Snapshot Serengeti Talk
I think he/she may be saying moo!
I went for human.
#buffalo in a hurry
Completely stumped by this one - guessed at Tommy running, and that the human figure that moves in front of the tree is waving grass.
I'm guessing zebra extreme close-up.
I recorded the thing that looks like a mastiff as a lion. Still think it's a dog though...
I'd never have guessed that. Thanks @tillydad...
I really have no idea what this strange fuzzy creature is.
I'm really not sure what this Tommy's doing...
Given that the black thing eating must be a cow, I'm going to say the black fuzzy thing in the foreground is also one...
Zebra and triffid.
I have no idea really, but imagine this as a droopy ear of a resting cow...
I thought the big moving fluffy thing was a cub.
#rain
I went for human (wearing brown trowsers) because I couldn't think of an animal leg that looks like this.
#elephant
For all I know they could be tiny baby goats, but I'm guessing at the most frequent creature that size...
Thank you @tillydad - I was flummoxed by what looked like a kakapo equivalent!
I ignore the shapes in the bg as I don't know whether zebra/gnu/tree
I thought it was a cheetah chasing a gazelle! 😃
This one looks like a cuddly toy ^_^
I have no idea what the close-up is - I went for Tommy...
awesome #elephant x2
multiple #impala eating
I'm going to assume that pile of whatever isn't a corpse...
I'm guessing impala because no horns (but given lack of scale, could be juvenile gazelle).
Looks like an adult with a child of which we can only see the head. But I could be completely wrong...
Wonderful impala rump example! (Unless of course I got the ID completely wrong...)
Something about this picture makes me feel happy.
I counted the one who was on his/her way to lying down as resting.
I wonder if the standing zebra is acting as lookout.
Is this gazelle moving in an odd way? If he was a cat I'd think he was stalking something.
I didn't count playing with the camera as interaction.
I classified this as interaction as well as movement, as I preferred to think they're chasing each other than being chased by a predator...
I guessed gnus in bg because there are many of them.
I think I got the number resting too low.
"Individualist" Tommys!
I counted the bird as standing and moving, though this is inconsistent with humans doing the same, which I count as moving only.
Oh dear, I hope the one in the foreground is feeling alright...
I concur - had me completely stumped for a while!
Wild guess only.
I guessed at buffalos in the distance, given that there're only two of them.
A baboon was the only thing I could think of with hair like that.
I id'd the squat thing in the distance as a car.
I like the way the zebras manage to look like ghosts - I could only see them by looking at the "moving" pics. So there could be more...
What do other people make of this? (I went for bushbuck in the end.)
I think this is the underside of the jaw, with the nose pointing south. Some rodent?
There'll be tears before bedtime...
I thought lion, because of the extra fluffiness at the chin.
Is it a moving human?
I'm almost sure I've got this wrong, but it looks like a male lion being followed by a zebra, presumably to "move him on" from other zebras.
What a wonderful picture!
Could those be teeth?
Ah, it's sniffing that grass like a hyrax!
Could there be hyraxes in them thar hills?
#reedbuck
I'm guessing lion because it's big and has big whiskers.
Oh dear - I hope that's not Ray Dalio in the background... 😉
Baby elephants?
Really not sure about the brown animal. Decided probably the top of neck and shoulders of something grazing, so settled for Thomy.
I thought there might be three or four giraffes in the background but their necks seemed unfeasibly long in proportion to their body.
Well it could be anything really - lion, human, warthog... But I chose hartebeest, sort of at random.
I said standing but for all I know it's dancing...
The way that ear flaps is so cute...
Quintessential!
This puts me in mind of that children's story Little Egret and Toro. 😃
Well it's definitely male...
I have no idea what this animal is - guessed at warthog...
#hippo in the night
Plus some #flies.
I don't know what the bird is - my theory is that it's plastic because it's so still, but then I've thought the same about living herons...
... and presumably playing with the camera too!
Standing + resting = getting up
Complete guess
This picture makes me feel happy!
Does this zebra have a floppy ear?
Because when I played with the image the thing at the top looked quite weird.
OK, maybe not so much...
#wavinggrasses
Is this hyena brave or foolish?
Agama, but no hyrax nearby...
I'm guessing that thing sticking out from behind the neck is the ear of another giraffe, so I counted the foreground ones as 2 interacting.
I'd be resting in the shade too...
Moving + resting = sitting on your bum, then getting up and sniffing about!
I'm just glad it's not a buzzard! 😉
#fight #fight #fight #fight ...
Scratching!
Only counted 5 as resting as I didn't imagine all those pale blobs could be gazelles...
Wagging its tail.
Given that the zebra's doing an Eeyore impression, could the bouncy thing in the distance be a lion pretending to be a Tigger?
Poor thing - I can see its ribs!
Fluffy!
The standing/moving one was standing except for frame 1, in which it was moving.
I'm more concerned about the one at the front getting its poor trunk hurt...
Standing yet shifting about.
I wonder what they lost...
Couldn't tell what the things in the background were, except not zebra-shaped. So I id'd them as gnus.
Peeping zebra
Possibly. Plus the monster from Lost around the centre of the picture.
I assume it's eating, and not hiding, Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal style...
Sorry - I missed the one that's feeding...
Wild guess. And I think that's a "tree number 1" that's missing from the collection for that tree...
I have absolutely no idea what the dots in the distant field are. Humans in cars maybe? More wildebeests, running? I didn't record them.
I can't help anthropomorphising this gazelle, as it surveys the bleak charred landscape...
If it wasn't for the gnus, this could be in the Home Counties... 😉
Oh dear, I wonder what's behind them...
Grazing?!
The "moving and eating" zebra is in fact drinking water from the stream or whatever it is they're wading in.
swaying
I marked as interacting because the posture and open beak looks like it might be communicating with another ostrich.
I'd say something catty about her needing a sandwich, but there seems plenty to eat. So maybe those aren't her ribs I can see...
I think they're a mixture of wildebeests and zebras.
#dikdik
Zebras are great, aren't they?
I wonder what made them run.
Ahhh
Threat display? 😉
duplicate id
I hope that poor buffalo hasn't been splattered on by birds - looks a bit like my car if I've parked under a lamp post...
I think I can see a twist in the horns, and found 1 other example of this kind of curve.
This puts the theme song from The Bill in my head...
I said resting because sitting, but it's doing something, so maybe not resting any more than I am when at work...
Interacting, because using camera to communicate.
More snuffling than eating, but couldn't think what else to use.
Getting up
Scratching
Brilliant!
Running
Bird looks a bit like one of those shrikes but odd pattern (to me anyway, which doesnt mean much) on head.
Threw in the human, to prevent an artifically high proportion of same id.
Hello again.
21/12/12 23:12
Duplicate id by me.
Just got this picture again, so two identifications will be from same person.
Can't tell what the resting one is, so guessed at it being another topi.
Yes, I say shrike too.
Two groups moving in single file?
I went for zebra because of the horsy features.
D'oh - I forgot to count the zebra. Sorry...
Why zebra? Because it's not wildebeest shaped, yet it's in the company of wildebeests.
Aardwolf in a big hurry!
I think it's trying to communicate something via the camera.
Don't know what he's doing. Working out, perhaps? 😉
Didn't mark any young as present, as can't tell whether one at the back is small because of perspective.
Interacting with the camera, but I counted it as standing.
The Tommys are behind the close-up zebra, in picture 3.
Complete stab in the dark - just chose a skinny gazelle...
purposefully
Humans are in two safari buses. Driving = moving, seated = resting.
All the birds are storks. (White storks?)
Individualist zebras! 😃
On 2nd thoughts, I wonder if that white shaggy thing is a tail. I discounted it originally because I thought their tail fluff was dark.
I can't help feeling they look organised, as if the three round the perimeter of the eating ones are lookouts.
"Shifting around" mght be the best description of its behaviour...
Ah, the little babby...
I went for wildebeest because of the tail. Else it's some sort of chimera...
Looks like he's in a hurry!
My first interacting zebras! 😃
Is it pouncing on something?
Itchy zebra
All I know is they're ungulates, running.
Can't see stripes, so when I see horses grazing I suppose I have to think zebra...
Wild guess really - brown and fluffy!
I'm sure the honey badger was just in a hurry - not running away from a little bitty hyena!
I think that's a zebra pattern on a human or human-related object. Can't trust some species...
No sign of the human, so I marked it as interacting with the horse. Poor horses - not getting a category of their own...
Recorded as 1 zebra (fractions not available), "resting".
I went with the striped hyena because of pale horizontal "stripe" on the neck.
Looks like it wouldn't hurt a fly... 😉
Picture 1 has a rather "editorial" pose...
Cute 😃
Because it looks like hair rather than fur (although it's moving oddly).
... except for the flying insect in picture 3.
A combination of eating / resting / standing though most far away to tell...
Personally I think it looks like a hedgehog, but there's no classification for that, so put it here in case it's a rat or something.
Looks like an imperial walker on the horizon, but I didn't record any humans.
I'm really not sure though!
Is this one really skinny?
Ahh 😃
Flying insect
I'm going by the tail.
I'm just guessing, from the bulk and slope of the back.
Zebras are in the background, though the one on the left looks more like a cream coloured horse...
Dancing! 😃
Bushbuck, because although the white bar on the nose on picture 2 might be an artefact, you can also see it on the edge of picture 3.
It's raining! 😃
Has it got wonky horns?
I'd love to know what it is though. Falling bird poo?
Plus a nightcrawler!?
Only guessing!
Three pairs of eyes but I didn't know how to classify them!
Can't tell if there's something to the left of the big tree.
I think he/she may be saying moo!
I went for human.
#buffalo in a hurry
Completely stumped by this one - guessed at Tommy running, and that the human figure that moves in front of the tree is waving grass.
I'm guessing zebra extreme close-up.
I recorded the thing that looks like a mastiff as a lion. Still think it's a dog though...
I'd never have guessed that. Thanks @tillydad...
I really have no idea what this strange fuzzy creature is.
I'm really not sure what this Tommy's doing...
Given that the black thing eating must be a cow, I'm going to say the black fuzzy thing in the foreground is also one...
Zebra and triffid.
I have no idea really, but imagine this as a droopy ear of a resting cow...
I thought the big moving fluffy thing was a cub.
#rain
I went for human (wearing brown trowsers) because I couldn't think of an animal leg that looks like this.
#elephant
For all I know they could be tiny baby goats, but I'm guessing at the most frequent creature that size...
Thank you @tillydad - I was flummoxed by what looked like a kakapo equivalent!
I ignore the shapes in the bg as I don't know whether zebra/gnu/tree
I thought it was a cheetah chasing a gazelle! 😃
This one looks like a cuddly toy ^_^
I have no idea what the close-up is - I went for Tommy...
awesome #elephant x2
multiple #impala eating
I'm going to assume that pile of whatever isn't a corpse...
I'm guessing impala because no horns (but given lack of scale, could be juvenile gazelle).
Looks like an adult with a child of which we can only see the head. But I could be completely wrong...
Wonderful impala rump example! (Unless of course I got the ID completely wrong...)
Something about this picture makes me feel happy.
I counted the one who was on his/her way to lying down as resting.
I wonder if the standing zebra is acting as lookout.
Is this gazelle moving in an odd way? If he was a cat I'd think he was stalking something.
I didn't count playing with the camera as interaction.
I classified this as interaction as well as movement, as I preferred to think they're chasing each other than being chased by a predator...
I guessed gnus in bg because there are many of them.
I think I got the number resting too low.
"Individualist" Tommys!
I counted the bird as standing and moving, though this is inconsistent with humans doing the same, which I count as moving only.
Oh dear, I hope the one in the foreground is feeling alright...
I concur - had me completely stumped for a while!
Wild guess only.
I guessed at buffalos in the distance, given that there're only two of them.
A baboon was the only thing I could think of with hair like that.
I id'd the squat thing in the distance as a car.
I like the way the zebras manage to look like ghosts - I could only see them by looking at the "moving" pics. So there could be more...
What do other people make of this? (I went for bushbuck in the end.)
I think this is the underside of the jaw, with the nose pointing south. Some rodent?
There'll be tears before bedtime...
I thought lion, because of the extra fluffiness at the chin.
Is it a moving human?
I'm almost sure I've got this wrong, but it looks like a male lion being followed by a zebra, presumably to "move him on" from other zebras.
What a wonderful picture!
Could those be teeth?
Ah, it's sniffing that grass like a hyrax!
Could there be hyraxes in them thar hills?
#reedbuck
I'm guessing lion because it's big and has big whiskers.
Oh dear - I hope that's not Ray Dalio in the background... 😉
Baby elephants?
Really not sure about the brown animal. Decided probably the top of neck and shoulders of something grazing, so settled for Thomy.
I thought there might be three or four giraffes in the background but their necks seemed unfeasibly long in proportion to their body.
Well it could be anything really - lion, human, warthog... But I chose hartebeest, sort of at random.
I said standing but for all I know it's dancing...
The way that ear flaps is so cute...
Quintessential!
This puts me in mind of that children's story Little Egret and Toro. 😃
Well it's definitely male...
I have no idea what this animal is - guessed at warthog...
#hippo in the night
Plus some #flies.
I don't know what the bird is - my theory is that it's plastic because it's so still, but then I've thought the same about living herons...
... and presumably playing with the camera too!
Standing + resting = getting up
Complete guess
This picture makes me feel happy!
Does this zebra have a floppy ear?
Because when I played with the image the thing at the top looked quite weird.
OK, maybe not so much...
#wavinggrasses
Is this hyena brave or foolish?
Agama, but no hyrax nearby...
I'm guessing that thing sticking out from behind the neck is the ear of another giraffe, so I counted the foreground ones as 2 interacting.
I'd be resting in the shade too...
Moving + resting = sitting on your bum, then getting up and sniffing about!
I'm just glad it's not a buzzard! 😉
#fight #fight #fight #fight ...
Scratching!
Only counted 5 as resting as I didn't imagine all those pale blobs could be gazelles...
Wagging its tail.
Given that the zebra's doing an Eeyore impression, could the bouncy thing in the distance be a lion pretending to be a Tigger?
Poor thing - I can see its ribs!
Fluffy!
The standing/moving one was standing except for frame 1, in which it was moving.
I'm more concerned about the one at the front getting its poor trunk hurt...
Standing yet shifting about.
I wonder what they lost...
Couldn't tell what the things in the background were, except not zebra-shaped. So I id'd them as gnus.
Peeping zebra
Possibly. Plus the monster from Lost around the centre of the picture.
I assume it's eating, and not hiding, Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal style...
Sorry - I missed the one that's feeding...
Wild guess. And I think that's a "tree number 1" that's missing from the collection for that tree...
I have absolutely no idea what the dots in the distant field are. Humans in cars maybe? More wildebeests, running? I didn't record them.
I can't help anthropomorphising this gazelle, as it surveys the bleak charred landscape...
If it wasn't for the gnus, this could be in the Home Counties... 😉
Oh dear, I wonder what's behind them...
Grazing?!
The "moving and eating" zebra is in fact drinking water from the stream or whatever it is they're wading in.
swaying
I marked as interacting because the posture and open beak looks like it might be communicating with another ostrich.
I'd say something catty about her needing a sandwich, but there seems plenty to eat. So maybe those aren't her ribs I can see...
I think they're a mixture of wildebeests and zebras.
#dikdik
Zebras are great, aren't they?
I wonder what made them run.
Ahhh
Threat display? 😉
duplicate id
I hope that poor buffalo hasn't been splattered on by birds - looks a bit like my car if I've parked under a lamp post...
I think I can see a twist in the horns, and found 1 other example of this kind of curve.
This puts the theme song from The Bill in my head...
I said resting because sitting, but it's doing something, so maybe not resting any more than I am when at work...
Interacting, because using camera to communicate.
More snuffling than eating, but couldn't think what else to use.
Getting up
Scratching
Brilliant!
Running
Bird looks a bit like one of those shrikes but odd pattern (to me anyway, which doesnt mean much) on head.
Threw in the human, to prevent an artifically high proportion of same id.
Hello again.
21/12/12 23:12
Duplicate id by me.
Just got this picture again, so two identifications will be from same person.
Can't tell what the resting one is, so guessed at it being another topi.
Yes, I say shrike too.
Two groups moving in single file?
I went for zebra because of the horsy features.
D'oh - I forgot to count the zebra. Sorry...
Why zebra? Because it's not wildebeest shaped, yet it's in the company of wildebeests.
Aardwolf in a big hurry!
I think it's trying to communicate something via the camera.
Don't know what he's doing. Working out, perhaps? 😉
Didn't mark any young as present, as can't tell whether one at the back is small because of perspective.
Interacting with the camera, but I counted it as standing.
The Tommys are behind the close-up zebra, in picture 3.
Complete stab in the dark - just chose a skinny gazelle...
purposefully
Humans are in two safari buses. Driving = moving, seated = resting.
All the birds are storks. (White storks?)
Individualist zebras! 😃
On 2nd thoughts, I wonder if that white shaggy thing is a tail. I discounted it originally because I thought their tail fluff was dark.
I can't help feeling they look organised, as if the three round the perimeter of the eating ones are lookouts.
"Shifting around" mght be the best description of its behaviour...
Ah, the little babby...
I went for wildebeest because of the tail. Else it's some sort of chimera...
Looks like he's in a hurry!
My first interacting zebras! 😃
Is it pouncing on something?
Itchy zebra
All I know is they're ungulates, running.
Can't see stripes, so when I see horses grazing I suppose I have to think zebra...
Wild guess really - brown and fluffy!
I'm sure the honey badger was just in a hurry - not running away from a little bitty hyena!
I think that's a zebra pattern on a human or human-related object. Can't trust some species...
No sign of the human, so I marked it as interacting with the horse. Poor horses - not getting a category of their own...
Recorded as 1 zebra (fractions not available), "resting".
I went with the striped hyena because of pale horizontal "stripe" on the neck.
Looks like it wouldn't hurt a fly... 😉
Picture 1 has a rather "editorial" pose...
Cute 😃
Because it looks like hair rather than fur (although it's moving oddly).
... except for the flying insect in picture 3.
A combination of eating / resting / standing though most far away to tell...
Personally I think it looks like a hedgehog, but there's no classification for that, so put it here in case it's a rat or something.
Looks like an imperial walker on the horizon, but I didn't record any humans.
I'm really not sure though!
Is this one really skinny?
Ahh 😃
Flying insect
I'm going by the tail.
I'm just guessing, from the bulk and slope of the back.
Zebras are in the background, though the one on the left looks more like a cream coloured horse...
Dancing! 😃
Bushbuck, because although the white bar on the nose on picture 2 might be an artefact, you can also see it on the edge of picture 3.
It's raining! 😃
Has it got wonky horns?
I'd love to know what it is though. Falling bird poo?
Plus a nightcrawler!?
Only guessing!
Three pairs of eyes but I didn't know how to classify them!
Can't tell if there's something to the left of the big tree.