent young male. And he could have lots of pals just out of frame.
Trees, grass & rocks
Backbone of prey
Think it's grass
Good try. All we can use here is how rounded the ears are. Reedbuck, oribi, all the others have pointy ears. So this is #bushbuck
On that date, it wouldn't have been as round. Probably a dust mote.
Large #bird preening, size of secretary or kori bustard, but not enough to go on.
#wildebeest
Maybe - can't tell. In the foreground, of course, is #elephant .
Those long twisted horns are only on bushbuck and eland. From apparent size and shape of head, I'd call this a female #eland.
#cheetah
I think it's just a hartebeest 😦
Who nose? I guess #cheetah cos of mouth shape and hint of spots on short-haired chest. Also they scentmark cameras so tend to sniff closely.
Sure is - on a #buffalo
Agree - #giraffe - lightened in PS I can even see some spots!
May have to remain mystery. Not much out there in June that's large and b&w. I'm baffled. Unless black Cape Rook showing shiny reflections?
Yes, #white-bellied-bustard
super!
I'd give it a 'nothing'.
About 6 #thomsons-gazelle - 3 or 4 show the black side stripes if you look closely. Don't assume eyeshine = predators - usually it's not.
sorry, don't see anything but grass
If there's no animal, hit the 'nothing here' button.
more of the same... #thomsons-gazelle
correct - #thomsons-gazelle
nor I
#spotted-hyena
dirty old #buffalo
Peculiar, but yes!
He's young so they haven't yet acquired their full spread and that elegant S-bend.
#harrier - either male Pallid or male Montague's, can't tell at that distance
Usually, more of the same - as in this case. #zebra
Bit larger.... #elephant
Yes. Sometimes they cover the plains from horizon to horizon.
Just judging by all the flies with it, I'd say buffalo nose, but no way to tell. Buffalo seem to get more flies than anyone else!
All the animals are #wildebeest, even the close horn. Hartebeest horns are ringed or ridged, this one is smooth.
Strange to catch one out at night.
Both are #topi 😃
#buffalo herd - all are dark. African cows have a mix of all colors in the herd - black, brown, white, spotty - & we seldom see any in SNP.
#cheetah, I think - serval are smaller, usually just their ears come up to camera level, and they usually have stripes on neck & shoulders.
#humans cutting grass and tending to camera. You can see blade of slasher in 3.
Fun! Tis a #baboon
Beauty!
I'll go with reedbuck
I'll raise you...2 #jackals
Lots of gnus - #wildebeest . Long black face is distinctive.
Ha, yes, #spotted-hyena
No kidding! Wildeballs.
Probably #impala
The long neck, long hair on neck, the way his head sits on his neck - none of that says jackal to me. Wonder if this could be #aardwolf?
Small antelope, like tommy or steinbuck.
#topi is right!
#buffalo
Right
Grass
Insect?
Just grass. You really wouldn't see a snake in knee high grass.
Well-known syndrome 😛
#buffalo - elephant can't get that low
More zebras with heads down grazing - I can see the stripes
#wildebeest , you betcha
How about #hippo? thick neck going down past ear to protruding eye
Nothing, I think.
This one is hard - played it many times, I see dark legs, white on bum, large size. That and the riverine habitat suggest #waterbuck to me
#dikdik - the little pointy crest between ears is a clue.
Could be the edge of a warthog's face but #impossible to know.
It's a #serval ! Nice.
Nothing here that I can see
Interesting capture. Not head, but wingtip of a #nightjar - nocturnal insect- hawking bird.
#oxpecker. How cool is that, to have someone pick your nose for you?
Yes #hartebeest - good call
Interesting view of a #hartebeest !
That's a clear #wildebeest
Probably #ground-hornbill. It shows its head half an hour later on same camera.
#buffalo - really crusty ratty old bulls!!
#zebra
#thomsons-gazelle male
Most likely #warthog
black-backed #jackal
#lion
I think #wildebeest - beyond it, bottom L, looks like mane and back of another one.
#wildebeest titties
#hartebeest is right
#cheetah more likely
#zebra about 3
#hartebeest correct
Wow indeed! Big Bird is #kori-bustard
All #zebras
no deer here, it's a #thomsons-gazelle
#wildebeest - striping and beard are distinctive
#topi
Pretty sure this is #elephant, rhino would not have such long legs or belly so high.
#oxpecker
They don't - it's just heading for the trees.
#zebra - about 4
Yes, #zebra
Yes, #wildebeest - NO HORSES in Serengeti, except zebras!
#hartebeest - they are sort of lion coloured with pale long-johns. Also look for that little dark curvy tail, humped shoulders, slim neck.
Definitely #waterbuck - big, shaggy, dark coat, white rump
Or reedbuck? or impala? can't tell.
Yes, too bad! Looks like a big cat but really can't ID
#hartebeest
#spotted-hyena - no confusion. Nothing else is spotty & scruffy. This is a young one so the spots are clear. Hyenas are often active by day.
#impala
Looks like all #zebras
just grass i think
I think just trees
Too big. Most of the cameras are mounted about a metre off the ground, so you wouldn't see a close-up mongoose. This is olive #baboon .
More likely Black-headed or Lesser Masked, but I can't see details.
These are 2 #zebra
Still #eland
No, it's at least 3 #wildebeest and perhaps another 8 visible only as eyeshine.
#hartebeest
#wildebeest hide
About 4 #wildebeest
#wildebeest - they do look different at night. keep going!
#lion
Yes, #elephant
#impala
#guineafowl
I favor #reedbuck. Oribi has more delicate build and, usually, a black tipped tail. Both have the black spot below ear base.
It's a #landrover -beest
prob #jackal. Only other option is serval but I think its ears would be closer together.
Correct
#secretary-bird collecting nesting material!
All are #wildebeest - they don't mix much with buffalo
#zebra - in photoshop I can see the stripes.
Truly stellar!
It's a big spotted cat - leopard or cheetah. Given the open short grass habitat, my money is on #cheetah
Quite common in female tommies. Evolutionarily they may be in the process of losing them.
They, too, are #wildebeest
Medium sized antelope.Totally blah brown face rules out all gazelles, bushbuck, and probably reedbuck. That leaves #impala - best guess!
#spotted-hyena - must be the LED model!
Normal, I think - perhaps it's just the lighting. They are pale, an adaptation for living in hot dry places - reflects radiant heat better.
Maybe. At that age it is very hard to distinguish topi from hartebeest - similar shape and color. Too bad mama isn't in the picture!
yes, #ground-hornbill
I think so, yes
#topi at left - we often get them in this scene. Also gazelles on horizon but can't ID
Tail style and body texture suggest #buffalo to me
LOL
Looks good.
Puzzling. That angular grey fuzzy shape might be the heel of a #wildebeest , and part of its horn moving at lower left?
Wow, that is really special!
It's an 'orange-tip' #butterfly
Yes #hartebeest - maybe 4 of them
Hard one. I can't make it into a civet, but I'm wondering #zorilla ? Other opinions?
#jackal. looks like a small grazing antelope, but the thick neck gives it away.
#dikdik x 2: head of one looking R, rear view in background.
Definitely #warthog
Yes
#buffalo #calf
Small passerine, lark or pipit, can't do better than that!
#impala is right
#coqui-francolin
#Crowned-plover
They share the same habitat, but have different food prefs and ranging patterns. They mix but don't interbreed. Often seen in same picture.
Think it's a #bird. Camera is lying on its back, bird standing on it, we see the breast and bill of the bird from below. Other ideas?
It's a #bird - #grey-backed-fiscal - there's one on ground and one in a small bush
#thomsons-gazelle - about 5 in picture
I've seen a similar one, and think it's the tail of a #lilac-breasted-roller bird perching on the camera
#white-bellied-bustard
#buffalo
All #wildebeest
Protruding nose and whiskers suggest big cat. Lack of beard suggests #cheetah.
yes
#baboon - it's even got hands!
yes they are
#wildebeest
#black-backed-jackal
#lion x 2
#wildebeest
#hartebeest it is, the little hair crest along tail diistinguishes it from eland who has black tassel at end. Nothing else is that color.
Most of his horn is broken off, that's why he's so odd
Probably bird, I'm thinking tail of #roller
yes, cheek!
good old #hartebeest belly
vegetation
Yes, I think so too
#Cheetah !
Yes, how great to get a daytime shot of #leopard !
Thanks, wilderzone!
They are indeed #baboons
#buffalo
yes, #black-backed-jackal
#white-bellied-bustard. Brown body, long blue-grey neck, and black & white stripes on face are main ID cues.
#wildebeest at least 4
Aardwolf has more of a mane. Serval has shorter face. This is #jackal
#secretary-bird - check it out!
#spotted-hyena , and they are utterly fascinating!
A grass head
Foreground a nondescript brown #white-backed-vulture preening, beyond it a #ruppells-griffon-vulture with white ruff & mottled wings.
Could be, or steinbuck; not dikdik or bushbuck; but I can't see enough of it for positive ID
#buffalo - all the horned animals chew cud, but posture & color & habitat r all buffaloid.
#hartebeest, one of our regulars!
yes
#hartebeest
Low-budget safari guides sometimes try to pass off w'hogs as baby rhinos 😃
Only thing I don't like about that answer is, I can't make out its horns.
Looks like #wildebeest on its side, head to L, hind legs to R, pale bum and tailbase facing us, black tail flicking to L. Could be birthing?
Holy ####! I will have to eat my words of yesterday. Well done!
Try #wildebeest , they have a very horselike tail. You aren't going to see horses in Serengeti, except the striped kind 😃
#hartebeest is correct. We've some who love to stand with belly in front of lens!
An ad for skin cream? Very, very wrinkly, must be #elephant
Elephant yes, but you're looking between its hind legs. Elephants have boobs on chest as in humans, and quite similar in shape.
#white-bellied-bustard - the commonest bustard in these photos.
yes!
or bird?
#hartebeest
#impossible
Couple of #zebras and some #gazelles
It has dark & light stripes. Either zebra belly or hot air balloon. I vote for #balloon !
I suspect lion but can't rule out hyena
About 10 #topi , I would say, and a lot of smaller gazelles
Big black barrel body + mud + belly tassel = #buffalo bull
There are about 6 #zebra there
More likely #spotted-hyena
May be #wildebeest thigh
#buffalo
Looks like wildebeest under the small tree but I see no ostrich.
Too low. Might be #thomsons-gazelle.
#wildebeest #calf is correct. This one is only 4-5 mo, horns still little spikes, tail hair short. No deer in Serengeti.
#buffalo. Clue - warthogs aren't out after dark.
#wildebeest
On plains in July, most likely #grants-gazelle
Looks like it but can't tell what. If you view this on an ipad it's easy to zoom, but photos are lo-res so it doesn't help much.
Probably 2 #Thomsons-gazelle
#crowned-plover, a.k.a. #crowned-lapwing
More or less. In June, after end of rains, park staff deliberately set a lot of grass fires to prevent more destructive fires later on.
Possibly wildebeest
Nor can I. Might be guineafowl?
You got a pack of #banded-mongoose ! Congrats
Best guess is another wildebeest.
Yes. A number of people will give their opinions, and the computers will decide.
#wildebeest adult and young. Tails are quite distinctive.
Yes, and front legs too, you just can't see them.
If unsure, ask. With time you will learn to recognize all the animals from just a small part of the body. Yes, this is #hartebeest
yes, #buffalo
Female tommies often do have broken or deformed horns.
Nice one!
rear of a #wildebeest
That ear is not gnu. How about a #zebra - its ear and mane?
#wildebeest
#topi - red-brown base of neck and part of foreleg showing black and yellow markings.
Possible #buffalo on R, can't ID eyes.
Former is #topi, others too far.
#wildebeest
I can't be certain - not enough detail.
#weaver birds - maybe black-headed or lesser masked, most likely suspects.
Just running around. There's far less hunting than u would expect!
And #ruppells-griffon-vulture at L.
#spotted-hyena
I say #topi because body has reddish hue while hip/thigh is dark gray. W'buck is shaggier and has white rump
#hartebeest
Almost... #giraffe !
#spotted-hyena correct
Probably #hartebeest
Stripes are a clue... #zebra
or #dust kicked up by animal that triggered camera. Not much rain in Aug.
Looks like buffalo at centre, but doesn't move
#eland confirmed, with #calf
I don't think we ID shadows for that reason. Anyhow, best bet is that it's a tree, since that is what many cameras are bolted to 😃
herd of #wildebeest.
Could be. Not enough shadow detail here to say more.
correct
#white-bellied-bustard confirmed
Yes, all are tommies.
Yes
Right!
For sure, at least 5.
#impossible say i
Right!
#wildebeest
Can't tell. Have you noticed the weird back of the left zebra? Looks broken or deformed.
Why not a young/female tommy?
Not impala on open plains. Looks like mix of Grants and Tommies.
A bit older than that. For obvious reasons, they are born hornless, and this little guy has grown some spikes.
Beautiful - can't ya smell the rain?
Tail, but I need help here! It looks to be fairly smooth and thin with bristles at the tip. Young elephant?
#hartebeest #calf
Right. All of the horned ungulates, even those with bent or curved horns, start out with little straight spikes.
#spotted-hyena - nothing else has ears shaped like that.
Nodding grass stems is all I see
yup!
#topi
think its just plants
#dikdik
#warthog - low height, bristly, thin tail
#impala - dark tipped ears, among other clues
male #thomsons-gazelle
yes
#crowned-plover
That's amazing! Don't think I ever saw duiker in SNP.
Sweet! I love the curl in its tail in 3
baboon is right
Yep.
Really hard to tell! Shape of tail suggests swallow family but beak too heavy. Can't help!
#buffalo
That's my guess too - nothing else would be so high.
#hartebeest - only other possibility for large tan animal is eland, but it has black marks on forelegs & usually thin white bands on body.
#white-tailed-mongoose is correct
#spotted-hyena !
#hartebeest
#coqui-francolin
They are two adult wildebeest.
As craftymonster suggested, she's probably just birthed a baby (out of frame) and is cleaning up remnants of placenta.
Not male. In Grants, females have quite significant horns,but never as thick as a male's horns.
The giraffe may be just settling down to rest, folding the forelegs first, then the hind legs.
It's quite common for zebra foals to sleep lying down.
Female #impala is right. They may look like deer but in fact there are no deer (Cervidae) in E Africa!
#eland
Wow, great!
#jackal for sure
yes #cheetah
#wildebeest #calf - orphan following the nearest moving object.
likely a wildebeest calf
#elephant x 5
#grants-gazelle - the tail could not be tommy, nor impala
#hippo - what else can it be?
#thomsons-gazelle
#hartebeest
#reedbuck
Male is in his 3rd year, will have full mane by 4 or 5. Cubs are about 3 months. Lovely photo!
#vulture
#wildebeest 11-20 feeding - no question!
#kori-bustard most likely, Denhams is v. rare here.
#serval
#hare
#banded-mongoose #mongoose
#agama
#agama
#striped-skink Trachylepis striata
#agama
#agama - pink & blue male Agama mwanzae
#agama
#agama
#agama
#agama lizard
#impossible - too bleached out to ID
#impossible - eyeshine in bkg.
#white-stork and #marabou-stork ?
#impossible to be certain it's gnu
#impossible - eyes in bkg.
#cattle-egret
#impossible - horizon animals
Interesting to catch a #cheetah at night.
#impossible to ID the horizon gazelles
#impossible to get a good count here
#impossible to be sure that all the gazelles are Tommies.
#slashing - grazing activity here! And some cute blue nails.
#impossible - all the distant animals
#impossible - distant dots, assume they are gnus
#impossible - horizon animals
#impossible - some of those dots could be zebra, I can't tell.
#impossible to really ID those 4 distant sets of eyes - one assumes they are more zebra.
#impossible - some of the more distant backs, can't ID
#impossible - I can't decide if these are gnu or buff. I lean towards gnu.
#impossible - the foreground 'eyeshine' could be small animal but can't tell. The buffalo in back are easy.
#impossible to ID these distant gazelles positively
#bird #white-stork
#impossible to ID the more distant gazelles
#impossible - the thing close to camera. I have seen it before so it may just be a branch, or an resting animal.
#pygmy-falcon - possibly
#impossible to give positive ID
#vulture
#bird #cattle-egret
#impossible - animal closest to camera. Presume topi but cant ID.
#serval
#marabou yes
#aardwolf
#impossible - the animals under tree at R
#bushbuck nice male
yes they are
#bird #red-billed-buffalo-weaver
#Egyptian-vulture - sadly becoming quite rare in TZ, so a very unusual record.
#impossible - distant animals
#well-hung !
#bird #babbler
#bird #cattle-egret
#cape-rook
#dove probably ring-necked
#cattle-egret
#impossible - too vague to be sure
#impossible - animals on horizon
#impossible - second set of eyes at R, assume another hyena but cant tell
#impossible - about 12 animals in bkg could be gnu or zeb
#grey-breasted-spurfowl with #chicks
#injury - left gnu has swollen heel joint
#superb-starling
#bird #white-headed-buffalo-weaver
#impossible - I would like to say aardwolf but who knows?
#cattle-egret #bird
#giraffe male with erection, shadow of another gir in lower left.
#impossible - 2 in distance, probably also tommies
#impossible - about 8 more gazelles in distance
#superb-starling
#spotted-hyena - think but not certain
My ID was #lion but it could be something else
#leopard
#impossible - beasts on horizon
#bird #white-bellied-bustard
#porcupine
#white-stork
#aardwolf
add 1 #zebra
This is the Small Migration...
Neat dance steps!
#cattle-egret #buffalo
#impossible to be sure, as it is so bleached out - best guess is #reedbuck
#impossible - c. 18 animals in bkg, assume gnus but can't ID
#impossible - can't ID the 3 animals in bkg.
#impossible - eyeshine at R, can't ID
#impossible - the small animal with eyeshine at left. Can't ID
#impossible - too far to be certain which gazelles, Grants is just a guess
#bird #cattle-egret #wattled-starling
#impossible in bkg
#whitestork
#whitebelliedbustard
#bandedmongoose
I think #buffalo but not sure
#speckle-fronted-weaver
#hedgehog
#spottedhyena
Agree #corncrake - what a rare sighting, they are so hard to see!
#bird #cape-rook
#lion #cubs - there are 3 little cubs here
#white-bellied-bustard #bird
The distant animals look like #eland but not sure
#bird #cape-rook
#black-backed-jackal - showing clearly the 'two-toned' colour pattern.
NOT dikdik - #steenbok
#white-headed-buffalo-weaver #bird
#spotted-eagle-owl
#lappet-faced-vulture
#crowned-plover
#coqui-francolin
#white-tailed-mongoose
I think you're right.
#nubian-vulture
#lappet-faced-vulture = #nubian vulture
#white-bellied-bustard #bird
#white-bellied-bustard #bird
#cattle-egret
#black-backed-jackal
#buffalo #closeup
#grey-breasted-spurfowl #bird
#black-bellied-bustard #bird
#black-backed-jackal
#side-striped-jackal - nice!
#grey-breasted-spurfowl
#aardwolf
Not dikdik but #reedbuck? I need help here.
#golden-jackal
#buffalo #scratching
Agree #tawnyeagle
#gazelle-thomsons #yellow-throated-sandgrouse
yes
correct
#coqui-francolin
#superb-starling
#superb-starling best guess
#rufous-tailed-weaver
#spotted-eagle-owl - this has been photo'd several times in this rocky location.
no - #coqui-francolin
#yellow-throated-sandgrouse
#guineafowl
#white-bellied-bustard - yes
#crowned plover aka #crowned-lapwing
#crowned-plover
#kori-bustard
#superb-starling
#verreauxs-eagle-owl
#Verreaux's-eagle-owl
#crowned-plover most likely
#yellow-throated-sandgrouse
#black-lored-babbler - guess
Probably #greater-kestrel aka #white-eyed-kestrel - good call!
#red-billed-buffalo-weaver probably
#grey-backed-fiscal-shrike
Interesting to see one still active at night!
#grey-breasted-spurfowl is the common spurfowl here
#superb-starling
#insect
#crowned-plover
#bee ?
#crowned-plover
#lilac-breasted-roller
#white-bellied-bustard
#barn-owl
#guineafowl
#white-bellied-bustard
#heuglins-courser - this is a REALLY unusual bird to see!!
#guineafowl
#guineafowl
How about #galago ?
#starling
#Lilac-breasted-roller
#black-bellied-bustard
It is #superb-starling
#guineafowl
#yellow-throated-sandgrouse
#yellow-throated sandgrouse
Fischer's Sparrow-lark
Grey-breasted Spurfowl
#buttshot
#oxpecker #bird
#insects
Looks like wildebeest - the profile and darkness of head in 1.
No. 2 is likely a bat
Do we have a Very Famous Photographer here? 😉
This is a ratty old buffalo
Impala is my best guess
greybreasted spurfowl
guess gnu
I like the butterfly! Hypolimnas misippus.
blackbellied bustard
flying bird may be grey-backed fiscal
dikdik? steinbok? oribi?
guess
guess
birds are crowned plovers
bird is nubian vulture
could be other small antelope, cant tell
guess zeb
Could be young gnu but not sure
Can't positively ID, could be steinbok
Looks like an ungulate but cant ID
Think serval but maybe cheetah. Poor bugger must have got dazzled!
female with nose tag
white-bellied bustards
Oops, add 3 gnu stand rest
Not sure, need more rez.
Not sure this is a dikdik - resolution not good enough. It could be small cat, or BEF, or even a klipspringer. Gee, thought I was a hotshot!
Not bird but probably bat?
gazelle face? could be anything!
cant tell
not sure
maybe Blackwinged Plover
Noticed too late there is a bird in fg
Not quite right for lion but cant think what.
lion is a guess - really poor condition?
or other large dark beast
or warthogs
Or other bovid
Not a dikdik nor gazelle nor reedbuck; I think wildebeest calf?
Plus wildebeest 11-51 moving - forgot to enter
Some animal at L but no idea
dikdik or steinbok?
vulture, poss Nubian
not sure
can't ID
numerous animals but too distant to ID
guess hartebeest but could be other antelope
guessing w'hog
Definitely male. Eland or other large ungulate whose dick is at camera level.
hare or similar sized animal
maybe grant
one hog right next to camera, 2 further back, 2 distant
Eyes at R are either cheetah or other big cat
either grant or impala
not sure of ID
Head at far R. Not certain
There's something close, at far left. Could be leopard, cheetah, bird, I dunno but check it out!
Not sure if dikdik
note balloon full of humans
not sure if tommy, gnu or other
who knows?
Might be something else?
Zebra not resting but dead!
Can't ID the animal
Can't really tell what they are
clearly buffalo when lightened
could be hartebeest or gazelle - not sure of scale.
when lightened, it's clearly tommy
gnu? zeb? not sure
Looks like cheetah but not sure. Spotty.
not sure about the grants, they could be sth else
Possibly gnus but hard 2 tell
Whitebellied bustard
I lightened it, its very blurry but could be hyena.
Eyes left - if you lighten with photoshop it looks like tommy, not jackal.
Not certain of ID. May not be gnu.
Think this has to be cheetah?
I called this a hartebeest but I suspect it's a domestic dog - no category for that.
I arbitrarily called it warthog but haven't a clue.
This is probably a #duiker but there is no category for that - I was forced to call it dikdik