Snapshot Serengeti

Rather than featuring some of my own photos this time, I am going to post some photos that I discovered while participating with the citizen scientist efforts of the Snapshot Serengeti project (http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/). Snapshot Serengeti  is a recent offshoot of the University of Minnesota's 45-year Lion Project (http://www.cbs.umn.edu/research/labs/lionresearch) in Tanzania.  They have installed over 200 game/trail cameras in Africa's Serengeti which automatically take pictures of whatever walks, slithers or flies by.  These aren't high-resolution images but they do capture some intriguing creatures and behaviors.  There are millions of photographs that need to be inspected to identify the number and types of animals in each image.  This is where you might come in! These photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please enjoy and help out if this project is of interest to you.  And, if this project is not your cup of tea, then check out all the other worthwhile and intriguing projects at Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/).

Here is the A to Z of animals that I have tagged ...

Aardvark

Baboon

Baboon

Bat-Eared Fox

Buffalo

Buffalo (this guy is a bruiser!)

Buffalo (this one is injured and bleeding)

Bushbuck

Bushbuck

Caracals

Cheetah

Cheetah

Civet

Dik-Dik

Dik-Dik

Dik-Dik

Eland

Eland

Elands and Zebras

Elands

Elephant

Elephant 

Elephant and young

Elephant (watering the Serengeti)

Giraffe

Giraffes

Giraffes

Grant's Gazelle

Grant's Gazelle

Grant's Gazelle

Guinea Fowl

Guinea Fowl

Hare

Hartebeest

Hartebeest

Heron-like bird

Hippopotamus

Hippopotamus

Hippo and young

Humans

Impala

Impala

Impala Doe

Impala Doe

Impalas

Impala with an Oxpecker on its face

Young Impala

Jackal

Jackals

Kori Bustard

Kori Bustards

Leopard

Leopard

Leopard

Lion (male)

Lion (male) 

Lioness

Lioness

Lioness

Lioness

Lioness

Mongooses (Mongeese?)

Ostrich and dramatic lighting

Ostrich

Ostrich

Porcupine

Porcupines and young

Reedbuck

Reedbuck and young

Secretary birds

Secretary bird

Secretary bird

Serval

Spotted Hyena

Spotted Hyena

Spotted Hyena

Stork

Stork

Thomson's Gazelles

Thomson's Gazelles

Thomson's Gazelles

Thomson's Gazelles

Topi

Topi

Topis

Topi and young evading what?

Vervet Monkey

Vervet Monkey

Vervet Monkey

Vulture

Vulture

Vulture gathering sticks for a nest

Warthog

Warthog

Warthog

Warthogs

Warthogs

Waterbuck

Waterbuck

Waterbuck

Waterbucks

Wildebeest

Wildebeest

Wildebeest and young

Wildebeests and young

Wildebeests and young

Wildebeests, charging each other

Wildebeests tussling

Zebra

Zebra with Oxpeckers

Zebra and young with Hartebeest

Zebra close-up photo

Zebras and Wildebeest

Zebra young, frolicking